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December 25, 2025

Open Letter to Pres. Trump, 12/25/25

Filed under: Political Commentary — Tags: , , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 10:32 pm

Suggested Solutions

printed: September 3, 2025

Illegal Aliens:

By definition, an illegal alien is a criminal, all other crimes are add-ons to the original crime of breaching the immigration laws, thus, various categories should be addressed in order to provide for a reasonable solution. Many categories are compounded by the over-matching of the different enforcement agencies, for example, the tax violations with the social security violations with the actual criminal violations, &c.

Two major categories are the economic violations coupled with the tax violations. As such, we may separate those who have not committed criminal misconduct, such as murder +/or trespass, phrased simply as felonies and misdemeanors. Thus, we can separate these two groups of criminals by using current definitions and apply the appropriate, political, judicial, and social, remedies, that should satisfy all reasonable people, although triggering the ideologues.

Keeping in mind, that all solutions to this problem are legislative with the only power of The Executive being to implement Law.  See Article I and Article II of The Constitution of the United States 1788 as amended.

Simple illegals who have crossed and have been model citizens, with jobs, no criminal record other than false or stolen social security numbers +/or other simple identity frauds, excepting those of actual identity theft, and with the intent to assimilate, should be paroled.

All others should be prosecuted and either imprisoned or executed as appropriate to their crimes and the pertinent statutes. There should be NO exceptions, as this violates the current interpretations of the various discrimination decisions, especially those based on place of birth, race, national origin, and gender. To allow these criminals to remain without punishment discriminates against both legal residents and citizens of These United States. This policy eliminates the problem of deportations, as all of the crimes are inherently within the jurisdiction of the United States and its member States, and as such, imprisonment in local facilities is appropriate, not deportation until such time as the court ordered sentence is complete, and even then, the deportation should be immediate, as in within 24 hours. Although requiring an increase in prison facilities, overall, it should reduce the cost of this problem.

In order to be paroled, the illegal alien must admit to having committed the breach of the immigration laws, thus allowing for the court ordering a parole for the individual, much as a criminal consent decree. This required admission of guilt allows for the constitutionality of all of the following. Apparent conflicts between guidelines to be modified at the discretion of the Executive in the event that the legislation is ambiguous, but definitely not to be adjudicated by any Article I nor Article III nor any State’s court

  1. The parolee waives all rights to Due Process for a deportation if he commits any crime, felony +/or misdemeanor, subsequent to the parole. Any breach acts as an act of law, thereby not allowing for disputation of any kind;
  2. The parolee agrees to voluntarily leaving the country if within three years he has not learned English and can pass the then current citizenship test,
    1. A mandatory savings account may be required to cover the cost of this, assets to be returned at the passing of the test;
  3. The parolee agrees to never request citizenship, nor agree to sue on any grounds, other than performing three years of honorable military service, for such citizenship;
  4. The parolee agrees that no minor children of his are ever eligible for citizenship, but that grand-children with no criminal record may do so by satisfying the then current conditions for naturalized citizenship and specifically noted to be excluded from the rights and privileges of the native-born citizen;
  5. The parolee agrees to relinquishing, within (X) months, all forged documents, documents gotten for driving or for otherwise certifying skills of any or all kinds, and registering to retake all such certifications, including especially State issued documents which may be used to falsify citizenship or any or all skill sets regulated by any and all competent authorities, in English, especially those involving matters of trust or medical and legal expertise;
  6. The parolee presents evidence which must meet the requirements of the Federal Rules of Evidence, showing the date of entry into the country, or providing FRE evidence of date of birth, from which his taxes, Income, SSA, HCFA, &c, will be dated back to for payment and penalty, said dating to be established at the parolee’s  eighteenth birthdate.
    1. Said penalty may be waived at the discretion of the Executive, for purposes of establishing penalties, if any;
  7. The parolee pays an amount monthly, not to exceed 10% of his Adjusted Gross Income, nor for the total to exceed the amount to be estimated as his income tax liability dated from established date of entry, or 18th birthdate, and same to be penalty free at the discretion of the executive;
  8. No SSA or HCFA contributions made prior to the date of the parole shall accrue to the parolee’s accounts, but that from the date of the parole, same shall accrue and be treated in the same manner and form as all other accounts;
  9. The parolee agrees and consents that by accepting this parole, nothing herein is eligible for judicial review except to/+ through the office of The Secretary of State, and only with The Secretary’s consent and The Secretary’s approved administrative office and procedure or as otherwise provided for in the enabling legislation; &,
  10. Legislation for the purposes of Foreign Work Visas, Green Cards, Student Visas, &c., shall be separate from this parole legislation.

Criminals: all crimes committed within the Jurisdiction of These United States shall be adjudicated within the U.S., applying all pertinent statues and rules with the exception that no bail or bond shall be applied, but only incarceration up to the penalty hearing shall apply.

At no time shall an Illegal Alien have the citizen’s Right to Bail, as the risk of flight +/or repeat offenses is historically at or near 99.9999% as can be humanly determined. The history of allowing Bail is that the accused is not a risk for flight or repeat offenses, whereas the Illegal Alien is already a criminal, and by definition a flight risk to flee to foreign lands and by definition has no community ties to the U.S., as he is, by legal definition as established by The Supreme Court of the United States, an alien. For whom is covered by the U.S. Constitution, one may go back to the Dred Scott Decision; Scott vs Davis, according to Shepard’s, still a good ruling, although modified.

The Camp LeJeune Justice Act

How to screw Veterans while pretending tort restitution

Several years ago, The Congress, passed The Camp LeJeune Justice Act. It is based on the fact that from the late 1950’s through the late 1980’s, the water in the aquifer and Base water system was contaminated with dry cleaning fluids and aviation fuel from deteriorating WW II fuel tanks. Troops, dependents, and contractors have all suffered cancers, neurological diseases, death, and the typical tort damage of pain and suffering. The generals and responsible congressional committees having full knowledge of same. In The Act, Congress admits to total liability for these and other damages, waiving sovereign immunity.

Among congress’s errors and exacerbated by the federal judiciary and the Department of the Navy and the Department of Justice, is their failure to apply the Federal Torts Claims Act’s limitation on contingency fees. The FTCA limits fees to 10%. Currently, the thousands of claimants, are required to pay a range of 33% to 60% depending upon the locale of the law firm “handling” the case. Thus, the injured party will not receive an amount commensurate with the damages. To further add injury to the petitioner, is the fact that the local court has consolidated the filings into the hands of a small number of law firms, if information is correct, Wallace & Graham, of North Carolina, thus, most of these plaintiff’s lawyers will be unjustly enriched at the expense of the injured parties as their only legal activity will be to have filed the original petition, yet W&G will be doing almost all of the actual legal work and not getting paid.

