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Updated/Modified/Expanded ACTION CHAIN LETTER 10: New Proposals/Saving $$$s

                   by Citizen Journalist, Richard DePersio and Dr. Yamamoto*

Article concerned with: NASA; national debt, healthcare, taxes and more.
(Originally published 4/21/2011) Reading other Letters recommended but not necessary.

 Anecdote: He was 10 years of age and unlike his fellow inmates didn't fear the

                guards (nuns) nor the principal (penguin no. 1). Sister Patrick Maureen

                imparted instructions to the class: "Upon completion of exam, bring

                it to my desk, return to your seat and read anything of your choosing -

                just don't disturb your classmates who are still taking the test."

               He completed exam toot-sweet; just answering enough questions

               correctly to barely pass. He proceeded to read his astronomy book.

               Sister P.M., the meanest nun in the prison, walked down the aisle

               to his desk (boys so much

               preferred being seated in the back). She said with a loud and stern

               voice: "Put that garbage away. I'll give you something good to

               read!" He looked up at her and said: "If I don't read this garbage,

               I don't read anything! Think about what you told the class about

               test and reading." To everyone's shock, she turned around, walked

               back to her desk and said: "He's right. I did say that you could

               read what you wanted to read. He stood tall in the saddle (desk).

               He couldn't relish his victory long for when P.M. commenced to

               teach, he got up without permission, took an A.D.D. walk to the

               window and starred out and became a day dreamer. Next stop:

               principal's office.

                                                                         -Citizen Journalist

 

 

 

       The two-stage (chemical) rocket  plus upgraded shuttle-type solid-fueled

booster rockets would carry 4 astros in Orion-based Multi-Purpose Vehicle

 to and from International Space Station with up to 55,000 pounds of supplies,

instruments, equipment. About the same amount in weight as Space

Shuttle. It could also carry up to 55,000 pounds unmanned unlike Space Shuttle

but like Air Force X-37B. This hoped for heavy-lifter is currently in a state of limbo.

       A super-heavy-lifter able to lift cargo weighing up to 350,000 pounds (with

 larger MPV) to ISS and 160,000 pounds to the moon or beyond (you would have

two MPVs for a moon mission - one manned and the other unmanned; more for a

 Mars mission). Under consideration is a second stage which would be an evolved

 Saturn-5 third stage and called an EDS (Earth Departure System or ETV {Earth Transfer                                                                                                                                                   Vehicle}). The  EDS would bear some of the cargo weight, as well as, the landing craft

 (Please read or reread our original proposals: "ATBTC: Action Chain Letter 5"

 proposals 10-12 at /group/rickcosmos-eclectic and "Action Chain Letter 9..." topic 1

 at /group/nasa-our-way) and ACL 9 addendum regarding NERVA and

Saturn S-N (N for nuclear thermal {hydrogen; too dangerous? The two Voyagers

which are leaving solar system are powered by plutonium - libs complained when it

was launched} and safer than solid, liquid boosters).

      Why was Oba,ma's decision to cancel Moon Project another blunder. Experts

contend that we will only be able to get 25 to 30% of our electricity from solar

and wind by 2035 (that's why we need to "Drill, Baby, Drill,' do more clean coal

and built more nuclear fission plants and, later, fusion plants (see ACL 9 on

how NASA can help with the latter) and never more - but wait....

      Mining the moon inexpensively for He-3 (for fusion plants) and silicon for

solar panels built in orbit  would enable lunar exploration and technological

development followed by private sector taking over site(see ACL 9 and ATC -

ATBTC: Together...A New Beginning at /group/newfederalism, /group/nasa-our-way,

 /group/

sciencerepublicans). We might be able to secure up to one-third of our electricity

by 2025-30 from solar and, presently, underdevelopment fusion in a cost-effective

manner unlike damn heavily-subsidized solar and wind on terra ferma!

Proposal 49: Let's go with a fair tax (national sales tax except on food) of 10% with

those on social services exempt upon showing proof,  in order

that libs don't scream! And, a flat tax of 10%: 10% of salary, wage or salaries; 10% of

dividends on stocks, bonds and commodities; 10% of interest on savings accounts;

10% of rental income; 10% of gifts and gambling/prizes; 10% of the sale of property

and stocks, bonds, commodities. What could be fairer? If you are going to allow

for deductions, limit it to primary mortgage and/or secondary mortgage and/or

charitable donations. This constitutes tax simplification too! More Americans

would be able to save money by filling out form themselves. Allowing deductions

would necessitate a flat tax of 12.5% or a fair tax of 12.5%.

Proposal 50: Obama-care is just one step away from socialized medicine. Annually,

there is $40 billion in waste and fraud in Medicaid and Medicare. Do you think that

that would be the case with a private company. They wouldn't be in business

very long. Obama wants fed gov to assume even more responsibility for the

health care of you and your family!

       Privatize M &M. Private sector would offer elderly, disabled and poor many

more options. Create means-tested interest-earning healthcare bank accounts;

money supplied by fed and states for premiums, account can only be used for

healthcare and individuals can add to it. Why should wealthy receive full Medicare?

