Re: If Kerry is elected...

From: Rich Grise (rich_at_example.net)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:55:35 GMT

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:35:41 -0700, Mark Fergerson wrote:

> Rich Grise wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> When I'm elected president, I will:
>>
>> 1. Stand down all US military forces worldwide.
>> 2. Immediately cease treasury disbursements for military hardware.
>> 3. Stop military recruitment.
>
> Three extremely bad ideas in a row. Now, if you'd said
> "Pare all military forces and equipage down to what's
> absolutely necessary to repel any currently possible
> attacking forces coming within twenty miles of U.S.
> coastlines (while funding research into countering what
> future attackers might use) and integrate them with the
> Border Patrol" I'd be happy.

OK. You're my Secretary of Defense.
>
> Unilateral disarmament doesn't make you "peaceful", it
> makes you a "corpse".

By whose hand, today? And which corpse? Who's going to start
trying to kill 250,000,000 Americans? And how long would they
get away with it, even if we didn't have soldiers stationed
in Afghanistan?

>
>> 4. Continue to pay servicemen's paychecks, and retirees' pensions -
>> the pensions until they die, the servicemen until the end of their
>> term. Then turn them loose.
>
> You better fund V.A. hospitals too.

OK - I think I'll let you take care of that one too.

>
>> 5. Recycle all the military hardware, giving the small arms away for
>> free throughout the country. Yes, citizens and gangsta punks alike
>> will be armed to the teeth. Let the states' National Guards divvy
>> up the rest, and the Coast Buard might want some Navy stuff. Any
>> leftovers should go to the Boy Scouts. At least they have adult
>> supervision. ;-)
>
> Works for me.
>
>> 6. Fire the IRS, and Abolish the income tax.
>
> Better set up a .5% Federal sales tax to pay for what's
> left after the above.

Originally, all the cost of government was supposed to be covered by
Customs. Imagine my surprise when I learned that! Today, of course,
their mission has been all perverted and twisted.

>> 7. Freeze federal wages and hiring, maybe even start cutting deadwood.
>
> Don't forget to limit all Federal bureaucrats' terms of
> employment to say ten years. No more of this "for life" crap.

Well, I think that'd be taken care of the fact that a Senator's or
Congressman's only pay would be by donations from constituents. It's
an all-volunteer government, you know. :-)

>
>> 8. Veto everything for awhile, and rescind at least one obsolete
>> federal law per day.
>> 8. Read e-mail.
>
> Excellent; I notice you don't want to institute
> HillaryCare. While you're at it, how about:
>
> 9. Eliminate local funding of school districts; since they have to
> conform with Federal guidelines, support all of them equally from
> Federal funds. Replace the Department of Education with one
> ninety-year-old schoomarm.

No, no, no! Get rid of "federal guidelines" that interfere with local
issues! Lording it over people, telling them how they should/must run
their lives, is the entire cause of all the problems there have ever
been!

No government has _any_ business telling people how to school their
children. Communities used to get together and build schools for
their own kids, and parents saw to it that the kids learned stuff.
These days, kids are just a prop for some bimbo to swindle a meal
ticket out of some rich sucker, and are shuttled off as soon as
possible to the consumer factories. Big Brother likes it when
everybody marches in lockstep.

>
> 10. Open all ex-Federal lands to homesteading.

Yeah - hey, wanna do Department of the Interior too? :-)
>
> 11. Keep the National Parks system intact, supported by user fees. All
> users must enter _and_ leave ***-naked.

I LOVE it! You're definitely hired!

Also Minister of Culture. :-)

Cheers!
Rich

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