Advice For the New Congress

Avoid Extremes - Whether you are continuing your term as a Senator or taking your seat for the first time as a Senator or Representative, you will be tempted to take extreme positions to punish your opponents.  Please don’t.  You should remember that they represent a majority of American voters in their districts with similar positions and they must be heard and respected.  The political “water” is boiling violently and we risk grave damage to our confidence in constitutional government if we can’t make it work for us producing policies that

1.    treat each of us like human citizens rather than as sub-human slaves,

2. encourage employers to do business in the USA and discourage them from taking potential jobs overseas.  (Consider confiscating all deposits from companies and private accounts of owners of any firm that relocates jobs off shore and loss of citizenship if move continues with offshore funds.)
3. encourage establishment of local businesses and the rebuilding of small towns all over the USA
4. encourage companies to produce energy OF ALL TYPES in the United States but with a clear understanding that damage to the earth is cumulative and totally unacceptable because EVERYONE OF US lives here … even those who haven’t made a dime on the fracked well that contaminated Susy’s water.  Sanctions must be draconian-heavy and terribly swift or corporate boards will just factor-in those costs of production in the price of the finished product.
1. If any regulations exist that make it more difficult for citizens to install solar or wind facilities on their private property, cancel, rescind and nullify those regulations immediately,
2. If any regulations exist to make it more difficult or expensive for private citizens to install energy saving systems on their private or business vehicles, cancel those regulations as well.  We are tire of being told what we can NOT do.  We have always improved our lives through innovation and we can do it again.  Let us prove it.

Help us, make our energy grid almost immune to terrorist attack by producing most of our energy at the site where it is to be used and to distribute the remaining production needed by the rest of the economy over such a widely dispersed area that no one could disable it with a single attack.

Listen to the People and we’ll take care of you – Scores of Congressmen and some Senators(?) lost their jobs and others should have, including Harry Reid, (we'll get him next time) because they did not listen to the people.  You have your job to insure that we have the kind of government that helps us remain a prosperous, free and robust nation.

Take action to repair

Jobs – THIS IS YOUR #1 JOB.  PUT US TO WORK!  Millions of us are without jobs (including yours truly).  Some of us have decades of experience and some of us have youth, energy and strength but all of us can contribute to the vitality of this economy.  Help us support ourselves and expand the tax revenue (did I get your attention?).  There are millions of jobs that Americans would be glad to have right now but they are occupied by aliens that have no right to those jobs…aliens that are NOT PAYING TAXES AND ARE EXPORTING THOSE DOLLARS OVERSEAS TO THEIR RELATIVES.  Use common sense!  These jobs if held by citizens will strengthen the USA…if they continue to be held by illegal aliens they are a cancer in the corporate body.

Restore production jobs to USA- Steel is a core industry that we probably need for self defense but other materials are lighter and stronger than steel so maybe we don’t need it.  We need to replace steel in our automobiles and if we do we may be able to reduce our importation of foreign oil by 50% or more.  Consider that 93% of the energy of the engine is used to move the car down the road  and only 7% is used to move the person to his destination.  Look into carbon fiber.  Yes it is made from petroleum but give us a few years and we may be able to fabricate it from thin air or from some fast growing hardy plant or sludge we suck off the floor of the Gulf of Mexico (millions of barrels of it down there y’know).

Restore local retail trade to small towns all across USA- Most of you are former businessmen.  Consider ways to provide what small retail businesses need and DO IT.  America is depending on you to help.  We’re ready at our end.  Just lift your’s.

Energy Independence NOT SLOGANS! Task the military if industry is reluctant to cooperate.  Conscript industry talent and force them to serve at military wages if they refuse to cooperate.  This is not an optional goal for the United States of America!  We MUST become independent and we MUST DO IT NOW!

Finance - The USA is being sold to China and the international oil companies, and this must stop.

Health Care-Repeal Requirement to Buy Health Ins and most of the rest of it as well.  You want to fix the medical mess?  (You do know it is a mess right?) 

Tell the insurance industry that they must offer the same policy in Georgia that they offer in Texas and make sure that Georgia and Texas (and all other states) allow it because we are not citizens of individual states requiring immigration from one to the other and we should be able to take our health care anywhere in the USA just like we can carry our carcass from state to state without a passport or visa.

Tell the medical equipment industry and the pharmaceutical industry (and other medical specialties) that they can not go up each year on the price for their services by multiples of their initial price.  Impose substantial penalties for violators.  No justification or explanation will be accepted.  Period.

Clean Water/Air – Repeal the Haliburton Exemption-  The water under our land does not belong to any man…Native American, or white European immigrant.  Every man woman and child has a right to expect potable water in their faucets that can be used safely to bathe in, cook with or drink.  It is not for sale to local utilities, big industries, international entities or foreign governments.  The VERY IDEA…that our water should be owned by Red China or anyone else for that matter!

Protect our Borders – We can’t solve world poverty by allowing everyone with annual income lower than $2.00 per day to immigrate to the US…physically impossible.  We actually damage the ability of foreign countries to fix their problems by giving them the opportunity to vent their problems through our borders.  They have no incentive to provide the solutions if we continue our current policies.

If any of this sounds extreme, bear in mind that we are being cut up, sliced and diced and we are sick of it.  We are not the property of the billionaires and the multinational companies.  We are (together) a sovereign nation and we intend to act one both as people on our day to day jobs and as representatives in your task of speaking up for us in the halls of finance and industry.