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Return
to Common Sense
Recommendations
December 31, 2009
Philosophy
Limit size and intrusion of federal government to less than 20% of
GDP (limit state and local government to less than 5% of GDP).
- Limit federal
government to only that role specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
o Ensure general welfare clause is not
interpreted as an enumerated power to expand government.
- Enact the
Enumerated Powers Act to link all legislation to appropriate
constitutional authority.
o Require each Act of Congress contain a
concise and definite statement of the constitutional authority relied upon for
the enactment of each portion of that Act.
- Ensure government accountability
(annual audits using standard accounting standards).
- Ensure program accountability
(comparing expected vs. actual results).
Hold
people responsible for their words and actions.
- Require every member of Congress
publicly recite the American’s Creed.
- Encourage personal responsibility
and avoid blaming others for our own actions.
Champion
those who serve the country honorably and make a real difference.
Media
Government must ensure free speech with a free market of ideas in
all forms of media.
- Prevent
reinstatement of “Fairness
Doctrine” as
technologically unneeded and obsolete.
- Stop funding PBS and NPR and
subsidizing their partisan agenda.
Republicans
must learn to use the alternative media to compete head to head with the
liberal MSM.
- Provide
exclusive stories and interviews through alternative media as preferred
outlet.
o Exploit alternative media to counter
MSM “Big Lies” repetitively and loudly.
- Stop pre-releasing speeches and
press releases to adversarial media sources.
o Treat MSM journalists as a hostile
audience, revealing their partisan agendas.
- Exploit blogs as valid
alternative information distribution channel.
All Media outlets should be publicly rated and ranked by the White
House and rewarded accordingly.
- Openly reward objective
media outlets with exclusive background and interviews.
- Punish partisan
“drive-by media” by denying participation in news releases.
- Prosecute media that disseminates
information which gives aid and comfort to our countries’ enemies,
like any other treasonous lawbreaker.
- Rate and rank agenda driven film
and music.
Language
Reject
Political Correctness, and reuse original objective terminology.
- Accurately label pro-choice as pro-abortion.
- Accurately label budget
investments as tax increases.
- Accurately label affirmative
action as government sanctioned racial
discrimination.
- Accurately label terrorists as islamo-fascists.
- Accurately label providing aid
and comfort to enemies during wartime as treason.
Media
Government must ensure free speech with a free market of ideas in
all forms of media.
- Prevent
reinstatement of “Fairness
Doctrine” as
technologically unneeded and obsolete.
- Stop funding PBS and NPR and
subsidizing their partisan agenda.
All Media outlets should be publicly rated and ranked and treated
accordingly.
- Openly reward objective
media outlets with exclusive background and interviews.
- Prosecute media that disseminates
information which gives aid and comfort to our countries’ enemies,
like any other treasonous lawbreaker.
- Rate and rank agenda driven film
and music.
Republicans
must learn to use the alternative media to compete head to head with the
liberal MSM.
- Provide exclusive
stories and interviews through alternative media as preferred outlet.
o Exploit alternative media to counter
MSM “Big Lies” repetition and volume.
- Stop pre-releasing speeches and
press releases to adversarial media sources.
o Treat MSM journalists as a hostile
audience, revealing their partisan agendas.
- Exploit blogs as valid
alternative information distribution channel.
Politics
Political
parties must wrest control back from their lunatic fringe.
Hold
politicians responsible for their words (half truths, exaggerations,
fabrications).
- Track exaggeration vs. actual
results of historical forecast accuracy.
- Focus elections on issues, not on
personalities.
Hold
politicians responsible for results of legislation (costs, benefits,
organization).
- Link congressional votes to the
taxes constituents pay.
- Demonstrate individual impact of
spending votes.
- Identify unintended consequences.
Vote
in every election to provide feedback to the government.
Responsibilities
Require
all citizens adopt the American language and culture:
- Learn the English (national)
language (understood for centuries, but never stated as such).
- Learn and respect American
history and culture.
Require
all citizens fulfill their American responsibilities:
- Abide by American morals and
laws.
- Implement national identification
(identity, voting, paying taxes).
- Every citizen must vote (enable
e-voting).
Service
Every
citizen over 18 years old must perform a minimum of three years of national
service between the ages of 18 and 24.
- Every 18 year
old citizen must sign up for national service, without exception or
exemption.
o Every 18 year old must report for duty
and receive their assigned service selection.
o Each service will meet their minimum
staffing requirement, with priority to meeting military minimums first, since
it remains an all volunteer service.
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Each
service alternative will define a minimum and maximum number of staff required.
§
Volunteers
will identify top three service alternatives (military, AmeriCorps, Peace
Corps, or Special Partnership Force (SPF), etc.).
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Minimum
enrollment for each alternative must be met, so some people may not receive
their first choice.
- Civilian service
alternatives must justify their eligibility by demonstrating positive
benefits vs. costs.
o All national service recruits will
attend common basic training (physical, moral, education).
o Each service alternative must define
their physical, intellectual, and skill requirements.
o Advanced training will then be
provided and service specific.
o Recruits will be paid with salary, benefits,
and education credits.
Domestic
Policies
Philosophy
Limit size and intrusion of government.
- Enforce
federalism principle with the 9th and 10th
Amendments to the Constitution.
o Interpret Commerce
Clause restrictively to return governmental power to the States.
- Use Performance Assessment Rating
Tool (PART) to evaluate program effectiveness
- Use Commission on the
Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies (CARFA) Act to terminate
federal programs.
- Lower taxes to
reflect government downsizing.
Remove
the federal government from subsidies :
- Repeal agricultural subsidies.
- Repeal commodity price supports.
- Repeal Federal Housing
Administration subsidies.
- Privatize entitlement programs:
o Medicare (325B) - Privatize into Personal Health Savings
Accounts.
o Social Security - Privatize into personal accounts.
- Privatize federal insurance
programs since the government has no Constitutional role providing or
guaranteeing insurance coverage:
o Crop Insurance.
o National Flood Insurance.
o Property Insurance.
o Terrorism Risk Insurance (TRIA).
o Windstorm Insurance.
- Privatize activities that could
be performed better by the private sector:
o Air Traffic Control ($2,814M).
o Airport Grants ($3,041M).
o Amtrak ($1,259M).
o Army Corps of Engineers ($4,891M).
o Export-Import Bank.
o FAA Facilities & Equipment
($2,867M).
o Federal Highway Administration
($32,950M).
o Federal Transit Administration
($8,420M)
o Federal National Mortgage Association
(Fannie Mae), ($6.5 B).
o Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
(Freddie Mac), ($6.5 B).
o Government National Mortgage
Association (Ginnie Mae).
o Government Printing Office.
o Legal Services Corporation ($350 M).
o NASA ($15,719M).
o Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation.
o Postal Service.
o Retirement Insurance, including Social
Security (527B).
o Risk Management Agency ($3,366M).
o St. Lawrence Seaway.
o Tennessee Valley Authority and four
Power Marketing Administrations ($179M).
o Transportation Security Agency
($2,700M).
- Devolve entitlement programs back
to the states:
o Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
($62B)
o Medicaid ($186B)
o SCHIP.
o State Payment for Family Support
($4,142M).
o Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families ($18,099M)
- Devolve local programs back to
the states:
o Child Care Entitlement Grants
($2,718M).
o Child Care & Development Grants
($2,099M).
o Community Oriented Policing Services
($575M).
o Community Service Grants ($631M)
o Department of Education ($70,953M)
o Environmental Protection Agency
($3,592M).
o Federal Transit Administration
($8,420M).
o Foster Care & Adoption Grants
($6,474M).
o Head Start ($6,843M).
o Social Service Grants ($1,764M).