Another problem is that the local judge decided to violate the VIIth Amendment by denying petitioners a jury trial in a Civil Case. The judge has decided that all on his own, he can determine all damages including the pain and suffering of everyone, including family members of those damaged, without the input of a jury nor of the victims. Bench trials being notorious for ignoring pain and suffering, as a matter of course.

Next is that both the DOJ and DON haven’t hired enough lawyers to handle these cases. Rumor has it that the Biden Administration simply ignored all budget requests for this matter. However, considering how many lawyers are in the JAG Reserves, these people could handle the bulk of the paper work on their weekends of ‘service’ and two weeks of ‘active’ duty.

Both the DOJ and DON, rumor again has it, have stalled to the point that the judge has threatened sanctions and censure over the course of the case. Hasn’t done so yet, of course.

In order to ease their own burden at the expense of the victims, DON has put out a schedule of payments for those who will drop their participation in exchange for immediate cash. A review of this schedule shows how DON is ignoring most rules of a tort claim by simply saying if you fall into this category, regardless of how injured you are or the complexity of the claim, we’ll pay you, right now, this six figure amount. DON hereby ignores how a victim may have multiple cancers, neurological diseases, injuries, loss of wages, pain & suffering, &c, but, hey, the judge is ok with all of this. By stalling, they’ve gotten away with avoiding numerous claims. Further, how many settled just to get it over with, and still had to pay 33 – 60% in contingency fees to those who have done nothing to earn it?

With the contingency fee rates as they are, in order for a veteran to receive reasonable compensation, the minimum claim should be settled for no less than $3,000,000.

Victims are dying daily, claims are being lost, and where is the justice for veterans? Somebody at DOD, DON, or Justice needs to get on this ASAP.

Education

The Not Department Thereof

The Bureaucratic Process at both the State and Federal levels are, except for the degree of corruption, in the moral sense, the same. A Legislature enacts block payments to the various educational districts, generally based on student attendance. Did you never wonder why attendance is taken at the beginning of every single class, every single day,  wasting the first ten to fifteen minutes of each fifty minute ‘teaching/learning period’? Payment is for attendance and not learning goals. Much of the bureaucracy is simply supervision over the paperwork of attendance. Notwithstanding Teachers’ Unions claims as to a building’s fitness, school supplies, &c., monies paid are all determined by attendance.

This is a carryover from the 18th Century, one room brick school-house where the one teacher was paid per student and the local community taxed, or in many cases, the parents were required to pay for this service, based on the number of children sent to school, then upon residential land values. Note that Judeo-Christian Parochial schools, still charge the parent per child, or the parent gets a scholarship from the local parish or community support groups, as these schools do not discriminate. Madrassas do the same, but unlike the others, only accept Muslim children. They are not open to the general public.

If implied, the parochial schools also assist in getting Public Assistance for the family. Yet, in addition to these costs, the parents are still required to pay taxes to support public schools to which they have no contact and from whom they receive no benefit and from which, according to recent audits, have failed miserably to teach reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic, concentrating on the Green Hoax, DEI and CRT. Note how Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” is required viewing in California Public Schools as science.

Experience suggests that school boards are merely steppingstones for the politically ambitious and are simply a testing ground for political correctness, thus having nothing to do with educating the children, but as a way for directing tax dollars to the appropriate entities. An example in Platte County MO is how in the Park Hill School District, Park Hill South High School was designed by a board member’s bubba, an architect who mostly designs prisons, and thus, how PHS looks and feels like a prison rather than an institute of learning.

A scam created by citizen indifference to history.

Further, it has been estimated that like hospital beds, over 30% of students are in private schools, and thus, tax funded schools are not carrying their ‘fair share’ of the educational burden, while in fact gaining 100% of the proceeds for duties and obligations for which they are not fulfilling. Many of these private schools are failing for lack of adequate funding, Kew-Forest among them.

Oddly enough, before LBJ’s Great Society, New York City and New York State had a system that was admired and followed by many other districts. They had a standardized City-wide testing program, and NYS a Regents Program, the corpses of each are still in existence, which ignored all discriminating factors thereby laying a very level playing field for all. Such field was demolished by the racist Affirmative Action programs, implying that the ‘under-classes’ are incapable of learning at the same level as the ‘privileged’. As proven by the likes of Charles Payne, Jason Riley, Thomas Sowell, PhD, Rev M. L. King, jr., ThD, and many others, not only was/is this position false, but it gave rise to a privileged underclass of superior beings and have passed fortunes onto race-baiters like Al Sharpton.

 See Ludwig von Mises, Fredrick Hayek, James Q. Wilson, Ralph Raico, Leonard Read, &c for actual, reasoned research and analysis of the negative aspects of raising one group above all others and how it diminishes and punishes the diminished groups. Hayek’s Economics in One Lesson, and Read’s Freedom in One Lesson are available at www.mises.org .

Currently, NYS has three levels of ‘acceptable’ secondary school achievement. First is the General Education Diploma (G.E.D.), then the General High School Diploma (where the student actually attended the physical building but whose level of achievement is the same as the G.E.D.) and the Regents’ Diploma, where students actually take the very watered down tests of the NYS Department of Education. Through the NYS legislature, NYS Supreme Court of Appeals, and SCOTUS, all three are to be treated as equal.

Thus, the cure involves two very distinct approaches. First, education, second, the bureaucracy itself. The Bureaucratic solution is applicable to most; non-police power bureaucracies.

The Federal Department of Education should do just that. It should set a world-wide standard, using standardized blind testing, for K-12, with a sub-bureaucracy for both higher education and skill sets. The testing should be voluntary & open, but any employer, trade, regulated skill, or other activity requiring a minimum standard, such as a driver’s license, barbering, massage, electrician, plumber, school teacher, attorney, &c., may require the certification of such a Federal Standard, be a basic employment requirement or for use of public roads or facilities without having to worry about lawsuits from various, mostly racist, special interest groups. A current example is the requirement for lawyers to take the Multi-State exam as well as the State bar exam.

Note how SCOTUS forced States to enforce the 55mph speed limit or not get Federal funds, reasoning still applicable and used today to limit Federalism.

Testing could be given on a quarterly basis using the military reserves to administer them on their weekend/two week active duty dates. Using the Reserves should eliminate any bias or cheating that bureaucratic administrators will be prone to do.

By keeping all of this grant money, the bureaucracy will be reduced, costs will be reduced, and student proficiency increased. The works of Thomas Sowell and Jason Riley show this to be so.

