I respectfully call upon President Obama to resign

I respectfully call upon President Obama to resign.  Mr. Obama’s socialist policies are destroying our nation. It is no longer possible to stand by politely and hope that the President will learn that personal and economic liberties are both the moral path and the utilitarian path that we must follow if we seek peace and prosperity.  Socialism, Mr. President, is not and never can be the answer to our difficulties or the promise of a brighter future.

Today the United States of America lost its AAA rating as a direct result of socialist policies taken to new heights by President Obama and the Keynesian/Socialists in Congress.  Tomorrow the markets will likely crash even more and soon our country will likely slip into a double dip recession as a result of President Obama’s socialist policies.

As our nation collapses under the weight of the socialist, nanny state, welfare state, warfare programs of President Obama and his allies on the left I humbly offer this reminder that I sent to the president in a BLOG letter on January 23^rd, 2009.

Dear President Obama,

Congratulations on your new job. I wish you well and hope that you will consider a few suggestions I have for what to do to end the recession and restore America to greatness. I offer these suggestions to you with humility and with great sincerity.

1) Reduce taxes on everyone, rich and poor, to a flat rate of 10% or less, and eliminate all tax breaks and loopholes. No more progressive taxation. This will stimulate the economy, encourage productivity, reduce bureaucracy, virtually eliminate tax cheats, reduce tax crime, cut the IRS in half, and save everyone a lot of time. Gradually move to a low-rate, all-voluntary tax of some sort.

2) Reduce corporate taxes so that they are the lowest in the world. This will quickly end the recession, drive productivity through the roof in virtually all business sectors, attract businesses to locate in the USA. Draw investments of all sorts from all over the world, create thousands and thousands and thousands of jobs, and keep America strong.

3) Eliminate capital gain taxes. This will stimulate investment, stimulate trade, increase productivity, and help to heal the capital markets.

4) Eliminate all subsidies including farm subsidies and energy subsidies. This will force businesses to compete on a level playing field without special favor. It will allow those businesses that are making the best use of limited resources to prevail while at the same time allowing unprofitable businesses that are wasting limited resources to fail. Eliminating subsidies will cause prices for food, energy, and other things to stay low and go lower as a result of improved market efficiencies from competition.

5) Eliminate all corporate tax breaks. This will force businesses to focus on serving consumers rather than soliciting Congress. Put an end to corporate welfare.

6) Gradually phase out and ultimately privatize virtually all “entitlements” e.g. social security, Medicare, etc. Stop the slide toward Socialism before it is too late. End the Nanny State.

7) Get our army out of Iraq and Afghanistan ASAP and return our forces from any foreign bases that are not necessary for national defense. Destroy any enemy that attacks us but please end the “war on terror.” Terror is not an enemy; terror is a tactic.

8) Eliminate all trade barriers and tariffs. This will increase our prosperity and make the world a safer place. This will inspire many other nations to do the same. Avoid trade protectionism.

9) Make a Constitutional Amendment requiring a balanced federal budget (with an exception for real, and legally declared wars in which we are attacked by another nation). Stop borrowing and pay down the debt. Living within our means will ensure the long-term survival of our nation. Living within our means will ensure a better world for our posterity.

10) Uphold the Constitution. The Constitution is not a living document. Uphold it with strict obedience. If you don't like it, then seek a super majority to change it.

11) Appoint judges who are strict constructionists. If the law means whatever a judge wants it to mean then the rule of law is lost and so is the Republic.

12) Sell all government owned property and government run entities that are not essential to national security or expressly authorized by the Constitution to the private sector. Apply the money to the National Debt. The private sector will make far better use of land and other assets than the ever inefficient and wasteful government.

13) Eliminate all of the Federal “alphabet” agencies unless they are specifically authorized by the Constitution.

14) Eliminate and outlaw all price controls. Price controls always cause market inefficiencies. Eliminating them will ensure market efficiencies and reduce waste.

15) Phase out the Federal Reserve. Let interest rates float with the markets. Reestablish sound money. Avoid another Great Depression.