Divest government ownership
stakes in private industry enterprises:
- General Motors.
- Chrysler.
- AIG.
- CitiCorp.
Abortion
Short Term, Stop funding abortion with
government money.
- Streamline
adoption process for unwanted babies.
- Stop federal funding for Planned
Parenthood.
Fund stem cell research that yields medical benefits, without
destroying life in the process.
- Fund adult stem
cell (ASC) research and its proven medical benefits.
o Fund research in
“somatic cell reprogramming” of adult stem cells.
o Fund amniotic fluid stem
cell (AFSC) research to prove its medical benefits.
- Repeal funding for embryonic stem
cell (ESC) research since it requires destroying embryos for medical
research.
Outlaw
cloning as unethical and immoral.
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Outlaw
creation of “inter-species” embryos.
Long Term, Outlaw abortion except in
extreme circumstances.
- Let the states
implement local initiatives.
Agriculture
Phase
out all farm and commodity subsidies to return agriculture to the free market.
Budget
Short Term, reform
federal budget process:
- Institute biennial budgeting and
appropriations to restore order to the spending process.
o Require balanced budget for
each year.
o Limit federal government
spending to no more than 20% of GDP.
- Isolate Social
Security, Medicare and Medicaid as a separate part of the total budget
converting them into regular “discretionary” programs
o Enact long term budgets and
review at least every five years with triggers or action-forcing devices that
automatically make changes when spending exceeds budgeted amounts.
o Comply with GASB 45 to
establish an accrual accounting approach to report the cost of benefit as an
expense during the years in which the employee is working.
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Include
State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) as separate line item.
o Include a complete and
objective cost benefit analysis in any healthcare regulations.
o Increasing marginal tax rates will have to more than double, which
is not economically feasible as a solution to these run-away costs.
- Require Dynamic Analysis to
evaluate any tax policy macroeconomic changes:
o Identify explicit sources
of funds for each spending program (or group of programs).
o Limit spending based on
projected sources of revenue.
o Recognize future unfunded obligations
in program budget estimates.
o Abolish use of budget “trust
funds” since funds get diverted to spend on pork projects.
Use Performance Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) to evaluate program and regulation effectiveness.
- OMB should
subject all major regulations to a benefit-cost analysis before being
implemented.
o ExpectMore.Gov developed to
monitor program effectiveness.
o Calculate benefits for all new
programs, not just “major” (estimated economic impact greater than
$100 million; less than 1% of all programs) programs.
o Reduce regulation compliance burden.
- Terminate programs and regulations
that are ineffective or inefficient
Authorize a Presidential
line item veto authority to limit “earmark” and “pork”
projects.
- Provide a
searchable website showing spending from the Office of Management and
Budget.
o Empower taxpayers to monitor federal
spending with internet access tools.
- Enact a Taxpayers Bill of Rights
(TaBOR) to restrict spending increases.
Require audits of all
government departments based on standard private business accounting practices.
- Each department
should create a permanent board, whose charter is to search out and
identify waste.
- Give each government department
independent auditors.
- Compare estimated vs. actual
costs for all government programs.
Long Term, downsize
government, with particular emphasis on unsustainable entitlement spending:
- Privatize entitlement programs:
o Medicare (325B) - Privatize into Personal Health Savings
Accounts.
o Social Security - Privatize into personal accounts.
- Privatize federal insurance
programs since the government has no Constitutional role providing or
guaranteeing insurance coverage:
o Crop Insurance.
o National Flood Insurance.
o Property Insurance.
o Terrorism Risk Insurance (TRIA).
o Windstorm Insurance.
- Privatize activities that could
be performed better by the private sector:
o Air Traffic Control ($2,814M).
o Airport Grants ($3,041M).
o Amtrak ($1,259M).
o Army Corps of Engineers ($4,891M).
o Export-Import Bank.
o FAA Facilities & Equipment
($2,867M).
o Federal Highway Administration
($32,950M).
o Federal Transit Administration
($8,420M)
o Federal National Mortgage Association
(Fannie Mae), ($6.5 B).
o Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
(Freddie Mac), ($6.5 B).
o Government National Mortgage
Association (Ginnie Mae).
o Government Printing Office.
o Legal Services Corporation ($350 M).
o NASA ($15,719M).
o Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation.
o Postal Service.
o Retirement Insurance, including Social
Security (527B).
o Risk Management Agency ($3,366M).
o St. Lawrence Seaway.
o Tennessee Valley Authority and four
Power Marketing Administrations ($179M).
o Transportation Security Agency
($2,700M).
- Devolve entitlement programs back
to the states:
o Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
($62B)
o Medicaid ($186B)
o SCHIP.
o State Payment for Family Support
($4,142M).
o Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families ($18,099M)
- Devolve local programs back to
the states:
o Child Care Entitlement Grants
($2,718M).
o Child Care & Development Grants
($2,099M).
o Community Oriented Policing Services
($575M).
o Community Service Grants ($631M)
o Department of Education ($70,953M)
o Environmental Protection Agency
($3,592M).
o Federal Transit Administration
($8,420M).
o Foster Care & Adoption Grants
($6,474M).
o Head Start ($6,843M).
o Social Service Grants ($1,764M).
- Terminate corporate welfare and
other mis-targeted programs:
o Administration on Aging ($1,367M).
o Agricultural Marketing Service
($1,247M).
o Agricultural Research Service
($1,227M).
o Assisted Housing Programs ($601M).
o Bureau of Reclamation ($1,221M)
o Community Development Grants
($5,373M).
o Employment and Training Administration
($5,237M).
o Energy Conservation ($874M).
o Farm Service Agency ($26,237M).
o Fossil Energy and Clean Coal ($615M).
o Home Investment Partnership Program
($1,650M).
o Homeless Assistance Grants ($1,300M).
o Low Income Housing Assistance
($22,874M).
o Low Income Home Energy Assistance
($2,115M).
o Public Housing Subsidies ($8,465M).
o Small Business Administration
($3,036M).
o Substance Abuse & Mental Health
($3,191M).
o Trade Adjustment Assistance ($1,097M).
- Terminate failed, outdated, and
irrelevant programs:
o Advanced Technology Program ($144M).
o Agency for International Development
($3,688M).
o Bureau of Indian Affairs ($2,404M).
o Corporation for Public Broadcasting
($466M).
o Economic Development Administration
($392M).
o Energy Conservation ($874M).
o Energy Supply ($820M).
o Federal Emergency Management Agency.
o International Trade Association
($370M).
o Maritime Administration ($411M).
o National Endowment for the Arts &
Humanities ($254M).
o Rural Development ($1,047M).
o United Nations ($362M).
- Consolidate duplicative and
contradictory programs:
o At-risk youth.
o Disabled.
o Early childhood development.
o Economic development.
o Homeless assistance.
o International education.
o Safe water.
- Terminate programs rather than
trimming them or phasing them out.
Subsidize
building Internet of the future across
- Ban Internet access services
taxes (federal, state, and local).
- Limit video franchising
regulation.
