Dan,
I appreciate the support, but even I realize that all of my thoughts on political matters are 100% useless and could never be used to effectuate anything. In fact, I almost have a tendency to question whether or not I am a complete fucking imbecile that just happens to have a better-than-average vocabulary and just enough writing ability to merely be an idiot who stands out as opposed to an idiot that nobody notices.
In other words, I can use words to capture attention, but that makes my ideas no less completely fucked.
Even if we were going to try to effectuate what’s being discussed here, the principles themselves are entirely foundational. You would actually have to begin a country this way, and the way the country is now, it’s too vastly different from what the end-result of what’s being discussed would be and, if there is a way to take this pile of shit we have now and get it there, it would be a long and difficult process.
I don’t know shit about construction, there’s a gap, and I can’t even begin to draw up plans as to how to build a bridge.
The problem is that all of the things that I think should be taken for granted, very simply, are not taken for granted. I think that a burger-flipper that works full-time should be guaranteed a minimum wage that’s indexed to 200% of the current federal poverty line for a family of four. I don’t think that you need entitlement programs such as social security or medicare making up the difference, you just need people that make reasonable amounts of money.
You need a society that is very driven on family values to the extent that people will start to see that there is value in being homemakers, not to the extent that the homemakers are actually compensated by an outside source for their work, but to the extent that family is viewed as important enough to say, “Okay, we’ve got to make it so that one person in a household can work and support the entire household.” I can do that, but not everyone can.
You have women now that do not work as single-mothers because the difference in what they will get, or their overall improvement, is not worth their time because (after the benefits are cut) they have to work four hours to see additional money for one hour. You have a society where someone can get a divorce from their husband and go to school, now they will collect child support because of the divorce, will get free child care at the school, and will also qualify for other benefits (such as food stamps) while they are in school to the extent that they are financially better off not to be married. Not to mention the straight up cash they get from grants geared specifically toward single-Mothers.
To that extent, we have engineered and Legislated for a society where family doesn’t make a fuckload of difference to anyone. I’m probably one of the only people that cares about family, my so-called, fellow fucking liberals, don’t seem to give a shit about it.
Anyway, so then the single-mother will graduate college, get a job that pays as well as the ex-husband’s, if not better, and he will get to continue to pay child support to someone that doesn’t actually need it and be fucked for years to come.
In any case, the first thing that you have to do is get the country back to, “0,” in terms of deficit, and then you might begin to think about having some kind of Socialist agenda.
Some people are going to have to die.
The first thing that you have to do is execute all prisoners that were found guilty, in a Court of Law, of any felony involving either a weapon, a child or an inherently violent act. They must summarily be killed without all of the bullshit dramatics and build-up that typically accompany executions, the same executions that the condemned will occasionally die waiting for…
In the meantime, some people just aren’t willing to right themselves. Therefore, anyone convicted, in a Court of Law, of any TWO felonies, arising from separate acts, will also be summarily executed. I understand that there must be an appeals process for new evidence and all that bullshit, so let’s give them one year…I guess.
People convicted of DUI or DWI will also be summarily executed, first-offense. By driving in that condition, they will now take the same risk that they would so callously expose innocent people to. I think we can change a catchy phrase to another one:
“Over-The-Limit, Under Arrest.”
TO:
“Over-The-Limit, Underground.”
I would also say, with respect to misdemeanors, when you reach the point at which you have spent five years (1,825 days) in either jail or prison, you must die, as you are too much of a burden on the system.
The thing that you have to understand is that it takes $63.41 per day, using the State of Tennessee’s numbers for 2009, to house an inmate. That’s a little over $23,000/year. In the case of someone that spends over five years in prison, it is highly unlikely that the amount spent housing the inmate will be recouped in future taxes paid back to the state/federal (whichever is applicable) by that inmate, and therefore, the prison system operates at a loss with respect to that inmate. Furthermore, even if such taxes were recouped, they wouldn’t necessarily entirely go to the prison system, and if they did, then that means he’s not paying a fair share of other shit.
Wastes of space, wastes of money.
Further, we need to quit the fucking coddling that we do with all of the current prisoners. From now on, all jail cells are to be six feet long by four feet wide. Inmates always be kept in solitary confinement, except during common times. Inmates will be permitted to leave their cells for thirty minutes every two days to shower, they will receive a new change of clothes once/week, they will be allowed one hour per week for solitary outdoor recreation. There will be no television, there will be no internet, there will be no education, there will be no candy bars, there will be no haircuts with exception to the one they receive going in and the one they receive when they leave. There will be ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING HEALTHCARE OF ANY KIND, if they die, they die.
Prison will once again be considered the detractor to crime it is supposed to be.
We must also legalize marijuana, but it can only be legally sold by Government-licensed manufacturers and companies. If anyone grows/ditributes/sells marijuana without a license, then that person will be subject to the death penalty. There’s no reason to piss away such a great source of tax revenue. In fact, the Government could own the rights to the distribution of the marijuana, and basically handle everything except the growing, and still tax it over-and-above all of that. Of course, you have to find the tax level where the Government makes the most money, and that level will be found by having a significant number of people smoke weed, so be it.
I have plenty of other props, if you care to hear them. I lose most people as soon as, “Death penalty,” comes out of my mouth, though.