Finally, we can maintain consumer spending and keep the economy robust by simply changing the tax code to favor the U.S. worker-consumer. The best way to get cash in the hands of the American people is to dump the income tax and IRS immediately...no tax rebate checks, just let them keep the money they have earned, to wit: Replace the income tax with a national value-added tax or sales tax. No more hiding ten million dollar purchases or write-offs as some kind of deductible expense. If we want to be frugal, our taxes won't amount to much and we will save more than we ever have for a comfortable retirement.
Our tax plan will exempt all small business owners from a Federal corporate income tax if their gross receipts are less than $100,000,000 per year. A nation's economic growth is dependent upon the strength of its small business industries and entrepreneurs. If we cut them loose from government taxation and bureaucratic harassment, the small business community will show us how to rebuild America.
We should forever eliminate double taxation laws, e.g. (a) Capital Gains Taxes and (b) The Death Tax. Retired Americans have not worked their entire lives to lose much of their savings and investments to double taxation. Why should the government inherit the money intended for family endowment? Taxes have already been payed on that earned income. Terminate capital gains taxes and watch business investment grow at unprecedented rates. If we want to compete with China and India, we'd better stop punishing investors.
In conclusion, I'd like to remind you that the energy business is financially the largest on earth and our conversion to a renewable-energy economy could create new jobs and clean air virtually forever. If we continue on our current self-destructive path by pandering to Big Oil and their two-party-system partners in crime, we will destroy the world economy and mother earth and her people in the not too distant future. If we take the path of our RenewE plan, we can knock Big Oil and Republican and Democratic politicians who aid and abet them solidly on their collective derrieres and stop the energy stranglehold they have on the American people. We can't do it with Congress' business-as-usual behavior. The politicians will always screw things up, to wit: I recently saw a news flash on TV where George Bush, while promising to spend billions of dollars on alternative energy sources and promising as usual, that you'll be paying less for gas at the pump, apparently was unaware that his U.S. Transportation Department has simultaneously proposed to raise the Federal gasoline tax significantly. The Political God Giveth and the Political God Taketh Away...I rest my case.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Continuation of Platform #25, Sec. D
There are several ways to pay for the renewable-energy economy and each of these paths are an integral part of our issues platform. Platform Issue #1: Stop the War Now: Bring home our troops from Iraq, Afghanistan, and all corners of the world now. Troops pulled from non-combat zones like Korea and Europe will be deployed on the Mexican border to stop the invasion of the U.S. by illegal aliens, drug pushers, and terrorists. This will provide billions to invest in RenewE.
In a December 2007 article, N.Y. Times columnist Bob Herbert wrote that Nobel Prize winning
economist Joseph Stiglitz calculated that the true cost of the wars would ultimately exceed $1 trillion and maybe even $2 trillion. Various government figures suggested the long-term cost of the wars could be in the vicinity of $3.5 trillion. That's estimated to be 10 times the cost of free health care for all Americans. With many dollars left over, we could easily fund our renewable energy plan and begin to repair our crumbling infrastructures, all of which would create jobs and clean air.
Another mother lode to be tapped (Platform Issue #2) stop illegal aliens from invading the United States, deport those who are already here illegally (no amnesty ever), who are sucking-up our financial resources via free health care, education and the illegals' crime, D.U.I. escapades, and their imprisonment. Some estimate it's costing us billions and could hit a trillion over the next few years.
How about the billions we spend on Federal subsidy programs...the king of them all, $285 billion in farm subsidies for billionaire gentlemen farmers, while the family farmer struggles and sees small family farms gobbled up when they can no longer make it? How about the global political giveaway programs, e.g.: the World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, whose loans often are not repaid because billions go to dictators who flee with most of the money to any country that will have them and their billions...and the continuing foreign-aid program and our UN membership.
We would like to propose another source of money that could contribute significantly to our RenewE program. Have the President direct the U.S. Justice Department to prosecute CEO's of banks, mortgage and insurance companies who are putting our economy into a recession that could turn into a full-blown depression via the sub-prime debacle. Along with fining them billions, the CEO's should be sentenced to at least one year of weekend prison time to teach them a valuable lesson about gluttony. This action would also prohibit free passes - meaning no mortgage subsidies - for real estate speculators, and home buyers who should have known they couldn't afford the homes they bought. Incidentally, perhaps we should add the U.S. Congress to our list of sub-prime enablers...a January 2008 article by perhaps the best economist around, Walter Williams reveals that Congress promoted sub-prime lending. Dr. Williams wrote: "As with most economic problems, we find the hand of government. The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, whose provisions were strengthened during the Clinton Administration, is a federal law that mandates lenders to offer credit throughout their entire market and discourages them from restricting their credit services to high-income markets, a practice known as redlining. In other words, the Community Reinvestment Act encourages banks and thrifts to make loans to riskier customers.