Civil Rights
Abandon
the three pronged model of preferences, entitlements, and group rights:
- Abandon diversity as a goal,
since it happens naturally based on meritocracy.
- Repeal all affirmative action
programs as no longer required.
- Eliminate all racial
classifications not justified by a compelling government interest.
- Vigorously enforce existing civil
rights laws with all resources at our disposal.
Embrace
personal responsibility as part of the civil rights solution:
- Choose American,
not a separate identity, like African-American.
- Master the English language.
- Push educational achievement
without excuses.
- Don’t use drugs or abuse
alcohol.
- Get married before baby arrives.
- Remain married and raise your
children.
Crime
Enforce
or erase all laws, awarding uniform sentences.
- Enforce swift
and sure capital punishment for
most heinous crimes.
- Revoke
“hate crimes” provisions as unneeded, unenforceable thought
control.
- Decriminalize socially and
economically productive conduct.
- Lower legal drinking age to 18.
Return
pendulum to favor victim rights over criminal rights.
- Endorse
“criminal profiling” as valid law enforcement approach.
- Revoke
driver’s license for repeat DWI offenders.
- Increase length
of punishment for repeat offenders.
- Continue trend of keeping violent
criminals incarcerated.
- Provide some form of restitution,
as part of judgment, to the victim or victim’s family.
Privatize
prisons to outsource incarceration services.
- Set federal, state, and local
incarceration standards and practices.
- Ensure crime is punished and
justice is served.
- Encourage prisoner paid
participation in free market enterprise ventures.
Return
state and local laws primacy on:
- Abortion application.
- Drug enforcement.
- Juvenile delinquency.
- Gang activity.
End DOJ law
enforcement grants that subsidize routine local law enforcement activities.
- End ineffective Community
Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants.
- End ineffective Youth PROMISE
grants.
Economy
Short Term, Emphasize free market
capitalism as the basis for the American economy.
- Audit Federal Reserve.
- Expand Free Trade Agreements with
as many countries as possible.
- Phase out
all subsidies.
- Eliminate
tariffs.
- Eliminate corporate welfare.
Long Term, Limit size and intrusion
of government (federal plus state plus local) to less than 25% of GDP.
- Abolish Federal
Reserve as central bank, thereby returning to Congress the constitutional
authority over monetary policy.
- Limit
federal government to only that role specifically enumerated in the
Constitution.
o Ensure general welfare clause is not
interpreted as an enumerated power to expand government.
o Enact the Enumerated
Powers Act to link all legislation to appropriate constitutional authority.
·
Ensure
government accountability (annual audits using standard accounting standards).
·
Ensure
program accountability (comparing expected vs. actual results).
Measure
overall economic health with a combination of multiple metrics:
- Include
“independent sector” (non profits) in all economic health
metrics.
- Gross Domestic Product.
- Consumer Confidence.
- Balance of Trade.
- Individual Productivity.
- Job Creation (BLS Household and
Payroll Survey).
- Unemployment Rate (BLS).
- Inflation Rate.
- Debt Ratio.
- Savings Rate.
- Include retirement savings into
domestic savings rate.
Education
Short term, Pass primary education responsibility
back to the local authorities.
- Do not fund
pre-school education, since it is very expensive day care with little long
term benefit.
- Publish public
education performance indicators based on No Child Left Behind like criteria.
o Provide world class standards for
rigor in levels of accomplishment, particularly in math and science.
o Stop aggregating results by race, and
concentrate on individual students of all races.
- Protect
transparency and accountability for reporting results to the public.
o Free state
and local governments from the administrative and compliance burden of federal
education programs.
o Allow states to consolidate wasteful
and inefficient programs (A-PLUS).
- Funding should
follow the student, not programs.
o Dispel the myth that federal education
spending leads to improved educational achievement.
o Offer nonrefundable education tax
credits to enable individual school choice incentives.
o Reform the Coverdall
education saving account program to include homeschooling costs under allowable
uses for tax-free education expenditures.
- Hold NEA de-certification
election allowing members to vote out their leftist, non-representative
union.
Empower
business to reengineer education to work with accountability and competition.
- Institute
teacher merit pay with incentives for over-achievement..
- Develop the kind of information
essential to drive organizational improvement and benchmarking.
- Establish venture capital funding
for expertise and talent.
- Provide critical leadership for
change management.
- Establish accountability for
school boards.
- Educate the public and
policymakers on the promise and pitfalls of change.
Replace
college degrees with occupational certifications, administered by objective
third party.
- Articulate
expectations for faculty, administration, and students.
o Require a strict core curriculum of
basic math, science, and social studies for graduation.
o Require work samples to certify journeymen
and master craftsmen.
- Require future
teachers to acquire subject matter relevant undergraduate degrees.
o Eliminate undergraduate schools of
education.
o Increase the academic rigor required
in education graduate schools.
o Replace pseudo education masters
degrees with enhanced certification training.
- Enact an education Bill of
Rights.
o Allow ability to sue for ideological
bigotry and nonperformance of mission.
- Encourage
savings for college by further reducing double taxation on savings for
education.
o Reject new college cost reduction
program as an unfunded entitlement.
Long term, Privatize public education
and abolish the Department of Education.
- Abolish the
Federal Department of Education as no longer needed with States in charge.
- Remove cultural
indoctrination, sex education, situation ethics from public school
curriculum.
- Create a market-driven education
system with voting with parent’s pocketbooks based on performance.
o Measure indicator for readiness to
enter the private work force.
o Defund higher education subsidies for
non-vocational programs.
Elections
Short Term, Reengineer election
process to be more representative and more participative.
- Conduct
nationwide Presidential primary(s) available to all states.
o Primaries would be a rotating series
of regional primaries.
- Increase number
of House representatives to 600, to allow better representation.
o Base representation on number of citizens, not number of people (legal or illegal).
o Redistrict conforming as nearly as
possible to state or local government boundaries.
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Redistrict
design based on Minimal distance to district center or zip codes.
o Return voting rights to criminals
after they complete their sentences, parole and probation.
- Individual
states enforce their own election requirements.
o
Require all voters to present photographic
identification, issued by the federal, state, or local government, when they
vote at their polling place, or to send copies of such identification when
submitting an absentee ballot.
o
Require all individuals who register to vote to
provide documentation establishing that they are United States citizens.
o
Require state and local election officials to verify
the accuracy of new voter registration information against other available
state and federal databases.
o
Require an individual who registers by mail to vote
in person the first time they vote.
o
Require all individuals who register to vote through
the use of mail-in forms, whether they are mailed back to election officials or
hand-delivered by the individual or third-party organizations, to comply with
the applicable HAVA provision.
o
Require all third-party organizations (like ACORN)
that conduct voter registration drives to put the name of their organization
and the volunteer or employee handling each registration on the voter registration
form and require all completed forms to be returned to election officials by
such organizations within ten days of the date the forms are executed by the
voter.
o
Facilitate voting by overseas members of the
military by requiring that all absentee ballots being sent to UOCAVA voters be
mailed at least 45 days prior to the election deadline or alternatively by
express mail or electronic means so the ballots will be received by voters in
time to be returned.
o
Require all state courts to notify election officials
when individuals whose names are drawn from the registration rolls are excused
from jury duty because they claim they are not U.S. citizens or no longer live
in the jurisdiction.
o Require the
state to enter into agreements with other states, especially neighboring
states, to compare voter registration lists to find voters who are registered
in more than one state.
o Prosecute election fraud to the
fullest extent of the law.
