Taking America Back - How to Fix the Economy in 365 days without destroying America

by: David M Arnold

It is becoming more obvious as time passes, that, elected officials are no longer representing the American people, but rather, special interest groups. The longer our elected officials serve the more corrupt they become. I have outlined several ways of significant importance that We can take America back and fix the major problems within the economy.


Amending the Constitution  It is time to correct the wrong that was never presented. I propose a Constitutional Amendment that makes elected politicians be on term limits. The plan is very simple.

The House of Representatives can serve up to 6 terms (12 years). They will be mandated to give up their seat for one term (2 years) and then be eligible to run for the House again. This will allow a stop-gap from allowing corruption to infiltrate our system in the House of Representative.

The Senate will be allowed to run for 3 terms (18 years). They will be mandated to give up their seat for one term (6 years) and then be eligible to run for the Senate again. This will allow a stop-gap from allowing corruption to infiltrate our system in the Senate.

Any criminal activity needs to be investigated and prosecuted and hold all elected politicians accountable. Again, this is not about politicians, it’s about protecting the American people!

House and Senate Behavior.

Read the Legislation. Pass legislation which says, bills cannot be rushed or voted on until all members of the House and Senate have read them.

Eliminate Ear Marks and Pork Barrel Spending until there is a balanced budget.

Tort Reform:  It is time to change the court systems. Elected politicians are supposed to represent ALL of us as the constituents. However, mention Tort Reform, and they protect their own. When they become elected public official; they give up their right to be a lawyer. They cannot just cover their craft. The plan is very simple:

Cap Legal Fees. Loser Pays. Having loser pays will strengthen people desire to file a lawsuit and any lawsuit should have a justifiable reason.

End Frivolous Lawsuits. In the court system, you can appeal all the way up to the Supreme Court. If there are to be frivolous lawsuits, then they should be limited to 4. Again loser pays!

Healthcare: This is 1/6th of our GNP. Having a Socialist healthcare system is a failure. It will only weaken our research and development and will put our healthcare below the standards of other average nations. The plan is very simple:

Repeal the current plan if passes. Should the unthinkable happen, we need to take Healthcare back.

Tort Reform healthcare practices. This will substantially lower the costs of healthcare.

Doctors can work for the public option for two years after completion and receive a base salary and have 50% of their medical school loans paid off by the government.

Insurance plans need to be 100% portable and people can choose which Private or Public Option they prefer. If public option is preferred, there will be a choice of 3 options 80/20 plan, 70/30 plan, or the 50/50 plan. The Government will pay for 100% catastrophic which allows individuals to pay for their preferred plan. This will cut the cost of private insurance and allow competition without a government takeover.

Eliminate Medicare and Medicaid. These individuals will be able to afford any of the options and after age 65 receive a discount to offset inflation.

Social Welfare. There is so much abuse in the welfare system that it is time to evaluate current programs. The plan is real simple.

Cap Benefits. Since this is the most abused system and most failed programs in American history, it is time to wean off the dependency. Every American Citizen will be allowed a $75,000 lifetime benefit that covers any situation other than unemployment. Unemployment is not a welfare program. Private and/or public non-profit programs can help individuals gain necessary skills and become productive citizens rather than unproductive citizens.

Education. The plan is real simple.

Eliminate the Department of Education and allow the States to control their educational requirements. Allow school vouchers for people to choose which school they can attend.

Tax Reform. We need to level the playing field. The tax laws are vast, unfair, and obsolete. The plan is real simple.

Flat Tax at 17%. This will incentivize people to start their own business and provide competition. If you look around, the wealthiest individuals are business owners that took a dream and made it a job creating company.

Two Year Moratorium on Capital Gains Tax for two years and incorporate that back in at 27%. Unemployment will go down, deficits will be paid off, and prosperity will flourish.

Public Policy. There are many bad policies that take away from our prosperity. If it hurts our prosperity then its bad for America! The Plan is real simple.

Repeal the following:

Cap and Trade if passed

Exportation laws: Things need to be made in America

Ban on Drilling.  We have the resources in our own country to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. We can drill and the profits can go to help generate better technologies for green energy.

Nuclear Power Plants. We need them and this will create thousands of jobs and energy independence.

It is very obvious that the Socialist Liberal Democratic wing of the political system will not go for any of these ideas. That is why we need to elect Conservatives and take control of the House and Senate.

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About The Author

David M Arnold is an experienced Therapist, Counselor, Mediator, and Life Coach that brings his personal experience to help you achieve success. Areas of interests include Relationship Development, Business Development, Real Estate, Financial Coaching, Internet Marketing, and Healthcare.