(To be continued)
In a December 2007 article, N.Y. Times columnist Bob Herbert wrote that Nobel Prize winning
economist Joseph Stiglitz calculated that the true cost of the wars would ultimately exceed $1 trillion and maybe even $2 trillion. Various government figures suggested the long-term cost of the wars could be in the vicinity of $3.5 trillion. That's estimated to be 10 times the cost of free health care for all Americans. With many dollars left over, we could easily fund our renewable energy plan and begin to repair our crumbling infrastructures, all of which would create jobs and clean air.
Another mother lode to be tapped (Platform Issue #2) stop illegal aliens from invading the United States, deport those who are already here illegally (no amnesty ever), who are sucking-up our financial resources via free health care, education and the illegals' crime, D.U.I. escapades, and their imprisonment. Some estimate it's costing us billions and could hit a trillion over the next few years.
How about the billions we spend on Federal subsidy programs...the king of them all, $285 billion in farm subsidies for billionaire gentlemen farmers, while the family farmer struggles and sees small family farms gobbled up when they can no longer make it? How about the global political giveaway programs, e.g.: the World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, whose loans often are not repaid because billions go to dictators who flee with most of the money to any country that will have them and their billions...and the continuing foreign-aid program and our UN membership.
We would like to propose another source of money that could contribute significantly to our RenewE program. Have the President direct the U.S. Justice Department to prosecute CEO's of banks, mortgage and insurance companies who are putting our economy into a recession that could turn into a full-blown depression via the sub-prime debacle. Along with fining them billions, the CEO's should be sentenced to at least one year of weekend prison time to teach them a valuable lesson about gluttony. This action would also prohibit free passes - meaning no mortgage subsidies - for real estate speculators, and home buyers who should have known they couldn't afford the homes they bought. Incidentally, perhaps we should add the U.S. Congress to our list of sub-prime enablers...a January 2008 article by perhaps the best economist around, Walter Williams reveals that Congress promoted sub-prime lending. Dr. Williams wrote: "As with most economic problems, we find the hand of government. The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, whose provisions were strengthened during the Clinton Administration, is a federal law that mandates lenders to offer credit throughout their entire market and discourages them from restricting their credit services to high-income markets, a practice known as redlining. In other words, the Community Reinvestment Act encourages banks and thrifts to make loans to riskier customers.
(To be continued)
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Continuation of Platform Position #25, Sec. C
Another recent rising star in the renewable energy galaxy is offshore wind turbines and the ubiquitous wave-surf and tide power. As usual, it takes a foreign country - Scotland - to take the lead over the U.S. whose potential in this arena is colossal because of our 12,378-mile coastline. The U.K. with only 7,700 miles of coastline is on schedule to hopefully replace 100,000 workers in their reserve-dwindling North Sea oil and gas industry.
To satisfy environmentalists, the plan will employ the largest wind turbines in 150-feet-deep water, 15 miles offshore. Each turbine blade measures about the length of a football field. In this one small area of coastal Scotland, the project will build a 200-turbine wind farm that is expected to provide enough electricity for a million people, one fifth of Scotland's total population. And it is renewable forever and will contribute to keeping the region's air pure for as long as people live there. No oil and no coal involved, partially because they don't have the U.S. Congress to interfere with the project.
Additionally, the U.K. anticipates it will generate approximately 20% of its energy needs from renewable sources. Assisting in making that goal attainable will be the new technology being developed to bring to fruition the harnessing of energy from tidal power and wave-surf power along their coastline. In just this one small area of Scotland there is so much potential that they're beginning to call it the Saudi Arabia of tidal power. Can you imagine what could be accomplished with this ocean-power technology on our long coastline? Jobs and more jobs with clean, sweet air. We'd be on our way to oil and coal independence with a vibrant economy and a strong resistance to global warming. Maybe with congress and the money-sucking two-party system out of the way, the people just may decide to ax the current financial subsidies to "ailing" Big Oil, and use those funds to provide interest-free loans to entrepreneurs who would just love to start up renewable-energy companies. We can accomplish that with our Direct Democracy Platform Issue #3. (See our Website Flowers4Prez for more details)
Another sector of renewable energy whose geological life and renew ability is eternal, but gets no mention from the presidential candidates, is geothermal power. In a current study at MIT the report concluded that geothermal energy and its peak performance time would be almost always (24/7).
