Common Ground + Political Action Figures = America Salvaged (rescued from ruin)
In ancient Chinese philosophy, Yin/Yang (light/dark, negative/positive, fire/water, expand/contract) is a concept of dualism, describing how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.
Yin and Yang can be thought of as complementary (rather than opposing) forces that interact to form a dynamic system in which the whole is greater than the assembled parts. Our political Yin/Yang is out of whack. Left Wing. Right Wing. No bird flies with just one wing. There are contrary forces at play here, corrupting, dividing. Not in play is the complementary, interconnected, and interdependent force of Yin/Yang, and thus we suffer the loss of our dynamic political system in which the whole is greater than the assembled parts. Our Nation appears monumentally divided.Doesn't matter. The four core issues I'm bringing to your attention we can fix without any of us having to march to the drum beat of another. These four issues transcend whether you're a flaming liberal or a redneck conservative; they harm every one of us, no matter our individual characteristics, beliefs or political affiliation. My website (squeakywheelpolitics.com) and my book (Screwed, Blued, Tattooed, and Sold Down the River) dissect those four nonpartisan issues, offer evidence and corrective legislation. Divided we stand! And that's okay. For it is on common ground:
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Federal Reserve Banking System
Abolish the Federal Reserve Banking System. National debt paid off in two years, inflation and deflation neutered, fractional reserve banking abolished, risk of depression virtually eliminated. Solution: Monetary Reform Act (MRA) - Find the MRA at themoneymasters.com. The MRA is a two step plan for national economic reform and recovery:
Step 1: Directs the Treasury Department to issue U.S. Notes (like Lincoln’s Greenbacks; can also be in electronic deposit format) to pay off the National debt.
Step 2: Increases the reserve ratio private banks are required to maintain from 10% to 100%, thereby terminating their ability to create money, while simultaneously absorbing the funds created to retire the national debt.
These two relatively simple steps, which Congress has the power to enact, would extinguish the national debt, without inflation or deflation, and end the unjust practice of private banks creating money as loans (i.e., fractional reserve banking). Paying off the national debt would wipe out the $400+ billion annual interest payments and thereby balance the budget. This Act would stabilize the economy and end the boom-bust economic cycles caused by fractional reserve banking. -
Regional Government
Abolish regional governance. Reinstitute/Reinforce Representative Government - Eliminate governance via mass quantities of appointed bureaucrats (FEMA, EPA, HUD, HHS, DOT, DOE, Education, Agriculture, Labor, Commerce, etc.) swarming from the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Foster coordination and cooperation between traditional units of government (City, County, State, United States). Solution: Constitutional Restoration Act
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Social Security
Let me see if I've got this straight. You're telling me it's mandatory I put my economic future into the hands of a body 28 trillion dollars in debt? Mandatory. Oh, you're saying I have a number but not an individual account. No right of inheritance. And, no guarantee or right to payments. Maybe 18K at 62, (reduced 29.2% if taken before "full" retirement age of 66 and 10 months) or maybe 25K at that full retirement age, with inflation chewing away at it like a mad dog. Then there's Chile - Individual private account with right of inheritance (average annual rate of return for Chilean workers over 30 years (1981-2011) exceeded 9%). Annual payments: $55,000 @ age 62; OR $70,000 @ age 65 OR $53,000 and [in addition receive] a one-time cash payment of $223,000. *Savers have been allowed to withdraw funds during the COVID crisis. According to The Financial Times Limited (2021), "Congress could yet approve a third withdrawal next year, putting at risk a pool of savings that has driven the growth of Chile's capital markets and jeopardizing future returns." Emergencies require extraordinary actions; you can't save water for tomorrow if you die of thirst today. And it's their "water!" Solution: Social Security Reconstruction and Freedom Act
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Income Tax
Eliminate illegal taxation of labor (wages) as profit (income). Income is profit (apples). Labor for wages is a value-for-value exchange (apple trees). Wages are not Income (apple trees are not apples). Solution: American Free Labor Act
The ONLY viable solution is corrective legislation in the hands of determined people and their elected representatives (City, County, State, United Sates). Therefore:
...To be continued