Protect Your Kids- End The Two-Party Sytem

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What Government Could Do:

Education: in 2007 we spent $488 billion on public schools (pre-kindergarten to 12th grade) & yet over 60% of 12th graders can't read or write at the proficiency level, 1 out of every 5 adults can't read or write at all. When Republican & Democratic politicians couldn't stuff all of our kids into schools built over half a century ago they made school year-round & we now have gangs, drugs, teen-pregnancy, low-education levels, & even prostitution on some public schools, not to mention school massacres.

Lets agree not to live like this anymore, lets make our schools safe, our food supply safe, our neighborhoods safe, our jobs/pensions safe, our roads/bridges & dams safe, our country safe again.

Because no amount of government spin like "no child left behind" can save this out-of-date & over-crowded system. We need new modern class rooms, any child who falls behind should be assigned a tutor & a counselor because your child should not have to be the star quarter back to recieve star treatment at school. Todays schhols are like rotary phones, we need new modern schools that prepare our kids for the future. With class sizes of no more than 25 kids, with computers in every class with printable work assignments so books stay in the class-room instead of on our kids backs. While new schools are being built we need to protect our children now by having a police officer & police dog on every campus that can sniff out weapons, guns, drugs or bombs, so that we create a safe environment where kids can learn & not feel threatened by gangs, drug-dealers or random violence.
The only way to bridge the gap between the rich & the poor is to make college mandatory. How many people with college degrees are homeless, illiterate, incarcerated or even out of work? For anyone that cannot afford college, the government could increase its grant programs that cover books, tuition, room & board & day-care & are paid back after graduation. How do we pay for it? It is cheaper to send someone to college & have them become working, tax paying citizens than what it cost to send someone to prison for 25 to life. We need a government that is concerned with building schools, roads, & hospitals not just stadiums, bombs & militarizing space. Tax dollars spent on schools are an investment that keeps giving for years to come, as is money spent on roads & hospitals.

Drugs: we have spent trillions of dollars in a failed drug war started by Nixon, drug abuse is a national epidemic 11.7 million Americans in 2004 used illegal drugs, & 1.5 million Americans are arrested each year for drug-law violations. Homeland Security is a waste of tax-payer money when someone with T.B. can sneak across the Canadian border at a check-point & tons of herion, cocaine, marijuana & 12 to 20 million people come across our southern border, illegally. American tax-payers spend billions of dollars a year fighting drugs in Columbia, every year it doesn't work & every year we do the same thing.
First, many parks are over run by gangs that use them to deal drugs & conduct other gang activity, every mall has a police sub-station why not parks, do politicians only care about property? Lets make our neighborhoods safe again. We can end the making of crystal/ crank/ methamphetamine whatever you want to call it by making it's active ingredient Sudafed/Contact available by prescription only & stop all foreign shipments. Lastly, our military should protect us, our Navy & Coast Guard should be on our shores to stop drugs, human-trafficking & terrorist. The Army & National Guard should be on our borders to stop this obscene flow of drugs & human-trafficking that goes on daily. For more on drugs see Crime below.

Would you allow Osama Bin Laden to stalk, kidnap, rape, sodomize & murder our children? Then why do we allow pedophiles back into society when the typical pedophile will molest 100 children in their life times.

Pedophiles: we need a national F.B.I. hotline like 911 to report pedophiles & police misconduct, equipped with an emergency response team that knows how to collect evidence, preserve a crime scene, & knows how to interview & counsel children so the cases aren't thrown out of court. Many children like Megan would still be alive today if we just prevented repeat offenders. As we have seen time & time again even priest won't stop when they are caught, so why would you ever release someone who stalks, kidnaps, rapes & murders children, into a free society? I never supported the death penalty because too many people on death-row were later proven innocent by DNA evidence, but when someone is caught in the act or DNA evidence matches them to molesting/raping children why would you want to keep such a person alive? Politicians claim that the death penalty is a deterrent-it is not because at the time of public crucifixions crime still ran rampant. But the death penalty would stop all repeat offenders. The MSNBC show To Catch A Predator & the on-line watchdog group Perverted Justice & the police who have teamed up with them have been doing a great job in prevention. Perverted Justice are volunteers, nobody wants to do this kinda stuff in their spare time but politicians aren't doing their jobs!

Healthcare: I did not know this when I started writing this but did you know that type 2 diabetes, heart-attacks, 40% of all cancers & strokes can be prevented? Not only can we prevent the nations deadliest killers but we actually save eight dollars for every dollar spent on prevention. We can save thousands of lives & millions of dollars a year & then our ERs will not be over-crowded, our doctors over-worked & our hospitals under-staffed. And yet not one Presidential candidate addresses Americas real healthcare problem. America ranks 42nd in life expectancy worldwide, America is in a disease epidemic that is not only ignored by the Republican & Democratic politicians but was created by the nations Farm bill of the last 50 years. We currently are giving billions of dollars every year in corporate welfare, subsidies, etc. to multi-national corporations & corporate farmers that produce unhealthy foods.
First, some foods could carry a warning label & be taxed like tobacco because they are killing more people than cigarettes. Second, we could be giving those same price supports to producers of healthy & organic foods so that the prices on healthy foods will become affordable just like unhealthy foods are today.
Here's some facts:
*$135 billion dollars are spent each year treating cardiovascular disease.
*Every 25 seconds, an American has a heart-attack.
*Every 45 seconds, an American dies from a heart-attack.
*Risk of death by heart-attack for average American male: 31%.
*32% of all heart-attacks could be prevented by something as simple as taking aspirin daily. (Plavix can also prevent a heart-attack but check with your doctor before starting any new treatments).
*Amount per year treating cancer: $70 billion.
*Proportion of cancers that are diet related: 40%.
Disease is not just treatable, it is preventable & for every dollar spent towards prevention eight are saved!