One other report in the McClatchy Newspapers indicated that just one portion of the Cascades of Oregon has enough geothermal potential to produce 1000 megawatts of electricity, equivalent to that from a large nuclear-power plant (without the danger of leaking plutonium.) The same story referred to Nevada's known potential for becoming the Saudi Arabia of Geothermal Energy.
Can we conclude that geothermal energy can produce thousands of new jobs and more clean air? You bet! So where are our presidential candidates on this vast renewable-energy potential! Apparently they feel there's more job creation and clean-air potential in issuing no-medication band aide welfare checks.
In an article published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal by Tom Werner and Matt Cheney, the writers come up with some astounding numbers. They claim Nevada alone has 100,000 megawatts of potential solar resources just waiting to be tapped and converted into renewable and affordable energy. (10,000 megawatts is equivalent to power provided by one large nuclear-power plant) That's enough energy to power 20 million households. Nevada doesn't even have four million households. Yet Nevada politicians are bringing in more coal plants!
(To be continued)
To satisfy environmentalists, the plan will employ the largest wind turbines in 150-feet-deep water, 15 miles offshore. Each turbine blade measures about the length of a football field. In this one small area of coastal Scotland, the project will build a 200-turbine wind farm that is expected to provide enough electricity for a million people, one fifth of Scotland's total population. And it is renewable forever and will contribute to keeping the region's air pure for as long as people live there. No oil and no coal involved, partially because they don't have the U.S. Congress to interfere with the project.
Additionally, the U.K. anticipates it will generate approximately 20% of its energy needs from renewable sources. Assisting in making that goal attainable will be the new technology being developed to bring to fruition the harnessing of energy from tidal power and wave-surf power along their coastline. In just this one small area of Scotland there is so much potential that they're beginning to call it the Saudi Arabia of tidal power. Can you imagine what could be accomplished with this ocean-power technology on our long coastline? Jobs and more jobs with clean, sweet air. We'd be on our way to oil and coal independence with a vibrant economy and a strong resistance to global warming. Maybe with congress and the money-sucking two-party system out of the way, the people just may decide to ax the current financial subsidies to "ailing" Big Oil, and use those funds to provide interest-free loans to entrepreneurs who would just love to start up renewable-energy companies. We can accomplish that with our Direct Democracy Platform Issue #3. (See our Website Flowers4Prez for more details)
Another sector of renewable energy whose geological life and renew ability is eternal, but gets no mention from the presidential candidates, is geothermal power. In a current study at MIT the report concluded that geothermal energy and its peak performance time would be almost always (24/7).
One other report in the McClatchy Newspapers indicated that just one portion of the Cascades of Oregon has enough geothermal potential to produce 1000 megawatts of electricity, equivalent to that from a large nuclear-power plant (without the danger of leaking plutonium.) The same story referred to Nevada's known potential for becoming the Saudi Arabia of Geothermal Energy.
Can we conclude that geothermal energy can produce thousands of new jobs and more clean air? You bet! So where are our presidential candidates on this vast renewable-energy potential! Apparently they feel there's more job creation and clean-air potential in issuing no-medication band aide welfare checks.
In an article published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal by Tom Werner and Matt Cheney, the writers come up with some astounding numbers. They claim Nevada alone has 100,000 megawatts of potential solar resources just waiting to be tapped and converted into renewable and affordable energy. (10,000 megawatts is equivalent to power provided by one large nuclear-power plant) That's enough energy to power 20 million households. Nevada doesn't even have four million households. Yet Nevada politicians are bringing in more coal plants!
(To be continued)
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Continuation of Platform Position #25, Sec. B
Keep in mind that various forms of Ethanol additives, especially sweet Ethanol can indeed end Big Oils' and politicians' energy stranglehold on the consumer. My administration will offer zero-interest government loans to entrepreneurs who want to start sweet Ethanol farming and production and the same for starting wind, solar and geothermal energy source development. How can entrepreneurs start up alternative energy businesses on that tired old congressional promise of extensive tax credits, when it's not tax credit they need? It takes cash loans to start the business before they can make profits to use tax credits. Remember, with Ethanol you can begin replacing oil in one year, and it's renewable!
So, let's take a look at some true facts and features of sweet Ethanol: A recent headline in Investors Business Daily stated: Brazil Achieves Independence from Foreign Oil. It went on to say: After 15 years of research and experimentation, Brazil transforms the biggest sugar-cane growing country in the world into a nation that replaces 85% of its gasoline usage with sugar-based Ethanol.
During the past five years, Brazil has allocated half of its enormous sugar-cane crop for Ethanol fuel production, thus reducing its need to import foreign oil and simultaneously reducing its negative balance of payments burden. Furthermore the reduction of sugar supply on world markets - from this change of crop allocation - raised the world price of sugar to a decent level, kept millions of farmers and farm workers at their jobs and kept tens of thousands of farmers from losing their farms. Recently most countries around the world have been sending large scientific delegations to Brazil to study their successful Ethanol programs, except one...you guessed it, the U.S.
