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                                          BULLETIN ON COMMON SENSE

                                      SUB-TITLE: WOMEN INTERRUPTUS

                                                 by Richard DePersio

    (All comsats listed and described at groups.google.com/group/rickcosmos-eclectic)

EDITOR'S (Rick) NOTE: Article is a potpourri - delicious - including, a Moon Proposal and

a return to subsidies.

      Teddy Roosevelt was a lousy progressive and a republican. Progressives became

      known as lousy liberals circa 1950. The last famous liberal-republican was Nelson

      Rockefeller. Teddy Roosevelt did three good things: A) He was a Rough Rider in the

     Spanish-American War; B) He gave permission while president for the Teddy Bear

     to be named after him; C) He coined the phrases:

                                               "bully pulpit"

                                               "Speak softly and carry a big stick"

                                               "lunatic fringe"

                                               "My hat's in the ring"

                                               "Good to the last drop"

    Citizen Reporter coined an alliteration: "Lousy, Little, Lying Liberals."

We were having discourse through cyber-space, Cyber-friends, about subsidies and stated

on the record that the Trinity considered them to be unconstitutional and socialistic.

Fed gov has no authority to give taxpayer money to certain industries or particular

companies. We're opposed to all subsidies of this type, including, subsidies to oil

companies. COMMON SENSE dictates that we let them drill for more oil in and around the

U.S. of A. The Pasticcio Nuts object. Is it preferable for us to spend hundreds of billions

of dollars on foreign oil - we get most imported oil from semi-enemies or, if you prefer,

semi-friends (is the glass half empty or half full?) - with much lower safety and environ-    mental  standards then us! And, part of it winds up in the coffers of terrorists. Don't give me solar and wind. Shut up! Experts say that we will only be able to get up to 30% of our energy from those sources by 2030. (NASA might be able to guarantee 30% -plus add  up to 20%. Of course, demand for energy between now and 2030 will increase by 2- to 3-fold  More on that later). Fed gov should not give hand-outs - corporate welfare.

       With must abandon Bush/Obama Concept of Too Big to Fail. Most companies -

oil, utilities, corporate farms, etc. - will find a way to survive by introducing a new

business model for their company. Auto companies should have gone to bankruptcy

court while banks and insurers should have restructured.

      Fed Gov is opposed to monopolies and yet it has dysfunctional ones, such  as, the U.S.

Post Office. It has been losing money for years; last year over $8 Billion! We could save

$100 Billion over 10 years (each year, Post Office is more in the red then the previous year)

by allowing private companies compete over deliveries to businesses and residences. We

heard a liberal say the Fed Gov should give more money to this semi-independent federal

agency! It is reminiscent of city-level wherein part of your taxes support transportation

but you still have to pay bus and train fare. The lib suggested that Post Office needs to

create 21th Century business model - let private sector do it. What happened after we

allowed private companies deliver parcels? We told you in our last article that the U.S.

Treasury Department's U.S. Mint uses a private company UPS rather then the gov's USPS

to deliver its coin sets to people even though they charge more! Why? Much greater chance

of delivering when scheduled to do so, much less chance of loss or damage and fully

insured.  Remember when we discussed three times as many drivers choosing to pay  

 a toll for a highway lane owned by a private company rather then the free public lane

in the few states that allow citizens a choice.

Where are we? Thus far our proposals are: 1) Return all the land stolen from states by

fed gov except land where federal buildings and military installations are located; 2) cut

corporate income tax from 35% to 25%; 3) cut capital gains tax from 15% to 10%;  4) end

subsidies, including, subsidies to SpaceX (Falcon 9 Project) and Virgin Galactic;  5) procure more oil and natural gas domestically; 6) extend lifetime of shuttle for 3 years, use Ares           R & D, build Orion.

Henceforth, but not retroactive, no more unsupported mandates! If fed gov tells states

that it most do something then fed gov must completely pay for it.

The states must call for a Constitutional Convention to once again define Commerce

Clause according to Constitution and Federalist Papers and decide how to deal with unsupported mandates of the past and how to implement nullification concept- it would constitute a Constitutional Convention-plus!  Commerce Clause was meant to regulate trade between the states, it has PROGRESSIVELY been used since the 1870s, especially, the 1930s  by the fed gov to take powers from the states and rights from the people through     regulations having naught to do with commerce or having to do with intra-state commerce.  

Republicans have proposed restoring spending to 2008 budgets for fed departments,

agencies and programs. We say "yes" but A) Freeze it for 10 years except, perhaps, allow

an inflationary adjustment and B) There should be certain exceptions to this general rule.

       Increase military spending by $100 Billion over three years and then freeze its budget

for 7 (don't spend the $100 Billion remaining from Obama's failed stimulus project). The

U.S. Constitution gives fed gov responsibility for 16 areas, it doesn't include: Departments

of Education, Agriculture, Housing/Urban Development, Transportation, Interior (we already

proposed restoration of stolen land). Reduce their budgets by over 75% over 10 years with

2/3 of savings going toward reducing deficit/debt and 1/3 increase in funds that fed gov

gives to states for education, transportation, etc. The now mini-departments will exist to

make recommendations to the states and to monitor how fed money is spent. Money comes

with no strings but states will have to pay a penalty for reckless spending. They can create

and pay for programs that states can except or reject. 

      We must double spending over the next 10 years on the following agencies which are under-budgeted: border security; INS, DEA, FBI, Coast Guard, federal prison system - not

Department of Homeland Defense except for inspections at our harbors. The areas that we

ear-marked for an increase - some are part of DHD and some aren't. The bulk of budget

should return to 2008 level.

      The FICA Tax which supports Social Security taxes income up to 95,000; it should be

increased to 100,000. The age of retirement should be raised to 67 in 2025 and 70 in 2035

(presidential bi-partisan commission proposed 67 in 2050 and 69 in 2075) for we need not

only to save money but experience. The graying of America - couples are having far

fewer babies and people are living much longer. The situation is approaching a crisis in

Japan. The converse is the case in country like Iran where 1/3 of population is under 35.

     In order to bring down the cost of healthcare, we must allow health insurance companies

to compete in more then one state, put a cap on medical malpractice claims and import

loser-pay from UK as regards all suing, allow small- and medium-sized companies to form

associations so that they can get health care for their employees cheaper. Medicare and

Medicaid are billions in debt and fraught with fraud. Let's not dig a deeper hole. Let's

let private sector compete for those on Medicare with money spent each year on this

program being placed in medical savings from which recipients can use to purchase

health insurance and only health insurance. Three years ago, Medicaid recipients were required to get Medicaid through a private insurer. All M & M would have to do in the future   is monitor.

    We should decrease to three tax rates: 10%; 25%; 33% (Obama commission is proposing

10, 20 and 30 with no deductions). Those in the 33% bracket will receive a full deduction

for primary mortgage (1) and full charitable deduction; those in 25% the same plus

secondary mortgage (1); 10% - mortgages, dependents, standard medical and charitable. We

don't wish to hurt housing industry. Americans per capita are the most giving people in

the world and likely wouldn't give less to charities and non-profits if deduction were

eliminated but why gamble.

MOON BASE waste of money or our savior when it comes to producing energy and so

much more.

                                        To be Continued.

Congratulations...Thank you. Why are you congratulating us?...You didn't A.D.D. the

article.