It is a symbol of
hope, the brightest beacon of freedom, free from tyranny and oppression that
gives an opportunity for everyone in the world to come here as the worlds “capital”
of democracy to live free…….
This is what America once
stood proudly for, for over 200 years. Our nation extended its hand in service
to offer freedom and to use our own military to free other nations from the
same acts of tyranny our ancestors were subjected to, or in some cases, much,
much worse. Over the last few decades, we have become subject to our own
government forgetting these reasons. It has become about greed, and
corporations, and in some cases still about the good fight, but our elected
officials have become lost and lost focus on the number one priority and that
is providing for its own people.
Many have asked what
my view of the government is. Quite frankly, I believe that our government
should be in comparison to a family, like a good parent. Our government (parent)
is meant to create an environment for us (its children) to grow prosperously.
It has systems in place to offer support (Welfare, Social Security,) to lend a
helping hand when we are down and out with no other option. Our government
should be in the education business. To teach our children to think outside of
the box, so we can be the most advanced in education in the world. That
critical thinking and early education has helped advance sciences across the
world due to people learning at accelerated levels, with better understanding
and it all starts with early education setting up those goals to achieve.
Our government also
should be there to help provide jobs for its children of America. This
is a result of good immigration policy that prevents illegal immigrants from obtaining
jobs in our country. A good immigration policy outlines a specific path to
citizenship with work visas, documentation, and strict guidelines until a point
in which they become legal. The enforcement of this is a must. Failure of
enforcement leads to illegal immigrants taking jobs away from citizens of this
nation, and sending their paychecks back home which in many ways hurts our
economy.
How does government create jobs?
It is the
responsibility of our government to create healthy growth opportunities for
small and big businesses alike to be created and grow. It does to some degree
with the Small Business Administration, and various other programs that include
government grants. However there are billions of dollars that we send overseas
to foreign countries in aide packages. Some of these aide packages are well
intended to help fight hunger and diseases. Many of these packages are like
blank checks for them to use however necessary which may include government
buildup of arm, chemical weapons, anti government suppression, or buying a new
car. These foreign aide packages, need to be reigned in and that money on
foreign aid can go to pay our national debt, and re-investing in our own
economy by giving much more money in grants to state and local governments to
repair or create new infrastructure. This would allow them to hire Police
officers and EMS personnel. It would also allow the opportunity to change
our Un-employment office, to a new revamped EMPLOYMENT office. This program would
allow individuals to work full or part time jobs created by city and state
governments to work on those infrastructure jobs or city development projects
and clean up neighborhoods. This would help bring more pride from people who
help restore those communities and work together as a community to combat drugs
and crime rates in neighborhoods across the country empowering citizens to make
a difference.
Our government also
must create policies that make it better for businesses to create jobs and keep
jobs here in our country. These must be a 75-25% full time to part time job
ratio so we can establish a better market for our domestic and exported goods
that are of good quality and re-establish the good ole “Made in America” pride
we once had. We import a lot of products and free trade is encouraged, but we
must be in the more exports to imports ratio to help provide jobs for our
citizens and growth for our economy.
Our government should be as a good parent a provider of healthcare
opportunities for its citizens. Creating laws and policies that protect the
consumer along with giving tax incentives and government research grants are some
of the best ways to offset the rising costs of healthcare. Corporate greed vs.
patient care should never be a discussion. If Health care providers are to live
up to their potential and expectations of extending life expectancy, curing
diseases they need to be able to reign in their budgets and give a portion of
their profits back into their companies to offset rising costs. Keeping costs
low and affordable will create an atmosphere for patients old and new to invest
more time in their own healthcare by getting preventive treatment at prices they
can afford. Many things are not caught in the preventive category and lead to
the fighting of conditions to cure or heal from because of costs. This will give them more patients to treat,
which would exponentially grow their profits.
Finally as any good
parent, their may come a time to punish its children from its bad behavior.
This punishment comes in the forms of laws that establish criminal acts and outline
a correctional path. The problem has been enforcing these already created laws.
It has been the norm of our elected officials to just create new laws that are
a rehash of older laws that are honestly poorly enforced or not enough funding
to enforce for local and state governments. We rarely need NEW laws; we just
need better enforcement of existing laws. Our laws need to be re-evaluated, simplified
and properly enforced to allow our society to grow up, and be protected as we
should be.
Our society has become overly obsessed with creating new
laws to something we just don’t agree with. It all comes down to individual rights and
just because you don’t like something such as guns, it doesn’t mean we need a
law against them. This is just one example of how we try to police everything
that people just simply don’t like and is not necessary as a law. Use your
rights to protest, conveying your thoughts and voice your opinions. Unfortunately advocacy becomes un-necessary
laws in many cases and creates more ripples in society, than it attempts to
protect. Each new law passed becomes a smaller and smaller area of freedoms. It
starts with gun laws on ownership. Then it becomes the type of guns you can own.
Then it will be the type of ammo you can purchase. Each new law is a form of
control to ultimately obtain the agenda of Full control by the government.
There are some necessary laws needed, but they need to be of necessity and not
personal agendas.
Keep it simple America. Just as simplicity wins in
wars, games, elections, contests and sports venues, so do laws. When you create
a criminal society by creating un-necessary laws, you then alienate freedom. Last
time I checked we have a giant document called the Constitution of the United States,
which guarantees our freedom.