My Psychiatrist Says I'm Sane!

I went  to see the shrink today to get my anxiety and depression medications refilled.  Seems I am good for a year now.

He made me fill out a dumb little "test" to see my moods.  My moods are OK, just nothing to jump up and down about cheering, "God Loves Me", getting all warm and fuzzing about puppies and rainbows, etc.

They always ask, "Do you think about suicide?"  Hell no, I never think of that. I think of killing the thousands who piss me off.......but of course I never say that!  I wonder how different my life would have been if I had been diagnosed in my 20's with depression, instead of in 1993?  Oh well, just another screw-up.

OK, I am tearing up here, thinking about a puppy...........................no I'm not!

CBS Sports Sucks!

I am not a big college or NBA Basketball fan.  I like, and want to watch two or three teams at most, once in awhile.  CBS coverage of the "Road to the Final Four" sucks as bad as NBC's coverage of the 2010 Olympics.  Who, but a true sports nut, wants to watch 64 teams I've mostly never heard of in my entire 61 years of life?  Gonzaga...........who the hell is that, and why would I watch them?

I wanted to watch the #1 Seed........Syracuse University....period.  CBS showed every other game but five friggen minutes of that game!

CBS Sports Sucks!

We the People

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."


We the people should immediately demand the end to Lobbying by all “special interest” groups! There is no constitutional basis for its continuance.

We should demand a Constitutional Amendment to limit all Congressional terms to two! Stop “Professional Politicians”.

We need to put a stop to party politics, either by the addition of a viable third party, an easement in the recall vote, or an undetermined method for voicing the will of the majority of the citizens of the USA. Representatives need to reflect the will of the people rather than their own agenda & those of interest groups.

The people of the United States need to take back their country and their government. They can do it. They need to do it. They must do it!

“Power to the People!”

NBC Sports Sucks

Waiting for the Gold Medal Women’s Figure Skating to show up last night, I was forced to watch cross-country skiing, freestyle, and numerous other activities I had no interest in. Then at 11:00 PM (I am in the Pacific Time Zone), NBC finally has the Skating take place until 12:15 AM!

This is outrageous, all the hockey games, etc are on cable only (I sincerely doubt that 90% of folks have cable TV). Why can’t NBC state what sports are on at a specific time, rather than force people to watch for 5 hours? Why can’t they broadcast the Olympics in real time, day and night? All the other networks show reruns for the two weeks of the Olympics, assuming, no one is watching their regular shows, so the sports may as well be on 16 hrs/day!

I also get the Universal Sports Channel that is on 24/7 and owned by NBC…what do they show? News interviews and qualifying events from two weeks before the Olympics!

NBC Sports just sucks!

Random Thoughts and Misconceptions:

Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton come to Portland, OR to protest “suicide by cop” of a black man, but ignore the four white police killed in Seattle by a black criminal, and the stomping-beating by black teenage girls with black security guards watching in the same city! Hypocrites!

Strict rules of engagement in Afghanistan to protect “civilians” when they had ample time to leave….boots on the ground vs. massive air strikes….sheer stupidity that plays into the hands of the Taliban!

The Myth of Economic Recovery, when most data denies, not only the effect of the stimulus, but also the depth of the recession.

Thee to Four hundred pound fat people can fit into a single 17” airline seat. Same logic, two really skinny super models can fit into one seat also!

Myth of the upper 5% income folks, that accepting Social Security or Unemployment, Food Stamps, etc. …paid for with workers tax dollars is “being on the dole”.

People, bums, that have been “homeless” for 20 years are really homeless?

Beer, made from water and grains, should be part of the “Food Pyramid” and covered under Food Stamps!

Intelligence does not necessarily translate into fame and fortune.

“Global Warming”…….aka….. Climate Change, and all the assorted problems and solutions are simply the result of vast overpopulation by humans.

The Global Economy

Market falls below 10,000.......unemployment is high, Bank Regulation nears.....these headlines appear in evey industrialized country.  Japan sneezes and someone in New York City gets a cold.

The movers and shakers brought this global economy on themselves with trade treaties, offshoring, conglomerates, etc.  When everything is peachy keen, it was great.  Now, however as the "Third World " catches up to the rest of us, in a limited resource world, disaster becons.  It is only a matter of time.

In my humble opinion, we have two years and ten months.......till 12-21-12.

UK & India Raise Terror Alert

The UK and India have raised their terror alert level to "Severe" following information of possible hijacking of airline planes, female suicide bombers, and related concerns.

One source says attacks are "highly likely".  Keep informed the mainstream media seems to be ignoring this issue.

