After 30 years of watching, listening, reading, and following the results of failed promises on both sides of the isle, backed by real policies that have consistently made the quality of life worse for all Americans, I am FED UP.
We need solutions, not lip service.
We need common goals, not party-line enemies.
We need opportunity and innovation, not obsolescence by technology and sending jobs overseas.
Look at the choices we've been given as a result of our two party system. Old, and either bat shit crazy, or dumb and tired. And it's debatable as to which is which depending on your choice of "programming" on TV and social media exposure. Or should I say that because of these things, everyone's opinion is a forgone conclusion.
I refuse to sit back and wear a colored hat and insist that anyone wearing a different colored hat is an idiot or to hate any of my fellow Americans, especially when I don't agree with them. Diversity and different perspectives are Americas greatest strength. We must recognize this.
I will make certain that all Americans keep our freedoms, that we remain protected from hyperinflation and price gouging, and that Washington, D.C. stays focused on providing incentives for small and medium sized American businesses to stimulate innovation and support our middle class. I will do this by protecting businesses with robust antitrust regulation that stops unfair market consolidation by mega-corporations. And I’ll do it by eliminating subsidiary programs that prop up unsustainable Mega-corporate business models and control market prices, because that's not what they're for, and no business should ever be too big to fail or price controlled by the government. That's not Capitalism, and that's not America.
I vow to restore the balance of power in Washington, and the levers of influence into the hands of the people where they belong. I vow to restore the constraints of government authority that are clearly defined in the constitution, and end the abridgement of those constraints by illegitimate statutes and unethical prosecution with unconstitutional authority. I vow to redefine, by executive order, the primary purpose of all departmental agencies, to that of protecting our people and our environment from institutions and any criminals that hide behind them, so that they may never again be used to deny or harm any individual American or our God given right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
America is opportunity, America is hope, America is diversity and strength in unity, with liberty for all. America is all these things because America is people just like you and I, working to make the kind of life we want to live in, together. We are the United States of America! We are not corporate conglomerations, or foreign interests, and should not be folks divided over wealth, race, religion, or partisan politics. We are a nation of free PEOPLE united in our cause to remain peacefully free and abundant.
It's time to change DC from meaning "doesn't care", back to Washington Does Care, about people, about justice, and about our freedoms. It's time to get Back to the Basics of governing in America. It is time, to turn the apparatus of government away from subjecting its people, and use it as a shield facing towards all those who would have us subjected and rule over us. It's time to get back to the common sense of protecting our liberties, as sovereign and free people, unbiased and unafraid of our government, because we know it works for us. It's time for a strong and proud America. It's time to let DC go to work for you. #DCKERSEY
Have any of you asked yourselves yet; What are we all working toward, like as a whole, as a nation, as a human race? What are we building here? What are we supposed to be building, and for who?
That's not a socialist or communist or some other Marxist question. In fact, what it is, is the ultimate capitalist question, what's in it for me? And I have not heard a single "leader" answer it my whole life. not a politician anyway, and certainly not a candidate for president. Most of them just talk about wars and taxes and this magical unicorn called "the economy", understandably, right. But what are we doing here folks? What does a better way of life actually look like? And why the hell aren't we all working towards that together, as a common goal?
It is high time, that we define, (because we're really into defining and redefining these days), that we define, together and as a nation of diverse people, what life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is. That's a conversation I will be honored to lead America in when you elect me. Our elders used to know the answer, and I think that we've misplaced it or forgot about it somehow. I mean, just look at congress. Half of them are in diapers with dentures and they look tired, and the other, younger half, is being forced to shut up and tow the line or be forced to lose their seats when and if they actually attempt to represent their constituents, you know, US, rather than corporate lobbyists who are literally handing them legislation to pass.
I will define and discuss in a weekly address, as an ongoing conversation with my fellow Americans, what it is to have a good quality of life, and things that can and ought to be done for us all to get there. So we all might share the road and acquire at least a common goal of what this grand pursuit of happiness is, and together obliterate any separatist and foreign agenda or other attack on the soul of our nation.
At first, when you look at stuff like imports as a consumer you think, oh wow, cool. I can get this thing for so cheap. I don't know how they make it and send it from half way around the world so cheap, but they do, and I love it. You love it, right? Of course we do. We all love affordable and nice things. And we should.
But what if I told you that BECAUSE we paid a little less than if we made stuff right here domestically, now every dollar in all our pockets, is becoming worth less and less and less. the dollar is literally only worth HALF of what it was just a few years ago. How cheap is that stuff now? Our "representatives" have "negotiated" and "traded" a few years of cheap stuff for our entire nations economic security. Just look around at how many towns are absolutely devastated in every state, with folks on welfare and no work substantial enough to provide for a family of even 3 on a single income. That's not America. Is it?