Means-testing will determine amount of money for premium coverage. Companies

would offer numerous policies with and without

co-pays, with or without monthly fees, with or without annual fees; policies that

cover certain things but not others - even custom-build policies. Presently, doctors,

hospitals, technicians, old people homes...not PC?...get about 80% of what they

request from Medicare and about 60% from Medicaid (it's the reason that people

are hard-pressed to find a doctor who accepts Medicaid; soon the self-same thing

will be the case for Medicare - about 60% under Obama-care). Private sector

would be motivated to eliminate waste and fraud while gov workers don't give

a damn! (Every year, 1% of fed gov workers loose their job while it's 3.5 in private

sector; it is extremely difficult to fire gov employees for incompetence or bad

behavior courtesy of unions). Let's say that $35 of the $40 billion is saved: 1/2 could

be used for debt reduction and 1/2 to make sure doctors continue to get 80%.

 Let's return to space center... Sleeping air traffic controllers...Why not extend SATS?

(Action Chain Letter 8: Fast Forward Future..." Expanded Version).

Commercial airlines have employed an automatic pilot for decades; the pilot is

necessary to take-off and land the jet, as well as, seize control from AP in the event

of an emergency. In recent years, the Space Shuttle with on-board computer and

instrumentation along with ground control can land without manual control.

Let's not forget flying drones - preprogrammed flight but with increasing capability

to make in-flight changes. Most commercial jets have a pilot along for the ride or

for emergency purposes; the technology exists for take-off and landing without

need of human. How sad. That's progress?

 Proposal 51: Save taxpayers money. No need for air traffic controllers, especially,

during non-peak hours. The airliner retrofitted with the right equipment, such as,

on-board radar and access to computer in the tower and communication voice-to-

voice and computer-to-computer with another plane (s) in the area should be

able to land with no trouble and, eventually, 24/7. Costly in the short run;

astronomically large savings in the long-run. (Further, integration of SATS

{Small Aircraft Transportation System) into the larger air travel system will mean

 less traffic at large airports).

 

Lousy Little Lying Liberals (my copyrighted alliteration). The super-rich and the

rich...did you enjoy segue? We were talking about how NASA could save as

tons of money in three areas and now we're talking economics proper....don't

pay their fair share of taxes - the wealthiest Americans - the top 1% pay over 40%

of federal income taxes - - and that's up from 33% in 1996; further, the top 3% take

care of 75% of FIT! Libs: We should raise taxes on the rich making them pay

their fair share - my useless foot! Less you forget: Laffer Curve. Supplied-Side

Economics (libs disparagingly refer to it as trickle-down) was proven valid by

Coolidge,JFK

(it's ironic: libs idolize him; they're too stupid to realize that he was anything but

a liberal!), Ronnie Reagan and 'W.' Eco/Fin Crisis caused by lip-of-wrist senator

barney frank's fannie and freddie; fed; unions. Progressive income tax punishes

people for working hard - knocked up to a much higher bracket; the antithesis

of capitalism. Studies have shown that over a ten year period in America that

you have a two-third chance of going up a notch and a one-third chance of

going south when the categories are: non-working poor, working-poor, lower

middle-class, mid middle-class, upper middle-class, rich and super-rich.

Force working in opposition: lib; they have a vested interest in getting as

many people on social services as possible, keeping them on ss for as long as

possible and giving them as many hand-outs as possible (things that they

don't need or more than they need in a particular category) for the poor vote

overwhelmingly democrat. It has become a generational thing: children,

parents and grandparents on ss. Sad but true! Libs have destroyed the old

Protestant Work Ethic, the Traditional Family and a Strong Sense of Right and

Wrong. Hell, people on the public dole have been sapped of their pride; they

think they deserve ss - that it is owed them. They never demand less or only what

they need. We are not talking about the truly needy; we are talking about the

parasitic bums. Some states are stricter regarding eligibility for various social

services than others, including, Medicaid. Obama-care will soon illegally take

that Medicaid power away from the states!

       Clinton vetoed Workfare twice before being forced by Republicans to sign

it in the election year of '96; he was afraid that Republicans would use it as a

political weapon against him for Americans were getting sick-and-tired at the

time with freeloaders. When it worked, Billy-boy took the bows; few know this:

Upon becoming president one of the first executive orders Obama signed

with to weaken the Workfare Program - remember: votes from the poor. Tis

a pity for millions got off the doll.

     

      LBJ (Liberal-Boy Johnson) so-called "Great Society" social programs have

cost us 16 trillion!!! since the mid-'60s while the percentage of non-working

poor and working poor has remained the same. So much for his war against

poverty! Due to an increase in population, the numbers have risen; same

percentage-wise, more in actual numbers. Would have been worse if it hadn't

been for Workfare 1996-2007 (2007, Obama watered it down - creep!).

 PROPOSAL 52: Eliminate annual inflation/cost-of-living increase for welfare

recipients after person has been on it for three years; cut it by 25% after six.

