|
Please consider reforms listed as being intended to be implemented not only nationally, but for our purposes
on an international basis where applicable. The list of reforms we have published here are
the result of work product completed over 15 years ago. Records indicate March, 1992.
Stage One 1.) Require that large news media corporations are
broken up. Reason: Non- biased news media entities are literally critical to the healthy
function of a democratic society. Providing accurate information, being constantly vigilant
against processes that can degrade our freedoms, continuing to dig for greater truth and understanding is a sacred duty of these organizations. Throughout history it has been understood, and too often acted
upon by the sickest members of our society that the ability to control the media, allows you to
control the intellectual processes/opinions/awareness's of the masses, these people and organizations
have continuosly worked to exploit this truth for their own selfish purposes. There is no perfect solution
to this problem but breaking up these large media corporations would make it more difficult
for these dishonest people to send out their propaganda to large portions of our
population in co-ordinated efforts. Breaking these large media corporations up
into smaller entities would also remove much of the monetary rewards that can be other wise achieved by creating these large
companies. Operating these media entities is a public service and should be approached as such. We also need to enact
"truth in news" provisions, best managed through consumer advocacy groups, similar in size
and scope to the Better Business Bureau, and backed with civil litigation tools available for the worst cases.(We don't want
government sponsored truth police). Then failure to provide truthful, balanced coverage of events or interactions could
lead to the offending party being exposed, con-sequenced in an appropriate manner, including, perhaps being required
to post on their front page ect..a rating..,as well as a list of their failure incidents, perhaps fines ect.. Having
a consumer advocacy group properly empowered civilly for the most egregious of instances would be a key component. This
should also have a focus extended towards editorial content providers.(As far as the editorial content issue goes...this is
meant to be primarily aimed at the professional pundit, or industry employed content provider. {Please note: 6/20/10
That since our first touching upon this issue years ago, we are seeing a growing number of processes, similar to
those we have proposed coming into being.} It is in this area that a return to the "Fairness Doctrine"
would be a helpful tool to in trying to restore an improved balance to this part of the editorial process. Letters
to the editor ect..pretty much hands off, no real change in standards required here.) Varied opinions always
tend to improve the process, however, consistently, in a material fashion, misstating facts upon which opinions are formed
does not. In the U.S. as well as in many other nations minority groups have formed their own media watch dog organizations,
why not have another dedicated to truth and the presentation of information in a manner as devoid of propagandist aspects
as possible? As I have said before there is no perfect solution, what we can do is make it harder for anyone to gain
an unhealthy control over these processes, and then pass themselves off as a valid
source of information. Just the reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine would eliminate most of the
potential for abuse that we have seen recently. Because of systemic failures within the effected food
industries we have had to enact truth in advertisement and labeling to keep from being regularly put into the position of
putting things into our mouths when we have no reasonable expectation of what quality it is. How can we be less vigilant when
it comes to what we put in our minds? Does this mean we believe that the Fairness Doctrine should be
reinstated? If nothing else better can be expected for quick implementation, then yes, it's not perfect,
but it is far better than nothing. Clearly it's removal hastened the corporate medias ability
to pander to our lowest common denominator, with their infotainment, greatly accelerating the dumbing down process.
2.)
Oil companies nationalized. Reason: The oil companies have demonstrated that they have the ability to continually capitalize
on the failures/weaknesses of our current political structure through what really
amounts to a process of both legal and illegal bribery. These organization have repeatedly demonstrated
that their pursuit of their corporate goals take precedence over the well being of not only
the citizens of the United States, but the citizens of the global community as well. These companies have worked to halt/slow
the development/implementation of many cleaner, environmentally friendly technologies. These efforts over the past 30
years could very easily be seen to be a leading cause of an oncoming global environmental collapse. Furthermore we have seen recently that under current circumstances the process of speculation
in these resources can lead to dire economic upheavals that are devastating to the overwhelming
majority of humanity. Human society, as a measurable majority, has for decades seen no benefit
from the massive profits these corporations have been allowed to pillage from us due to their overwhelming control of the
process. What we have seen is our freedoms slowly destroyed as these companies continue to flex their
growing political might through our corrupt political system. As we have seen a continual failure of oversight of
our financial institutions, we see similar failure here. Management/control of critical resources that have the
ability through mismanagement, to negatively impact humanity on such a massive scale cannot be allowed to exist without being
directly answerable to the people they serve, with any "profits" also being directed
for the benefit of the people. The economic resources these organizations command must be seized and immediately put to use for
the creation of healthier infrastructural needs. (This was
not a part of our 1992 reform package, but clearly it is an action that must be taken if the people
want to reclaim their birthright of recognized freedoms and civil rights. As well as taking a positive direct action to improve
the functioning of the democratic principles in regards to the U.S. Republic.) 3.) Election/campaign finance reform: Elections to be made publicly
funded events. Minimum of four candidates per contested position required. Failure
to place 4 candidates from different parties on the ballot shall require position to remain vacant.