- Utilize
electronic voting machines for rapid, accurate results, with electronic voting
accepted.
·
Ensure all valid absentee ballots are counted.
o
Designate
Military Offices as Voter Registration Agencies.
o
Develop
systems allowing servicemen overseas the ability to vote electronically and
their votes counted back in their home districts.
o
Eliminate direct campaign contributions
o Repeal Bipartisan Campaign
Reform Act (BCRA) passed in 2002 as structurally unfair.
o Require all campaign
contributions made to general campaign fund, distributed by the government
based on predetermined spending limit.
o Lobbyists are forbidden from direct
candidate contributions.
o Each candidate would be restricted to
a fixed amount of government money for campaigns.
Long Term, Ensure Congress composed
of citizen legislators.
·
Repeal the 17th Amendment, returning Senator selection to the state legislatures.
·
Enact Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits for all federal
political offices (12 years max).
o No more than two full four year terms (10
years max) for President.
o No more than five full two year terms (10
years max) for members of the House.
o No more than two full six year terms (12
years max) for Senators.
o
Enact Constitutional Amendment to extend concept of Recall to
members of Congress, both representatives and senators.
o
Enact Constitutional Amendment to adopt a Presidential federal line
item veto.
- Restrict
lawyers from serving in the legislative branch of government.
·
Encourage every eligible citizen to vote.
·
Require
national photo identification cards to ensure only citizens can vote.
·
Enable
electronic e-voting to enable citizens to vote remotely.
·
Enact
tax incentive to encourage voting participation.
- Enact a lifetime ban on any
elected official at the state or federal level from ever being a
professional lobbyist.
Employment
De-federalize
the minimum wage:
- Let the free
market set the appropriate wages for each job and industry.
- Let states set their own minimum
wage, if needed.
Reform
unemployment insurance:
- Limit duration of unemployment
benefits.
- Disqualify workers voluntarily on
strike and seasonal workers.
Measure
employment accurately:
- Job creation (BLS Household and
Payroll Surveys).
- Participation rate (BLS Labor
Force Participation)
- Unemployment rate (BLS Local Area
Unemployment Statistics).
Increase
union accountability:
- Require union
recertification elections every five years.
- Require private ballot elections
to authorize unionization vs. authorization cards.
- Union members must vote on use of
union dues for political activism.
- Remove capability for striking
workers to receive unemployment, welfare, or food stamps.
- Require Congress employees to
conform to labor organization policies.
Repeal
the Davis-Bacon Act to allow market to set prevailing wage rate.
Ensure
continued full funding for the Office of Labor Management Standards, the union
watchdog agency.
Energy
Short Term, increase domestic energy
supplies to lesson
- Fast track new,
safer nuclear power plants.
o Reduce the permitting schedule from
four years down to two or less and should be available for up to two
construction permits per reactor design.
o Expand the
o Explore commercial reprocessing and
recycling of spent nuclear fuel.
- Expand energy production by removing
regulatory barriers:
o Remove limitations to access
to untapped domestic oil/gas energy production in ANWR and on the Outer
Continental Shelf (OCS).
o Exploit oil shale deposits
in National Parks.
o Reduce regulatory and
environmental restrictions to allow new production and refineries to be built.
o Remove environmental restrictions to
allow mining low sulfur, low polluting coal deposits.
- Employ federal funds to
accelerate the development and deployment of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
techniques.
Decrease
energy usage with increased conservation and efficiency will complement
increased production.
- Reduce energy loss from leakage,
co-generation, and unneeded emission control.
- Significantly strengthen fuel
efficiency standards for vehicles, construction, and appliances.
- Fund significant financial
incentives for domestic production and purchase of highly fuel efficient
vehicles.
Invest
judiciously in emerging energy technologies.
- Repeal corn ethanol initiative as
ineffective and disruptive to the food supply.
- Establish Open
Fuel Standard to increase production of Flexible Fuel Vehicles (FFV).
- Invest in
electric transportation alternatives as major initiative in energy program.
o Require dual fuel capability vehicles
that use both electric and auxiliary gasoline engine.
o Invest in battery emerging
technologies to extent the range of electric vehicles.
- Provide grants for
commercialization of emerging energy technologies.
o Exploit geothermal energy as a readily
available, environment friendly alternative.
Long Term, develop Comprehensive
Energy Policy to allow free market to govern energy production and use.
- Strive for energy independence, reducing
domestic usage and foreign energy imports.
o Set energy transition to alternative
sources expectations in terms of decades.
- Eliminate all government subsidies on energy sources to allow the
free market to determine the best energy alternatives.
o Promote fuel diversity, so the market,
not government regulation, determines energy winners and losers.
o Remove regulatory barriers to energy
production, storage, and exploitation.
- Reject calls to drastically
reduce air emissions, which would suppress needed energy production.
Environment
Environmental
regulations must include a complete and objective cost benefit analysis.
- Reject “junk science” studies as
rationale for government action.
o Reject carbon dioxide
labeled as a greenhouse pollutant, since it encourages growth.
o Reject the Kyoto Protocol as a global
warming hysterical over-reaction.
o Reject “Cap and
Trade” legislation as expensive and ineffective, except to alleviate
guilt.
§
Reject
Cap and Trade ‘tax’ as government intrusion into the energy free
market.
§
Reject
Cap and Trade exchanges as a lucrative new business for environmentalists.
- Reject new air pollution
standards until substantiated by scientific proof.
o Acknowledge and publicize vast
progress made in the last 20 years improving air quality.
o Restrict EPA ability to regulate
emissions under the Clean Air Act.
Open
federal land to tightly controlled natural resource harvesting.
- Require any commercial
exploitation include requirement to return habitat to original state.
- Treat environmental radicals as
zealots and domestic terrorists.
- Consider reforming the Endangered
Species Act to involve property owners in the conservation process.
Support
international voluntary cooperation and sharing agreements, such as AP6.
- Facilitate development,
diffusion, deployment, and transfer of existing, emerging, and longer term
cost effective, cleaner, more efficient technologies and practices.
Discourage Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) business practice as leftist extortion and a waste of scarce
resources, with little real impact on business performance or corporate
perception.
Family
Defend
and strengthen marriage and the family in federal and state law and policies.
- Re-write the Defense of Marriage
Act, defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
- Ease economic and other burdens
on families (remove entitlement program disincentives).
- Encourage healthy marriages
through welfare reform and other social service programs.
Embrace
the ‘Culture of Belonging” encouraging the combination of
“work, wedlock, and worship.”
- Defer to parental rights
regarding the education and welfare of minor children.
- Abolish anonymous sperm donation
for biological and paternity reasons.
Compile
a Family Issues Scorecard to grade Congress on pro-family issues.
Feminism
Vigorously
enforce existing equal rights laws with all resources at our disposal.
- Eliminate all sexual
classifications not justified by a compelling government interest.
- Rewrite Violence Against Women Act and Victims of Crime Act to be
gender-neutral.
Eliminate
feminist programs in colleges as an anachronism and a waste of academic rigor.
Gun Control
Streamline
Licensing of gun owners with common sense rules:
- Conduct background investigation.
- Require gun education prior to
licenses.
Simplify
registration of all guns.
- Register “bullet
fingerprint” for all new guns.
Health Care
Short term, improve
health care coverage and performance.