A Uof C at Berkley study estimated that Ethanol (corn-based) could replace 20-30% of fuel usage in the U.S. with little effort in just a few years, but you can start the replacement in one year. Furthermore and most critically, the 15-year Brazilian study clearly demonstrated that sugar-based Ethanol would replace much more fossil fuel than corn-based. Some estimates go as high as a 40% fuel replacement using sugar instead of corn.
From a cost perspective, consider the following startling comparisons: It costs more than five billion dollars and five to ten years to build a new oil refinery; it costs one billion to construct an oil-drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico and five to seven million a day to operate it. And it takes years to bring that oil to market, and...once that field is depleted, the oil is gone...you want more, build another platform, because crude oil is not renewable.
On the other hand it takes 12 months to complete construction of an Ethanol plant...costs vary depending on desired capacity...$50 to $150 million for up to 100 million gallons to market a year. And, sugar-based Ethanol is truly renewable. You grow the same beet and cane crops on the same land and use the same Ethanol processing plant, year after year. (Most sugar-cane species yield two or three crops a year perennially.) You spend billions all over again to find more oil...with Ethanol, you spend no more unless you want to increase your Ethanol production capacity and crop yield. The most prolific sugar-beet farmers are found in the colder Northern states. One of the leading growers of beets is Michigan...yet there are only two Ethanol plants in operation. Michigan can use a minimum of five plants over the next five years and probably more thereafter.
The State of Minnesota is a big sugar-beet grower and they appear to be far ahead of the pack, in that they have six operating plants and two more under construction. But, there is a state law that prohibits gas stations from selling gasoline mixed with anything but sugar-based Ethanol, not even corn-based. That's why our RenewE program will offer Ethanol-pump installation grants to gas stations throughout the U.S. The most prolific cane growing states are Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Would you believe that Florida and Texas have no Ethanol plants at all?
The smart play would be to build smaller capacity plants initially to cut down on overall construction costs, e.g.: to build a 100 mil.gal. per year plant, the average cost is between $1-$2/gal. depending on a number of variables. The average cost of building a smaller 35-50 gal.cap. plant is the same, however, the cost of expanding capacity of an existing plant is only .50/gal. So the initial capital outlay is much less costly and it allows you to build more plants in a shorter period of time in a greater number of states that need them yesterday.
In Michigan alone, new Ethanol plants are considered of huge importance to the state's agricultural economy...a recent new Ethanol plant will be keeping 600 farmers in business. Michigan's AG office reports that between 12,000 and 23,000 new jobs will be created each year in Michigan (that's only Michigan), as a result of more farmers and food processors selling products with added value (e.g.: Ethanol, pharmaceutical enzymes and animal feedstocks derived from sugar.) Please keep in mind that any independent Ethanol producer who grows his own cane and/or beets, will stay in business virtually forever, thanks to the renewable continuing supply from their own farms. Besides, land ownership never hurt anybody...it will serve you well forever.
(To be continued)
So, let's take a look at some true facts and features of sweet Ethanol: A recent headline in Investors Business Daily stated: Brazil Achieves Independence from Foreign Oil. It went on to say: After 15 years of research and experimentation, Brazil transforms the biggest sugar-cane growing country in the world into a nation that replaces 85% of its gasoline usage with sugar-based Ethanol.
During the past five years, Brazil has allocated half of its enormous sugar-cane crop for Ethanol fuel production, thus reducing its need to import foreign oil and simultaneously reducing its negative balance of payments burden. Furthermore the reduction of sugar supply on world markets - from this change of crop allocation - raised the world price of sugar to a decent level, kept millions of farmers and farm workers at their jobs and kept tens of thousands of farmers from losing their farms. Recently most countries around the world have been sending large scientific delegations to Brazil to study their successful Ethanol programs, except one...you guessed it, the U.S.
A Uof C at Berkley study estimated that Ethanol (corn-based) could replace 20-30% of fuel usage in the U.S. with little effort in just a few years, but you can start the replacement in one year. Furthermore and most critically, the 15-year Brazilian study clearly demonstrated that sugar-based Ethanol would replace much more fossil fuel than corn-based. Some estimates go as high as a 40% fuel replacement using sugar instead of corn.
From a cost perspective, consider the following startling comparisons: It costs more than five billion dollars and five to ten years to build a new oil refinery; it costs one billion to construct an oil-drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico and five to seven million a day to operate it. And it takes years to bring that oil to market, and...once that field is depleted, the oil is gone...you want more, build another platform, because crude oil is not renewable.