Election funding/spending limits set that cannot be surpassed, and shall in all matters be equal. Media
access costs to be strictly regulated for purposes of equal access and non-favoritism. Only top 4 candidates from different
parties to be eligible to receive public funding in the general election. More than four parties may of course run, but
they will need to be privately funded, and under no circumstance shall the funds they
raise or expend be allowed to exceed those limits set for the publicly funded candidates.
All loop holes related to this issue shall be vigorously eliminated. Top four primary contests shall
also be publicly funded. Qualifications for this funding shall be based upon voter registration listed party affiliations.
Again, other parties may of course participate, they will need to be privately funded. Same rules will
apply to spending limits for privately funded campaigns in the primaries as those in effect for the
general elections. Reason:
Healthy, honest democratic processes cannot survive as a "free range entity" in any
society in which a particular economic model has been allowed to gain an unhealthy level of control over the
political process. In the U.S. that currently means the capitalistic model. . Common sense, as well as
past history has shown us that capitalistic based organizations will always seek to gain advantage through
the political process, using their economic power in an unhealthy fashion. The forces of competition
for survival and self interest demands this under current rules of engagement that have been allowed to be tolerated due to
the successful dumbing down of human society. Political processes must be enacted that recognize, and protect the democratic process of choice/reason from undue influence that will always manifest given enough time,
regardless of the dominant economic model in place at the time. 4.) Balanced budget protocols stringently implemented. Due
to conditions created by the Bush administration this may no longer be safe to implement as a stage one process, it may require
that this be implemented in conjunction with later stage proposals. Reason: Our political leaders have demonstrated
to an overwhelming and consistent degree that under existing rules of operation they are incompetent
to a terminally unsupportable degree when it comes to budgets, and areas of fiscal oversight that directly impact the citizens
of the United States. One of the historic stop gaps when conditions get as bad as they are now is a taxpayer revolt. Current
rules of operation have allowed massive malfeasance to continually occur without the majority of the taxpayers/citizens being
able to quickly track and effectively respond to the abuse/failure of process. This has allowed disaster after disaster to
occur with the full extent of the damage only being able to be discovered by the effected citizens when it is too late to
do anything to correct the situation. A balanced budget process, when linked to our other reform proposals
would quickly eliminate the large scale size of the failures and also provide a process to lower the high rate of the individual
failure events. 5.) All Federal income
taxes eliminated, replaced in favor of a national sales tax. Please note:
It is at this time the opinion of The Sunrise Foundation that the Bush Tax cuts have been unprecedented
in their contribution to the growing disparities between the haves and have nots, as well as being contributory
to the ongoing assault against our middle class. We take this into consideration in our reform proposals. Also a sales
tax is only unfair if it is created in a way to be so. Reason: With intent or without intent, bureaucracies/governments will always,given time, grow into entities,
that will, without management and oversight, assisted with strict regulations geared to the
protections of our freedoms and privacies, become abusive to those same freedoms and privacies expected
and valued by the citizens of a free society. The Federal Income Tax, has allowed a monster
of an abusive organization to come into existence, the IRS. It has become, even with new laws on
the books helping to protect taxpayers from most of the abuses experienced through the mid 90's and
beyond, a entity that is a power unto itself. However strongly chained one generation of citizens may be able to restrict
it's harmful and abusive potential, these potentials continue to exist as long as it does. The only sure way to eliminate
the potential for abuse, inappropriate invasions of privacies, the constant fear that such an organization promotes through
it's mere existence, is to eliminate it completely. As long as our system has at it's funding core a
system of taxation, as a free people, we must demand that this process of taxation be as non-threatening
and as non-invasive as we can create. A national sales/consumption tax is the simplest and the most effective way to
go. Create it in a way so as to strongly protect the lives of those making due with lower incomes. We apologize for not
being able to eliminate the accounting requirements of the effected business owners, but we consider this to be a small price to bear in order to eliminate/greatly down size an organization, the
