cain platform - ACTION - Command Center2024-03-29T13:51:51Zhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/cain+platformRajjpuut's Folly: A Suggested Herman Cain "Contract with America’s Voters"https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rajjpuut-s-folly-a-suggested-herman-cain-contract-with-america-s2011-10-13T22:47:56.000Z2011-10-13T22:47:56.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><p> </p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"> </div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color:#008000;">For the last three months the two strongest and most consistent Republican candidate debate performances have come from businessman Herman Cain and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Rajjpuut’s preferred G.O.P. ticket is Cain-Gingrich. The current surge in Cain’s popularity shows that Republican voters as a whole are starting to honor TEA Party principles and repudiate the G.O.P.’s former ugly movement toward bigger, more irresponsible government during the G.W. Bush years. Rajjpuut suggests that Herman Cain needs to outline a "platform" and begin to accentuate his ties to the TEA Party’s <i>Contract from America</i> and to educate American voters upon that document’s principles. To that end </span></b><b><span style="color:#008000;">. . . .</span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:12pt 0in 3pt;"><b><font size="6"> </font></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:12pt 0in 3pt;"><b><font size="6"><span style="color:#800000;"><font size="5">Rajjpuut’s Suggested Herman Cain</font></span></font></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:12pt 0in 3pt;"><b><font size="6"><span style="color:#800000;"><font size="5">“Contract with America’s Voters”</font></span></font></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b> </b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#008000;font-size:14pt;">Preamble:</span></b><b><span style="color:#008000;"> </span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b> </b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color:#008000;">Government is growing too fast, too much, too expensively, too expansively, and too destructively . . . crowding out cherished economic freedoms. This great country will never fulfill its long-run potential to prosper, create jobs and lead the world unless constitutional limits to government are restored. America’s greatness, exceptionalism and historical allure to the oppressed people of Planet Earth is tied to three founding documents the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, and the United States Constitution (and most importantly: within the American Constitution the first ten Amendments known as the Bill of Rights). A Herman Cain presidency will return to these documents as the inspiration and playbook for America’s return to greatness and exceptionalism emphasizing Individual Liberty, Limited Government and Economic Freedom.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#008000;font-size:12pt;">While critics of recent Constitutionalist movements (such as the TEA Party) have called these fine Americans “racists,” “haters,” “Nazis,” “devils” and other slurs without any actual evidence to back up their words, these well-behaved and thoughtful citizens have created a 10-point <i>Contract from America</i> which a Herman Cain presidency would be based upon. The first ten of the eleven main principles “PLANKS” of my presidency are based upon the TEA Party <i>Contract from America.</i></span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"> </div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="color:#0000FF;">#1 Protect the Constitution:</span></font></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:12pt;">by requiring each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does.</span></font></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="color:#0000FF;">#2 Reject Cap and Trade and all overstepping by the EPA destroying businesses, jobs and incentives: </span></font></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:12pt;">by stopping all costly new regulations and repealing old regulations that have increased unemployment, raised consumer prices, and weakened the nation’s global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures; and institute a sensible American energy independence policy.</span></font></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="color:#0000FF;">#3 Pass a Balanced Budget and Citizen Tax Freedom</span></font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="color:#0000FF;"> Amendment:</span></font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:12pt;">requiring a balanced budget and a pay-down of the debt and funding of heretofore UNFUNDED liabilities. To preserve balanced budgets for posterity require a 2/3 majority in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate to pass tax increases or to run a temporary deficit; but only a simple majority in both chambers to reduce or eliminate taxes; or to eliminate a temporary deficit or to pay-down or eliminate national debt.</span></font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="color:#0000FF;">#4 Enact Fundamental Tax Reform:</span></font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:12pt;">by scrapping 100% of the present tax code and replacing it with a 0-0-9-9-9 tax plan. The 0-0-9-9-9 tax plan means that after the first $20,000 of personal income which is NOT taxed (0%); and all inheritance which is also not taxed (0%). . . institute a 9% personal income tax; a 9% corporate tax; and a 9% capital gains tax. To preserve tax freedom for posterity require a 2/3 majority in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate to pass tax increases but only a simple majority in both chambers to reduce or eliminate taxes.