National Terror Alert

Conservative Backlash Begins!

Scott Brown wins...stock market falls 200 points, as Democratic investors bail from their health care related stocks!  Signs of things to come?  Yes...it is the beginning of the conservative backlash against liberal, left-wing ideas, higher taxes, and failed or inept social policies of the Obama Administration.

In my humble opinion, Obama would not get elected if he ran today!  In fact, if voters had actually known his left-wing nut agenda, he would not have even been nominated for the Democratic party!

Obama won, as rejection of George Bush's policies and Republican politics.  Obama won with the idea that he was going to get US troops out of Afganistan and Iraq, fix the dismal economy, not promote some socialist medical agenda!

The mid-term elections of 2010 will be the end of the Democrats in Congress and in many state Governments.  Their "blue smoke and mirrors' approach to social issues no longer works, have never worked, and the electorate will not be fooled in the future!

The future is Conservative and it looks swell.

The Haitian Delema

Slowly as information arrives from the rubble that once was Haiti, a grim picture emerges.  Even before the current tragedy, the ignorant sheeple lived in filth and poverty, worse than animals.

The entire country is an ecological nightmare, with polluted waters, a teeming, treeless cesspool of humanity!

The IQ of the average Haitian must amount to that of a smart dog or monkey.  It is difficult to believe that people can be so clueless.  Obviously their population has bred like cockroaches and over run their food, fresh water, and other supplies.

My g-g-g-g-grandfather was born there in 1758, either a decendent of a Pirate or a Plantation owner, and driven out by the slave revoltof 1791.  The current delema and 99% african slave decendents explains why I can't find genealogy information in that country, and why they have such poverty.  It is impossible to name a black administered city, county or country that is prosperous and technologicly advanced.  It has never happened, and it will never happen.

Today, I seached the internet for black web sites concerned about Haiti.  Finally OpraWinfrey has mentioned and donated money.  Where are Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the other activists?  They'llcome out of the woodwork eventually...when it's safe! Where are the professional black athletes, music, and film stars leading the relief?  The only "helpers" you see on the world news are "do gooder" white bleeding heart Liberals!

Pat Robertson is correct...it is God's wrath on the wicked and godless Voodoo  and satanic Haitians!  Muslim evil doers are next!

Web sites of Interest:

http://www.oprah.com/index.html

http://www.blacknews.com/

http://www.worldvision.org/

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ha.html

"House of Death".....Strikes Again!

I came home from the Senior Center to my apartment building to find two cop cars and a fire truck outside.  One of the resident drug dealers, a smelly, fat, disgusting, old black man  had gone dead during the night.

Everyone hated him. They have tried to get him evicted many times for dealing, and now that they were rid of him forever, pretended to be sad.  Talk about hypocacy! 

The guy wobbled, being about 375 pounds, never bathed, pissed his pants, and bumed stuff from anyone he could find.  His day consisted of sitting outside all day long, talking to every low life that came by.  When faced with eviction, he immediately pulled the "race card".

Supposedly he once was a teacher and a dancer.  Huh?  He died a debtor, a drug dealer, and lying in his own waste!

I am not sad. I say one down, and 14 to go.  Who wants to live with dirtbags?

"Forgetaboutit"........Terrorism 101

My undergraduate degree is in Political Science.  As far back as 1970, I have held a dim view of the world and the direction global politics was heading.  The recent terror attempt on Christmas Day 2009, got me rethinking some of my previous opinions.

I remember very well when 9/11 happened.  I worked for a major Financial Services company in their Detroit office.  What initially appeared to be a horrific accident, soon evolved into an act of terrorism.  When the first tower fell, I knew the US was at WAR....with someone!

Everything went into lockdown....schools, offices, etc.  Fights were immediately cancelled, with rumors of at least 7 planes possibly hijacked.  The quick action of the FAA probably saved thousands of lives, because surely more flights in Chicago and the west coast had hijackers on board.........hijackers that simply left the planes when they landed.

Terror? Sure it was.  There is constant "chatter" and rumors of Islamic Nazis hitting the US again.  But ask your self, what would you fear more.....a dirty nuke in NYC, or two or three dozen suicide bombers blowing up crowded churces on Sunday, malls, elementary schools, athletic events or a crowded town center, all over the USA,  over the course of two or three weeks?

I suggest the latter would bring more terror!  It would also be easier to accomplish.  The real question is why it hasn't happened yet.

Random Thoughts

• Theories of Global Warming and Evolution, share the same scientific "mumbo jumbo" of erroneous science!

•   The World was better off when the Empires of England, France, Spain, and the USA ruled the world.

