politics

Oddly this was a discussion topic on Amazon. Most of it was vitriol from folks who have been schooled to hate Republicans. As a Republican, I know we get a bad rap and often our predominant touted feature is a confusion that we are against stated goals rather than being against the stated means of attempting to achieve those goals.

So here is my answer: What do you think of when you hear “Republicans?”

Folks who want to efficiently create a safe and prosperous society who end up spending all their time trying to stop the Democrats from pursuing stupid, hateful, and wasteful policies that would never work to achieve the laudable goals they claim the policies pursue. Unfortunately the Republicans are then cast as being against those goals, most of which they also support.

Either the power of social networking is not yet up to the task of overcoming television ads and the visual and other pollution of yard signs EVERYWHERE, or New Hampshire is not ready for the #SAFE_DEAL and to #IMPOVERISH_DRUG_LORDS. (Or, I suppose, they just didn’t like me. Quickly figuring my likely exposure, though, I believe a large percentage of folks who heard my message actually voted for me. So maybe I just need to get better and spreading the word at low cost. I do find it ironic that MAYDAY pac endorsed a candidate who did spend money on the grounds he pledged to fight against large campaign media budgets in the future, while I operated on a minimal media budget. Notice that is not a criticism of the candidate they did endorse.)

Anyway, completely cribbed from WMUR-TV’s site, here are the apparent 99% returns:

Brown, Scott 58,635    50%  Rubens, Jim   27,048 23%  Smith, Bob     26,483 23%

If you run for office, you’ll get loaded questionnaires that essentially insist you sign up to overturn Roe v Wade. (And from the other side that you’ll sign up against things like the Hobby Lobby ruling, when the real issue is that individuals or families, not corporations, should control their own health care insurance choices.)

And let’s decode a little bit, since even the names of the movements are a lie: “Pro-life” means “I want to make abortion illegal.”

“Pro-choice” means I want the government to routinely fund abortion and make it a popular choice. I’m aligned with clinics that provide abortions and we tout the advantages to your life style of not having a child to raise or going through the inconvenience of carrying a child to term to be adopted.

Twenty-two years ago, when I previously ran for US Senate and began writing about reviving the idea of full support of persons legally in the country to the poverty level, we were in much better overall financial shape. An actual maximum tax would have been possible with some budget discipline. Eventually and philosophically, I think that is still the goal. If everyone made enough money to pay an equal share of the country’s budget and still be above the poverty level, that is what we should do. The philosophy is clear: One Person, One Vote; One Person, One Tax.

One of my friends noticed that I am trying to push forward campaign finance reform by trying to win without a TV media budget, and he asked what was my hash tag. DOH! I should have created hash tags long ago. Okay, there is still time to go viral. I’ve registered four hash tag definitions with hashtag.org, and I’ll explain them here, first with just the snapshot definitions I could get to stick without the site complaining : Stop! You’re posting too fast and then with the full story as individual blog posts. Hang in there. This is important.

Oh, and my top priority is establishing the #SAFE_DEAL.

#SAFE_DEAL

A system where the government makes sure all persons legally resident start with a base minimum income of at least the poverty level and get to retain at least 65 cents on each dollar they earn. See rsiz.wordpress.com for the details.

#WRONG_GAP and #CORRECT_GAP

Another message from “Farnham for US Senate”

Lately, there has been a lot of news about “corporate inversion.” Essentially a large US based corporation essentially buys a foreign company based in a country with lower corporate income tax rates, but designates that the acquisition is now actually the top of the corporate structure. With this stroke of paperwork (producing nothing), the net income after taxes is improved for the stockholders. Aside from the public relations (which might be costly, especially in consumer products), this is what management should do: Maximize the returns to stockholders.

This is just a new wrinkle in the idiocy and waste that is taxing corporations on income.

Christ was very clear “Love your neighbor and your enemy as yourself.” You can SAY you’re Christian and do hateful things all the time, and none of us is perfect (Methodists like to say we’re trying to keep on a walk toward perfection, knowing that is not a walk we will complete), but you really are not a Christian if you are preaching hatred of … any … one … most especially and saying this hatred comes with God’s approval. Sigh. Oh – and the bit about which prophesy is being fulfilled and when – don’t bother. He’s coming back like a thief in the night and no one will know the day or time of His Coming until it happens. Anyone who thinks they can decode specifics out of Revelations is just wrong, from Christ’s own mouth. As for extracting literal rules out of the old testament, that would be a neat trick if anyone could do it figuring translations, symbols, arcana of math and all that, but the new covenant tempered all those things with the rule of Love anyway.

Just in case anyone thinks I might lack the passion to make happen what I say I will make happen (end domestic poverty and the war on drugs together with all its bad effects, for starters), here is this link to my youtube channel and a song I sang for the Bel Canto benefit concert (sorry in advance for the poor video focus. The sound should be okay).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_H5Bq3Kd5E

You can also see me directing the University Chorus of the Upper Valley and plenty of other things on my channel pudge1954.

Enjoy.

Watch this space as I ramp up my primary campaign in July. You should already be able to get a sense of who I am from the existing posts on this blog. But I’m sure you will want to know more before you line up to vote for me on September 9th in the primary election.

Mark