- Reform
Medicare and Medicaid to discourage government dependence by individuals
and families.
o Abolish the Office of
the Surgeon General.
o Repeal McCarran-Ferguson
Act that restricts competitive interstate insurance markets.
o Reject any expansion of
the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
o Expand means testing throughout the
entire Medicare program.
o Promote individual responsibility and
realign economic incentives for the purchase of value-based health care.
o Restructure health care financing to
assist low income Americans in purchasing coverage.
- Isolate the
Medicare and Medicaid separating entitlements funding and unfunded
liabilities from the total budget.
o
Separate
OMB forecast income and spending as a discrete entitlement.
o
Budget
long term (30 year) to identify shortcoming long before they become problems.
o
Require
program reauthorization every four years based on sustainability.
o Comply with GASB 45 to establish an
accrual accounting approach to report the cost of benefits as an expense during
the years in which the employee is working.
o Include a complete and objective cost
benefit analysis in any healthcare regulations.
o Include State Children’s Health
Insurance Program (SCHIP) as separate line item.
o Deliver Medicaid as a
block grant to states to allow flexibility and eliminate overspending.
- Promote greater
opportunities for individuals to manage and control their health care
spending (HSAs).
o Create opportunities for individual
health care accounts
o Continue improvements like Medicare
Advantage (2003) to expand personal choice in health care options.
o Provide health care tax credits to
ensure equity between individual and business based health insurance plans.
o Offer direct subsidies to lower income
workers and families for purchase of private health care.
o Liberalize the tax treatment of health
insurance for individuals and families.
§
Ensure
guaranteed renewability.
§
Provide
assistance to low and moderate income workers for basic insurance coverage.
§
Provide
block grants of Medicaid and SCHIP back to the states.
§
Incorporate
state uninsurable risk pools.
- Restructure
Medicare and Medicaid from a defined benefit, open ended entitlement to a
defined contribution system.
o Establish a system for those retiring
after 2011 based on Federal Employees Health Benefits
Program.
o Restructure Medicaid financing to be
patient centered, helping to identify higher cost cases.
o Give states greater flexibility to
experiment with adjustments in their Medicaid programs.
o Eliminate individual incentives to
qualify inappropriately for Medicaid long term care services.
- Examine health
care reforms to salvage program such as:
o Transform drug benefit into
targeted benefit for low income seniors who lack coverage.
§
Require
a means test to the Medicare prescription-drug benefit.
o Reduce benefit levels, number or types
of treatments covered.
o Increasing premium costs, deductibles
or co-payments.
- Replace
jury malpractice system with expert health courts.
Long term, privatize all health
insurance and open to free market capitalism.
- Privatize health
insurance allowing each person to buy directly, like other types of
insurance.
o Cap tax benefits for
employer-sponsored health insurance.
o Businesses give employees monies
currently spent on current healthcare premiums.
o Allow health insurance providers to
establish risk pools to lower costs.
- Enable Health
Insurance Exchanges (HIE) to open up health care to individual coverage.
o Enable health insurance portability,
moving with the individual.
o Create open market for health
insurance aligned with moral principles.
o Enable medical transparency by making
medical information including performance directly available to consumers.
- Administer
Medicare and Medicaid “safety net” with each state defining
level of coverage.
o Discontinue federal government
insurance premium collections.
o Abolish federal healthcare revenue
redistribution to states.
Homeland Security
Prioritize
investments in homeland security based on a realistic threat assessment.
- Conduct
Quadrennial Security Reviews (QSR) to assess program performance and
strategies.
o
Require DHS to use risk
and Target Capabilities List capability gaps to allocate funds; and
o
Limit the number of
urban areas eligible in any given fiscal year for the UASI grant program.
- Conduct
inter-agency preparedness exercises on National Planning Scenarios.
- Improve Visa
Security Coordination Between the department of State and Homeland
Security.
- Expand the Visa
Waiver Program to improve international information sharing.
- Prepare for future threats
instead of over-reacting to prevent past threats.
- Protect chemical plants with same
priority as nuclear power plants.
- Fully fund the Coast Guard
modernization program to support expanded missions.
- Develop a National Strategy for
Air Security
- Update CFIUS to be more
transparent and responsive and include Homeland Security participation.
- Stop
state and local political leaders underfunding their law enforcement
agencies and thereby preventing those agencies from building robust
counterterrorism programs.
- Encourage border
states to form State Defense Forces (SDFs).
Separate
FEMA from Homeland Security to handle national catastrophes, not routine
emergencies.
- Amend
the Stafford Act so FEMA will reduce the number of disaster declarations
issued.
o Establish clear requirements, such as
international disaster scales, t0 limit the situations in which federal
emergency declarations can be issued.
o Eliminate entirely certain types of
disasters from FEMA’s portfolio.
o Reduce the cost-share provision for
all FEMA declarations to no more than 25% of the costs to ensure that at least
75% of the costs of a disaster are borne by the taxpayers living where the
disaster took place.
·
Implement
a decentralized approach to preparedness adhering to baseline preparedness
standards but operating under grassroots structure tasked with on-the-ground
implementation of disaster response efforts.
o Demand that state and local
governments pay greater attention to mitigating disaster risks and bear the
consequences of responding to disasters exacerbated by poor policies.
Fund investments in
information technology to enable more efficient and effective operations.
·
Develop
“Terrorstat”
program to gather and analyze all useful threat information.
·
Develop
“Borderstat”
program to consolidate all illegal border crossing and capture information.
·
Develop
“Readystat”
program to measure localities preparedness against risks.
·
Implement
“Secure Flight” program
to flag suspicious passengers for additional screening.
·
Implement
Incident Command System (ICS) to standardize emergency protocol to reduce
potential miscommunications during initial phases of incident response.
·
Step
up the implementation of Real ID.
Immigration
Short term, enforce existing immigration
laws.
- Protect the
borders to reduce the number of foreigners sneaking into the country.
- Enforce workplace employment laws
to crack down on illegal employees.
- Deport criminals immediately
following sentence completion.
Long term, require all immigrants
assimilate into the American culture and responsibilities:
- Abandon diversity and multi-culturalism as a PC aberration undermining
American “melting pot” roots.
- Learn and
respect American history and culture (included in citizenship exam).
o Mandate English (national)
language (American common
knowledge, but not legislated) fluency.
§
End
bilingual education in schools to speed up assimilation.
o Abide by American morals and laws.
Close
borders to stop further illegal immigration.
- Complete
double-layered security fencing between Mexico and United States.
o Amend 14th
Amendment to apply only to children of citizens, repealing “anchor baby” provision.
o Determine border security alternatives
effectiveness before building additional fencing.
o Continue “virtual fence”
tests but delay implementation until effectiveness matches physical fence.
- Implement
biometric identification to track visitors, temporary workers, students.
o Cease “catch and
release” program.
o Implement national
identification (identity, voting, paying taxes).
o Implement US Visitor and Immigrant
Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program.
- Register and/or
prosecute all existing illegal aliens.
o Deport all criminal aliens back
to original country upon completion of their sentences.
o Bill foreign governments for cost of
illegal immigrants (law enforcement, health care, education).
Streamline
legal immigration process as necessary condition of compliance.
- Remove H1-B visa
limit to encourage high skilled immigrants.
- Streamline
H2-A visa acquisition and management procedures.
- Set high standards for immigrants
(health, skill, criminal record, etc.)