•   Overheard a discussion that College Professors consider themselves "Middle Class".

•   Christmas commercials on TV featuring "Rolex, Mercedes, Lexus, diamonds, etc. as Christmas presents...the homeless - unemployed must love those!

•   Folks who ride bicycles and motor cycles in 12F weather are not environmental....they' re too cheap to buy gas, pay parking, or car insurance, or don't have a car!

•   Regards to the war in Afghanistan: The USA needs a "Scorched Earth" policy...bulldoze villages, Agent Orange poppy fields, destroy supply lines, and kill all Taliban and Al Qeda militants and their supporters! We should also use all armaments in our arsenal, including tactical nukes.

•   In war there should be no appeasement, no negotiations...only death of the enemy and their surrender!

• Karma will always bite you in the ass!

Law and Order #2

In the last 36 hours,Portland,Oregon has had 5 murders.  In the last month over 14 people have been shot on the street, murdered in their sleep, and spouses killing spouses and their children!

Some say it's the economy and unemployment pressures.  Others say the Holiday season fuels the killing.

What ever the reason, crime in the USA is out of control!

Law and Order

Today's topic is Law and Order.  Thanks to liberal judges, bleeding heart liberal lawyers, and the liberal media, thousand of convicted felons walk the streets every day, only to do criminal acts again!

This is a moral outrage.  How many chances should repeat offenders get?  Liberal judges and defense lawyers work the system to get guilty parties out on the streets on some minor technicality, only for the offender to repeat or even escalate his crimes.  Bleeding heart liberals like to use the race card, to point out the disparity of the criminal justioce systme, overlooking that "people of color" commit the majority of crime and are the majority of the prison population!  There is nothing in the US Constitution on unlimited appaeals, delay of sentencing, or miscarrige of justice.

The outrageous assasination of four police officers in the Seattle are is a prime example.  The shooter, a fellon with a long police record, out of prison due to a bleeding hear liberal courts system and governor, was a "person of color".  The liberal media had the audacity within hours after the shooting to put Tiger Woods "boo-boo" accident at the top of the broadcast, both locally here in Portland Oregon and on the national news!

It is time for a "National Three Strikes Your Out Law", time to stop the Liberal bleeding hearts and do gooders, and take back our cities from the criminals!

In Portland, there have 14 homicides in the last month, from domestic violence alone!  Why is there no public outcry?  Where will this end, civil war, race riots?  It's long past time to get tough on crime!

A Few Random Thoughts

There are way too many crazy people walking and living amoung the "normals".  Why aren't they in a nice, safe asylum?

Tiger Woods news more important than four Police Officers being assasinated?

Retail Holiday hype, a minor .5% gain over 2008, nothing but inflation & price increases!  Bah Humbug.

In my opinion the worst TV Commercial of 2009:  Infinity automobile commercial with the "stop action" sequences....what were they thinking?

Local Portland, OR TV stations that have 15 minutes of weather (never changes and is correct only 50% of time) and no sports segment....on any station!

Left Coast Liberals that make fun of conservatives, relgion, family values, and the East Coast!

Happy Thanksgiving!

They Walk Among US

They are here, among us.  The walking insane, smelly people! They linger on public transprtation, in malls, the public library, bottle redemption centers, under bridges, and passing folks on the street.

Having lost all respect for themselves, and hope, or touch with reality, they no longer wash, change their clothes, or care.

Their world is panhandling, shuffling along among the "normals", with a weeks worth of piss in their pants, or worse. 

Even in apartments, the unwashed roam.  A four hundred pound sow in my building has not showered since July, nor changed her clothes since early October!  Alas, she stinks.

There is hope, however, for these apathetic people under the Obama Health Care Plan.  The resurgence of a nationwide system of Asylums for the Insane.  Nice clean and warm buildings, were they can get help and meds.  Locked up and away from the normal masses, they will be taken care of.  Meanwhile "normals" won't have to deal with their insane behavior and the smell.

The Big Tenant Meeting

The meeting was a success.  About forty people out of 118 showed up to vent their fustrations.  Topics were from personal hygine (stinky people), drugs & drug dealing, smoking, lack of management concerns & response, and swine flu.

Even though I was one of two, behind the scenes organizer......I was not blamed ....er....credited with such!  (I love stirring things up!)

Then the resident "nutter" went off about five times that he was being harrased and discriminated against by tenants and management.  I informed im that being an "idiot" was not a groupprotected by law.  He screamed at me that I was a bully.  I respond that if I was a bully, I'd break his other knee!  It was all great fun.

Another meeting is planed forjanuary after the non-smoking lease addendum goes into effect.