The Judiciary

The Injustice thereof

In direct violation of the VIIth Amendment, The Congress passed the Federal Arbitration Act. Businesses of all sorts, most notably Wall Street Firms, have clauses in their contracts of adhesion requiring the customer to agree to arbitration rather than their constitutional right to a civil jury trial. The automotive industry used these until The States started enacting consumer protection and various Lemon Laws.

The wonderful federal judiciary has ruled that the un-bargained for relinquishment of our right to a jury trial is quite acceptable because the customer can always not accept the contract. Of course, since the only way to access these services is through these businesses, this is a legal falsehood and quite contrary to the debates on the constitution in 1787 wherein such arbitrariness and injustice are referred to as The Spanish Trial, a reference to the Spanish Inquisition. For reference, see The Debate On the Constitution, Bernard Bailyn, editor, © 1993, Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., ISBN978-0-940450-42-4, Vols I + II.

 In the financial industry, access is necessary for one to manage one’s 401(k), or other retirement plan, or any self-directed account, thus the ‘clauses freely entered into’ is a blatant lie and legal fiction designed to save the judiciary from actually having to know something beyond the basic Federal Rules of Evidence and the Federal Rules of Procedure (mostly criminal with some judges actually being familiar with civil procedure) and to favor, especially in State Courts, donors to/of political campaigns and issues.

Arbitrators being mostly failed judge ‘wannabees,’ not only know little law, less procedure, and with the knowledge that arbitration awards are un-appealable to a real court or jury, generally practice either the ‘split the baby’,  a la King Solomon, or ignore everything except to grant the big money’s position. Trump Industries experiences with labor and contract arbitrations bear this out.

Eliminating, or threatening to eliminate, FINRA, &c., grants the administration several political advantages.

Firstly, all of these cases will be shifted to the Federal Courts. This will reduce the cost of these cases, for although more Federal Judges will need to be appointed, the overall administrative costs will be reduced, with only a small addition to the FedCrt administrative staff.

Secondly, this will allow the administration to suggest that, unlike ‘court packing’, the increase in the workload will require two or four additional associate justices to be added to the Supreme Court of the United States. Jonathon Turley, Mark Levin, Pamela Bondi, and Jeanine Pirro will make exceptional additions to the court.

In order to prevent such nonsense as the recent J-6 prosecutions, jury selection could be:

  1. The jury pool shall consist of all taxpayers;
  2. Jurors shall be compensated at the hourly rate computed by their IRSEZ 1040 AGI,
    1. Employers will be required to grant unpaid leave for jurors;
    1. US Treasury will cover all other benefits costs including 401(k) matching, healthcare will be commensurate to MEDICARE + Part B advantage care;
    1. Meals and appropriate accommodation shall be provided as necessary; &,
    1. Appropriate privacy and security will be provided;
  3. Although judicial candidates are normally suggested by the Senator(s) of the States with a vacancy, ALL appointments will be made to a non-contiguous state, thus reducing any and all forms of collusion, patronage and favoritism;
  4. All case allocations must be through random draw, with the only exceptions being for case overload or illness, in which case the overloaded/ill judge will be removed from the draw until such time as caseloads are evened out or gotten well;
  5. The position of U.S. Magistrate shall be eliminated and replaced by actual, Senate approved, U.S. Judges; &
  6. The constitutional right to a jury trial in both civil and criminal cases shall be absolute, legislatures and jurists notwithstanding.

There are a few other points to make, but they should be addressed in a private, secure conference.

Elections

Un-Democracy

Although Gerrymandering is a current talking point, the actual problems are more complex and evil. Originally, The Founders gave the Federal Franchise only to certain property owners and men, thereby giving only approximately ten percent of the citizenry, not residents, the franchise. The Roman Senate refused to give the vote to the plebes stating, “give the plebes the right to vote, they will vote for bread and circuses, to the detriment of the Republic, every time.” A lesson they learned from the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian Wars.

The evil of the current system manifests in the Single Issue policy vote as well as in the over-representation of various groups and the under-representation of others, mostly on racial lines. The fact that both the politicians and bureaucrats are helping themselves to the treasury, Fauci and Pelosi are fair examples, although evil in and of itself, an inherent characteristic of all such institutions, is actually less harmful than the social and cultural damage done to a civilization than the moves toward the tyrannical control of the people and the destruction of the national character. See Prof. Dr. Victor D. Hanson’s recent op-ed in the NY Post.

Examples throughout history are extant. Just in the last one hundred and fifty years, we have the various bureaucracies creating the Boer War, U.S. colonial expansion, WW I, the creation and extinction of the Weimar Republic, the Soviet Union, Hitler, Mussolini, WW II, &c. All, as noted by historians like Murray Rothbard, Ralph Raico, Shelby Foote, and Joseph Schumpeter, from the causes of narcissistic selfishness to the detriment of individual advancement. The bureaucracies creating war and chaos for personal gain, while producers pay the price in death and lost wealth.

With Gerrymandering, whomever can get out specific activists in a district, will win the election. Frequently, using mostly fear tactics, the exalted single view washes out the necessary general policies that would benefit all citizens, such as lower taxes or standardizing educational goals.

 Two such single issues are how Colorado and Missouri came to be marijuana protectorates, and how almost 40% of Gen Z and Millennials have been murdered in the womb. If 1/3 of a generation had died in war or by disease, the Media furor would overwhelm this country, if not the world. However, the votes approving the psychoses and cancers, caused by this plant, and the murders of babies, have been approved mostly by making them single issues, thereby overcoming the common sense of the majority. Note how when such single issues are placed on the ballot, intermittent voters come out to vote and vote the straight party line, regardless of whatever other issues are at stake.

There are several issues with Voting Rights which need to be addressed, and not all are commented on anywhere, not even on Joe Rogan, even though they’ve been around for centuries and advanced by such groups as the Academicians and the Levelers.

All voting districts start with an approved and verified voter registration roll. Judicial Watch has litigated this matter, and all that need be said here is that States, for example Colorado, where corrupted rolls have been proven, have generally ignored the Court’s order to clean things up, by pointing to the legislature saying that they need funding to do this, and the Legislature will not provide it. Thus, corrupted voting continues and the courts will not sanction or hold in contempt, these officials.

Dishonest “loose ballots,” although extant, is a problem easily dismissed.

When the Poll-Sitters arrive at their precincts, ballots, already counted and accounted for by the pertinent Election Commission, are re-counted for accuracy and accountability. The Registration Rolls, printed in some places, now mostly electronic, are tested for use. During the day, audits are made as to how many have voted and how many ballots are on hand and how many are registered in the ballot box.