Illegal Immigration: the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 is a great example of why you cannot trust the right or the left. Ted Kennedy & George Bush among others tried to legalize human-trafficking. Tyson Foods was convicted of transporting undocumented workers throughout the U.S. to work in their meat-packing plants. This legislation was wrote by big-businesses & their lobbyist to help them get around current U.S. law, subvert the Constitution & make legal what is now illegal (think wire-tapping/torture) at the cost of this nations security. This is a human-trafficking problem & businesses that participate in human-trafficking should be prosecuted, as should politicians that weaken this nations security for a campaign contribution. (Senators John McCain & Hillary Clinton both support/ voted in favor for the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act).

Crime: we lock up more of our own citizens than any other country on the planet & have been doing so for decades at a cost of billions of dollars every year & yet we're still not safe, not even in our own homes. We spend billions of dollars a year housing/locking-up criminals in this country but it is all spent on incarcerating people in over-crowded, out-of-date prisons. We stack criminals in one on top of the other, we give them no other reality & then turn them loose expecting them to be able to find work & a residence with a criminal past & no support system. Then we act confused by the recidivism rates. California's Prop. 36 was meant to ease over-crowding in California's out-of-date prison system, they release non-violent drug offenders into drug rehab programs but it doesn't stop or even slow down the recidivism rate because drug rehab by itself is a waste of tax-payer money. People do not do drugs for the fun of it, people do drugs because they have problems & only when those other problems are addressed in conjuction with drug rehab is there success. County jails are warehousing mental patients instead of spending those resources on fighting crime, gangs & drugs & why? Because the federal government stopped funding mental health 20 years ago, creating homelessness, over-crowded county jails & now school massacres.
First, parks could have police sub-stations to drive out gang activity & drugs. Methamphetamine manufacturing can be stopped over-night by controlling the amount of Contact/Sudafed- its active ingredient, that's allowed on the market. Making college mandatory will prevent crime & bridge the gap between the rich & the poor, making the American dream a reality for all Americans. Putting the U.S. military on our shores & borders will stop this obscene flow of drugs coming into our country. Job training & placement for current prisoners scheduled for release & make work mandatory as part of parole/probation to stop recidivism. Digital medical records will stop multiple scripts for pain meds like Vicodin to the same patient, ending abuse & street sales of prescription drugs. Medical marijuana scripts need dosing amounts to stop illegal sales.

Our Justice System: those that can afford it can challenge DNA evidence, how it was collected, where, etc. but for those that can't, do you think that a Public Defender has the time or the resources to challenge any of the Prosecutors expert witnesses? And then you have over-zealous prosecutors like Mike Nifong. We must end mandatory sentencing laws, judges that can't be trusted should be voted out. There should be no politically appointed judges or life-time appointments. We must protect our children & stop releasing child molesters back into society where they can rape, sodomize & murder our kids.

Lets agree not to live like this anymore.

Lets make our kids safe, our neighborhoods safe, our schools safe, lets make our country safe again.
This country has always had its problems & its challenges, we have always faced them & overcame them. Americas problems affect all of us- rich or poor, black or white, male & female, democrat & republican & so we must overcome this together, to invest in prevention to end strokes, heart-attacks, crime, drugs, gangs, repeat child molesters, illiteracy, type 2 diabetes, etc., etc. And we can end all of that today. Lets vote out pork & ear-marks, lets Vote Strike the Republican & Democratic parties out & create political parties that work on our interest because having less crime, less sickness, & a more educated & healthier work force is in the national interest.

To the police, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., armed forces, & other members of the government- your duty is not to the federal government but to the will & the safety of the people. Politicians of both parties needlessly jeopardize your lives daily. In the case of the police they are now riding one to a car while complaining of being out-gunned by gang bangers & drug dealers. This makes no sense & we should not allow our government to jeopardize your lives when you put it on the line for us daily. We have a national secretaries day but no police or firemans day, why? We must never again send our sons & daughters into battle without first properly equipping them & preparing the V.A. hospitals. The C.I.A. should be fighting Al Qaeda not the Army or the Marines, the C.I.A. are trained in this type of warfare & we'd save thousands of lives & billions of dollars. We also know that Al Qaeda/ Osama Bin Laden are operating out of Pakistan, our military (Army/Marines) can't enter Pakistan, but the C.I.A. operated inside Pakistan from 1979 to 1989, so not only are they trained in this type of warfare, they also know the terrain & can go where Osama Bin Laden really is.

How long will you accept this dereliction of duty on the part of all of our elected officials?

Even big-businesses are not happy with the direction of our country. The CEO of Shell Oil Co. recently blasted George Bush for not signing tougher restrictions on green-house gases, saying that Shell was prepared to follow those requirements. The head of Apple Computers needs more educated workers & has condemned our school system as woefully inadequate. So if we work together we can create a healthier better educated work force, a safer environment & a better standard of living.

Earlier I said that 4 more years of the Republican or the Democratic parties would bring about the end of life as we know it, I do not believe that is an exaggeration because had someone told us in the 1950s that we'd have drugs, gangs, graffiti, drop-outs, rampant disease, etc. no one would have believed them. We do not have to live like this, we can make things better, lets make our country safe again, lets make America #1 again, by holding a one day strike to end the two-party system. Thanks for your time & hopefully your support.

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