State
legislatures must support the overall immigration strategy
- Implement REAL ID standards for
driver’s licenses and “breeder” documents to obtain
state identify cards.
§
Validate
all voters are citizens using a valid ID proving citizenship.
·
Enact laws prohibiting illegal immigrants from receiving any
government benefits.
o Cut off all federal funds to
any city, county, or state that does not enforce immigration law.
Punish
employers who knowingly employ illegal aliens.
- Mandate the use of E-Verify
application for employment verification.
- Impose employer
sanctions on those who knowingly hire unlawfully present systems.
o Develop guest worker program that
matches skills to employer sponsors, and ensures return upon completion.
Judiciary
Nominate
and confirm only those justices who have a proven record of fidelity to the
Constitution.
- Fill judicial
openings in less than a year.
- Eliminate
partisan American Bar Association from any role vetting federal judicial
nominees.
- Clarify the
rules of the Senate to prevent a minority of obstructionists from
permanently blocking a vote.
- Enact term
limits for federal judicial appointments (12 years max).
Elected
officials should criticize any policymaking from the bench that is disguised as
judicial “interpretation.”
- Reinterpret Flast
vs. Cohen to impose more stringent standing under the Establishment
Clause.
- Eliminate the overuse of Special
Prosecutors.
Continue use
of arbitration in consumer and employment matters to free up over-burdened
courts.
Legal
Short Term, Require legislation to
understandable and actionable.
- Restrict legislation to no more
than 100 pages in length.
- Require legislation to be
available for review at least five business days before voting.
- Authorize a Presidential line
item veto authority to limit “earmark”
and “pork” projects.
Strengthen
the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs to scrutinize rules before
adoption.
·
Require
independent agencies to submit cost benefit analyses to OIRA for non-binding
review.
o
When a regulation will cost more than
$100 million to comply with, Congress should require a vote on the regulation
BEFORE it becomes binding.
·
Establish
a sunset date for all new federal regulations
Reform
tort system:
- Restrict compensation to real and
actual costs.
o Eliminate punitive (pain and
suffering) awards.
o Enact traditional English
Rule (“loser pays”) and require
litigants to pay costs of spurious law suits.
- Eliminate “scheme
liability” to expand plaintiff pools.
Restrict
eminent domain judgments to public projects.
Long Term, Ensure Congress composed
of citizen legislators.
·
Enact term limits for all federal political offices (12 years
max).
o No more than two full four year terms (10
years max) for President.
o No more than five full two year terms (10
years max) for Congress.
o No more than two six year terms (12
years max) for Senators.
- Restrict lawyers from serving in
office in the legislative branch of government.
- Enact a lifetime ban on any
elected official at the state or federal level from ever being a
professional lobbyist.
Enable
Senators and Representatives to govern from their home districts.
- Each Member must certify that
they actually read and understand the proposed legislation.
- Enable electronic voting to allow
remote participation from their home district or state.
Schedule five
day workweek enabled with remote voting access.Religion
Enforce
the Founders intent to respect religious beliefs.
- Affirm right of private
associations and individuals to uphold religious tenets and express them
publicly.
- Appoint and confirm judges who
understand the important contribution of religion to public life.
Protect
the religious liberty and integrity of faith-based organizations that
participate directly or indirectly in government social service programs.
- Encourage
private giving to augment support to the poor and needy.
Social Security
Short
Term, Isolate the social security financing funding and liabilities from
the total budget.
·
Protect current surplus from current spending.
·
Separate
OMB forecast income and spending as a discrete entitlement.
·
Budget
long term (30 year) to identify shortcoming long before they become problems.
·
Require
program reauthorization every four years based on sustainability.
Examine social security reforms to salvage program such as:
·
Gradually
raise the retirement age.
·
Implement
across the board benefit cuts (all three tiers).
·
Increase
taxes by increasing earnings cap.
Improve the funding of traditional defined benefit pension plans.
·
Privatize
the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
·
Offer
auto-enrollment in Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board.
Long Term, Create Social Security
Personal Retirement Accounts that workers would own
and save for retirement.
·
Expand
private pension coverage by offering automatic enrollment and payroll
deduction.
Taxes
Short term, continue simplification of
existing income tax:
- First, begin transition by offering an
optional flat income tax alternative.
- Next, implement
incremental improvements to the existing tax code:
o Make income tax cuts permanent.
o Index capital gains tax rate for
inflation.
o Repeal double taxation on interest,
dividends, gifts, and capital gains.
o Repeal Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).
o Repeal “death tax” on
estate inheritance.
o Ban internet taxes permanently.
o Reduce corporate taxes to more
globally competitive rates.
- Institute dynamic scoring of tax
proposals to establish true impact of any tax change.
- Stop defining political groups as
non-profit organizations.
Long term, totally replace the
current income tax approach with National Sales (consumption) Tax:
- First, repeal the 16th
Amendment that authorizes income taxes.
- Next, implement a flat retail sales
tax system with no exemptions, deductions, or minimums/maximums.
o
Apply same rate to individuals, partnerships, and corporations.
o
Redeploy
IRS to focus on enforcement.
- Abolish “worldwide”
taxation, to eliminate double taxation with foreign taxes.
Welfare
Strengthen
work requirements under the Temporary Assistance to Needy families (TANF)
program.
- Add work requirements to other
welfare programs, such as public housing and food stamps.
- Reform the other welfare programs
to dis-incent participation and incent government
independence.
Promote
marriage as an institution and a cure for poverty.
- Expand Healthy Marriage
Initiative to increase number of two parent married families.
- Reduce penalties for married
couples under government means tested welfare programs.
- Encourage a delay in the onset of
sexual activity among young people
Foreign
Policies
Philosophy
Develop
a coherent integrated foreign policy strategy that reflects American national
interests.
- Include all
agency opinions (State, Intelligence, Defense, UN, USAID).
o Terminate FSOs who put their
personal or political needs in front of their country needs.
o Establish doctrinal
principles to explain public diplomacy mission.
- Define
criteria for American policy interests.
- Define
criteria for American military intervention.
- Create planning, clearing, and
assessing processes across agency boundaries.
o Ensure diplomatic and military efforts
are coordinated and consistent.
- Revitalize
o Target desired audiences with
appropriate dialogue approaches and channels.
o Exploit the use of all international
broadcasting vehicles like VOA to educate listeners on freedom and democracy.
Cooperate
with other nations diplomatically, in our own interests.
- Ensure ambassadorships go to
career diplomatic appointees
- Defend America against Islamo-fascist threats.
- Protect our interests across the
globe.
Africa
Redefine
the conflicts in
- Educate American
public on true nature of Muslim religion.
- De-legitimize
the immorality and hypocrisy of Islamic fundamentalists.
- Label terrorists
as the cowards and “useful idiots” that they are.
- Promote the values of Western
democratic modernity.
- Encourage moderate Muslims to
condemn terror as a tactic and Islamo-fascism as
the cause.
Develop
a comprehensive strategy toward
- Increase the diplomatic profile
of the
- Encourage grass roots economic
development and peer-to-peer assistance programs.
- Encourage human rights,
democratic principles, and good governance.
- Coordinate strategy with military
forces, AFRICOM.
- Increase security engagement.
Increase
trade and economic ties to
- Target businesses by country, by
sector, and by business.
- Encourage efforts to root out
corruption.