On the other hand it takes 12 months to complete construction of an Ethanol plant...costs vary depending on desired capacity...$50 to $150 million for up to 100 million gallons to market a year. And, sugar-based Ethanol is truly renewable. You grow the same beet and cane crops on the same land and use the same Ethanol processing plant, year after year. (Most sugar-cane species yield two or three crops a year perennially.) You spend billions all over again to find more oil...with Ethanol, you spend no more unless you want to increase your Ethanol production capacity and crop yield. The most prolific sugar-beet farmers are found in the colder Northern states. One of the leading growers of beets is Michigan...yet there are only two Ethanol plants in operation. Michigan can use a minimum of five plants over the next five years and probably more thereafter.
The State of Minnesota is a big sugar-beet grower and they appear to be far ahead of the pack, in that they have six operating plants and two more under construction. But, there is a state law that prohibits gas stations from selling gasoline mixed with anything but sugar-based Ethanol, not even corn-based. That's why our RenewE program will offer Ethanol-pump installation grants to gas stations throughout the U.S. The most prolific cane growing states are Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Would you believe that Florida and Texas have no Ethanol plants at all?
The smart play would be to build smaller capacity plants initially to cut down on overall construction costs, e.g.: to build a 100 mil.gal. per year plant, the average cost is between $1-$2/gal. depending on a number of variables. The average cost of building a smaller 35-50 gal.cap. plant is the same, however, the cost of expanding capacity of an existing plant is only .50/gal. So the initial capital outlay is much less costly and it allows you to build more plants in a shorter period of time in a greater number of states that need them yesterday.
In Michigan alone, new Ethanol plants are considered of huge importance to the state's agricultural economy...a recent new Ethanol plant will be keeping 600 farmers in business. Michigan's AG office reports that between 12,000 and 23,000 new jobs will be created each year in Michigan (that's only Michigan), as a result of more farmers and food processors selling products with added value (e.g.: Ethanol, pharmaceutical enzymes and animal feedstocks derived from sugar.) Please keep in mind that any independent Ethanol producer who grows his own cane and/or beets, will stay in business virtually forever, thanks to the renewable continuing supply from their own farms. Besides, land ownership never hurt anybody...it will serve you well forever.
(To be continued)
Friday, February 29, 2008
Add Platform Issue #25: Creating New Jobs and Clean Air, Transforming the Economy with Renewable Energy
A Platform Position Paper
by Arthur Flowers Independent Candidate for President
For those readers who have lost their lifelong jobs and whose prospects for a new job look non-existent (e.g: in Michigan, South Carolina, Mississippi, etc.), and for those of you who see themselves in the same predicament in the not-so-distant future, don't read this plan at your own peril. Just continue to sit on your complaining dead asses till November. Then vote for Hillary, Obama or McCain, none of whom have the haziest idea of how to revive the economy and create new jobs.
Platform Issue #25, Section A:
February 2, 2008...the business section of the morning paper screams the headline: "U.S. Economy: January Job Cuts Raise Concerns. The labor department reported job losses at 17,000." This is the worst national job loss since 2003. George Bush and the Republican-Democrat presidential candidates are concerned, but what are they doing about it? They propose the usual stimulus-package suspects!
President Bush and the two-party presidential candidates have issued their Economic Stimulus Manifesto. If President Ronald Reagan were alive today, he would be saying: Well, there they go again, meaning: the same old stuff: tax rebates (welfare), extension of job benefits (no new jobs) and the ubiquitous, nauseating tax-credits ploy. Is that all there is? Is this tired, old, worn-out offering going to create new jobs...make our air cleaner? In a few weeks after this law is passed, we'll be back to step one. And then the President and the candidates with their pricey economic advisers will do it all over again. As one journalist so aptly put it...take two tax rebates and call me in the morning.
So, as an Independent Write-In Candidate for President, I am turning to my campaign advisory staff of two, to develop our own common-sense plan to turn our economy around, create new jobs, and cleanse our air. Since we eschew political contributions (bribes), we cannot afford multi-million dollar economic advisers and PR people, so we will rely on what we call our creative intelligence (some call it common-sense). We are not lawyers nor economists, just a couple of plain old Americans completely ignored by the MSM (main stream media).
In our plan, you spend the taxpayers money in a way that doesn't flush it down the toilet in one fell swoop, but instead, the money goes into programs that develop new technologically and environmentally sound jobs continuously over long periods of time, while simultaneously purifying our air via a Renewable Energy Economy (RenewE), which will begin paying off immediately. We shall begin with the star of our Alternative Energy case...sugar-based Ethanol. Have you ever heard politicians talk about sugar-based Ethanol? In Brazil it has been scientifically demonstrated that sugar-based Ethanol produces significantly less polluting emissions and much more power in each gallon of Ethanol, than any other gasoline additive including corn-based Ethanol. Furthermore, sugar-based Ethanol results in significantly better mileage than corn, soy and others.