IRS, that has no business being allowed to exist in a free society. By taking this action we remove at least 90% of the
potential victims of abuse from being in reach of this organization, vastly negating it's negative impact
on our society. Our research to date has indicated that the first modern/recent organization to organize and promote this
type of solution, in the last approx. 50 years, was in fact the Church of Scientology, they
rightly recognized the need to eliminate the potentials for, as well as the actual, abuse/abuses that
the current system represented. As far as we can tell, our efforts came next in the early to mid 1990's,
with much of those that followed apparently adopting much of our tech-no speak, and phraseologies. The
possibility for this to have been the result of a convergent multi origination evolutionary process is also possible,
it would be interesting to look into all origins more when time allows. (We
want to add that it appears, in our opinion, that much of the very recent fair tax, and sale tax presentations look like an
effort to sell something to the U.S. citizen that would have potentially allowed the "fat cats"
of the capitalistic system to make a clean escape with any ill gotten gains recently pilfered out of
the U.S. and global economies, at the expense of the U.S. and global citizens. The Sunrise Foundation
is working to stop such efforts.) 6.) Create Bureau of Special Projects and Resource Management. (The B.S.P. & R.M.) The purpose of this new cabinet level organization
will be to monitor and track the existence, creation, distribution of all national and international
resource related issues, be they human, animal, natural, or manufactured. The B.S.P. organization
will also be responsible for individual management coordination of all domestic projects, that shall
be managed under regional sub offices, that will come into existence as the reforms The Sunrise Foundation
recommend are implemented. The B.S.P. will also be responsible for providing the means for international
cooperation and coordination as similar programs come on line globally with our international
neighbors. Reason:
We believe that the healthy evolution/progress of human society will be best served by working
to create/allow what we believe to be a much needed evolution/change in our national/international economic
processes. This includes how we manage the reality of modern currency. We are working to help bring
about what can be seen as perhaps being a system within a system. 1 part being a free market, capitalistic society, governed
under the principals of a democratic constitutional republic, the second part being
governed and operated under the auspices of the governments of the international community, recognizing
the realities possible under the Sunrise Foundations definition of "Realistic Monetarism".
This second part would require the creation of an organization like the B.S.P & R.M to
see that resources, both human and natural, and the projects they create are distributed equally across
the globe. ( We recommend a formula based upon a recognized base value that is the product of population
size as well as the land area of the nation to which resources are being allocated.There should also be included
in this formula a process that rewards those societies that have "in a progressive fashion" put into place
policies that achieve first a zero population growth rate followed by a process of population reduction. ) A target
global population of 6 billion looks like a number that could be sustained with very attractive standards of living being
achievable and sustainable. 7.) Require by law that four times per year,(once per quarter), the Chairman of the Federal
Reserve, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Comptroller of the Currency shall, during prime time,
address the nation via television, covering all topics related to the discharge of their duties, and
the current state of economic affairs. It may also be appropriate to have some time set aside so that
questions may be presented from the audience/viewers. Reason: Knowledge will
set you free. We live in a world that is needlessly barbaric.. Harmful to an extent and in degrees that is not physically
needed..I.E. Self inflicted!! Why? How? Because we have as an overwhelming majority of our
population forgotten, given up, been distracted away from, a working knowledge of critical truths behind our currency control
systems. We have surrendered perhaps even forgotten 90% ?? of the joy and potential that
the gift of human existence should represent, we have done so while we have allowed small groups of people to turn the human
condition into that which is comparable or reserved for uncared for animals. The above mentioned step/s would be a much
needed aspect of the re-education effort that must be undertaken if humanity is to regain it's
heritage/birthright and overcome the staggering difficulties with which we are now faced. 8.) Pass the required laws so that when government spending is desired to exceed the funds
taken in through processes of taxation, that a full budgetary disclosure is to be made to the public.
