A US Political Manifesto and Return to Morality?

By: Stewart Brennan

It is my firm belief that while the US Federal Government continues to usurp power away from the fifty States of America, the American people cannot see the Freedom they believe they have, nor will they see it in the near or distant future. The US Constitution is in tatters and hanging by a thread while business interests carve out huge amounts of wealth from the American people.

The President, and / or the United States Congress, will not make any positive changes in the day-to-day life for the American people, not while these same politicians steer the country in the direction of their personal gain in wealth and power. Very few American politicians take a moral stand for what is right and wrong. So, it will be up to the American people to reclaim their ship and steer the country back from the brink of economic and political chaos; because relying on charlatan politicians only brings greater pain and destruction.

If the American people made a stand together and were successful in reclaiming their Constitution, then It is not just the United States that will be saved from ruin but the world as well.

Across the globe, the US Federal Government has been busy creating wars and funding them around the World and in doing so they have also gone to war on its own people especially over the past 8 years.

Health Care or Don’t Care?

The Health Care Bill is truly the most talked about issue or argument of the day (2009). The economic powers that control the United States have made sure that there is division among the American people when it comes to healthcare. The corporate owned US Mainstream media broadcasts the political circus of shouting matches, name-calling, and labeling to an uniformed American audience. This agenda only serves to hide the bigger issue, “Who has the power, and who gets to control the wealth generated by it”.

It isn’t hard to find a wide array of opinions on American streets no matter where the conversation takes place. One thing is clear however, if this bill is left as is, it will have the potential of ripping the Country apart.

The current trend points to civil unrest with a government unwilling to budge due to corporate meddling. The details of this Health Care Bill when implemented will wake up Americans and grab their emotional attention. The only way to stop this trend is for the Federal government to back down. But I do not see that happening short of mass civilian disobedience. When a Country like the USA has a gun culture, it is most probable that they will be used at some point given the high anxiety this topic has raised. I would prefer to see the politicians become moral patriots with empathy for their own citizens, but when congress is more intent on protecting War criminals and stuffing their pockets, I don’t see a chance in hell that things will change, short of a revolution.

Healthcare Solution

The current health care proposal that just passed the House of Representatives is a large Federal power grab and suited to big corporate interests. The Senate will not change much before it votes on it, and when both the house of representatives and the senate agree to a final draft, nothing good will come out of it.

I have always believed that health care should be a single payer system. Health care should be at the State level and treated as a non-profit entity, where all employed by the system have a pay scale, including doctors, nurses, and technicians. The services would not diminish as some would have you think but in fact would remain the same and cover everyone. After all, where else will the doctors and nurses go? Canada? Mexico? Cuba? I think not.

Of course, the biggest enemy to the single payer State plan is the Insurance companies who currently reap trillions of dollars in profits every year. The real solution here is to remove the Insurance companies out of the picture completely. The second thing required is to enact legislation to restrict the Pharmaceutical companies from gauging the public as they currently do. Profits should not exceed 40% for any product they produce, and that is being generous. Consumer rights must be reinstated and protected.

Universal Health Care should be paid for by the taxes already collected from the American people through the IRS and not by additional taxation. Your tax dollars already pay for it. What you do not have is control of those tax dollars. That is what needs to be dealt with.

Is it better for a Federal government to run 50 different state governments, or is it better for the 50 states to run their own affairs and have congress direct the federal system to support the 50 states?

US Tax Dollars

“Where are all the Tax dollars going?” that's the important question. The Federal government collects trillions of dollars every year through the IRS. In my observation, the corruption runs deep, and powerful corporate interest groups are at the heart of the problem.

Maintaining 700 military bases around the World to preserve a corporate Empire is a major drain of US taxpayer dollars. 1.5 trillion dollars goes into preserving and maintaining US military bases throughout the World. That does not count the hundreds of billions spent to conduct the Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Pakistan. Did you know that the USA is paying the Pakistan Army with US taxpayers’ money? What will this achieve for Americans back home? Well one thing is for sure, a larger debt incurred with compounding interest for the American people.

US Tax dollars are given to foreign governments such as Israel, Egypt, Honduras, Columbia, Saudi Arabia, etc. for military hardware to help preserve the US influence and corporate empire throughout the regions of the World. Some of the biggest customers of the American Tax payer’s cash are the military industrial corporations R & D projects for new weapons. How tight do you suppose those budgets are?

