Campaign Speech (On Bail-out's): Our Republicrat opponents are taking the usual knee-jerk defecit spending approach to the current crisis as they always do. They have no new ideas.
They have no ideas at all. They simply assume that the more government interference in the economy the better, the more money printed the better, but this makes no more sense than the logic of the drug addict who responds to the crisis of withdrawal by obtaining another fix. Each fix must be stronger and more frequent than the previous one, just to maintain the feeling of normalcy, and yet there is nothing normal about it.
The addict becomes increasingly impaired, increasingly disabled, increasingly dependent on an increasing amount of drugs at any cost, by any means, and still there is no relief.
Our nation has become addicted to the needle of Big Government injecting their fix into our veins. Whenever another fix is injected we seem to feel better for a sort time, but in less and less time each time it happens, we need another fix, another bailout, and we become more impaired and more unable to function as a nation.
We need fiscal rehab, not another fix. We need to get off the drug of government fixes and government bailouts cold turkey. It will result in a very uncomfortable period of withdrawal. Our economy will experience cold sweats, seizures, pain-- just as if we were a literal junkie going through de-tox, but ask anyone in recovery, it's worth it. It's the only solution.
Innauguration Address (On Privatization): We will heal our economy and enhance our financial health as a nation, as individual businesses and citizens by spending our way out of this crisis, but not by government spending but private initiative.
Until now, the government has given itself and used the authority to steal from its citizens and its corporations. This legalized theft has been called "taxation." With your money, stolen from your paycheck, the government has amassed huge assets in infrastructure, has monopolized services that could have been provided in the free market, and has required everyone to pay for such services whether they wanted them or needed them or chose to utilize them or not.
By ending government theft from its citizens and its monopoly on services that can almost always be provided much more efficiently and effectively by private enterprise, we allow a huge infusion of capital into the economy. Instead of depending on government bailouts that are nothing more than the financial equivalent of a heroin fix, I will present a comprehensive bill to Congress today, entitled, "The Next Deal," that will replace "The New Deal" as the blueprint for government's role in our lives-- or the lack of which. According to this proposed legislation, the Federal Government will divest all non-essential assets, use the proceeds to retire our national debt, and establish an endowment to fund what little is left to the government purview.
The vitality this will bring to the economy by private enterprise and competition in the provision of services formerly rendered by the government-- everything from highways to education to security and law enforcement in some situations-- will provide the quickest possible way out of our current economic crisis.
The end of tax witholdings from every paycheck in America will feel like a 30-40% raise for every hard working American. Talk about a stimulus package? Talk about an infusion of cash into the economy? How could this approach not revive our economic vitality more quickly and dramatically than any government intervention?
State of the Union Address (On War): It is time to come to terms with the fact that for practical as well as moral reasons, War is no longer a viable policy. What is war? It is a policy, an activity, a behavior that no self-respecting democracy should espouse except in the most drastic circumstances, when one's own property and liberty have been attacked and less drastic options have been exhausted or have no time to be implemented.
War is the undemocratic attempt to impose or inflict the will of one group upon another group. Finally we get it. War is destructive in every aspect: morally, financially, and socially. Any war. Military war. War on Drugs. War on Terror. War is war. War is violence. It is destruction. There is no war without casualties. There is no war without collateral damage. It is a policy of pitting power against power, fighting fire with fire. It is legalized violence.
But violence begets violence. Force begets force, escalates the conflict between opposing interests. The only way to prevail in war is to continue to escalate, to ratchet up, to employ bigger and bigger guns, bombs, jails, armies, and so forth. War is synonomous with escalation, force, aggression, violence. War divides, draws unrealistic black and white distinctions devoid of nuance. It oversimplifies. It sanctifies our side and demonizes the other. And in almost every situation, war is impossible to win. Now more than ever.
In this age of guerilla warfare and insurgency, the small and the weak have discovered how to use violence to destroy if not defeat a much larger, more powerful enemy. In this new era, the tables have been turned, the field has been leveled-- which is a blessing in disguise.
It is a blessing in disguise because it is now absolutely impossible to defeat an enemy that is determined to fight to the death. And now that it is impossible, perhaps we will finally be able, as the civilized, morally superior nation we claim to be, to try a new appraoch.
We must end this idea of being at war on multiple fronts. Today we will unilatearally end all wars this country has been embroiled in, from Iraq and Afghanistan to the nebulous war on "Terror" which has been nothing more than a war on our own liberties, to the war on drugs which has done nothing but bring warfare to our streets between police and dealers, between this gang and that gang, this crime family and that mob.
Speaking of the so called war on drugs: we learned the lessons of prohibition where alcohol was concerned but apparently were unable to apply this learning to other substances. That will change. We will make drugs safe and cheap for those who are determined to use them, just as alcohol and tobacco have been legal drugs for most of our history. We will cease the needless harassment of our citizens in their private lives and personal decisions. Because the War on Drugs, the War on Terror-- pick a war, any war-- is a war on our own people in one way or another.