{"id":4301,"date":"2009-10-03T19:51:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T02:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2009-11-21T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T16:37:34","slug":"ten-points-to-save-our-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=4301","title":{"rendered":"Ten Points to Save Our Nation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A selection from from <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/change-and-hope\/2\/\">Victor David Hanson&#8217;s column<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\">Pajamas Media<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>==================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>We Should Vote for Anyone . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who offers a coherent systematic agenda of reform. What do most want? Not necessarily a Republican or Democrat, or at this 11<sup>th<\/sup> hour to be mired in messy issues like gay marriage (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m opposed to it), but rather fundamental matters of finance, investment, and defense. Here are ten random suggestions; dozens more could be adduced.<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Fiscal sanity that leads to federal spending freezes and a balanced budget that in turn soon allows a paying down of the debt.<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 An oil\/nuclear\/coal\/natural gas rapid development effort (again, to exploit especially new fields in Alaska, California, the Gulf, and North Dakota) to tide us over until alternate energy and new conservation lessen dependence. The alternative is to dream on about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153green jobs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d while we go broke trying to pay for scarcer imported oil, and lose our autonomy in the next price hike or Mideast crisis, even as we suffer amoral rants from oil-rich unhinged thugs like Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Gaddafi, and Putin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>5)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Clear, demarcated, and enforced national borders, and an end to illegal immigration through greater enforcement, employer sanction, border fortification, and a change in national attitudes about unlawful entry.<\/p>\n<p>6)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Zero tolerance on government corruption. There is no reason why someone like a Charles Rangel is still the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>8)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 A renewed commitment to national and regional missile defense, on the expectation that the next two decades are going to be terribly dangerous, as lunatic regimes may well threaten to hold an American city or ally as nuclear hostage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>10) \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 A move to lower taxes, preferably by alternatives to the present income tax system, whether by a consumption tax or flat taxes, calibrated to commensurate spending cuts.<\/p>\n<p>=========================================<\/p>\n<p>Go there and read the whole thing.\u00c2\u00a0 It is time for the People of this Country to get Their GAME ON!<\/p>\n<p>~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onTana! {!-{&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A selection from from Victor David Hanson&#8217;s column at Pajamas Media: ================================== We Should Vote for Anyone . . . Who offers a coherent systematic agenda of reform. What do most want? Not necessarily a Republican or Democrat, or at this 11th hour to be mired in messy issues like gay marriage (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m opposed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}