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Is December too early for the nation's first presidential primary?
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| Yes | 91% | 111 votes | Total: 122 votes | |
| No | 9% | 11 votes |
Yes
by David Barber
Created on: October 23, 2011 Last Updated: October 24, 2011
The delay in US primary elections is needed so time can allow wealthy candidates with weak or copycat platforms to drop out. There are yet more candidates with unique platforms to improve the US economy, which will not be heard until media exhausts the early candidate pool. Candidates such as those who allow a maximum individual campaign contribution of 100-dollars await media's search for them, six months before mid-year primaries.
How else would people obtain evaluation of a Recovery Plan involving edits to the Internal Revenue Code, instead of income redistribution? One plan will amend sections: 162, 167, 179, 212 and the definition of Cost of Goods Sold, to state that, quote: "Any expenditure for any goods or services located and/or produced outside the United States of America shall not be deducted from your taxes."
The continuation of that plan is to eliminate the Foreign Tax Credit, Section 27A of the Internal Revenue Code, that gives a tax credit to taxes paid to a foreign country. The GOP candidate (former governor and congressman, Buddy Roemer) with that proposal refuses PAC money and limits contributions to one-hundred dollars. Governor Roemer was invited to the California debate, but was bumped when it was rescheduled, so even non-candidates of higher name-recognition could be added (Palen and Giuliani.)
Current, well-funded candidates reveal they have no plans for how to generate manufacturing jobs in the United States of America. Instead, their debates focus upon shuffling existing tax revenue, pulling the financial lifeblood from an already wounded economy.
In past decades, the government would use the mere threat of taxation to shepherd private industry into actions favoring generation of US manufacturing jobs. As late as the 1980s, business schools in the US noted the threat of taxation was meant to keep corporations and wealthy individuals from hoarding money, effectively removing it from the economy.
Hoarding money is the current tactic of bailed-out banks, who are refusing to lend. This is an odd practice, given Marginal Reserve Banking, where institutions can loan more money than they possess in deposits.
Consider if the institution has one dollar from actual depositors, and then loans seven dollars to seven borrowers. If two loans are paid back, the institution has doubled its actual money. The other five borrowers could default, and still, the investment value is doubled. Why would multinational, financial institutions refuse to loan, unless they foresaw an economy was ripe for collapse.
US voters need more time, before primaries, to allow the pool of candidates to shrink, before beginning primaries. Only then will constructive, productive ideas emerge from candidates that, early on, were ignored, effectively suppressed, by polling groups.
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No
by Joseph Malek
Created on: October 14, 2011 Last Updated: October 17, 2011
The more each voter knows about the person who they intend to vote for then the people of the United States of America have no one to blame but themselves if the elected President of the United States of America fails to comply with the wishes of the majority of "We People of the United States of America." So too, when a President fails to comply with his or her sworn oath to "Obey, Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States of America" that particular individual should properly be impeached.
The real problem with our "Democratic Political System" is the fact that after a person is elected to "Public Office" getting rid of that person is a truly difficult thing to do. These days an elected President has to commit a crime and be proved guilty of that crime before he or she is removed from office. The same is more or less true for every elected politician.
On the other hand, any person who has a whole lot of money or has access to a whole lot of money can become a candidate for "Public Office." So now the process begins for one of those candidates to win the support of the people who are members of the political party of the candidate who desires to be the next President of the United States of America. As it happens, it is now the people who are the members of the Republican Party who must now select the person who will oppose the Democratic candidate who is most likely the current President of the United States of America.
As a result, there currently are many Republican candidates who will tell the people what they intend to do for the people of the United States of America if they become the next "Number one symbol of Democracy." Like it or not, the candidate who gets the most money is usually the person who wins the support of his or her party. Such was the case when the current President had ten times more money than Mrs. Clinton.
Having a State Primary Election more than nine months before the General Election gives all of the people within the party within the other States within the Union plenty of time to see how well one or more of those Presidential Candidates did during those earlier primary elections. That is, if the people believe that each of those primary winners will actually do what he or she promise to do after he or she becomes "President of the United States of America." If you are a member or a registered voter who supports the Republican Party you must now vote for the person who you believe will be the best person for the job. You do want one of the people of the political party that you support to win the election.
The truth of the matter is that the more "We People of the United States of America" know about those people who seek "Public Office" the better off we will be. Come election day in November, 2012 it does now matter what political party you happen to support because a registered Democrat can vote for a Republican candidate and a registered Republican can vote for a Democrat. May the best person win.
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