This will be required to lay out in detail how each dollar is to be spent. Each party represented in
the congress, will be allowed to put forth their deficit spending proposal. It will be accepted
that the executive branch's desires shall be represented in the proposal put forth by the party to which
they belong. Finally, in a national process similar to that seen in state wide ballot measure elections, a national
election will be held. The proposal that receives the most votes will be the proposal/budget
addition that is put into place. A none of the above choice is also to be offered. No "deficit" spending may
be allowed to occur without voter approval. Reason: Control of this process must
be returned to the people. The past failures especially those seen recently drive home the
necessity of this at this time. Also current technology has finally reached the point that
such a process could be implemented in a cost effective manner. A critical portion of
this process as well as in the reform process referred to in our seventh reform item, would be the inclusion of comprehensive reports on resource availability and sustainability. An
impact statement. This report shall include the impact in the effected areas of focus for
not just our nation but on the international community as well. Upon the creation of the B.S.P & R.M. it would be the
holder of this cabinet level position that would provide this portion of the report and be included in the quarterly reports
mentioned under reform number 7. It is also clear that in areas of "deficit" spending that significant portions
would need to be regulated through international treaty.
9.) We also believe that an important reform would be in the area of how
we grant tax exempt status to various organizations. Organizations that discriminate, be they a church, or a social organization
should be stripped of any tax exempt status they may possess. These discriminatory organizations should be precluded
by law from being granted tax exempt status if they are found to discriminate against protected classifications at either
the local, state, or federal level. Reason:
While we have a shared history that has shown us repeatedly the importance of free speech, free association,
and has demonstrated many times how in difficult times our faith in these principals has helped to restore needed balances
to our society. We are under no moral obligation to be forced to provide financial support that originates
either directly or indirectly from the tax funds of the general populace to organizations that fail to adhere to more enlightened philosophies that recognize the importance of non-hate based processes that work
to eliminate the harmful societal effects of discriminatory, exclusionary values/thought programming.
Stage 2 What took place here in the U.S. is a movement
was started by those that considered themselves to be the elites of the human species, a sick philosophy came into being over
a hundred years ago, that pretty much stated that "peasants" non-elites were too stupid to be educated to the
level required to handle the decisions that a "free" society, would require. This would be just too
complicated for the "little people." What followed was a process by these people specifically intended to make
this viewpoint a reality. (What's the status? Is there an ongoing effort/conspiracy?) At this point the size and complexity
of our society makes it hard to say. These people over time have been linked to other groups that have concerned many for
decades. So are these people/organizations still active/making a negative impact on our lives? What we do know is that we
have finally reached a point, due to the numbers of our population that have succumbed to (a/this)? process?, allowing themselves
to become "Jerry Springerized" to the extent that the movie "Idiocracy" has become a shockingly real parody
of our society. We see a growing number of editorials, that pose the question, "have we finally become too
stupid, as a society, to function/survive/govern ourselves?" It is natural for people
to band together for mutual support, we have been doing so from the time our ancestors huddled around campfires while wolves
howled in the night. In modern society this process continues...It is the duty and responsibility
of the people to "remain eternally vigilant against the stealthy encroachment" on our collective freedoms, intellectual
and otherwise. Again, just one purpose of this website, perhaps needed, perhaps not, is to
aid in the preservation of independent thought outside of the collective. Just one additional place that a person can find
information? a protected flame? In a world that produces some pretty gusty winds. When a society
has reached the point that it has been successfully conditioned to look only inward rather than
outward as well, where it shows signs of questioning less, demanding less, and accepting daily
an ever shrinking definition of the potentials of their human experience/life it has reached the point that maintaining a
free, enlightened society will be a functional impossibility. This society will no longer have the "strength"
to lift the required "weight", nor will they even consider the question of, is there a "weight" that
should be lifted. It is the opinion of this writer, that based upon all available evidence, when you look upon the
above mentioned condition as a disease, The Republican party is rotten with it, looks almost
like it's terminal. Just look at McCains pick for V.P. . The Democratic party is very badly infected
as well, but recovery may still be possible, some small signs are showing that the infection may not occupy the majority of
the host at this time. Way too early to make an accurate determination, have to wait until after the election. (8/4/10,
I said awhile ago that if we were still stumbling around "real and comprehensive economic/environmental reform implementations
two years into President Obama"s administration..that we would be in serious trouble. Some steps have been taken..not
near enough..not going to point fingers, plenty of responsibility to go around..while "rate of decent" has been
slightly "decreased" impact is still not "survivable?" at this time. Upcoming
election cycle will provide important data concerning future of US, global community, role of national major media sources..are
people paying attention?? Are they tracking the important issues..ect.. On to Stage Two.
