Chapter 1: Introduction and Bookish Things
Chapter 1-1: Introduction
I wish I could give you a short magic formula to make our government smaller, but I can't. It's taken us sixty years to get our government bloated, and it can't be unbloated in a 12 page pamphlet. It's going to take time and effort on your part to get it done, and part of that is reading this book so you understand how we got here and how we can undo what we've done to create this metastasized and metastasizing monster.
This book is written for a specific purpose:
HOW TO GET RID OF POLITICIANS,
for they are the destroyers of government and the destroyers of freedom.
Equally important, however, this book is about convincing you that, not only can you get along without, but you will actually flourish without 90% of the government politicians have foisted on you to meet their own selfish needs.
While this book is long, it is easy to read. It is long, because, before you can hope to change our government, you have to understand the hows and whys of how it got this way. You have to see how a reasonable tax system can be created. You have to see that ending and mending huge chunks of our existing government will not harm you and will actually benefit you. You have to come to believe that you can change it.
Think of the taxes you pay. They are hard to fully grasp as our various governments: local, state and federal, are masters of concealing this information from you. Virtually every economic transaction you make is taxed. There are literally thousands of taxes you pay that you don't even know you pay.
But the grand total of the taxes you pay is astounding. Consider the following.
• There are 300 million people in America. Deduct from this total the 100 million children, the disabled and those who do not pay taxes, and 200 million people are left to pay our taxes.
• Put these 300 million people in the average American home of 3 people per household and there are 100 million households who pay our taxes.
Each and every year our federal government spends 3 trillion dollars and state and local governments spend an additional 2 trillion dollars, totaling 5 trillion dollars annually.
Now. Divide these numbers.
5 trillion/300 million citizens
= 5,000,000,000 000/300,000,000
= $16,666 for each individual annually
$5 trillion/200 million tax payers
= 5,000,000,000,000/200,000,000
= $25,000 for each tax payer annually
5 trillion/100 million families
= 5,000,000,000,000/100,000,000
= $50,000 for each family annually
Do not delude yourself that you are not paying these taxes. Consider also that there are now almost a million laws and regulations you must obey, and that each year our federal government adds 70,000 pages of new laws and regulations (that's an additional 20 feet of new laws annually).
Perhaps the realization that there are 20 million government employees and bureaucrats (exclusive of our armed forces) (a number that exceeds the employment in all of our manufacturing industries combined) will cause you to realize the magnitude of our governments. While many of these employees are not themselves venial, they are the life force of a governmental system that is corrupt and is destroying our society.
We tolerate this mis, mal and non feasance and it's wanton fiscal irresponsibility not because we like it but because we don't know how to stop it without chaotic tumult in the process. We elect people to public office to stop this process but not only do they fail to stop it, they join the rest of the perpetrators in the continuing destruction of our government and its society.
"Why you must and how you can get rid of politicians" is a manual, a guidebook on how you can change our government by returning it to its essential elements and eliminating the corrupt and destructive elements.
I will show you how this can be done!
Male Lions – The Mafia – McDonald's Restaurants
Mr. Villani? What do these have to do with getting rid of politicians?
Male Lions – For years I watched nature programs and saw the female lions doing all the work and the male lions getting all the first services. All I saw male lions doing (other than eating and having sex) was killing all the cubs after they had taken over a pride. Certainly God intended them to do more. Then one day I saw the reason d'etre for male lions. They kill hyenas! Hyenas are the deadly enemy of female lions; hyenas kill female lions; they kill the cubs. By killing hyenas, male lions justify their existence: they protect the pride! And so with government, if government does not do its prime job – protecting us from enemies, foreign and domestic – who needs it? It has no other legitimate purpose! Contrary to current belief, the purpose of government is not to loot rich people and dispense goodies to all.
The Mafia – We all know the evils the Mafia represents: crime and corruption. In reality, like government, the Mafia was established in Sicily to protect peasant farmers from corrupt and tyrannical landlords. However, uncontrolled, the Mafia grew to be as tyrannical and corrupt as their former protagonist. And so with our government as it grows uncontrolled: the protector becomes the predator; the male lion becomes the hyena.
