Ryan’s Checklist for Fixing the Our Glorious Republic
1) Only landowners can vote.
This would exclude me, currently, but I don’t think anyone who doesn’t own land is qualified to be making decisions that mostly effect those who do. If you own land, you are obviously more established and therefore more effected by the economic decisions made at the government level. This is how it used to be. This would also prevent those who leech government programs from also indirectly controlling those programs.
2) State legislatures elect the President.
This is how it used to be. This prevents “celebrity politics” - in order to get elected, you have to have “street cred” among legislators, not just appeal to the flaky and fickle masses. This is still self-government; the people elect their legislators.
3) All taxes are paid to the states; the states then pay the federal government based upon how many Representatives they have in Congress.
This prevents us for paying for some stupid commune in California, bridge in Alaska or “art” museum in New York. Local governments have FAR more accountability to the people in how they spend money.
4) Uphold the Bill of Rights (example: right to bear arms and provide teeth to the idea that we rule ourselves).
Self-explanatory.
5) No non-elected official can ever create a law or regulation that is legally enforceable. Every law must be passed singly by an elected legislative body.
Self-explanatory. Examples of tyrannical bureaucracies that were created by Congress and then left to its own devices: the EPA, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Education, the FCC, etc.
These are just my humble proposals, but think about them.
July 3rd, 2007 at 4:42 pm
I’d vote for that.
Hey, I was at the local gun store last weekend and there is this practically ban guns all together!
Grandfather rights exist, but you are not able to pass down guns, as to say, my dad could not give me his guns, and if he dies, it goes to the government.
If Hilary get elected, you’ll prob see this pass. Heaven forbid.
Im thinking of getting a sweet AR soon. We can both peruse when you are here in a few weeks!
July 3rd, 2007 at 4:44 pm
*There is a new ban that practically bans guns all together. It’s in the senate now.
July 4th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
tru dat.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
from my cold dead hands
July 11th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Here are my perhaps uneducated responses that aren’t given much thought. Just kind of first things that come to mind.
1) I just take issue with this statement: “If you own land, you are obviously more established.”
I own land, and you don’t as you have said in this blog. I don’t believe that gives me any more credibility. Plus it is more economical in a lot of regions to rent than it is to own.
2) I’m not sure what “celebrity politics” are really, but will not the legislators people vote for still be open to their use? Can’t part of their platform be “We’re going Democrat” or specifically Hillary Clinton?
3) This feels like something the government can work around like #2. Can the federal money not go toward the Alaskan bridge or whatever? So when the states are getting their quota of federal money to turn in, they can still include the bridge in the budget.
4) Do it.
5) I don’t understand simply because I am not aware of the organizations you mentioned doing something wrong.