- Help develop energy resources.
Aid
Integrate
all agency opinions (State, Intelligence, Defense, UN, USAID)
into a coherent unified foreign policy.
- Ensure
- Include
Establish
strong oversight over use of taxpayer funds to finance foreign aid.
- Discontinue the current foreign
aid program and policies.
- Remove USAID independence in
order to directly link foreign aid and country behavior.
o Utilize a scorecard to rate economic,
social, and political behavior as input to aid calculation.
- Expand the use
of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to replace less effective forms
of Official Development Assistance (ODA).
Promote
free trade and investment accords as an alternative to aid.
- Grant trade preferences to
developing countries as interim step to free trade agreements.
- Establish free cities within
struggling third world countries.
Asia
Strengthen
trilateral cooperation among
- Highlight defense trade as a
cornerstone of strategic partnership.
- Pursue missile defense cooperation
with
- Institute an
Establish
Free Trade Agreements across Asia Pacific (FTAAP).
·
Establish normal trade relations with Vietnam, ending 15 years of
diplomacy and negotiations.
·
American leaders should not refer to China as a diplomatic
“partner” until improvements in human rights.
- Increase trade with China as a
deterrent to military conflict.
§
Complete Free Trade Agreement with South Korea to further trade and
investment opportunities.
American
leaders must stand up for
- Reexamine assumptions about
Taiwan’s ability to deter China with solely defensive weapons.
Engage
with North Korea to dis-mantle nuclear weapons
development program via public diplomacy.
- Engage in multilateral efforts
under Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) to halt illegal activities.
- Explore alternative methods of
defense for
- Provide information directly to
the North Korean people via television, radio, and internet.
Define
Asia as a major theater in the Global War on Terror.
- Cooperate and coordinate
transatlantic information sharing
- Encourage moderate Muslims to
condemn terror as a tactic and Islamo-fascism as
the cause.
- Publicize theater success in the
War on Terror.
Defense
Short Term, Allocate 4% of GDP for the
continued rebuilding of national defense:
- Set reasonable
near and long term budgeting goals for military modernization.
o Ensure National Guard
receives long term commitment of resources and funding:
§
Ensure
the appropriate Active and Reserve mix to meet the needs of the future.
§
Ensure
equipment needs include dual use equipment for domestic missions.
§
Reorganize
the National Guard to aid its response to catastrophic events.
o Continue investments in
a viable tactical and strategic missile defense system.
1. Develop a layered
missile defense program.
1. Retain the Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV)
program.
2. Preserve the Airborne Laser (ABL)
program.
3. Continue boost-phase missile defense
programs.
4. Field a system to protect U.S. coastal
areas from sea launched shorter raqnge systems.
5. Develop and field test space-based
elements.
- Ensure
logistics meet defense needs and critical components are not dependent on
foreign suppliers.
o Ensure ongoing maintenance to maintain
or extend the service lives of equipment.
o Standardize infrastructure, logistics,
and equipment to better enable unified commands.
o Restock prepositioned supplies to
enable rapid deployment around the world.
o Reinvigorate multi-national exercises
and foreign military engagements.
- Fix
40% of overall defense budget for modernization, research and development,
and procurement.
o Maintain air superiority advantage.
o Continue investments in robotic
technologies to expand military reach with decreased human risk.
o Modernize nuclear warheads to maintain
a nuclear deterrent.
o Ensure critical infrastructure is
protected from Electromagnetic Pulse effects.
o Establish cyber command to focus on
understanding cyber capabilities, laws, and defense.
- Refocus military medical care
with VA-like medical care options, extending TriCare
to include personal health savings accounts.
- Enforce Solomon Amendment linking
federal funding to defense recruiting on campuses.
Establish
a civilian agency (Civilian Expeditionary Workforce) to work with military to
perform urgent post-conflict stabilization and nation building and
reconstruction.
- Assign an experienced and capable
contracting office at all deployed locations, reporting into the
Department of Defense.
- Staff expeditionary
workforce positions with experienced civilian subject matter experts.
o Recruit Foreign Service experienced
professionals.
o Establish a roster of people with
language and technical skills to stand by in reserve.
o Recruit expertise in engineering,
medicine, and policing available for deployment.
- Augment security
forces with experienced combat veterans and intelligence personnel.
- Augment infrastructure resources
with experienced civilian contractors.
Long Term, Transform the American
military to operate successfully on the battlefield of the future:
- Redefine
the strategic posture to one of Damage Limitation Strategy.
o Continue comprehensive scenario
planning to address all future contingencies.
o Strive for eventual complete nuclear
disarmament.
§
Continue
reduction of operationally deployed strategic nuclear warheads.
§
Continue
improving security at nuclear sites around the world.
§
Continue
support for the “Global Partnership
Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass
Destruction” and the “Global
Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism.”
- Set a
clear vision of military use in the future, expected opposition, and
provide sustained investment.
o Increase Army and Marines to meet
future ground forces needs.
o Expand Special Operations Command
(SOCOM) to meet expected expanded missions.
o Rebuild Navy to a sustainable global
power level of deployment (300 ships).
o Recapitalize and modernize Air Force
to maintain air superiority.
o Establish a National Security Space
Command for space, including satellite, defense.
o Rebuild intelligence capability to
better serve defense needs.
Europe
Redefine
- Abandon
multiculturalism as a failed philosophy.
o Promote the values of
Western democratic modernity.
o Require immigrants
assimilate into the countries culture and laws.
o Educate European public on true nature
of Al-Qaeda jihad.
§
Deport
individuals who engage in unacceptable behaviors.
§
Prosecute
high profile Islamists who threaten public order.
- Encourage
moderate Muslims to condemn terror as a tactic and Islamo-fascism
as the cause.
o De-legitimize the
immorality and hypocrisy of Islamic fundamentalists.
o Label terrorists as the cowards and
“useful idiots” that they are.
o Conservative Muslim Forum turned out
to be neither conservative nor conciliatory.
- Cooperate and
coordinate transatlantic information sharing
Withdraw
US from NATO since its mission is purely defense and Soviet Union is no longer
a threat.
- NATO members
must commit to being full and active members of the alliance.
o Reserve NATO resources exclusively for
NATO missions.
o Encourage NATO members to commit 2% of
GDP to defense.
- Upgrade military capabilities to
reflect global role and force projection.
- Reserve NATO resources
exclusively for NATO missions.
- Create a new rapid reaction force
to enable quick response around the world.
- Encourage
Encourage
- Lower taxes on
both individuals and companies.
- Reject the
welfare state as an unsustainable economic model.
- Embrace the global economy with
public policy and good economic management.
- Invest in training for future
needs, particularly science, engineering, and business studies.
Support
- Support
- Expand nonproliferation
cooperation that targets terrorists and rogue states.
- Expand energy cooperation and
investment
- Champion democracy and human
rights.
Latin America
Promote
Americas Free Trade Agreements to include as many
- Approve FTAs with Peru, Columbia,
and Panama.
- Extend trade preferences to
- Pursue additional bilateral FTAs
with other Latin American countries.
- Cut funding for
all
Promote
regional collaboration against transnational crime and terrorism.
Middle East
Define
the conflicts in the
- Educate American
public on true nature of Al-Qaeda jihad which is to:
o Expel Americans from Iraq.
o Establish an Islamic emirate in Iraq
and develop it into a caliphate.
o Extend the jihad to Iraq’s
secular neighbors.
o Win the inevitable battle with Israel.