16) Eliminate the minimum wage. The minimum wage costs jobs and cripples business development. Eliminating it will create new jobs and new opportunities for those just entering the workforce.

17) Eliminate Sarbanes Oxley and hundreds of other value destroying regulations and pieces of bureaucratic legislation. Put the government back into the role of policing the market rather than crippling and trying to own and run the market.

18) Eliminate affirmative action. The government’s role is to provide a level playing field with an equal opportunity for all to participate. The government’s role is not to guarantee the outcome. Guaranteed opportunity for all; guaranteed outcome for none.

19) Overturn the Patriot act and restore habeas corpus and other constitutionally guaranteed rights. Uphold the Constitution.

20) Make it a crime for Congress to pass “price gouging,” legislation, “windfall profits taxes” legislation, or any other arbitrary form of profit seizure. Let the market forces work so that citizens can enjoy the benefits of that most efficient of systems, capitalism. Don’t punish prosperity and more people will prosper.

21) Overturn the Kelo Act and restore private property rights to their Constitutional standard. Freedom will soon be lost without solid property rights.

22) Overturn all gun control laws that prevent honest citizens from purchasing, keeping, and bearing personal self-defense weapons and ammunition on their private property. The right to life means nothing if one is denied the ability to defend that life.

23) Overturn McCain Feingold and all other unconstitutional legislation. Protect the First Amendment.

24) Forbid the government from paying for faith-based initiatives or any other activities not authorized by the Constitution.

25) Get the government completely out of the health care business and all other businesses not expressly permitted by the Constitution. Socialism never works. Don’t doom the American People to long lines and shortages.

26) Eliminate all government monopolies that are not expressly permitted by the Constitution. Allow private industry to compete directly with constitutionally authorized government entities e.g. the post office, fire departments, and utilities. Competition makes every type of business more efficient.

27) End the so called "war on drugs." Stop the madness.

28) Create an easy to use guest worker program. This will destroy the illegal immigration black market, improve relationships with our neighbors to the south, make it easier to watch for terrorists, and save thousands of lives.

29) Monitor and protect our borders but do not build an iron curtain on our border with Mexico.

30) Allow drilling off our coasts and in Alaska. This will increase the world’s supply of energy, keep fuel prices lower, and create thousands of new private sector jobs.

31) Privatize virtually all public schools and universities. Competition will ensure excellence, increase efficiencies, and increase teacher pay.

32) Veto the Union card check law and overturn Wagner and other legislation that gives unions unfair negotiation advantages. This will increase prosperity, create jobs, and reduce violence and entitlement in our society.

33) Never give a bailout or a stimulus package to any individual or firm. The market will self correct. The government created the housing and credit “bubble” with bad policy and socialistic interventions (Freddy Mack, Fannie Mae, Federal Reserve, Community Reinvestment Act, etc, etc). The government, by picking and choosing winners in the market, by bailing out failure, and by embracing nationalization and selective-socialism can only slow and prolong the recovery. No bailouts, and no stimulus packages. No more socialistic wealth redistribution.

I’m sure I’ll think of more things later. But, for now if you would please consider this short list I will be most grateful. Congratulations again on your new job and thanks for your service to our Country.
Sincerely,
Mark Van Schuyver, Citizen USA January 23^rd, 2009.
www.liberty101.us

PS If you have time to read a good book, please consider reading F. A. Hayek's masterpiece, The Fatal Conceit. Thank you Mr. President.

To this list I would now add many things including overturning the socialist program commonly called Obama Care and the atrocious Frank, Todd financial reform act.

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Socialism is not and never can be the answer to our difficulties or the promise of a brighter future.  The tax and spend socialist policies of President Obama and his socialist/welfare state allies in Congress are destroying the United States of America.  Therefore I respectfully call upon President Obama to resign. Allow someone to assume leadership who understands that personal and economic liberties are both the moral path and the utilitarian path that we must follow if we seek peace and prosperity for the long-term.