IF I WERE KING

Dear Readers,
I am going to take a different approach to my blog than normal, and talk about my personal ideas for legislation and programs to repair America. As has been suggested to me, I will merely lay out the general ideas for brevity's sake.

1. All entitlement programs will be subject to a five year sunset law. That is, programs like Social Security,Medicare, Medicaid, etc will have to be reviewed every five years to be renewed. If Congress cannot agree on renewal or the terms of renewal, those programs will expire by operation of law. I suggest five years but might consider a slightly higher length of time. I also think that each should be staggered every two years.

My logic? Congress has to air the dirty laundry on the programs and make public how they operate, whether they are efficient, to check for corruption, etc. It also would force Congress to limit their legislative activities and eliminate some overlapping programs.

2. The states should be allowed a no confidence vote for their Congressmen. There would have to be a high percentage of voters to sign a petition such as 60 of the vote for the last election of that Congressman to prevent sour grapes party issues. I believe that 60 per cent would be fair for a general vote, such as consistent poor voting , poor attendance record, etc. I think that 50 per cent should be used for corruption or criminal issues,

My logic? The public's right to checks and balances has been severely limited the legislators themselves. The accountability factor has been non existent during this era of country club politics and elitism in Congress.

3. Enforce the immigration laws. Start with a ruling that birth in the US does not establish citizenship. This law was and has always been used for its original purpose until recently, that is: not to deny voting or other rights to freed slaves. No other country in the world has or interprets its law in such an insane manner.
have a guest worker program that only allows a six month entry in the US and has to be renewed by personal visit of the worker to ICE. The worker would have to pay for this permit each renewal. The worker would have to have an employee sponsor. This was the law for many years in the US for immigration. Worker status does not affect nor create immigration status, but can be used as a factor in application. All workers must pay taxes. All workers must either carry some form of insurance or pay in cash for services rendered. No worker would be able to enter or maintain worker status with a criminal conviction over a class C misdemeanor.
A country that is the point of original will be billed for any worker's health services, incarceration costs, or taxes that a worker cannot pay.
Every country will be given an allotment of workers. If one is arrested or incapacitated, he is still on that allotment. if services are not paid for by the country of origin, that country will have its allotment decreased.
a worker would not be allowed to send more than 10% of his wages back to his homeland. Such transactions would be taxed. If a worker has not paid taxes or for services, his wages would be garnished.
if a worker brings up his family illegally, he loses status. if they come legally, they must be counted under the allotment.

4. The US will withdraw forces from UN peacekeeping duties, and from other peacekeeping duties (such as Bosnia and Kosovo, Korea, and Germany) to fight in Afghanistan. If Europe and other countries will not assist, let them provide troops to those locations if they think it is so important.
Do whatever it takes to win in Afghanistan. Use overwhelming force and get out.
Start a two front offensive with Pakistan to force a hammer -anvil campaign in the common border.
Set up assassination teams like we did in Viet Nam to take out the bad guys. let them sweat with the same terror they inflict.

5. No bill can be passed in Congress if it cannot pay for itself or it cannot be paid for on a pay as you go formula.

6. tax relief. stimulate the economy.

7. Balanced budget. Any surplus will go to reducing the national debt. No legislation gets passed without a balanced budget.

8. Drill now, drill here, drill often. we need to create jobs, we need to reduce the horrendous debt imbalance. we do not need to give unfriendly countries money. we need to be self reliant in case of national crisis.

9. 1 per cent of oil revenues will be used to create new forms of energy or transportation.

10. Nuclear energy. If France can supply 75 % of its needs this way, so can we.

11. huge tax breaks for manufacturing jobs. we need to build things again, not be service oriented. bring in plants from other countries but get those jobs back here.

12. A flat tax. Get rid of the IRS

13. We have all the laws we need for "health care reform" ( what a misnomer.... it is not reform but confiscation). Allow competition, use the Justice Department if there are allegations of corruption or scams. this industry is no different that thousands of others.

14. no supports for failing industries others will replace it. get back to the free market system

15. no czars. All persons exercising power shall be reviewed. as a compromise, the president should be allowed 12 aides and advisers not subject to review.

16. stop mandates on the states. this system is a (expletive) way for the Federal gov't to make itself look good while unfairly burdening the states. If the Feds want it, pay for it.

17. states rights are the primary power in a government. read the constitution.

18. all legislation from the federal government must be made public and cannot be voted on until 14 days after publication.

I believe these ideas would restore our economy, would create a public option to the checks and balances system, reduce corruption and establish more legislative accountability, reduce our debt, and more importantly create more confidence in the American public in their federal government.
I believe that if I were king I would tirelessly and without favoritism until those goals were met.