Five Things that make too much sense to ever happen...

Since common sense and pratical solutions rarely find any meaningful support in Washington, I thought I'd take a moment and document them in cyperspace hence placing them in digital time capsule for later review. I suspect in 2016 not only will these still not have gotten any meaningful attention, the issues behind them will be at a more dire level.

1) Secure America's Borders...rather than toss this issue into the politcal noodle salad of immigration reform. Simply take the necssary steps to bring integrity and control over who is entering the nation. Most polls show this simple statement has an over 80% approval within the American public.
*Since we are being reminded how impractical it is to deal with 12 million illegals, might it make sense that we keep the number from growing?
*We have spent nearly 500 billion in Iraq as a "war on terror" strategy, can't we scrimp out about 12 billion to secure the borders from terrorist here at home?

2) Use Excess Big Oil Profits to fuel an alternatives program. Rather than allow Big Oil to ride the profit wave unabated, cap the profit at 2005 levels and use the excess to fuel research within the private sector, universities and other think tanks to get us out of this strategic, economic and national security rat hole.
*India and China will drive Oil to new highs for the next twenty years.
*2600 energy mergers have made any semblence of competition here at home non-existant.

3) Give Parents Control to chose their education provider. Yes, vouchers...we are bleeding jobs from both ends. 600,000 jobs lost in the last 6 years in the automotive industry. Importing engineers and software designers from India, China and elsewhere. U.S. companies relocating their white collar jobs, skilled labor jobs and their financial epocenters. We must unleach the power of the private sector to change the public education paradiagm. Leaders in future-centric industries should tell us what they need and we should design world-relevant education.

4) Flat Tax...Your 1040 form should have 5 lines.
1) How much did you make last year?
2) Multiple line 1 by "x"
3) Enter answer here _____
4) Enter your total withholdings for this year here______
5) Subtract line 4 from line 3 and enter your tax/refund due here______.


5) Cap Health Care Litigation to $250,000. Establish an independent medical review program for all providers. Provide basic health care requiring co-pays for all services except preventative care. Socialists? maybe, but let me ask you....which person in the country doesn't deserve access to affordable health care. BTW; don't look know but people who can't pay get cared for today, the difference is you pay for it when you and your insurance company pay $40,000 for hip replacement surgery...(In Singapore the costs is 6K in Africa 2K). Get the artificial costs out of health care or we will spend the next 50 years making Pfiser, Exxon and Blue Cross rich and we'll all be poor.

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