A Few Of My Favorite Things

I'm baaa-aack. Work has been, well, "fun" in a corporate sort of way.

Now I am lying; it was not fun: I LIVED IN AUDIT HEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLL! OH, OOOOOHHHHHHH!
Instead of ranting about politics, which could take forever to catch up, I decided to take a different approach. Here is what I want (see the list below). I'm not asking for much, really, just a country whose leaders really care, and work for the betterment of the country, not just their party.

Take special note of what is not on the list, too. I'm sure some of you would have anyway.

No explanation needed

• Term limits
• Line item veto
• No more motor-voter registration
• Enact literacy requirements for people to qualify as registered voters
• Dissolve the EPA, or at least get them out of the eminent domain business
• Honoring private property rights
• End of corporate entitlements
• End of state entitlements from the Feds
• End of local/county entitlements from the Feds and state
• Eliminate all social services administered at the federal level
• Tort reform to penalize ambulance chasers, and to help curb malpractice insurance premiums
• Remove the not-for-profit status of all PACs, so that they can pay taxes
  
• After that, charge an exorbitant licensing fee to become a PAC and retain that status annually. There's a tax I could support. :-)
• Enforce the immigration laws on the books
  

Brief explanation needed:

• Treat those that aren't citizens as though they aren't citizens: no rights until they work through the system to be naturalized.
• Stop using Christ, race, gender and sex as sound-bite emotional issues. Politicians obfuscate debate when these are introduced into the discussion.
• Impeachment of judges who fail to live up to their duty. That is, after all, the check that the legislature has over the judiciary.
• Enforce the Constitution and Amendments - yes, all of them - as written. No more of this "reading into" an amendment or article to suit your purposes.
• Capital punishment occurs within twelve months of the sentence. Forget having to sustain these folks for years on death row.

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• Zero based budgeting - when I set my family budget, I don't start with this year's expenses, automatically increase them by 5-7%, then figure out how much more I need. I start from zero, every year. So should the government.
• "None of the Above", or some equivalent, as a valid election choice for key races, such as Fed and State House and Senate races, and Mayoral and Council offices. If candidates run a high $$$ campain, and no one wins, the major political parties have to do it all over again. If they're going to waste my money, I don't mind wasting theirs.
• Single-issue bills - No more of this crap, for example, where a military spending bill fails because some bozo adds a rider to save the one-eyed floozy-bird in southeastern Minot. Then the bozo's campaign advertises that his opponent failed the military bill.

Still reading? Good.

• Governmental bodies must comply with the laws they enact - No more independent retirement fund for government agencies and representatives, whereas the general public gets social security. Do their organizations have to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley?
• Vacate our seat in the U.N. - we keep lending credibility to 3rd world crazies who hate us, but want our money. (Who wants to be like the French, anyway?)
• Rescind McCain-Feingold - it only makes the incumbents stronger, and causes more PACs to form to combat the incumbents. Talk about misappropriation of funds.
• Truth in campaigning - ads are not allowed to be aired if any false information is identified, but the campaigners have to pay the fees, anyway.

See, I'm not asking for much. Nothing that the electorate can't enforce.