</span></font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><font color="#3F6D9B">#</font><span style="color:#0000FF;">5 Restore Fiscal Responsibility & Constitutionally-</span></font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="color:#0000FF;">Limited Government in Washington, D.C.:</span></font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:12pt;">by creating a Blue Ribbon taskforce that engages in a complete audit of federal agencies and programs, assessing their Constitutionality, and identifying FRAUD, MALFEASANCE, duplication, waste, ineffectiveness, and agencies and programs better left for the states or local authorities, or ripe for wholesale reform or elimination due to our efforts to restore limited government consistent with the US Constitution’s meaning.</span></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="color:#0000FF;">#6 End Runaway Government Spending and eliminate</span></font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="color:#0000FF;">federal government-caused-inflation:</span></font></b></div><div> </div><div style="line-height:200%;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:12pt;">by pegging the price of Gold in America at $4,000 per ounce and imposing a statutory cap limiting the annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of 1/2 the rate of inflation until the budget is balanced all national debt is eliminated and all now UNFUNDED liabilities are paid for. Once our fiscal house is in complete order, federal spending can be raised by the yearly percent of population growth added to 1/2 the rate of inflation. (Note: by limiting federal budget increases to ½ the rate of inflation, lawmakers will mainly be hurting their ability to spend and not the populace by inflating the currency.</span></b><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:10pt;">)</span></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="color:#0000FF;">#7 Defund, Repeal, & Replace Government-run Health</span></font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="color:#0000FF;">Care and the Dodd-Frank Financial Act:</span></font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:12pt;">Repeal the Dodd-Frank Financial Act. Defund, repeal and replace the recently passed government-run health care with a system that actually makes health care and insurance more affordable by enacting national tort reform and enabling a competitive, open, and transparent free-market health care and health insurance system that isn’t restricted by state boundaries.</span></font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="color:#0000FF;">#8 Pass an ‘All-of-the-Above” Energy Policy:</span></font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:12pt;">by authorizing exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers to all other forms of energy creation, lowering prices and creating competition and jobs. Add a 1% tax upon all profits from energy resources which will be set aside for funding green-energy innovation. All green energy innovation grants will be under control of a blue-ribbon committee of responsible scientists and not bureaucrats. Remove the most burdensome of taxes upon; and 100% of subsidies to all energy businesses.</span></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="color:#0000FF;">#9 Stop the Pork:</span></font></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><b> </b></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:12pt;">by asking my party to eliminate all earmarks until our nation’s fiscal house is 100% in order; by vetoing ANY bill which contains earmarks placed before me; and then passing a bill into law requiring a ¾ majority in both the Senate and House to pass any bill with earmarks for the future.</span></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="color:#0000FF;">#10 Minimize Taxes:</span></font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:12pt;">because a revolt against uncontrolled government, uncontrolled spending and irresponsible attacks upon economic freedom has taken place since 1989. No intelligent person NOW trusts Washington and its bureaucracy to be good and responsible stewards of our money who put we citizens, voters and taxpayers first . . . a strong emphasis on constitutional limits and restraints on legislation, spending, taxing government interference and government control of the economy must replace business as usual in the Nation’s Capitol. We must restore and advance the Constitutional-restraint of government championed by Ronald Reagan who ended a debilitating recession and created 20 million jobs.</span></font></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font size="5"> </font></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:16pt;">#11 Re-think and Refine our Foreign Policy:</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:12pt;">because America has lost power and prestige around the world in recent times; because Defense and Foreign Aid are such drags upon our nation’s economy; because their appears to be no integrity to recent American actions around the globe . . . we must identify our enemies; identify our friends and allies; strengthen the economic and other bonds with friends; eliminate all foreign aid that is NOT in our national interest and create a new and coherent 21<sup>st</sup> Century military and foreign policy.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><b> </b></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:12pt;">Ya’ll live long, strong and ornery,</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:12pt;">Rajjpuut</span></b></div><br /><br /></div>