McDonald's Restaurants – I don't mean to demean McDonald's Restaurants, but Le Grand Escoffier doesn't need to worry much about the competition from McDonald's. Using a 5-star rating system the average McDonald's will get a partial star while the best of them will make an occasional one star. Government is like McDonald's Restaurants: occasion one star service but at LeGrand Escoffier, 10-star prices. Even more insidious, however, than just banal food at outrageous prices, the government prohibits you from going to any other restaurant. No pizza for you – no hot dogs – no filet mignon – no créme caramel - no asparagus – no Mulligan stew. Pay for filet mignon and learn to like white lettuce with bland dressing and our famous government gristle burgers that you must eat at the government's McGristle Restaurant.
More and more, every aspect of our lives is being intruded into by government, and we are compelled to accept half-star service at 10-star prices with no other options, while convincing ourselves that it's wonderful 'cause it's free.
We've allowed politicians to take over our government – our society – our lives. By taking over our governments, they have been able to insert themselves into every aspect of our lives, compelling us to do what they perceive is best for us regardless of our decisions and desires. If any one individual so took over our lives we would be outraged, but when our governments do it we think it's wonderful.
Government has serious work to do in this age of endless terrorism and tyranny, but, it can't do its essential tasks while carrying around trillions of dollars of parasitic bloat.
Just as with our own lives, the decisions we made yesterday are affecting us today, and the decision we make today will affect us and our children's lives tomorrow.
Government has but two essential tasks:
• Protect us from those who would do us harm – foreign and domestic
• Be the ultimate resolver of our disputes.
Currently, it is failing in these essential tasks while assuming thousands and thousands of other tasks we can well perform for ourselves.
This book is not just a litany of lamentations, but a real plan – a manual if you will – to significantly reduce the size and cost of government without blowing up federal buildings, joining militias, or starting violent revolutions to overthrow the government.
This is your country, but it now isn't your government. It belongs to the politicians and the ten thousand tiny tyrannical bureaucrats in their employ.
We can fantasize that by controlling political campaign contributions we can assure a less corrupt system, and perhaps we can, for a few months, until the fine print gets read, the loopholes examined, and the cash and corruptions gush again.
It is delusional to believe that a system that loots trillions of your hard earned dollars – a system that is essentially corrupt – can be decorrupted by trying to limit access to those who control the loot by restricting the amount of money the lootees can contribute to the looters. Our governmental looting system is fundamentally corrupt, and a spritz of campaign reform is not going to decontaminate it.
Deep in our souls, we know our government is corrupt – legal it may be – but corrupt it surely is. No system that extorts five trillion dollars directly and a trillion or so more indirectly from our society and then ladles it out to its political benefactors in million and billion dollar dollops can be called not corrupt. We constantly try to remedy this corruption with Band-Aid solutions – Band-Aid upon Band-Aid upon Band-Aid. We, however, leave untouched the root cause of the corruption – the looting itself. We think that passing "ethics" laws will help us. For example, our government puts the donor of Rolex watches and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to former New Jersey Senator Toricelli in jail, but the senator, the recipient of the loot, is given a letter of reprimand, all the while claiming these are the normal tokens of friendship. I guess I can understand this, for like you, many of my friends give me Rolex watches frequently "cause I are one swell guy." In fact, I have so many devoted friends I have a trinket drawer just filled with Rolex watches. I'll be glad to share them with you. Just send a $5000 certified check to cover shipping and handling (Mon Dieu! – The handling – Oy Vey!).
More seriously, we've allowed two processes (two among many) to fundamentally alter and corrupt our governments:
• The professionalization of politicians in their takeover of our government. In days of yore, our legislators and politicians, with exceptions, of course, came from the citizenry and when elected they hired several clerks to perform the clerical tasks of their office. These "clerks" have evolved, first into "staff", and more recently, into political analysts and professional legislative managers. Their number has also exploded from two or three into dozens per Congressman plus hundreds more on committee staffs.
These professional "Pols To Be" now number over 30,000 people just in the federal legislature. That's over 50 per congressman. Nor does this count the numerous staff at the White House and the thousands of bureaus, agencies and departments whose professional staffs number in the millions.
The "evil" in this is that these new professional politicians are using this appointed experience to gain elective office without ever having to earn an honest living in our competitive world. These folks get so skilled at rigging the political game that some 90% or more of elective legislative offices are now so "safe" that, once elected, they have essential lifetime tenure. These politicians are becoming our new mandarins similar to the mandarins who so stifled and oppressed the first great civilization, China. (China has taken several thousand years to accomplish a recovery from their mandarins). Our politicians are evolving into a similar isolated and privileged mandarin class. They have very little connection to the people they supposedly represent.