Homeland Investment

All I hear these days is that the USA has lost its manufacturing base. Anyone who thinks that this is true must have forgotten the Military Congressional Industrial Complex. This group has succeeded in securing trillions of taxpayer dollars to run a weapons industry that profits on destabilizing countries by arming both sides in a war. The US taxpayer pays the tab while the weapons corporations and their executives, sponsors and lobby groups become extremely wealthy.

Congressional leaders know that War is big business and produces jobs for voters. So, corporate lobby groups from companies such as Boeing, Raytheon, and GE remind politicians of this all the time and it is why these corporations succeed in procuring American Tax dollars from politicians. Of course these companies tell their employees which political candidate is faithful to the company and deserving of employee votes. I know this from personal experience having worked for a company swallowed up by I.T.W.

So, “Should your tax dollars go into supporting the weapons industry that destroys other countries or should your tax dollars go into creating jobs that rebuilds America?”

Why not spend money at home developing industries that will better the country and the Planet for that matter? Surely there must be a better way to spend tax dollars than on the War Industry. At the very least, there must be some money to rebuild recession torn America and aid the American people.

Banking and Political Campaign Regulation

America must recoup its taxation and monetary system from the private interests that control it, while also isolating the investment banking system with strict regulations.

The Private banking interest groups are the main problem behind the scenes who own the Private Federal Reserve. The corruption is so widespread in American finance that both the Federal Government and the Private Interest groups are virtually one and the same. It is through these private banking interest groups that the Federal Government has legislated power to itself for the sole intent of building an empire around the world by cornering all markets at the expense of the American people and the 50 states.

The Federal Empire has become a monster much the same way the early Roman Empire was. The extremely wealthy own all the land, the wealth, and have all the power. They wage war for profit and steal the riches from the conquered. They do not care about the people but are aware that the people can rise up so they throw confusion at them to keep them at bay. How long do you think that will last?

The solution to dismantling the Federal Empire is to put congress into line and implement a strict campaign policy where limits are imposed on funds a politician may receive and spend on political campaigns, to the amount of $300,000.00. It would also be in the people’s best interest to limit campaigns to between 6 and 8 weeks.

The largest part of political corruption lays in campaign contributions and gifts by corporate interests and lobby groups. Therefore, campaigns should be closely monitored so that limits are adhered to and that no sitting candidate would be allowed to receive gifts before, during or after service to his / her country.

War Crimes Trial

World opinion of the USA dropped like a stone the moment the United States invaded Iraq. The once mighty America that was looked upon as the beacon of freedom is now viewed as just the opposite, a military dictatorship with aims of global domination.

However, there is a chance for the USA to redeem itself in World opinion and once again stand proud of its founding principals. To achieve this, the USA must conduct an investigation and put on trial all those that conspired in the invasion of Iraq and all the fallout that ensued as a result of those decisions.

The USA must hold a War Crimes trial for its Invasion of Iraq, for sending thousands of US soldiers to their deaths, for the slaughter of over 1 million Iraqi civilians, and for violating human rights by torturing hundreds of prisoners.

In doing so, America will show the World that NO ONE in the USA is above the Law. Above all else, this trial will return America back into the World community as a moral leader and a country worthy of the highest praise it once enjoyed.

Conclusion

[01] Single payer health care is the only way to provide complete care for all people. Create a State run single payer system that is funded by existing taxes collected by the IRS. Have those taxes transferred back to the State to support the Health Care Plan.

[02] Create a universal pay scale for doctors, nurses, and technicians as all other industries do.

[03] Remove the Insurance companies from health care altogether and regulate the Pharmaceutical companies to price guidelines.

[04] Remove the Federal Reserve and return monetary control to the Treasury.

[05] Remove the IRS from the Federal system and allow the State to collect taxes for the services it is responsible for.

[06] Regulate Investment Banks and Isolate them from Main Street Banks.

[07] Implement Strict Campaign Funding Limits to $300,000.00 per political candidate. Do not allow gifts, before, during or after sitting in office.

[08] Limit political campaigns for re-election to 8 weeks maximum.

[09] Close military bases around the World.

[10] End the Wars by bringing the soldiers home

[11] Conduct a US War Crimes Trial on the George W. Bush administration.

I am sure there are many other things that can be addressed here and there are a number of things that will be direct results of these 11 points. The main thing is to start the change now, and how you start is by forming a third political party to run against every democrat or republican that does not adopt these 11 principals of change. The nation is in your hands and together you can be the change you envision for your country. Stand up, stand proud, and stand together!