- De-legitimize
the immorality and hypocrisy of Islamic fundamentalists.
o Label terrorists as the cowards and
“useful idiots” that they are.
o Encourage moderate Muslims to condemn
terror as a tactic and Islamo-fascism as the cause.
- Promote the values of Western
democratic modernity.
Endorse
moderate Muslims attempts to distance themselves from the Islamic extremists.
- Charter of Muslim Understanding
- Deobandi Fatwa.
- Promote the values that
can’t be found under retrogressive Sharia
model.
Allow
- Destroy
preemptively any WMD sites before they become functional at producing weaponsl
- Capture and
defend ownership of Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, Judea and Samaria, and
other key defensive areas.
- Root out and
destroy all Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups.
- Restore dignity and hope to every
Arab with system or earned income and earned property rights.
- Replace Muslim schools with real
education teaching human rights rather than jihad and hatred.
- Close down mosques that preach
hatred and violence.
- Stop funding
Pressure
- Remove UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL)
out as ineffective meddlers and terrorist human shields.
Pressure Syria, diplomatically and economically, to stop support
for terrorist organizations.
- Pressure
o Pressure
- Pressure
Work
with
- Work with coalition forces, including
- Discourage Pashtun
support for Afghanistan Pashtun terrorists.
- Improve local governance and
development in the impoverished areas that have become breeding grounds
for militants.
Facilitate
Iraq government maturing to defend themselves against terrorists and Baathists.
- Phase down
coalition forces as the
o Complete training of
o Honor security agreements should
violence escalate after we leave
- Publicize widely
progress made rebuilding
- Interdict
Continue
to support the Afghan government to rid the country of Taliban and Al-Qaeda elements.
- Employ a multidimensional
strategy to rebuild security, intelligence, and reconnaissance
capabilities.
- Phase down coalition forces as
the
Pressure Iran, diplomatically and economically, to withdraw support
for terrorist organizations.
- Support UN
resolution on
- Consider all options in dealing
with Iranian military ambitions.
Terrorism
Redefine
the War on Terror as a War against Islamo-fascism,
with multiple theaters of operation.
- Wage a
counter-ideological war using all available soft power tools, as well as
military means.
o De-legitimize the
immorality and hypocrisy of Islamic fundamentalists.
o Craft appropriate messages
for each target constituency:
- Muslim society, especially
involving young people, at the grassroots.
- Foreign fighters, who have
poured into
- Private sector expertise.
o Exploit the use of all international
broadcasting vehicles like Voice of America
and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty to
educate listeners on freedom and democracy.
o Educate American public on true nature
of Islamic religion.
- Label Islamic
terrorists as the cowards, pedophiles, and “useful idiots”
that they are.
o Disrespect suicide bombers
by burying their remains with pig entrails and other trash.
o Profile Islamo-fascist
terrorists for elimination wherever they reside.
- Monitor
activities of radical Islamists within this country (Mapping_Shari’a.com).
o Acknowledge home grown Islamist
terrorists planning attacks in this country.
o Identify potential al-Qaida terrorist
plots initiated from outside the U.S.
o Counter all terrorist threats to
include cyber-war attacks.
Continue
preemptive attacks to fight terrorists where they reside, instead of waiting to
be attacked.
- Continue attacks
on terrorist infrastructure and funding to undermine effectiveness.
o Mobilize to counter the
recent terrorist war on the sea (piracy attacks).
- Wage a parallel offensive in the
media and op-ed pages to reinforce battlefield success.
- Treat detainees humanely,
protected against cruel treatment and torture, in accordance with Geneva
Convention.
Publish
an annual GWOT scorecard detailing progress and achievements around the world.
- Communicate a
single, positive narrative defining the goals and objectives of the GWOT.
- Publicize global atrocities
attributed to Islamo-fascists to justify
continued involvement.
- Publicize global success stories
in the
- Publicize global attacks thwarted
before they could occur.
- Publicize terrorist leaders
killed and captured.
- Refresh global progress and
achievements periodically to keep GWOT in the American mind.
Expose
the Muslim front groups as terrorism enablers.
- Renounce any
intention to replace government rule with Sharia.
- Teach Muslims
the imperative of coexisting peacefully as equals with non-Muslims on an
indefinite basis.
- Focus indignation on Muslims
committing violent acts in the name of Islam.
- Begin comprehensive international
programs in mosques all over the world to teach against the ideas of
violent jihad and Islamic supremacy.
- Actively work with Western law
enforcement officials to identify and apprehend jihadists within Western
communities.
Convene
a “Geneva Convention” for defining terrorism and rules of
engagement.
- Define
“combatants” in the Global War on Terror.
- Define treatment
of prisoners.
o
Contrast legal interrogation techniques vs. illegal
torture.
o Define outlawed torture vs. aggressive
interrogation and humiliation techniques.
o Keep prisoners until the end of the
War on Terror.
Continue
cooperation and coordination between
- Support the
Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) to stop flow of WMDs.
- Promote information sharing
between North American and European countries.
- Take an “All Hazards”
approach to building a comprehensive emergency response system.
Endorse
moderate Muslims attempts to distance themselves from the Islamic extremists.
- Charter of Muslim Understanding
- Deobandi Fatwa.
- Promote the values that
can’t be found under retrogressive Sharia
model.
Trade
Integrate
all agency opinions (State, Intelligence, Defense, UN, USAID)
into a unified foreign policy.
- Reduce
Seek
additional partners in bilateral Free Trade Agreements, including labor
standards requirements.
- Extend
President’s Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).
- Require swift
vote on Free Trade Agreement approval.
- Sign Free Trade Agreements with
Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
- Sign Free Trade Agreements with
- Ratify Permanent
Maintain
- Push for the elimination of trade
barriers, subsidies, and other impediments to free trade.
- Enact legislation to offset VAT
imbalances, despite WTO disapproval.
United Nations
Short term, fundamentally reform
the UN or withdraw funding and support the continued operations of the parts
that are not working as designed.
·
Implement GDP weighted voting
in the General Assembly.
o
Implement voluntary funding model to
pay only for organizations that we like.
o
Sunset the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) as having outlived its usefulness.
o
Require UN independent agencies to
publish line by line detailed budgets for oversight.
o
Oppose the biased, anti-American
Alliance of Civilizations mandate, funding, and support.
·
Realign UN Security Council
to be top 7 UN financial contributors.
o
Today’s 1 to 9: U.S., Japan,
Germany, France, UK, Italy, Canada, Spain, Brazil.
o
Require China and Russia to “pay
to play.”
o
Ensure continued mission to guard
international peace and security.
·
Require Human Rights Council
members to champion the causes of political and economic freedom.
o
Require the Human Rights Council to
provide objective, fair and balanced assessments of Human Rights conditions
around the world.
o
Withhold annual funds that are
earmarked for obsolete or unsupported functions.
·
Continue to veto attempts to
subvert member rights to UN authority.
o
Veto the U.N. Law of the Sea (LOST)
Treaty.
o
Reject the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine that obligates military
intervention.
Long term, abandon the United
Nations and replace with League of Democracies to promote global freedom.
·
Restrict membership to
countries with democratic values and rules of law.
·
Provide Free Trade Agreement between
all members as an economic advantage of membership.
Assemble coalitions of forces to enforce and keep the peace
among nations.
