Alfred Holzheu – online and verbose – The Main Pontifications page – It is all so obvious!

Alfred Holzheu – online and verbose – The Main Pontifications page – It is all so obvious!

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Monday, March 9, 2009 at 10:00 PM

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Mar 9, 2009 at 10:00 PM

It all seems so obvious:

  1. Bring the military home, we do not build nations nor can we fix insane problems (either that or drop the guns and turn the whole international military into the Peace Corps, seems like our soldiers are doing that already)

  2. Legalize most drugs, we have had the exactly the same success in the “war” on drugs that we had during Prohibition (the success has been in making the bad guys rich and giving the DEA something to do)

  3. A Flat tax or national sales tax, if the incoming Treasury Secretary can’t figure it out, neither can the rest of us.

  4. Fix the biggest Ponzi scheme of them all, Social Security. By every definition it is a Ponzi, as it depends on the new investors (kids coming into the work force) to pay a return to the retiring investors. Had it been invested in anything, even real estate, it might truly have assets that would see us through.

  5. Stop subsidizing non-work. Everyone is educated to some degree, everyone works, no more welfare without effort.

  6. Every prison is a Sheriff Joe Arpaio Prison. And if we stop the drug nonsense, there will be fewer prisoners to begin with.

  7. Every child is either taught a trade or prepared for college.

  8. Universal catastrophic health care coverage, otherwise exercise, eat right, stop smoking, stop fornicating without protection, stop getting high or suffer the consequences in silence. Of course, there are exceptions for the truly mentally incompetent (great job for the welfare people, it does not take much training to care for most disabled people, they just need a helping hand) or truly disabled and/or elderly.

  9. The government never produces anything (that is not their purpose) only consumes, give people the freedom and incentive to produce and then get out of the way. Of course people can not then produce pollution, war, crime, or all the stuff that we generally agree we don’t want as a society, (ie. The government is society for all intents and purposes, which is the purpose of government)

  10. You can not legislate morality, any more than you can make your kids behave. As long as one human does not infringe on another human (someone over 18, before that you have no frame of reference by which to make decisions, and for lots of humans 18 years is a minimum only, most males don’t seem to have a clue until 26) it is all good.  There are some intrinsic basic human rights conferred by just showing up on the planet, but beyond that stop with the silly laws!

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