Posted by
Gerald R Evans on Sunday, November 02, 2008 10:51:53 PM
A change is coming. It is inevitable. Our founding fathers knew that eventually the government would fail. I can see the coming Revolution, no matter who wins the election. I have a few changes I would like to suggest.
1) A new Bill of Rights
1. This government shall pass no laws governing the freedom of speech, religion, or the press. No laws shall be passed controlling the content of any medium of expression.
2. This government shall pass no laws restricting the ownership of firearms which are attained in their states legally proscribed manner.
3. This government shall pass no laws which discriminate based on race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or which show a preference based on any of the afore mentioned factors.
4. This government will pass no laws which govern the right of a woman to choose, leaving such decisions up to the individual states.
I think we also need a Bill of Non-rights
1. You do not have the right to vote; it is a privilege reserved for law abiding citizens who are age 18 or older and who are capable of passing a competency test to be administered when one registers to vote. This test shall be made to verify that voters are intelligent enough to make an informed decision when electing officials to public office. This test shall not be designed to exclude any peoples from the voting process except those who are incapable of passing the test not due to any disability. (After all, stupidity should not only hurt, it should be discouraged and frowned upon)
2. You do not have the right to health care. This does not mean that you do not have the right to seek medical treatment, just that it should not be everyone elses responsibility to provide it for you. Those who can not or will not seek self provided health insurance can apply for governemnt aid to assist in paying medical bills, but the applicant must be able to prove that they were comletely unable to purchase insurance and did not bring the illness upon themsleves. (If you have no insurance and have unportected sex, we will not help you if you get aids. If you eat nothing but McDonald's all day every day and you get diabetes you are screwed, shoulda spent some of that money on insurance instead of hot apple pies.)
3. You do not have the right to own a home. You do have the right to work hard, save your money and manage your finances in such a way the you can afford a home. Banks shall not make loans to borrowers who do not meet thier credit requirements and this government will not pass anylaws requireing them to do so.
4. "There is no such thing as a free lunch." Welfare shall no longer be a "free lunch." All recipients of welfare shall be required to seek gainful employment. Welfare benefits will last no longer than three years. All recipinets of welfare shall be required to repay the federal government the costs of thier welfare benefits at a 0.5% interest rate with payments starting two years after the benefits period ends.
I'd also like to see the US Government legalize marijuana. I know, a conservative that supports legalization/decriminalization of marijuana.. odd, but that's me. If we were to leagalize it and tax it along the same lines as tabacco it would be a huge source of revenue for the federal government.
We NEED the fair Tax... no doubt about it. Hey, Barack, you wanna level the playing field and make sure that everyone is paying thier "fair" share... then why dont you support the fair tax you Socialist f^%k?
My $0.02 for now... more to come.