Father Thomas Doyal, O.P., writing in "Irish Times", about the Catholic clergy, said "There is a solid principle in political science that says the governing elite of an organization will eventually think that it IS the organizations." This comment applies very well to our governments as well.
• Mandates. Consequently, since these people- these Pols – have become smart and savvy, they know that directly raising taxes is a sure elective kiss of death; they have devised a totally insidious method of taking your money and your freedom without raising your taxes or your ire. This new method is called mandated benefits. The politicians will give you whatever you want, but they will make someone else pay for it, generally employers or property owners. Taxation without representation is bad – but targeted taxation is insidiously evil and destructive.
This professionalization of politicians results in a government that is monopolizing the solution to every problem and situation in our lives so we do not have any power or mechanism to solve problems for and among ourselves. We are being infanticized. Without the actions of the politicians, we are incapable of resolving any conflict or problem. We are as grown children who still require mommie and daddy to run interference for every aspect of our lives.
Since it isn't their money they're spending, and they never had to work to earn it, the government they control, in its effort to be compassionate to those in need, is compassionate without ever demanding responsibility. It rewards the most irresponsible conduct, or at least does not punish such conduct, and simultaneously punishes and taxes responsible behavior or at least insists it pay for and tolerate irresponsible behavior.
Politicians and bureaucrats (or as I prefer to call them – Pols & Crats) are able to get away with this self aggrandizing but destructive conduct because they have succeeded in getting you to believe several dozen economic and social myths the essence of which is you must depend on Uncle Mommie for your survival. Even Franklin D. Roosevelt, the creator of America's socialism recognized the folly in this as he said in 1935, "Dependence (on welfare) induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit." No truer example of this truth is the people of New Orleans, Louisiana. Accustomed to generations of welfare in all its many forms, they were helpless in the face of a predictable disaster in 2005.
The relationship between our government and our society can be analogized as that between the totality of our bodies and the liver inside our body. Our liver, like our government, has essential tasks to do. These can, in fact, be done by none other; but surely a liver that has transformed itself from its proper approximate football size into one that exceeds the size of the body itself is dysfunctional. Our "liver" now consumes more than 50% of our body's total nourishment, depriving all other organs their proper nourishments.
The federal government's budget for fiscal year 2007 (FY '07 i.e., October-1-06 to September-30-07) is proposed for 2.8 trillion dollars without the inclusion of the already asked for (but not included) emergency and supplemental spending for New Orleans, Iraq and Afghanistan. This 300 billion dollar supplemental funding does not include a not yet asked for but predictable emergency funding for agriculture. These supplements will certainly drive our federal government well beyond 3 trillion dollars and likely to 3 1/2 trillion dollars. Simultaneously, the federal government has been transferring many of its obligations to state and local governments so that their expenditures now quite likely exceed the 1 1/2 trillion dollars they cost in 2004. Most likely they now exceed 2 trillion dollars resulting in a 5 trillion dollar total of government spending. Unfortunately, the government does not collect sufficient income to cover this spending, and we accumulate deficits of 1/4 to 1/2 trillion dollars annually, adding to our existing 9 trillion dollar federal debt (state and local governments are supposed to be prohibited from running deficits for non capital needs, but many are now emulating the irresponsible federal government).
Nor does this accounting include the non funded, non budgeted obligations of the federal government such as the accrued obligations of the Social Security and Medicare, nor the dozens and dozens of other trust, pension and guarantee funds that accumulate unfunded obligations at a 1 trillion dollar annual rate.
And this debt burden is being carried by a society that has an annual output of some 10 to 12 trillion dollars. (Gross National Product GNP), but includes the income of bureaucrats and welfare recipients of all kinds in this GNP calculation. This cannot be sustained.
Governments evolve from ideas. Ideas are the beginnings of all human things. Since the dawn of time, kings, tyrants, and bullies have ruled the world and their guiding ideas have been "What I want, I take, because I'm big and strong and you can't do anything about it." However, several hundred years ago, beginning in England with the Magna Carta, a new idea was formed: that men should be free from tyrannical kings. From this idea and the environment it created flowed the Industrial Revolution that began the process of liberating men from the tyranny of poverty and ignorance as well as the tyranny of kings.