At the end of day, ALL sitters gather around the ballot box as it is emptied, and the cast ballots are placed in a medium sized cardboard box and the box is SEALED AND ALL OF THE SITTERS SIGN THE SEAL! Thus, in order to get a loose ballot, the box and seal must be broken into. Election Laws are such that two sitters, one from each party, must take these boxes of cast votes directly to the Commission Offices, no deviation from the less than 15 minute predetermined route, and delivered and audited again at the commission office.

Exceptions, such as early voting, until COVID, required the voter to go to the commission’s office, show proof of identity, and early vote there before the administrators. Those with mobility issues can request that an official take a ballot to their residence for early voting or arrive at the polling place and a sitter go out to the parking lot and prove the voter’s identity and then allow them to vote while sitting in their car.

Mail-in, identity questionable, voting has allowed for the security video of the woman taking in two suitcases of unverified “loose ballots” to be counted there in Georgia. An obvious and flagrant breach of law, dismissed by a biased and corrupted court, with no accountability for the corrupt official either for voting fraud or for perjury of their oath of office.

During my 25 years as a poll-sitter, I have had numerous incidents of attempted voter fraud.

Much of these and other voting issues may be corrected by implementing two inter-dependent reforms.

First, equality in district.

Place a hexagonal grid over the globe with its start point at the real North Pole. The size of the hex may be determined by taking any standard Metropolitan Demographic Area that includes approximately 400,000 people, such as around Columbia SC. Each hexagon now becomes one congressional district. Borders will of necessity cross state and county lines, thereby reducing geographic and local biases. This is a good thing. This will force all within the hexagon to view everyone else within the hex to view ALL national issues as one which each and every one of them must consider, and more importantly, as each relates to each of them. Race, gender, wealth, education, &c all become reduced in the face of the overall, National Interest.

The hexagons, in and of themselves, are, obviously, insufficient, even though completely fair and honest.

Second, weighted voting.

In order to make this work, once sitting in The Congress, each representative’s vote must be weighted, as the Senate was originally designed to be.

Each Representative’s vote shall only count as to how many votes he received in his election. Let’s be honest, I live in Colorado and not one of my congressional delegation has in all the years that I have lived here, not once that I can remember, voted for my best interest, (Hickenlooper, Bennett, and Crow). Yet, not only does each claim to be working for me, that each claims to “represent me”,  each has worked to raise my taxes and reduce my government services all of the time increasing their own personal hoards without earning it.

This policy means that if the representative in the Rhode Island district receives 100 votes and his district contains only 110 eligible voters, yet the Denver district representative receives 90  votes even though there are 500 eligible voters in Denver, the RI Representative and his constituents, because they are united, will have a greater input to national issues and to impact national policies. By being united, the benefit to the national interest  is obvious. The tyranny of the single-issue voter is substantially reduced if not eliminated completely. This will force ALL to take an interest in the National Interest.

For those who would object to this direct weighting, a mitigating formula leveling weights out could be created.

As old as these two policies are, dating farther back than Rome and Athens, and more efficacious and realistic & honest than any current democracy or tyranny, as other than talking points or bargaining chips they have almost no current practical value to a politician. However, as to that, these are big chips against the false claims of ‘fair share,’ ‘social justice’, and ‘wealth gap equity.’

Under Federalism and the hex/weight system, we can leave the States’ and Local Governments alone to find their own levels.

Also, the financial situation will change drastically. These changes would force the States to finance themselves or join in regional compacts with their neighbors, as many do in sharing forensic labs and police/fire services. It would stop the current situation of 40% or more each of these states’ budget being based on receiving Federal tax dollars. Just look at how much Federal money is going to California and Puerto Rico. One with no water to fight fires and a multi-billion fast rail boondoggle, and the other a bureaucracy so corrupt that the FBI is unable to operate to find out who is doing what to whom and where any of this federal tax money is actually going.

The only process currently acceptable to the general population for curing this problem is Voter I.D. coupled to paper ballots. Sad, but true, as the Hex/Weight actually gets to the issue of issues, but such a plan will always be opposed by professional politicians and their owners.

The Right to Bear Arms

2nd Amendment Reality

Earlier, reference was made to the Debates on the Constitution wherein much of this issue lies. Under no circumstances, including those of magazine limitations and extra taxation, may any government limit the possession of a rifle or pistol, if the reasoning of The Founders is to be followed. Here, in Colorado, there is a 6.5% extra tax on firearms and ammunition. There is a magazine capacity limit. There are attempts to put additional unconstitutional limits and burdens on honest citizens to Bear Arms.

The Debates are quite clear: the purposes of the Militia, the military arms of the various States, are twofold. One, to protect the citizens of each state from the depredations of the other States & the Natives, and two, to protect the States from the depredations of THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, which at the time of the Founding, was expressly forbidden a Standing Army. When President Washington went to put down The Whiskey Rebellion, he had to ask the States to call up their various Militias so that he’d have an Army.

These two purposes have not changed.

However, The Congress, in 5 U.S. Code, has a legal definition of who is in the “unorganized” Militia. Makes for interesting reading as it, last I looked, states that as a matter of law, all able-bodied males between the ages of 16 and 48, elected officials and other government personnel excepted, are the National Militia! The interesting part of this is that in order to be the Militia, one MUST HAVE basic rifle skills, know the Landing Party Manual, and have basic infantry skills. To see what these are, one need only look to the Swiss Army where one must show up once a year with his rifle and demonstrate that it is in good working condition. Basic training is in their late teens.

These standards would require a functioning rifle in the possession of every able-bodied male in the country under penalty of charge of felonious neglect to duty, and the standard six months of active-duty service to acquire the other necessary skills. Bluntly, these skills are met at the time a boy/girl scout reaches the second-class level. Completion must be at the ‘honorable and satisfactory’ standard.

A further point in here is, should this universality be extended, because of Equal Rights and its gender discrimination, be it required that women be included in the un-organized Militia?

Foreign Affairs and Entanglements

Well, dang, other than keeping in mind that Xi, Putin, Modi, the Ayatollahs, Maduro, the Castros, the cartels, Kim, &c hate us and want to destroy us, y’all doin’ a damn fine job!

