Re: ditching Apple products due to boycotts?

Okay, I agree.  I would add volumes of more granular rules.  For starters I would remove the special retirement and health care for our congress.  Move them to an HMO and 401k.  Add a recall system and a requirement that they meet with the people multiple times a year and with the state legislature multiple times a year.  Make congress accountable.  Put into effect a balanced budget requirement for the federal government within 24 months.  Beef up our military and give then hefty pay increases and pay extra pay associated with their specialty.   A person in finance, who eats hot chow and spends most of his/her time in a nicer place, does not rate as much as the infantry, field artillery, tanks, and other in the field in the enemies face type of military occupation.  I'd like to see some military occupations receive up to 50% of there base pay because of the job they have.

On top of this I would reduce the pay rate of most government employees to the equal amount paid to non-government employees.

I's also remove many laws on the books.  

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Keith Smith

--- On Mon, 5/17/10, R P Herrold <herrold@owlriver.com> wrote:

From: R P Herrold <herrold@owlriver.com>
Subject: Re: ditching Apple products due to boycotts?
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Monday, May 17, 2010, 4:34 PM

On Mon, 17 May 2010, keith smith wrote:

> So what would you do if you were in charge?

Negative agenda don't resonate with voters, so these need to be 'dressed up' as positives, but I wont sugar coat it here

Not suggest that protectionism (here, a boycott) is anything but a distorion of a market based economy

Remove 'too big to fail' guarantees, explicit and implicit, from the economic system, and move to a market based economy

Not lend money on no security into Western Europe and allow the Greece socialist experiment reform itself without my intervention

Not 'juice the stock market' to make people reading their 401k statements feel 'happy' at the expense of eating the heart out of the country's future

Not have liability caps on offshore drilling operations

Call 'bullsh*t' when people who have not read, or are not intellectionally honest about SB 1270 call it racist or anti-immigrant

Vote out and work effectively to remove from influnce people in and out of public office who hide behind lies

I am not a libertarian by any stretch of the imagination, but much they have long proposed simply makes sense standing alone

-- Russ herrold
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