America's founders had the further idea that not only should men be free, but also elected governments should be formed and the power of government should be definitively and constitutionally limited so as to protect all citizens, the weak as well as the strong. This American revolution and the constitution and government it produced gave the world its fullest flowering of freedom and acted as the great engine of prosperity that so dominated the 20th century and Western Civilization.
This philosophy of freedom and limited government not only created prosperity but also created the first worldwide moral force able to extol the virtue of freedom around the world and attempt to bring prosperity and freedom to the world. Freedom, prosperity and morality are inseparably and directly related!! Unfortunately, we have ceded our freedom and consequently our prosperity and morality to this new political class.
Most of us intuitively know this, but we don't know how to change the situation without causing chaos in the transition. In the last several years a variety of techniques to control government growth – term limits, balanced budgets, line item vetoes, welfare reform, etc. – have been adopted. As well-intentioned as these approaches are, they are ineffectual because they don't address the fundamental problem: government is mammothly too big and has vastly too much power over our lives.
Only making fundamental changes in our government, not by trying to fine-tune the beast, will cause this condition to change. The problem with a 900-pound gorilla on a hundred-foot leash is a 900-pound gorilla on a hundred-foot leash. Making it a 95-foot leash and an 800 pound gorilla doesn't change the essential condition.
While our society is a productive and robust one, it cannot sustain such debauchery and reckless spending, and it is risking collapse.
America is truly an astoundingly great country. BUT! It takes work to sustain our greatness. Unfortunately over the last several decades we have passed our work, our tasks, and our responsibilities to our government – hoping that government would fulfill them – not realizing that our government had been taken over by a passel of politicians who for their own needs have created a government that is not only too big, it is bloated beyond any conceivable rational need and is destructive to the lives of responsible people.
No government should ever have more power than it absolutely needs. No one should ever cede to government the power to control your life.
From the text of the Declaration of Independence: (Thomas Jefferson, author) "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"
And from George Washington
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force!"
And from Dwight Eisenhower
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid!"
In order to proceed logically in this process of how to get rid of politicians and bureaucrats and return to a sensibly sized government, I've divided the book into these (hopefully) logical sections.
• Opening remarks (this chapter) Chapter 1
• A success story Chapter 2
• An examination of deadly myths - social and economic Chapter 3 & 4
• The philosophy of good goverment Chapter 5
• A detailed overview – how government can be ended and mended Chapter 6
• Is government really too big Chapter 7
• Your turn – What you must do Chapter 8
But before we begin there are some mechanics to discuss as well as some classic "book" things.
Chapter 1-2: Bookish things–Dedication and Acknowledgments
Dedication
This book is dedicated to
Thomas Jefferson – Samuel Adams – John and Abigail Adams
Susan B. Anthony
Rosa Parks
And especially
You!
Thomas Jefferson and the Adams family, because they began the American Revolution, the best revolution in history: a revolution that became the largest and best evolution of freedom and prosperity the world has so far seen.
Susan B. Anthony, because she began the revolution to free women from the oppression afflicted on them since time immemorial.
Rosa Parks, because she began the Civil Rights Revolution when she decided she had had just enough of stupid laws and cruel customs enforced by government, and said, "No, I will not sit in the back of the bus," and unleashed the Civil Rights Revolution.
And YOU, especially the "you" who doesn't want to be involved in politics (I don't blame you). BUT! You are involved in politics; it is your freedom and money the politicians are spending and destroying. Politics has now become a blood sport using your money, your freedom, and your children's lives to determine who wins the power.
Thomas Jefferson, who imbued our country with much wisdom said this at his first inaugural address in 1801:
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
And Calvin Coolidge in his remarks in his 1925 inaugural address said this:
"I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form."
It is my hope that you will join the one-third of the American people who can start and sustain a new American Revolution, thereby emulating our first revolution where one-third of the people supported the revolution, one-third were loyal to King George III and one-third didn't give a damn. This book is dedicated to you in the hope that you realize we cannot continue to create an ever more dependent class of citizens (who are now almost a majority) who use the government to plunder their fellow citizens for their own advantage. In the hope also that you will tell politicians: "No, you can't have any more of my freedom or my money" in the expectation you will start the next revolution to free mankind not only from the big tyrants but the ten thousand tiny tyrants who now so dominate our lives and despoil its sustenance.
