Bill Cosby has done it again...
Nothing we haven't all said.. but not so eloquently.
BACK TO CASH AND CARRY WOULD HELP ALSO!
Bill Cosby has a great way of "distilling"things. Looks like he's done it again!
AMERICA NEEDS A CANDIDATE WITH THIS PLATFORM!!
I HAVE DECIDED TO BECOME A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IN THE YEAR 2012..
HERE IS MY PLATFORM:
(1). Any use of the phrase: 'Press 1 for English' is immediately banned.
English is the official language;
speak it or wait outside of our borders until you can.
(2). We will immediately go into a two year isolationist attitude
in order to straighten out the greedy big business posture in this country.
America will allow NO imports, and we'll do no exports.
We will use the 'Wal-Mart's policy,
'If we ain't got it, you don't need it.' We'll make it here and sell it here!
(3). When imports are allowed, there will be a 100% import tax on it coming in here.
(4). All retired military personnel will be required to man one of the many observation towers located on the southern border of the United States (six month tour). They will be under strict orders not to fire onSOUTHBOUND aliens.
(5). Social Security will immediately return to its original state.
If you didn't put nuttin in, you ain't gettin nuttin out.
Neither the President nor any other politician will be able to touch it.
(6). Welfare. -- Checks will be handed out on Fridays,
at the end of the 40 hour school week,
the successful completion of a urinalysis test for drugs,
and passing grades.
(7). Professional Athletes -- Steroids? The FIRST time you check positive you're banned from sports ... for life.
(8). Crime -- We will adopt the Turkish method, i.e., the first time you steal,
you lose your right hand.
There is no more 'life sentences'.
If convicted of murder,
you will be put to death by the same method you chose for the victim you killed:
gun, knife, strangulation, etc.
(9). One export of ours will be allowed:
wheat; because the world needs to eat.
However, a bushel of wheat will be the exact price of a barrel of oil.
(10). All foreign aid, using American taxpayer money,
will immediately cease and the saved money will help to pay off the national debt and,
ultimately, lower taxes.
When disasters occur around the world,
we'll ask The American People if they want to donate to a disaster fund,
and each citizen can make the decision as to whether, or not, it's a worthy cause.
(11). The Pledge of Allegiance will be said every day at school and every day in Congress.
(12). The National Anthem will be played at all appropriate ceremonies, sporting events, outings, etc.
My apology is offered if I've stepped on anyone's toes ..... nevertheless....
__________________ I keep tellin ya Doc, I'm in pretty good shape considerin the shape I'm in !!
I can't get behind all of it, especially not the Sharia Law concept of punishment espoused in No. 8. That's against all of our religious and legal principles. There's something to be said for the idea of making the punishment fit the crime, but it would never survive a court challenge. Besides, as practiced in this country at present I can't agree to capital punishment. There have been too many cases of the innocent being sent to death row and later exonerated. I also disagree with the drawn-out process of appeals that results in a 15 year lag on average between conviction and execution. If you were to go back to the policy of public hangings - "three clear Sundays," the way the British used to do it, meaning three weeks after being convicted you were dropped through the gallows floor - perhaps I could get behind it. More to the point, by executing in public the evildoers of this country might see that the High Justice is nothing to risk, though I may be attributing more morals and sense of conscience to the criminals of America than they deserve. But given the legal climate, I say let's replace capital punishment with life without parole under Supermax conditions. No human contact. Locked in an 8 by 10 foot cell 23 hours a day and fed from trays. Let the prisoners have razor blades and easy to cut up sheets and blankets, and a reinforcing bar ostensibly for exercise 7 feet above the floor. Then just leave them to rot. If they know they are guilty and commit suicide, so much the better. If they are in fact innocent, evidence might exonerate them and they could be released. But it would only cost $50,000 a year to keep a prisoner, versus an average of $3 million to execute him over the course of 15 years. You do the math.
No.1: no argument. We need a Constitutional Amendment to support this, despite the fact something like 36 states have laws explicitly establishing English as the language of their states.
No. 2 is just silly. We can't survive without exporting to other nations. On the other hand, adopting the Trade Reform Act postulated by Tom Clancy in his Jack Ryan Saga would be salutary. It would certainly level the playing field with regard to the ChiComs and the Japanese, both of whom go out of their way to keep our products out of their markets. It might even wake up the Arabs to the fact we Americans don't enjoy being treated like pond scum by those we buy from.
No. 3 won't work either. All it would do is kick off a trade war. And most people are unaware that to keep our economy going, we have to have 86 strategic materials. We only produce about 16 or 18 of them domestically at levels sufficient to keep our standard of living at its current level. All the rest, from aluminum to ytterbium, are imported. We can't do what whoever wrote this phony Cosby posting advocates and survive. Were we to try, it would kick off a depression that would make the 1930s look like Paradise by comparison.
Nos. 4, 5 and 6: no problem. Can we get Merchant Mariners considered to be veterans for the purpose of walking their tour of guard duty on the border?
No. 7 would suit me. Too much emphasis is placed on sports in this country at all levels. I also don't think that sports either build character or teach leadership and teamwork, as the sports propagandists desperately try to convince the public. All it does is expose impressionable youth to morons whose idea of "building character" is to run their teams by the Vince Lombardi Axiom: "Winning isn't everything; it's the ONLY thing." Lombardi himself was a good man and a great coach, but his acolytes are a bunch of hyperthyroid jackasses who should not only not be allowed to coach children, but be forbidden to breed. Sports is a diversion, an entertainment. It's not as vital to moving the nation ahead as the dumbjocks so desperately want to believe. One really gifted teacher is worth far more than an entire football team of athletes.
No. 9 is not totally absurd. Peg the valuation of foodstuffs to be exported to some percentage of the price of oil, perhaps, but not at par. There are other sources of wheat and corn. Cereals are a renewable resource. Oil isn't. You really can't compare the two.
No. 10 might be a good idea, especially if before we institute it we kick the UN out of the United States and tell them where to head in. Even with all our faults, we are still, as Abe Lincoln put it, "the last, best hope of mankind." When the member nations of the UN can live up to our Constitution and stable system of government, then we might invite them back - on sufferance.
Nos. 11 and 12 - no argument. I'd also make the viewing of Red Skelton's monologue that breaks down the Pledge of Allegiance one word and phrase at a time mandatory viewing at least once a year by the nation. Maybe a couple of times a year, like Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and every September 11th.
I could get behind a candidate with a modified version of this platform. Thing is, in neither party would such a candidate have a prayer of any support from the party machines that pick candidates. What we need is another Teddy Roosevelt. A lot of these points would strike a chord with him, I think. Of course, TR was an American original, and folks like him are always in short supply. Which is a pity; we need them by the truckload!
you think we're on the road to a fascist state now?
What I don't understand is why the people who write these things feel the need to validate them by putting the name of some celebrity on them. George carlin is another who, by internet accounts, is one of the most prolific political theorists of all time.
__________________ A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it an appearance of being right-Thomas Paine
I do not believe 98% of what I read on the internet, and the other 2% I really doubt. That was not the point. No matter whose face they stick on it, I still like the platform !!
__________________ I keep tellin ya Doc, I'm in pretty good shape considerin the shape I'm in !!