Equally important is the fact that Ethanol yields per acre for Brazilian sugar-cane and French beet-sugar are roughly double those of American corn, experts say. What's extraordinary about sugar-cane and sugar-beets as an energy source is that it's so incredibly efficient. Many Ethanol feed-stocks, such as corn, wheat, soy, etc. require as much energy to grow and refine as they actually produce in energy. But sugar production actually results in a huge net positive energy gain...about 8:1 energy output to energy input.
(To be continued in next blog)
by Arthur Flowers Independent Candidate for President
For those readers who have lost their lifelong jobs and whose prospects for a new job look non-existent (e.g: in Michigan, South Carolina, Mississippi, etc.), and for those of you who see themselves in the same predicament in the not-so-distant future, don't read this plan at your own peril. Just continue to sit on your complaining dead asses till November. Then vote for Hillary, Obama or McCain, none of whom have the haziest idea of how to revive the economy and create new jobs.
Platform Issue #25, Section A:
February 2, 2008...the business section of the morning paper screams the headline: "U.S. Economy: January Job Cuts Raise Concerns. The labor department reported job losses at 17,000." This is the worst national job loss since 2003. George Bush and the Republican-Democrat presidential candidates are concerned, but what are they doing about it? They propose the usual stimulus-package suspects!
President Bush and the two-party presidential candidates have issued their Economic Stimulus Manifesto. If President Ronald Reagan were alive today, he would be saying: Well, there they go again, meaning: the same old stuff: tax rebates (welfare), extension of job benefits (no new jobs) and the ubiquitous, nauseating tax-credits ploy. Is that all there is? Is this tired, old, worn-out offering going to create new jobs...make our air cleaner? In a few weeks after this law is passed, we'll be back to step one. And then the President and the candidates with their pricey economic advisers will do it all over again. As one journalist so aptly put it...take two tax rebates and call me in the morning.
So, as an Independent Write-In Candidate for President, I am turning to my campaign advisory staff of two, to develop our own common-sense plan to turn our economy around, create new jobs, and cleanse our air. Since we eschew political contributions (bribes), we cannot afford multi-million dollar economic advisers and PR people, so we will rely on what we call our creative intelligence (some call it common-sense). We are not lawyers nor economists, just a couple of plain old Americans completely ignored by the MSM (main stream media).
In our plan, you spend the taxpayers money in a way that doesn't flush it down the toilet in one fell swoop, but instead, the money goes into programs that develop new technologically and environmentally sound jobs continuously over long periods of time, while simultaneously purifying our air via a Renewable Energy Economy (RenewE), which will begin paying off immediately. We shall begin with the star of our Alternative Energy case...sugar-based Ethanol. Have you ever heard politicians talk about sugar-based Ethanol? In Brazil it has been scientifically demonstrated that sugar-based Ethanol produces significantly less polluting emissions and much more power in each gallon of Ethanol, than any other gasoline additive including corn-based Ethanol. Furthermore, sugar-based Ethanol results in significantly better mileage than corn, soy and others.
Equally important is the fact that Ethanol yields per acre for Brazilian sugar-cane and French beet-sugar are roughly double those of American corn, experts say. What's extraordinary about sugar-cane and sugar-beets as an energy source is that it's so incredibly efficient. Many Ethanol feed-stocks, such as corn, wheat, soy, etc. require as much energy to grow and refine as they actually produce in energy. But sugar production actually results in a huge net positive energy gain...about 8:1 energy output to energy input.
(To be continued in next blog)
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Welcome to our initial offering
For our first blog posting, we would like to show you how desperate the two party system candidates are to gain the presidency and how they will stop at nothing to exclude Independents like me, because we are deemed to be some kind of competitive threat to their candidacy. But as you are about to see, this is slowly changing, thanks to a courageous guy named Ralph Nader. Now all we need to do is figure a way to get the American people to stop complaining, get off their dead rumps and do something about it. My candidacy is your only chance. Those of you who vote for McCain, Obama, or Hillary, will get exactly what you deserve by voting for one of them!
