Onward.

For the Left I thought they might initiate the establishment of their new country by using something other than the founding documents of the old United States since they don’t really adhere to or believe in them anyhow.  Around New Year’s Day I came across the following by a Mr. Robert Creamer (do you know of him?  I didn’t…) writing in the Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/fourteen-2014-new-years-r_b_4518591.html

Now I hadn’t heard of this gentleman but it would seem that these resolutions might be almost immediately adoptable by the new Left America.  Due to immediate adoption it might not involve the struggle he cites as being necessary to his cause but I suppose it could be worked out that the Left would stage some sort of internal conflict so as to help create the requisite struggle prior to adoption.  Whatever works.

That then should take care of our former countrymen and get them going in a direction in which they are most familiar and most comfortable.  Bon voyage.

I like lists so I figured that for the Right  I would propose one for consideration of an initial direction or charter for us:

1. Re-ratification of the original Constitution of the United States including the Bill of Rights but not the subsequent amendments.  This would have to occur for viability.  This would provide for a return to small, limited government.
2. Review and re-ratification of the 27 amendments to that same Constitution.  Failure to re-ratify any or all of these would not preclude viability and any failed amendment would be struck from the Constitution.
3. Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment and initiate an aggressive but achievable plan to start paying down the portion of the $17.3+ Trillion debt that we assumed when we split up.
4. Set term limits for all elected offices and limit the amount of money that can be spent on specific elections.
5. Eliminate all but the most essential government agencies and set strict limits on what rules might be generated by any remaining (few!) government agencies.
6. Allow unions, public and private, to exist of course but allow full fairness and complete freedom in terms of workers electing membership.  Set strict laws regarding political contributions.
7. Pull back all non-critical and non-essential global military presence.  Time to let someone else play world cop- maybe the Left would choose to accept this responsibility.
8. Withdraw from the United Nations- it is a useless, political, anti-U.S. organization anyhow.Strengthen our relationships with existing key allies such as Israel, Britain, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia, India, Germany, and a few others.  Re-examine same with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan and the like.  Look into a few new, key alliances as appropriate but put all of these to a vote.
9. Roll back all lingering and crippling entitlements.  For example, reform Social Security in a graduated manner that will have minimal impact on existing or nearer-term recipients.
10. Reform the medical system in a manner that makes sense, improves medical care, lowers medical costs, and does not include government involvement.  That obviously means leaving Obamacare behind with the Left.  Bon voyage.
11. Focus on the economy and the generation of new companies, new industries, and lots and lots of new jobs.  At the same time unemployment benefits, and, for that matter, any programs that cause an unhealthy attachment to or reliance on any part of government, are to be minimized and made unlawful to modify, short of a national crisis or disaster, forever.
12. An essential social safety net will be established but will be made minimal and not overly easy to activate and utilize.
13. Pension funds are to be entirely private and privately monitored by persons responsible forever to the participating contributors.   Any misuse or redirection of funds would be considered a first-time felony.
14. No equal opportunity or quota laws or requirements will be allowed.  Proper and satisfactory anti-discrimination laws will of course be upheld.
15. Immigration laws are to be strictly enforced.  The illegals residing in the old United States are free to remain with the Left or go home.  Bon voyage.  If they wish, they may apply for eventual citizenship with the new United States via normal, legal channels.  Worker and student visas will be issued but will not be easily obtained and any overstays will be prosecuted against a strict set of laws.
16. Education reform will be pursued with vigor.  National standards and agencies are to be almost entirely avoided.  Parents are to be allowed vouchers to use their tax dollars for schools of their choice- this will also enhance overall competition. Unions are to be restructured and refocused on the proper end goal of educating our children to be the best in the world.  Period.
17. The tax code will be greatly simplified and can only be modified with extreme effort.  Exclamation mark.
18. Get our nation fit, off the couches, and off both prescription and illegal drugs to a very large extent.  Again, the government would play a minimal to no role in this but would simply get out of the way and work to remove any problem regulations or restrictions as deemed necessary by the private concerns.
19. Keep existing abortion laws on the books but work to educate our young people on relationship and reproductive responsibility.  Establish an open and private non-profit organization dedicated to actually planning parenthood and not just eliminating fetuses as a first or favorable path.  Non-profit does not mean government controlled or even influenced.
20. Recognize legal marriage as being between one man and one woman.  Period.  Attempt to rebuild the nuclear family and make divorce less easy to obtain or less of an attractive option through social and legal means.  Educate parents to parent responsibly and effectively.  This does not mean implementing government programs to accomplish these.
21. Practice responsible use of natural resources and monitor and limit harmful waste products.  Offer to always review any data that indicates man or nation caused climate problems.
22. Establish complete energy independence- oil, shale, refineries, natural gas, fracking, nuclear power plants, and so on.  Solidify primary relationships with other leading energy producers such as Canada.  Eliminate the import of oil from any unfavored nations, especially in the Middle East.  Continue to research and develop alternate energy technologies as feasible.
23. Double down on key military and space research projects.  Limited government to partner with private industry where it makes sense to maximize our international standing in each area.  We need to be the best.
24. Reaffirm and reiterate our basic rights as articulated by the Declaration and Constitution- such as the right to bear arms and the right to free speech.  Re-state and clarify what separation of church and state was intended to mean.
25. Establish the Golden Retriever as the National Dog and require every household to have one.  Statistics show that the good folks with Goldens are better citizens and happier people who are better adjusted to react in a friendly nature to almost all outside stimuli.  Liberals own cats; Conservatives own dogs and those should be Goldens.

I only took a few minutes to generate this list but I hopefully hit some key points.  I’m sure I missed some important items and maybe mis-stated others but you get the idea I hope.  I may edit to improve over time.

The Left could readily use Mr. Creamer’s list of 14 and the Right might start with this list of 25- guess it takes a few more list items needed to un-do all that has been done than it takes to just pile on to the existing heap. 

My goal was to have 25 items but I struggled a bit after 20 due to time constraints so I simply proposed the final one.  Yes, we have a Golden- two actually.  I’m willing to listen to a better idea if you think you have one.

If you disagree with a large portion of this less-than-perfect list then, well, bon voyage.

And please tell Mr. Creamer I said hello and good-bye.