Finance

Fiat Money & Policies

The real danger in doing away with cash and going to Crypto or “plastic” lies in the facts that crypto relies on electricity and has no real value other than a bookkeeping entry on a server. Plastic is bookkeeping purporting to have a real relationship with wealth. Value is subject to government interference and financier greed. Still, it is controlled by electricity and serviced by humans who, in some cases, are corrupt and will “hack” the system to their own perceived benefit. Review how the PRC and its CCP control the population by having this master system. Tick-off a CCP bureaucrat, and he’ll close your bank account. No food or rent money for you. No travel papers or permits for you. No clothes, &c.  A hidden point here is that those Illegal Alien Gottaways from China? Does any thinking person really believe that they got out of China w/o the CCP’s approval? Where one needs travel papers to go across the street, get on a bus, a taxi, &c?

Doing away with pennies or otherwise continuing along the debasing currency path is, historically, a bad thing. Too many books have been written about this; an easy currently available read is Rothbard’s What has Government done to our Money? ISBN 978-1-61016-770-3. Bad money always chases out good money. And, doing away with pennies means that all prices will go up 4¢, a modest increase, but still inflationary.

One of several solutions includes the elimination of Federal Reserve Notes. It is possible to replace them with precious metals notes. The PMNotes would not be for cash, but for exact troy weights. The lesser amounts could be made in the same fashion as goldbacks and the larger weights be redeemable, at a premium, through normal banking procedures. Goldbacks, silverbacks, copperbacks, would become currency, and the others act as notes of transfer. Goldbacks as a National Currency would be maintained in a similar fashion as Crypto, plus having serial numbers the same as Federal Reserve Notes.

Five States have already made goldbacks legal currency: Nevada, New Hampshire, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Utah.

As to the specious claims of scarcity, NASA has reported a gold nugget out around Mars, consisting of more gold than there is of minable iron located and found on the surface of the Earth. If NASA doesn’t get there first, China or India will and the global economy will collapse. Musk, Bezos, et al, should be encouraged, and maybe contracted to start mining space. BTW, operations for this would be on the Moon, and shipped economically to Earth via the gravity differential. Put a silk farm in a hydroponics cave for parachutes thus not needing polyester, mine lunar iron, put in a small steel mill, and a magnetic gun, and shipping all of the finished products from the moon now becomes both feasible and economical.

First one there will win.

Coinage, that which is generally referred to as loose change, is another method of debasing the currency and forcing the general population into the electronic prison of a tyrannical bureaucracy. In your lifetime, you have seen and noticed how silver has been removed and replaced by copper, iron, or lead. It has been pointed out how expensive the manufacturing of coins is. This is being used as an excuse when it would be less costly to change the manufacturing process.

Another unacceptable Federal Policy has been to stop requiring banks to take coins as money. The Fed has allowed the banks to eliminate coin counting machines. The Banks now require anyone trying to deposit or convert coin to paper to bring in the coins pre-rolled. It has created an industry of usury. In order to convert coin to paper, one must go to a vending machine which charges 99¢ to access, then keeps 12.5% (1/8!) of the total as its fee!

Debasing the currency always leads to the Weimar Republic and its subsequent tyranny.

Debasing the currency and doing away with cash is a surefire way of eliminating Freedom.

Well, I suppose that this is enough for now, if y’all want to visit or contact me, there are at least two confidential items of interest to you, and not just maybe, contact and I.D. was included in the FEDEX package sent to Ms Wiles, Mr Miller and yourself back in October.

Respectfully,

www.justplainbill.wordpress.com

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February 29, 2024

Obamacare Chickens Come Home to Roost and Ruin, by Sam Adolphsen

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Obamacare Chickens Come Home To Roost And Ruin

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AMAC Exclusive – By Sam Adolphsen

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When you hear or read about Medicaid, one of the largest welfare programs in the U.S., the connection to Ernest Hemingway might not be immediately evident.

However, a piece of wisdom from Hemingway’s character Jake in The Sun Also Rises applies to the challenges facing Medicaid today: “Getting something for nothing only delayed the presentation of the bill. The bill always came.”

Nowhere is that sentiment truer than in the Medicaid program. And the bill is coming due in states around the country. Taxpayers and the truly needy had better look out, because the bill must be paid.

Medicaid (not to be confused with Medicare) is a program that was meant for the truly needy, the elderly, the disabled, and poor children. That was before Obama expanded the program to tens of millions of able-bodied adults, including adults with no kids at home, as one of the most controversial parts of Obamacare.

Just twenty years ago, there were only 7 million non-disabled, working age adults on Medicaid. Today, after a decade of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, which was partly funded by hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to Medicare, there are nearly 40 million able-bodied adults on the program.

That means almost half of the people on Medicaid, a program meant for the truly needy, are able-bodied adults who can and should be working. But most of them are not working. State data shows that more than half of those tens of millions of able-bodied adults don’t work at all.

This unrestrained growth in Medicaid, especially among able-bodied adults, is having a major detrimental effect on state budgets. In recent years, the COVID-era deficit spending from Washington D.C. included extra Medicaid funding for states and papered over the budget problems.

Now with that extra federal money going away, the bill has come due for many states. More will soon follow.

California is facing a record budget shortfall of $68 billion after further expanding Medicaid to cover illegal immigrants and raising the income limit well into the middle-class.

New York is facing a $7 billion shortfall this year, much of which can be attributed to an increase of $10 billion in Medicaid costs in just one year. It doesn’t help that New York is also giving Medicaid to illegal immigrants and proposing a new scheme to keep people “continuously covered” for years with no eligibility checks.

So how will New York handle the bill coming due? Predictably, and sadly, by proposing cuts to care for the elderly and truly needy. The governor has already proposed a budget that cut tens of millions that was going to struggling nursing homes.

Where is the discussion of reining in the runaway costs and enrollment of millions of able-bodied adults? Nowhere to be found in New York.

Indiana, which foolishly expanded Medicaid to able-bodied adults years ago despite being a solidly red state, now faces more than a billion-dollar shortfall in Medicaid—just as many conservative opponents of the policy predicted at the time. The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration initially proposed cutting back a service that helps provide in-home care for elderly and disabled individuals. Meanwhile, almost half of Indiana’s two million people on Medicaid are able-bodied adults.

Arizona, another Medicaid expansion state, is facing a huge budget shortfall that could total in the billions of dollars. While the Democrat governor is trying to blame the shortfall on tax cuts and school choice, the reality is that Medicaid expansion is driving the problem. Arizona had just 500,000 people on Medicaid in 2000. After expanding Medicaid, they now have 2.3 million on the program. Nearly a million of those are able-bodied adults.

These are just a few of the states grappling with the Medicaid expansion budget problem. Colorado can’t cut property taxes like they want to because of Medicaid overruns. Maine is proposing to spend millions to hire new state workers to process Medicaid applications after expanding.