About 20 weeks ago, I officially announced my candidacy for the Presidency of the United States as an Independent write-in candidate (I do not solicit for any political contributions). Little did I know that in addition to the barriers put up by my home State of Nevada and the two party system (please read the copy of my letter to the Nevada State Attorney General with my charges below), I'm also having to deal with being shut out by the Main Stream Media (MSM), and even more discriminated against by our own Nevada media...you decide. To wit: (1) we transmitted 17,000 emails (press releases) to political editors of virtually every major newspaper and TV station in the country...20 weeks later, not one word printed anywhere; (2) on the local level, in the same time frame, we have transmitted three emails (each) with the same press release and one letter by post to the following newspapers: LV Review Journal, LV Sun, and Reno Gazette. To date, not one word printed! (There will be much more coming on this issue in the near future and we will name names.)
As stated, I am not asking for any monetary help, only a few minutes of your time to read this missive and the following information. I'm not the only person being deprived of their constitutional rights by these multi-billion dollar politicians and the MSM. Voters everywhere are being deprived of an alternative candidate who could change your life, and your family's lives. Since I would lay odds that the controlling Nevada media will not print a word re: my complaint to Atty. General Masto, I am counting on you. The American people are all I have left in this struggle. (Please read my Platform and see what the word change really means. Log onto http://www.flowers4prez.com/)
The four other states that are pimping for the two party systems candidates are: Louisiana, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Hawaii. (Residents of these states are being screwed by the pols and MSM of those states and not even getting to enjoy it!)
Dear Attorney General Cortez Masto,
In accordance with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and Article I, Sections 1,2 and the first sentence of Section 9, of the Constitution of the State of Nevada, I hereby request that you accept this petition as my official statement to seek redress of my grievances, regarding the abuses and violations of my Federal and State Constitutional rights by the State Government of Nevada.
It is my understanding that the primary duty and responsibility of the State Attorney General is the protection of the state's taxpaying citizenry.
As an announced Independent Write-In candidate for President (see official Press Release enclosed), it is my charge that the State of Nevada is depriving me of my constitutional and civil rights and consequently the same rights of the legal residents of Nevada, by prohibiting me from running as an Independent write-in candidate.
Additionally, it is my charge that the State of Nevada is violating my free speech rights of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Article I, Section 9 of the Nevada State Constitution, which states: "Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish on all subjects being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press."
Recent information indicates that there are 45 states that grant independent candidates access to the write-in process. How are Nevada citizens protected from the state's pernicious practice of shielding the two-party system's candidates from fair competition from Independents like myself, while depriving the public of a viable alternative candidate?
As the approval rating of Congress sinks below the 20% level, many Americans shrink from the electoral process because "there's no real difference between Democrat and Republican candidates." Yet the State of Nevada has errected functional (petition requirement), and monetary barriers (filing fee), that are depriving Nevadans of access to non-party member alternative candidates with an opposing agenda!
Up to now, there has been no clear-cut legal precedent for taking legal action to remedy this discriminatory behavior of several states, however, recently longtime independent candidate Ralph Nader brought a civil lawsuit against the Democratic Party for allegedly sabotaging his 2004 campaign, by charging that: "The Democratic Party is going after anyone who presents a credible challenge to their monopoly over their perceived voters" (McClatchy Newspapers, 10-31-07. All italics herein are mine).
Furthermore, the article went on with another statement which appears to support my complaint, to wit: "This lawsuit was filed to help advance a free and open election process for all candidates and voters," he stated. "Candidates rights and voter rights nourish each other for more voices, choices, and a more open and competitive democracy."
Even before the Nader lawsuit, there has been plenty of Constitutional ammunition to support my complaint. Perhaps one of the most important and egregious violations of my rights is the abridgment of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
It is my charge that I am being denied equal protection of the laws by the State of Nevada, because as an independent candidate whose campaign eschews political contributions, I cannot compete on legislative issues and in election campaigns with unscrupulous lobbyists and the two-party system's money sucking machines. At the same time, the Democrat and Republican candidates, flush with millions of special interest bribe money (contributions) will be on the ballot without having to pay a filing fee or go through the petition process. There is neigher equal protection nor level playing field in my case.
Having aired my complaint as best I can--I am not a lawyer and my campaign boasts a total of two (my wife and yours truly), I hereby formally request that the Nevada Attorney General strike down the no "write-in" law/rule. That action will provide me equal opportunity to provide my platform message to my neighbors and fellow Nevada citizens and allow them to write me in as their choice should they so choose.
Unlike Mr. Nader who is seeking compensatory and punitive damages in his suit against the Democratic Party (for which I'm sure he's justified), I am only asking for a fair shake from my home State of Nevada (as a resident for 18 years), and for taxpayers of this state.