Stage Two The first stage of our reform process is geared towards creating
dialog, and raising awareness levels concerning the control functions present
in our global currencies. This will we hope help raise philosophically the actual
potentials for change that are present in our global economic structures, and
how making the changes now, that we have discussed, may very well make the
difference in our success or failure as a species on this planet. There are people
that fear globalization, they hold this word out as some kind of boogy man seeking
to destroy us all. Let's grow up just a bit. Globalization is a fact of life,
it's here, it's growing, it is the future. The only question is in what shape,
in what capacities will it solidify/emerge into our daily consciousness, or lives.
How this reality arrives, how it impacts us, our freedoms, the quality of our lives,
is the next thing that people should be talking about and influencing now. Global governments,
the collective "we" where applicable, have really made a mess of things here on planet
earth. It will only be through working together as a global team, towards a common good
that we will overcome the problems that we now face. We need to be rational, calm, and be open
to the best ideas and arguments. Failed processes need to be identified, and intellectually honest,
non-hypocritical corrective dialog engaged.
A.) Recently a well known economist recommended that the world should go
to a single currency. We believe this to be the correct direction our currencies
should go. What we have stated is that rather than go directly to a single currency
we need to simply physically link our individual currencies through international treaty
so that they function as if they were a single currency. This approach is emotionally
more easy to accept. Cultural variety, when base line recognition of human rights are
recognized and enforced, Is a source of strength that should be respected
and valued for the positive that it is. Reason:
The current currency control situation makes it very difficult to put in place a global resource distribution process that
is as equitable as it needs to be. The current structure is difficult to maintain and lacks the stability
required for accurate tracking and measurement. Furthermore the current situation clouds the needed perception of "do we have the sustainable resources to do what is needed"
and in fact helps keep us locked into a destructive perception of reality, "do we have enough
money". As if money continued to be a physical resources like a bushel of corn, or a gallon of
milk. By switching over to a strict currency linkage such as we recommend, we would create the tool
needed to implement globally the process under our definition of "Realistic Monetarism".
2/22/10 In the last few days respected economist, Paul Krugman, came out with an editorial addressing some of the problems the European nations have had with their conversion to the Euro..
Mr. Krugman points out that the problems that have been exacerbated in Europe are related to the fact that while a common
currency has been created, the management/control sytems between the various countries do not have the same capabilities as
we have here in the U.S. between our states. Seems to me that this is an oversight that should be corrected
so that European nations are better able to defend their economies from similar failure events in the future. Also the Obama
administration has recently been suggesting that the U.S. pass/adopt what is being called "The Volker
Rule or proposal", I agree that this should be done, I don't think it should be called the Volker rule ect.. as it is
designed to pretty much restore financial regulations that were abolished in aprox 1999-- which overwhelmingly
helped contribute to the global financial meltdown we have been working through.
B.) Fully discretionary spending only allowed on national revenues derived
directly from funds collected from annual national processes of taxation. Allotted
spending in traditionally (deficit related categories)would now be required to be made
under categories that are humanitarian, ecosystem support and restoration ect. Within
these categories, which would be further defined under international treaty, a nation
would have the use of their own discretion, but all processess under these guidlines
would be monitored through continuous international process.
This page is under construction, hope to have it finished soon. Our process will be to list the various reforms
in loose stage groupings for visualization purposes. Stage one, stage two, etc.. We will also be adding to the reforms
we list, a general explanation for the reasons we believe they are needed. Update: 9/9/08 The original author of
the information that we are attempting to transfer to this site, is a current victim of a vigilante process of assault through
the co-option of corrupt aspects of their local government and/or community processes, and what looks like "could
be" criminal community elements. This has negatively impacted the author and has thus created delays in getting
this information to you in a timely manner. We believe that we will be able to complete this page soon, with the authors
help. Corrupt: A definition... Any process that serves to suppress truth, either through
the support of avoid-ant protocols or the establishment of processes legal or otherwise that extract such a high price from
the person or group attempting to speak truth that such an effort cannot be made/sustained or could be expected to lead to
that person or groups financial ruin, incarceration, ect... Criminal:
A definition.... Any person/group or organization that supports directly or indirectly those processes of truth suppression
mentioned above, ect..
|