The Biden administration is making this problem worse. The Biden Medicaid office, run by the former Attorney General of California, has done everything in its power to keep states from limiting the growth of able-bodied adults on their welfare programs.

The Biden administration has even threatened states that have tried to clean the rolls up after COVID and demanded the adoption of policies that open the door to even more enrollment. This includes, no surprise, pushing states to adopt Medicaid expansion to even more able-bodied adults.

Unless states get the growth in able-bodied adults on their programs under control, there will be proposed cuts to the elderly and truly needy. There will be blown opportunities to cut property taxes. There will be cuts to road repairs and public safety. Or worse.

States that have avoided this Medicaid meltdown like Kansas, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi, should stand strong against Medicaid expansion to protect the truly needy who depend on the program, and the taxpayers that fund it.

The bill will always come due. The only question is, who will pay?

Sam Adolphsen is the policy director at the Foundation for Government Accountability, and the former Chief Operating Officer for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services where he oversaw welfare eligibility and fraud investigations.

February 19, 2024

analysis of NYS Trump “fraud” trial, by Robert Charles

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$355 Million Penalty – Pure Politics

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Scary. Respect for rule of law is in freefall. Democrats have disparaged Supreme Court rulings. State officials try hijacking a presidential election by misinterpreting the 14th Amendment. Biden tries to imprison his opponent. Now, New York State Judge Arthur Engoron inflicts a $355 million penalty on the leading candidate for president – not a good look. 

In his 92-page opinion, following a highly personalized trial, the judge makes a victimless non-crime called “business puffing” – no damages – into a crime. He declines the defendant a jury trial, holds kangaroo court, then inflicts a huge penalty.

To get this result, Americans must swallow never-before-asserted legal fictions, interpretations of law, and a politically hostile state prosecutor and judge overseeing the proceeding, despite their rank prejudice.

Almost certainly, this decision will be revised, perhaps thrown out entirely. It simply cannot stand. Why?

First, the facts are hardly damning. Loans were secured from banks with guarantees based on legal documents, clear representations, comparative values, assessing Trump’s credit, and due diligence.

The judge ignores expert witnesses who said no fraud occurred, the banks were content to lend to Trump, no entity lost money on any transaction, nor did any citizen suffer provable damage.

Despite this, the anti-defendant judge who repeatedly tried to gag Trump (reversed) and consistently insulted him – offers a conclusory view. He says Trump’s statements were “blatantly false… resulting in fraudulent financial statements.” Boom, one and done, over, next.

The whole concept that a biased state judge, abetted by a vengeful state prosecutor, is allowed to target, harass, convict, try to bankrupt, and end the campaign of a political opponent – is revolting, utterly anti-democratic. It violates a dozen principles of ethics.

Still, not a single leading Democrat has said this is wrong, political persecution, like the cases being brought by Jack Smith, a prosecutor sanctioned for a political case in 2014 (9-0, Supreme Court), and the embarrassingly unethical, unrepentant Georgia prosecutor.

What else is wrong with this fantastical $355 million dollar penalty, inflicted with apparent joy by two partisans on candidate Trump mid-campaign?

A lot. Throughout this opinion, the judge miscasts his own behavior, visible to the world, shamefully hostile to the defendant, telegraphing with his words, tone and temperament an intent to demean.

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Moreover, the prosecutor and judge target the former president’s sons for punishment, making a crime of something never previously viewed as a crime, also not taught as a “crime” in law schools – including New York law schools, just “business puffing” in the subjective realm of value assessment.

The judge then pretends common law fraud is not under discussion, that his punishment is not a penalty, just a civil act of “disgorgement” – giving back money when it is plainly a debilitating punishment.

Listing elements of common law fraud – including false statement, knowledge that it is false, reliance and damages, he sidesteps the entire thing, saying this is not common law fraud.

Why? Because he cannot prove those elements “beyond a reasonable doubt,” cannot prove the statements were false, anyone relied on them, or any damages.

Instead, the judge and prosecutor create their own non-crime crime, saying the “marketplace,” which has shown no harm, is the victim – of statements never proven knowingly false, or exclusively relied upon, or for which there were any damages or complaints.

This pretzel-like approach to trapping a defendant, making up standards and victims, pretending damages exist, that they were somehow horrendous, that anyone has ever been prosecuted like this – is audacious. It is also profoundly anti-democratic, further eroding respect for prosecutors and the courts.

But, we are not done. This judge cites Executive Law 63 (12), from 1956, to shoehorn defendant’s “puffing” into a heinous criminal act, prosecuted in civil form to avoid proof “beyond a reasonable doubt” (criminal standard, versus “more probable than not” the civil standard), just another cheat.

Insufficient room exists to properly unpack this ugly, disingenuous opinion. It rambles, miscasting much of the trial, demeaning the defendant. It oozes prejudice, undisguised hostility.  The words “fair administration of justice” do not pop to mind.

Last, one must look at the whole multi-act play. These two actors have knowingly interfered with an election, which is a federal crime. They take no responsibility for that, just plan to skip away scot-free.

Creating something from nothing – making “business puffing” a crime, trying it on a civil standard, imposing a monster penalty on a political candidate they hate speaks to no integrity.

Net-net, this is a judicial system gone wild. The disarray needs to stop with the next election. What a disgrace, what a sad day for America … a $355 million dollar penalty inflicted for politics. Scary.

January 15, 2024

Myth of an apolitical military, by Keuhlen & Ramsey

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The Myth of an Apolitical Military: A Call to Action

By Phillip Keuhlen & Brent Ramsey
January 09, 2024

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Over a century ago the Progressive leadership of the Democrats seceded philosophically from the Founding Principles of the American experiment.[i]  Rejecting the principles of natural law and unalienable individual rights, they adopted the statist relativism of Jeremy Bentham’s Utilitarianism and that of his philosophical heirs. They embraced the State as the arbiter of a changeable ‘common good’ and government by the State as preeminent over individuals, regulating personal liberty bestowed by government so long as it supports the state-defined ‘common good.’ 

Founded upon Woodrow Wilson’s paradigm of a “living constitution” with law making by judicial fiat or Executive Order and day-to-day governance by an unelected, unaccountable, administrative state, the proponents of Progressivism have unceasingly advanced a vision and values directly opposed to, and profoundly irreconcilable with, those the country was founded upon. They have mounted a Second American Civil War by a long march through the institutions of governance, education, culture, commerce, and more recently science and the military, their Grand Strategy to incrementally subvert the Madisonian Constitution and the Founding Principles it was designed to protect. Their strategy is supported by tactics of lawfare, carefully calibrated civil violence, and institutional subversion.