 Welfare mothers shouldn't receive

Aid to Dependent Children; they shouldn't be allowed to keep their children (many

have more children for more social services). Cruel to separate mother from

child? Think of the child. Study after study has shown that a child is best off

in a mom-and-dad household functional followed by mom/dad dysfunctional

followed by single parent functional and, bringing up the rear, single-parent

dysfunctional. Children in single parent households most likely to grow-up

to drink and/or/ take drugs and/or be unable to hold down a job and/or drop

out of high school and/or wind up in jail or prison and/or commit suicide.

Interestingly enough, the more educated and the more money a single women

has, the more likely she is to give up baby for adoption. Welfare mothers

should be forced to do so for the sake of the child. Americans are the most

giving people on the globe - they give more per capita to charities and

non-profits than people in any other country. People not gov the solution.

Americans will give even more if they see 'hand-out' programs being reduced.

Before fed social programs began in the 1940s and expanded big-time in 1960s,

 people had pride and did everything possible to avoid asking for help. When

desperate turned to family, friends, neighbors, church, Salvation Army, etc.

They got the help that they needed and no more. People knew that eventually

they would pay back or be available to offer other kind of assistance when

someone else required it. Welfare is now called Entitlement!

 We have arrived at that juncture again, the one in which we are compelled - we did

try mightily to resist - to pat ourselves on the back. Recently, S & P downgraded

prospect for U.S. Saving Bond; we predicted, as early as a year ago, we

could loose 'Triple A' Bond Rating within 5 years. Now, Charles Krathaumer,

political/economic commentator and former psychiatrist (we so enjoy that combo)

 is predicting that it could happen in 2; update: within a year! He holds a degree in

 economics; we have studied economics on our own since age 14. It is interesting:

our foresight and keen understanding....Enough already!

 PROPOSAL 50: End 'co-signing' loans for those who want to built nuclear fission

plants for up to 75%; taxpayer - no, high-risk investors - yes; or, at least, reduce citizen

liability, after all, we won't share in future dividends. End all Federal gov 'co-signing'

 even for small business loans. More blacks were able to start small businesses

because Nixon started Small Business Administration and sb loans than because of

 what any other president did. Taxpayers should no longer take risk: if company

fails, we're left holding the bag; if company succeeds, we don't get $$$ - not even a

'Thank You' Note!

 PROPOSAL 51:

NASA and military should focus on replacing aging GPS system. Military should

equip X-37B when operational with space-to-air and space-to-ground anti-missile

weapon. Violation of Space Treaty? It will only have weapon after war commences.

We have been reducing the number of nuclear warheads as per agreement with

Russia. Convert those ICBMs to anti- missile missiles; also, replace nuclear-tips

with conventional bombs. Traitor Obama bowed to Putin and promised not to

do such things - he denies it - just look at treaty; he claims that it doesn't count

because it is only in preamble, Putin says otherwise. He is allowing Russia to

retain a 20,000 to 200 advantage in tactical (short-range) nuclear weapons. He sacrificed

all this for resumed inspections of their declared sites! Obama, we order you to make

 meaning of treaty crystal clear to Putin - although, you want Russia to be a super-power

 again (See "A Bad Case of Treason"). We should have the right to do what we choose

with nuclear de-fanged ICBMs.

 PROPOSAL 52:

We have military bases in 100 countries; we pay the bulk of the cost to defend Japan,

Germany and South Korea. Let's weigh the pros and cons, shall we. Our presence is

good for their economies; our presence gives us leverage with those countries. We

beat Germany and Japan in WW2 - a war that they started. We rebuilt those

countries and now they are economic powerhouses courtesy of Uncle Sam. Certainly,

they should pay the cost (don't forget: 'Cold War' over; we won) of their own defense- 50%

 for 10 years,75% thereafter. We should maintain a presence in Japan or South Korea -

we should put part of our anti-missile shield in one of these countries (shield Obama

 shrunk in deference to Putin). If they object: leave completely.Besides, nowadays, we

 can respond rapidly from a distance if we choose to defend these countries. South Korea

 is indebted to us for a not so shabby economy. Step up to the plate. You're big boys now.

You can't hide behind Lady Liberty's 'skirt' forever.(It would require a reworking of Jap and

 kraut constitutions which severely limit the size of their militaries after WW2 for fear that

they might start another war; that fear is no longer warranted - we need to save $$$s).

 Bolivia is partitioning the U.N. for human rights for "Mother Earth" and for a spokesman

(they forgot a lawyer). We are confident the backward and ignorant American libs will

endorse this preposterous proposal right after they secure human rights for animals!

 To Whom it may Concern:

                       "Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;

                        I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell."

                                                        -Christina Rossetti, 1830-1894

With a Nod toward the Late Rod Serling:

                       "Between the idea

                        And the reality

                        Between the motion

                        And the act

                        Falls the Shadow."

                                                         -T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965

A "Goodbye" Addams Family-Style:

                      "Lizzie Borden took an axe

                       And gave her mother forty whacks;

                       When she saw what she had done

                       She gave her father forty-one!"

                                                          -Anonymous

(During the 1890s - trial in 1894 - little girls sang it while they played

jump-rope. Sweet!). That's all, Folks.

*Dr. Yamamoto's Pediatric Clinic and Whorehouse in South Korea.