Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Congressional Sexual Accusation Accountability

The Congressional Sexual Wrongdoings in Congress are the most egregious of all the latest claims of Sexual Harassment  due to Taxpayer Dollars being used to settle these claims. The harassment dollars are paid out via the Office of Compliance or OOC, which was created through the Congressional Accountability Act or CAA. So Congress used a piece of legislation that was supposed to help eliminate harassment of any kind, to secretly payout Taxpayer Dollars (since signed, non-disclosure papers were a required item to obtain settlement payouts) when the rules of the OOC were broken.. The OOC was established and used as a coverup to hid Congressional foul play. Just follow the Office of Compliance Forms link listed on the OOC homepage...And please, someone tell my why do the harassed need to fill out a request for counseling forms, especially when the harasser's do not? Filling out an incident report form would seem to be the logical item required to start an investigation, not counseling! The counseling may come later if after a factual review uncovers no indication of harassment...Well at least to me.

I will not go into whether anyone in Politics is guilty or not. This very short blog entry is only concerned with a horrible misuse of Taxpayer funds. I keep hearing Politicians saying this is wrong and they want legislation to stop it, but that's not enough for me. I want all the miscreants who have used public money, for their own benefit, to have to pay it back to the treasury. I also want the OOC totally bereft of the power to dip into treasury funds to benefit overly, compensated Congressmen.



                                                                                                  


Sunday, November 12, 2017

Taxes and Healthcare

If the GOP wants to accomplish both Tax cuts, with simplifications, and Health Care, let me offer a few examples of how their bills should be organized. Before I get into the details, let me remind everyone that both Democrats and RINOs (Republican In Name Only) won't help with either of these desired Legislative changes; Especially those Trump haters who'll do anything to get back to the disgusting Status Quo. I"ll begin with the Tax bill, mainly because that's the proposed bill currently being debated.

Why do these idiots we designated as our House and Senate Representatives insist on NOT making taxes Fair and Equitable? There are two options available for Individual Tax consideration:
  1. A National Sales Tax
  2. A National Flat Tax 
Either of these two options would make a better proposal than the current Regressive tax plans being formulated in both the House and Senate. Both options have their Pros and Cons; Which I will not discuss here. Then you'd only have to argue about deductions and with either option you could totally eliminate along with most of the IRS functions. Of course some jobs would be eliminated (H&R Block Tax Preparation, IRS Tax Audits, IRS ObamaScare Enforcement officers etc), but think of the trees that will be saved printing all the ridiculous forms that go into preparation and filing. Not to mention the voluminous printed pages of current Tax Codes.

We have a Corporate Income Tax classification, so why not a Small Business Income Tax classification? Then we could remove all Democratic objections as to "income tax breaks for the rich" versus Republican objections to "onerous taxation on small businesses".

And now my biggest contribution to the Tax situation; You HAVE to cut Spending along with the Taxes. In the early 20th Century Republican Presidents knew and followed that axiom. Now Progressives, who infest ALL parties, are only interested in retaining power, accumulating wealth (and never returning any savings) as they pursue their TRUE goal; Driving the US to be a Socialistic Paradise, as every other Socialist/Communist country which has NEVER worked before and never will.

It's time to repeal and replace ObamaScare. Why were so many people interested in accomplishing this end? It's the biggest pile of Horse Manure ever to be perpetrated on a democratic society. This Socialistic ObamaScare garbage has taken the best, although expensive, Health Care in the world and reduced it to a pimp for Medicaid. There are, and have been for a long time, many good ideas floating around Washington, DC (such as portability across State lines, Individuals Group Coverage, Increased use/dollar allocation of/for Health Savings accounts, lawsuit limitations to reduce doctors'  high liability insurance costs, etc.) that could help reduce costs. So why have these not been implemented?

In order to effectively cut spending and aide in  the repeal of ObamaScare, one action that should be taken is removal of Government contributions to Medicaid. This puts each state in charge of it's own collection and disbursement of Medicaid dollars. My reasoning? It's the same as removing State and  Local tax deductions...Using most of America's states, just like state ,city and local tax deductions, to support  Liberally supplied Medicaid of states such as New York, California, New Jersey etc.

And lastly let's examine some totally useless and actually harmful Government agencies such as Swat Teams, Department of Education, the aforementioned IRS, etc. Swat teams, such as those introduced by Barrack Obama are not only expensive, ridiculous  (such as the EPA, USDA swat teams) but also
is unconstitutional as Government provisions of Police forces are NOT a government power detailed within the Constitution. Former President Obama had established over 60 Swat Costly teams.Also there should be some legislation curtailing the amount of "CZARS" (established by George W Bush and gleefully expanded by Barrack Obama) that can be appointed; the amount of money required to maintain each and reinforce the advisory ONLY capabilities of these positions.

Useless departments should either be eliminated or reduced in scope and power. I cite the Department of Education, which in my humble opinion, should only serve as a liaison between all the states for textbooks, education goals, educational teaching credentials etc.Since 1980, our educational Educational ranking in the world has fallen to embarrassing levels of Science, Math and reading according to the PEW Research Center  report of February, 2017...In spite of The Department of Education which was established in 1979 by Democrat Jimmy Carter; During the 1992 term of  Democrat president, Bill Clinton claims multiple legislation bills were enacted, as his library boasts,  for  Expanded Educational opportunities while in 2002, Republican president George W Bush signed into law the no child left behind act. Despite these massively costly expansions of the Education Department, the US has only declined in educational standing and quality of education. 

Why do we need so many immigrants, specially  trained for jobs in Engineering, Technology etc for high paying jobs in the USA? Because we have ignored areas like Science; Math and Reading in our education system. Why are so many people today ignorant of American and World history? The same reason so many are ignorant of our Constitution and form of Government. These items are either not taught or changed to fit the Progressives' agenda. Individual states, with guidance from a slimmer more effective Department of Education, would best know and handle both their schools and health care.