Acknowledgments
I want to thank my friends who contributed their comments on early drafts of this book: Carrolyn H., Jeff M., Philip S., Marieta H., and especially my children, Peter and Julie, and my wife, Leslie, who have endured years of my talking about "my book." Thank you all for your patience and your many suggestions.
I have identified them only by their first names and last initial, as this book is likely to be rather controversial, and I do not wish them to receive flack for my ideas.
However, they are all quite culpable for any and all errors you may find in this book; I am completely and totally blameless.
I want to especially thank Jody F. and Kris K. for setting early versions of this book to type, and for their painfully acquired ability to read my handwriting.
I am especially grateful to Kay C., Maggie Z., and Joann B. who brought this final effort to completion.
Special Acknowledgment
I owe special gratitude to
Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, And Walter Williams
These are the most insightful, brilliant writers in today's economic, social, and political spectrum. If they were mathematicians, Albert Einstein would be a footnote.
I do however, have a gripe with Mr. Sowell. I can't imagine the gall of this guy. I get all these great ideas and the next thing I know he has stolen into my studio in the dead of night, taken my notes, fleshed them out with some tawdry research, found a disreputable publisher, and published a book. I know he does this because I've seen him running down my driveway into a getaway car driven by either Steele or Williams. Some day I'm going to catch him and expose his plagiarism to the world.
Chapter 1-3: Writing Mechanics
Profanity
I realize that the use of profanity today is de rigueur in even the most serious of works, but as it is offensive to many readers – tolerable at best – I will use none.
However...
When writing about politicians and bureaucrats (Pols&Crats) and their often boneheaded destructive stupidity, one is driven to apoplectic sputtering. My thesaurus cannot find words to express the depth of my fury, and profanity seems the only out, but I will resist, and instead substitute "bleep" "bleeping" "bleep" and let you use your imagination. I do not consider "damn" and "hell" profane as they are in common inoffensive usage, And I have to have some outlet.
This book is not about condemning specific politicians. Those few who are named are mentioned only to set a specific event in historical perspective.
Verbal Shorthand
You will see the term "go to jail" often. I don't literally mean you will go to jail; it's verbal shorthand for the plethora of means, punishment, and disincentives government uses to impose its will. Rather than boring you with detailed scenarios of the torturous procedures of our legal system, I've used the "go to jail" shorthand.
Insane
You will see very often throughout the book the word "insane" used to describe various government policies or actions. Its constant repetitive use may grow tiresome. Using my trusty thesaurus, here are some substitutes you might use to liven up my prose: absurd, addled, asinine, bathothic, bereft of reason, blunder (should be used often), bubbles in the head, demented, deranged, farcical, fatuous, futility, grotesque, humbug, imbecilic, irrational, ludicrous, lunatic, nonsense, parody, poppycock, rubbish, senseless, silly, stupid, travesty, twaddle, and more of your own devising.
Redundancies
You will soon realize that there are a number of points I'll make over and over – which is what redundancies mean.
I've done so for two reasons:
• I assume that many of you will peruse this book randomly as certain chapters appeal to your interests. I, however, do not want you to miss points that could be in a chapter you skipped.
• I absolutely want to bludgeon you with certain ideas and philosophies essential for you to adopt if we are to diminish government. Frequent repetition is a way to emphasize new ideas.
Sources of Information
It would be appropriate to note that freedom and the workings of government have always been a significant interest of mine and I have used copious amounts of my spare time to gain knowledge in these fields.
I am a voracious reader, often reading four or five newspapers a day and 60 or 75 magazines monthly, as well as being an addicted book buyer.
So that you may have a idea of where my reading stands in the political spectrum, I've listed on my web site – www.getridofpoliticians.com – the newspapers and magazines I typically read. Any specific data or statistical information I have used in this book generally has been derived from one or more of these sources. I have deliberately chosen not to footnote any facts or statistics, for to do so would cause so many foots that Nike could start up a new division to shod them all.
I have done no original research.
Any mistakes you might find are obviously the fault of others. If you'll contact me I'll be glad to identify the dolt who provided me with the information so that you can write them snitty letters.