I'm not going to pass blame on any one person or party, because ultimately the problem is systemic to globalization and decades old foreign and financial policy decisions and antiquated strategies including lopsided subsidies and tariffs, with outsourcing and consolidation exacerbating the situation. All of which has left the Fed Reserve Bank essentially stranded in a position of becoming directly influenced by nations with poor economic stability largely due to exponential increases of quantitative fiscal easing on their part and by their governments.
Do you know what happens when you double the amount of currency in a nations economy? Well you do now. Was any of this in America's best interest? Maybe if you're a multinational corporation, not Americans as individuals, because all our money is worth half of what it just was. Ask yourselves why the same groceries that used to cost $400/month in 2021 now cost $800. What "happens" to the folks who retired with just enough savings to live comfortably now that they can no longer work, and now that all those decades of labor and saving and investing is only worth half? What happens when all your future earning power is half of what it was? Rhetorical questions because we're living through it.
How do we fix it?
We have to stop relying on an imbalanced trade system and stop printing money basically. Or at least work towards that end. Here's how I will address that:
I will order all tariffs be investigated and certified across all business sectors and compared with domestic production costs and prices to ensure imports have no advantage over domestic manufacturing, and raise them where we need to. (Like we should have been doing all along and without question.) but that's not all.
I will implement a transparent system irrevocably and directly linking tariffs and subsidies together, allowing for sustainable global trade with other nations and economies while protecting the value of our dollar and our economy. This means that all tariff money collected will be sequestered specifically for exported goods, and made available on demand and as needed to and for our exporters.
I will order that incentives be added to the tax code, allowing domestic small businesses to increase inventories without paying tax on moneys earned and reinvested that way.
I will order that the regulations of quantitative initiatives and fiscal practices be limited to within sound principles and remain strictly and directly related to population enumeration. (See Blog-Controlling Inflation)
I will order that no pricing be forced (fixed) on private markets or commodities due to or resulting from any government subsidies and subsidy programs. That all agriculture, livestock, farming and other sectors with exports remain free of any and all pricing controls from government. And I will restore robust antitrust laws to combat harmful business practices, and encourage organic growth in order to secure jobs for our middle class.
You will get to start being paid what you're worth.
You will get to compete in a free and fair American marketplace.
You will have the same incentives and opportunity to invest in yourselves and build personal wealth for your families that large multinational conglomerates enjoy.
And you can all start living the American dream of actually building our lives and a future for our children, giving them advantage and opportunity that's better than what we have now for ourselves.
It's not that there's a lot to fix. We just have to stop enabling corporate fascism and prevent foreign interests from actively destroy everything we built, for profits alone. We have to agree on common sense governing for the people.
I can and will do exactly that. That's what you get when you vote for DC Kersey as your #48.
Anyone who has ever played the game of monopoly can tell you how business and banking consolidation ends. I am a firm supporter of a free and regulated capital market economy. It has been proven time and again, that people, societies and nations economies thrive the most and have the best quality of life, when two things align. People have the opportunity to make for themselves the best that they may; and harmful consolidation of businesses and markets is prevented by logical regulation.
In order to protect America from (all enemies foreign and domestic) those who continue to relentlessly and recklessly pursue corporate control over nation states and self governance of and by a nation's people, we cannot allow any level of consolidation beyond benign failure. No business or bank or institution shall reach immunity to failure in the United States. I will strengthen departmental authority to prosecute antitrust laws and protect America, and in turn the global economy, from further catastrophic failures.
For more in depth information on this and other Departmental Restructuring, see my blog.
Did you know that there are currently over 2000 open and active bills that are stalled in congress? In business we call that a clusterstuck, only with an F. Congress can't even agree to disagree on these.
I will file an executive order that immediately veto's all active bills from previous congressional assemblies, and a standing veto by proclamation that allows no more bills than the current number of states be availed an active status at any given time, including and especially appropriations bills. Further, I will instate Veto Pro tempore Non Grata, that no bill remain active and unresolved beyond the currently elected body having introduced it. Any stalled bills shall be withdrawn and may be reintroduced by the newly elected congress. Bills should be voted up or down and be done within 90 days, period.
It's time to get back to the basics of governing, and that means providing a clear and wide path for congress to succeed in representing people, not money (as the courts foolishly and incomprehensibly decided), not corporations, not monopolies.
Yeah I have a few I'll be proposing. All of which strengthen the binding limitations of government authority and purview, and clarify that All power resides with the people as sovereign and not subjects. Check my blog to read them.