Americans have a sense that things have gone wrong, but their perception is fragmentary, focused on one tactical issue or another. Their focus on individual issues inhibits understanding of how one relates to another and how all support the profound Progressive subversion of American constitutional governance. Shellenberger and Boghossian’s “WOKE RELIGION: A Taxonomy”[ii] demonstrates the scope and interconnectedness of different fronts in this Civil War for the soul of the American republic. Readers are urged to view this link.

In the field of governance Progressives have mounted sustained legislative, judicial, and executive programs that have the aim of compromising essential elements of Madisonian constitutional governance, effectively replacing it with an antithetical political philosophy that seeks to divide and conquer. In much of public life and discourse that philosophy is represented by Critical Race Theory and allied movements, implemented via programs of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).  Now, this poisonous ideology has captured our military to the detriment of focus on readiness and lethality. The background and experience of our authors tends to focus on what is happening in and to the military and why it is a danger to our nation. However, it is important to not lose sight of this battle as part of a greater strategic effort to subvert the Madisonian Constitution and the Founding Values it was designed to protect.

By functionally choosing sides and thrusting the entire military establishment into a conflict pitting our founding values against progressive ones, the Civilian & Uniformed leadership of DoD have made a fiction of the principle of an apolitical military that has been the basis of civil-military relations throughout the second half of the 20th Century.[iii]  To the extreme detriment of readiness, lethality, retention, morale, and recruitment, the military has been transformed into a political organization with racial quotas; degraded ground combat unit readiness by lowering standards to allow assignment of women; gay pride celebrations; transgendered individuals recruited, placed in limited duty status degrading unit readiness, and provided transitional surgery while in service; promotion of abortion for service members and family members in contravention of long-standing US law; and the embrace of climate change as an existential crisis and top Department of Defense priority. 

This political fight for the soul of the military has not only devastated morale, but eroded the esteem in which the military has been held since our founding. Trust and confidence in the U.S. Military has dropped precipitously, from 70% in 2018 to 46% five years later (-24%), according to a recent Reagan Institute survey. Exacerbating this troubling situation, much of the youth of American no longer wish to serve, having been indoctrinated in false history by our nation’s public schools with such revisionist anti-American works as the 1619 Project and Kendi’s “How to be an Antiracist”. Even cadets and midshipmen at our service academies are exposed to these and similar works as recommended reading. To top it off, the progressive ideology now in vogue throughout the military has alienated the prime source for recruiting, young people brought up with traditional patriotic values who are now staying home in droves…thus creating a severe recruiting crisis that gets worse each year.

CALL TO ACTION:

The authors embrace the viewpoint of President Ronald Reagan,

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Now is the time for all citizens of like mind to stand up, be counted, and fight for the soul of the nation, our liberties, and the preservation of our Constitutional Governance.

Armed Forces Officers must return to the promises made when they took the Oath of Office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. There is nothing in that oath about diversity, equity, and inclusion. That oath stood us in good stead for over two hundred years.

Citizens, Officers, Retirees and Veterans must remind military leadership that “just following the civilian leadership’s orders” has never been an adequate defense of the indefensible, whether it be DEI as a putative need or benefit with respect to military effectiveness[iv], or subversion of the Constitution and the fundamental American values it protects. EEO is still the law of the land, and it mandates equal treatment. Orders/indoctrination that are counter to that are not lawful orders[v].

Serving Flag and General Officers must repudiate the politicization of the military, resigning if necessary.

Retired Flag and General Officers must acknowledge the active politicization of the armed forces that is underway in support of Constitutional subversion, stop hiding behind the myth of an “apolitical military,” and speak out and LEAD in defense of the Madisonian Constitution and the founding American Values it protects.

Medical and Legal Professionals, particularly in the Armed Forces, must challenge DEI indoctrination as an unethical form of thought reform (i.e., brainwashing) …the application of psychological manipulation without informed consent.[vi]

Like-Minded Citizens must resist Critical Race Theory and its associated DEI programs aimed at destroying American Constitutional Governance. Fight Back![vii]

  • Understand CRT/DEI
  • Challenge CRT/DEI under the law
  • Build grassroots resistance movements
  • Build broad coalitions
  • Get the word out to peers, and especially to legislators
  • Engage the Churches
  • Confront woke institutions
  • Stand up to Big Tech censorship
  • Monitor Federal, State & Local agencies to oppose taxpayers do not subsidize organizations that are hostile to America and American Values
  • Develop alternatives to DEI training.

Perhaps it is time to recall the passages that George Washington had read to the soldiers of the Continental Army at Valley Forge on the eve of their battles at Trenton and Princeton:

“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”

“I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake. Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.”

Thomas Paine, The American Crisis Number 1, December 19, 1776

This work is about Honor, Courage, and Commitment. We need to restore the concept of Honor to our Armed Forces. We need to show Courage and call out to the nation and its leaders that we are on the wrong course with the embrace of the false doctrine of DEI. We need a nation-wide Commitment to call upon senior military and political leaders to restore the Armed Forces to its traditional values and eliminate divisive identity politics that weakens us and makes us vulnerable to defeat at the hands of our enemies.

If citizens stay silent, our traditional values of Honor, Courage, and Commitment are undermined and the Progressive enemies of Constitutional governance win.

It is up to you… SILENCE IS CONSENT!


Phillip Keuhlen is a retired naval officer and nuclear industry senior manager. He was educated at the U.S. Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School and had the privilege to command USS Sam Houston (SSN-609), a nuclear submarine. He writes on topics related to governance and national security.

CAPT Brent Ramsey, (USN, Ret.) has written extensively on Defense matters. He is an officer with Calvert Group, Board of Advisors member for the Center for Military Readiness and STARRS, and member of the Military Advisory Group for Congressman Chuck Edwards (NC-11).


Notes:

[i] Keuhlen, P. J., “Which United States Constitution?,” American Greatness, October 17, 2021, https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/17/which-united-states-constitution/retrieved 1/12024

[ii] https://boghossian.substack.com/p/woke-religion-a-taxonomy retrieved 1/1/2024

[iii] Swain & Pierce, The Armed Forces Officer, NDSU, DOD, 2017 (https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/armed-forces-officer)

[iv] Keuhlen, P. J, “Task Force One Navy Final Report,” Real Clear Defense, December 6, 20121, https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2021/12/06/task_force_one_navy_final_report_the_emperors_new_clothes_redux_806507.html retrieved 1/1/2024

[v] Title VII  Civil Rights Act of 1964 (https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-1964)

[vi] Sturman & Keuhlen, No Institution is Safe: DEI Thought Control in the Military, 2023 (https://brownstone.org/articles/no-institution-is-safe-dei-thought-control-in-the-military/)

[vii] Swain & Schorr, Black Eye For America, Be The People Books, 2021, pp 69-78

September 22, 2014

Feds & CA grant illegals drivers licenses [c]

It took a while, but the federal government late last week finally signed off on the California Department of Motor Vehicles’ design for driver’s licenses for people in the country illegally.
The inevitable reaction to such accommodations is to say, deport them all. But that’s not going to happen. –

The cards, which will be issued beginning Jan. 1, will have the phrase “federal limits apply” on the front. The Department of Homeland Security rejected the initial design, which would have placed a small mark on the front and add to the back the sentence: “This card is not acceptable for official federal purposes.” So the new version will be less subtle than backers had hoped (Ted Rall explores that here, and in the cartoon above).