I have also deliberately chosen to round off most statistics as I think that "one quarter" or over 60% is more understandable and memorable that 23.77, or 61.87%. Such precision often occludes rather than clarifies.
Correspondence
Since the purpose of this book is to be provocative and to begin a quiet but real revolution, it is likely some of you might want to suggest other ideas or to tell me off with some vigor. Here's how.
By conventional post: Frank Villani
PMB #135, 2080 Whittaker Rd.
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
By Phone: Please don't call me, I get enough solicitation calls now. However I do want your thoughts if you'll have the courtesy to write them down.
By Fax: 734-483-3060. Keep it short please; the fax paper magazine holds only 100 sheets
By Web Site: www.getridofpoliticians.com. Click on comments.
By E-mail: comments [ at ] getridofpoliticians.com. Again please keep it short; one finger rests on the Delete Key at all times.
By Other Means: To those of you who want to deliver your message wrapped around a medium-sized rock, my house has no front windows of any consequence. Your throwing arm will have to be quite accurate and strong to make an impression.
To arrange for
Speaking Engagements: Write to my agent, Franco Villano, at any of the above addresses. He will call you.
Should there be subsequent editions of this book (oh please, Lord, let there be!), I will be pleased to credit all suggestions that I use should you wish to be credited. Let me know in your correspondence.
Chapter 1-4: Author's Introduction
Since I'm being presumptive enough to write a book suggesting how you can rid your life of parasitic politicians and the 90% of government you don't need, you are entitled to know who I am and what my qualifications are for writing such a book.
If this were a typical publishing blurb, it would read like this:
Frank Villani was born in New York City in 1931. While he attended college for far too many years, he is a relatively self-educated man. He has been ruminating about things political throughout his fifty-year career as a manufacturers' representative. He recently decided to put his ruminations on how to remove politicians into a book. This book of ruminations is the compilation of these ruminations and where he has also learned how not to overuse a word like ruminations. The author was assisted in writing this book by that eminent economic philosopher Igotem Youdon't.
A number of research foundations and think tanks have considered asking Mr. Villani to join their group, but most have thought better of it and withdrawn their offers.
Obviously, this does not tell you nearly enough to put in perspective the ideas I will present for your consideration. Here, therefore; is a bit more complete biography to assuage your curiosity and my vanity. A sunderingly boring but more extensively detailed biography appears on the web site – www.getridofpoliticians.com
My resume summary is as follows:
College degrees: None
Honorary degrees: None
Prestigious jobs: None
Honorific committees: None
Respected appointments: None
Please note that I do not intend to demean the accomplishments of my life by noting the lack of formal certificates. Those who know me are aware that neither my ego nor my accomplishments need formal acknowledgment.
I never served in the military. Born in 1931 in New York City, I was too young for World War II and never called for the Korean War.
My mother was a second generation daughter of an Irish coalminer. My father was a teen aged immigrant from Italy.
I skated through high school with a D+ average and failed at three colleges: Fordham University in NYC, General Motors Institute (GMI) in Flint, Michigan and Lawrence Institute of Technology in Detroit. While at GMI – a terrific college, I was introduced to factories where they actually made things. I loved all that went on in the factories, but I couldn't stand the bureaucracy of either GM or Ford, and at age 24, married with two children I struck out on my own and became an independent manufacturer's representative. In those days (early '50s), before semi conductors or electronics, I began by selling aircraft fuel and hydraulic systems. With the introduction of semiconductors, my organization then began its evolutions from discrete semiconductors through integrated circuits to simple computer systems and finally to complex computer imaging systems. Along the way I tried and failed at being a manufacturer (good salesman, lousy manager).
Most – not all but most – of my life has been successful.
As you can see I have no particular qualifications, other than my own observations, to speak on matters governmental. I offer my comments and ideas for you to consider and ask you to judge them on their merits.
I hope this book will be different from the hundreds, or even thousands, of books that litanize the ills of our society without ever telling you what can be done, except for some typical lame last paragraph with an innocuous bromide such as "make sure your politicians become more honest." Fat chance – right after flying pigs!
"Pigs In Loose Formation"
This book has dozens and dozens of concrete ways you can change government – some easy to implement and others quite difficult – difficult because politicians don't want to let go of their power or their ability to steal your money legally!
Let Us Begin –
Take Power From Politicians
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Get Rid Of Politicians!