Arthur Flowers
Independent Write-In Candidate for President
About 20 weeks ago, I officially announced my candidacy for the Presidency of the United States as an Independent write-in candidate (I do not solicit for any political contributions). Little did I know that in addition to the barriers put up by my home State of Nevada and the two party system (please read the copy of my letter to the Nevada State Attorney General with my charges below), I'm also having to deal with being shut out by the Main Stream Media (MSM), and even more discriminated against by our own Nevada media...you decide. To wit: (1) we transmitted 17,000 emails (press releases) to political editors of virtually every major newspaper and TV station in the country...20 weeks later, not one word printed anywhere; (2) on the local level, in the same time frame, we have transmitted three emails (each) with the same press release and one letter by post to the following newspapers: LV Review Journal, LV Sun, and Reno Gazette. To date, not one word printed! (There will be much more coming on this issue in the near future and we will name names.)
As stated, I am not asking for any monetary help, only a few minutes of your time to read this missive and the following information. I'm not the only person being deprived of their constitutional rights by these multi-billion dollar politicians and the MSM. Voters everywhere are being deprived of an alternative candidate who could change your life, and your family's lives. Since I would lay odds that the controlling Nevada media will not print a word re: my complaint to Atty. General Masto, I am counting on you. The American people are all I have left in this struggle. (Please read my Platform and see what the word change really means. Log onto http://www.flowers4prez.com/)
The four other states that are pimping for the two party systems candidates are: Louisiana, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Hawaii. (Residents of these states are being screwed by the pols and MSM of those states and not even getting to enjoy it!)
Dear Attorney General Cortez Masto,
In accordance with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and Article I, Sections 1,2 and the first sentence of Section 9, of the Constitution of the State of Nevada, I hereby request that you accept this petition as my official statement to seek redress of my grievances, regarding the abuses and violations of my Federal and State Constitutional rights by the State Government of Nevada.
It is my understanding that the primary duty and responsibility of the State Attorney General is the protection of the state's taxpaying citizenry.
As an announced Independent Write-In candidate for President (see official Press Release enclosed), it is my charge that the State of Nevada is depriving me of my constitutional and civil rights and consequently the same rights of the legal residents of Nevada, by prohibiting me from running as an Independent write-in candidate.
Additionally, it is my charge that the State of Nevada is violating my free speech rights of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Article I, Section 9 of the Nevada State Constitution, which states: "Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish on all subjects being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press."
Recent information indicates that there are 45 states that grant independent candidates access to the write-in process. How are Nevada citizens protected from the state's pernicious practice of shielding the two-party system's candidates from fair competition from Independents like myself, while depriving the public of a viable alternative candidate?
As the approval rating of Congress sinks below the 20% level, many Americans shrink from the electoral process because "there's no real difference between Democrat and Republican candidates." Yet the State of Nevada has errected functional (petition requirement), and monetary barriers (filing fee), that are depriving Nevadans of access to non-party member alternative candidates with an opposing agenda!
Up to now, there has been no clear-cut legal precedent for taking legal action to remedy this discriminatory behavior of several states, however, recently longtime independent candidate Ralph Nader brought a civil lawsuit against the Democratic Party for allegedly sabotaging his 2004 campaign, by charging that: "The Democratic Party is going after anyone who presents a credible challenge to their monopoly over their perceived voters" (McClatchy Newspapers, 10-31-07. All italics herein are mine).
Furthermore, the article went on with another statement which appears to support my complaint, to wit: "This lawsuit was filed to help advance a free and open election process for all candidates and voters," he stated. "Candidates rights and voter rights nourish each other for more voices, choices, and a more open and competitive democracy."
Even before the Nader lawsuit, there has been plenty of Constitutional ammunition to support my complaint. Perhaps one of the most important and egregious violations of my rights is the abridgment of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
It is my charge that I am being denied equal protection of the laws by the State of Nevada, because as an independent candidate whose campaign eschews political contributions, I cannot compete on legislative issues and in election campaigns with unscrupulous lobbyists and the two-party system's money sucking machines. At the same time, the Democrat and Republican candidates, flush with millions of special interest bribe money (contributions) will be on the ballot without having to pay a filing fee or go through the petition process. There is neigher equal protection nor level playing field in my case.
Having aired my complaint as best I can--I am not a lawyer and my campaign boasts a total of two (my wife and yours truly), I hereby formally request that the Nevada Attorney General strike down the no "write-in" law/rule. That action will provide me equal opportunity to provide my platform message to my neighbors and fellow Nevada citizens and allow them to write me in as their choice should they so choose.
Unlike Mr. Nader who is seeking compensatory and punitive damages in his suit against the Democratic Party (for which I'm sure he's justified), I am only asking for a fair shake from my home State of Nevada (as a resident for 18 years), and for taxpayers of this state.
Arthur Flowers
Independent Write-In Candidate for President
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