It’s a reasonable compromise. The editorial board last year endorsed the state’s move under AB60 to issue licenses to immigrants in the country illegally who learn the rules of the road and pass a driver’s test, among other requirements. The September editorial said:

“That would bring California in line with at least nine other states that have adopted similar measures. Since 1993, most immigrants living here illegally have been barred from obtaining California licenses (except for some young people who qualify for temporary federal work permits).

“Already, critics of AB 60 are arguing that providing driver’s licenses to people who are in the United States illegally rewards them for breaking the law. But that’s putting politics before common sense.
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What “shadows”…?!?! They are getting Drivers Licenses for crying out loud. The only shadows they are hiding in are the ones provided by Lib blowhards!
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“AB 60 doesn’t condone illegal immigration. Rather, it recognizes the argument made by some law enforcement officials, including Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, that we are all safer if those immigrants who are currently driving without a license are taught to operate a car safely and are tested to ensure that they meet the same standards as other drivers. Licenses will also deter hit-and-run accidents by taking away one of the chief incentives to flee the scene.”

It’s a smart move for the state, and for the country. Since that editorial, the number of issuing states has increased to 11, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Ensuring that immigrants in the U.S. illegally know how to drive safely does not reward them for violating the immigration laws. Rather, it helps make the roads safer for all of us.

The inevitable reaction to such an accommodation is to say, deport them all. But that’s not going to happen. Nor should it. DHS estimates there are at least 11.5 million immigrants in the country illegally – equal to the population of Ohio – which the New Republic estimated earlier this year (based on a Center for American Progress report) would cost $216 billion to deport, compared with DHS’ annual budget of $60 billion.

And if those here illegally were rounded up and sent home, the effect on the economy would be around $260 billion a year, the libertarian Cato Institute estimated based on the assumption of 8.3 million immigrants living here illegally and working in the country.

At some point Congress must find a way to bring these immigrants out of the shadows while creating disincentives for future such immigration. No easy task, I know. But the status quo appeals to no one, and the nation can’t deport them all. We need a common sense approach. While pragmatism is hard to find in Congress these days, we still should demand it.

[Thanks to US Constitution Article IV, the ACLU, La Raza, and other “it discriminates against a minority” diversity proponents, the “undocumented worker” hologram will, after a court challenge to the 9th Circuit, then SCOTUS affirming that it is discriminatory and therefore must be removed, all illegal aliens will automatically become voters and citizens. Establish residency in CA, get a standard driver’s license, move to another state, and use the standard CA DL as proof of citizenship, register to vote, and own the country.

I have written about this for years, just look through the various posts.

BTW, we DO have the resources to kick them all out. Just enforce the laws, especially Mazzoli 1986, and E-Verify!

Secession, before Sylvia Thompson’s prophecy becomes reality.

Secession.]

July 10, 2013

Trending: Secession

Back in 2006 I started research for a book on Public Sector Organizational Theory which resulted in The Heartland Plan; federal government by, for and of, the taxpayer. When Obama started running for prez in 2008, I started research on constitutional law and construction resulting in The Albany Plan Re-Visited, now available at http://www.bn.com/ebooks for download. The Albany Plan Re-Visited includes a complete section on nullification and an expanded one on secession with a complete outline for a new federal government, one responsive to the needs of THE TAXPAYER, and not various special interest groups. Below is what I forecast back in 2008.

Buy, read, and promote: The Albany Plan Re-Visited.

http://coloradoindependent.com/4448/one-in-five-americans-are-whistling-dixie-on-state-secession

 

One-in-five Americans are whistling Dixie on state secession

By Wendy Norris 
Monday, July 28, 2008 at 10:37 am

 

The People’s Republic of Colorado may not be a pipe dream after all for right-wing states’ rights zealots and left-wing peaceniks. 

 

A new Zobgy/Middlebury Institute poll reports that 22 percent of respondents believe that states have the right to peaceably secede from the United States. The figures go up considerably among liberals, Latinos, blacks, young people and Southern residents.

From the press release:

The level of support for the right of secession was consistent in every region in the country, though the percentage was slightly higher in the South (26%) and the East (24%).  The figures were also consistent for every age group, but backing was strongest among younger adults, as 40% among those age 18 to 24 and 24% among those age 25 to 34 agreed states and regions have secession rights.

Broken down by race, the highest percentage agreeing with the right to secede was among Hispanics (43%) and African-Americans (40%). Among white respondents, 17% said states or regions should have the right to peaceably secede.

Politically, liberal thinkers were much more likely to favor the right to secession for states and regions, as 32% of mainline liberals agreed with the concept. Among the very liberal the support was only slightly less enthusiastic – 28% said they favored such a right. Meanwhile, just 17% of mainline conservatives thought it should exist as an option for states or regions of the nation.

Asked whether they would support a secessionist movement in their own state, 18% said they would, with those in the South most likely to say they would back such an effort. In the South, 24% said they would support such an effort, while 15% in the West and Midwest said the same. Here, too, younger adults were more likely than older adults to be supportive – 35% of those under age 30 would support secession in their state, compared to just 17% of those over age 65. Among African Americans, 33% said they would support secession, compared to just 15% of white adults. The more education a respondent had, the less likely they were to support secession – as 38% of those with less than a high school diploma would support it, compared to just 10% of those with a college degree.

To gauge the extent to which support for secession comes from a sense that the nation’s current system is not working, a separate question was asked about agreement that “the United States’ system is broken and cannot be fixed by traditional two-party politics and elections.” Nearly half of respondents agreed with this statement, with 27% who somewhat agree and 18% who strongly agree. [Emphasis mine]

The telephone poll, conducted by Zogby International, included 1,209 American adult respondents. It was conducted July 9-13, 2008, and carries a margin of error of +/- 2.9 per cent.

 

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