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THE TIME HAS COME FOR A NEW POLITICAL PARADIGM

Solutions

(Offered within the context of The Freedom Process)

FOREIGN POLICY – addressing foreign aid, international trade, diplomatic relations, the U.N., etc.

  1. Improve socio-economic conditions in the United States so that every nation will aspire to learn from our model
    • Focus more on resolving our own economic challenges rather than attempting to influence the political environments of other countries
      • Work to reduce unemployment, poverty and illiteracy in the United States; areas in which our performance has markedly worsened over the past few years
      • Create a model of excellence that inspires other nations to look to us for guidance rather than trying to impose our ideals on them through our purported “nation building” efforts
  2. Support those nations that consistently demonstrate their support of the United States
    • Extend the highest level of consideration to provide such nations with any requested assistance that is in alignment with the strategies, priorities and capabilities of the United States
  3. Respect the sovereignty of those nations that do not support the United States
    • Withdraw U.S. troops from any country that has not requested our military presence
    • Withdraw U.S. troops from any country that has requested our military presence but has undermined our troops’ safety or effectiveness
    • Withdraw all foreign aid from such countries so that they may truly govern their countries independently
    • Withdraw all other forms of Federal assistance so as not to interfere with their social autonomy
    • Leave modest diplomatic channels open to facilitate communication
  4. Request the United Nations to take a more active role with respect to world peace
    • Request the U.N. to take a more proactive role with respect to maintaining the peace or responding to situations that require military intervention
    • Request the U.N. to exercise a more rational basis in the formation of its committees to maintain some semblance of credibility; as contra-examples:
      • Sudan, which has orchestrated genocide in Darfur, sits on the Human Rights Council, and
      • Iran sits on the Commission on the Status of Women
    • Barring the requested changes:
      • Reduce the United States’ funding of the U.N. (currently: approximately 22% of the U.N.’s general budget and 27% of its peacekeeping force), or
      • Consider withdrawing from the U.N. and requiring the organization to move to another country
  5. Establish equitable trade relations
    • Create trade agreements that establish new market opportunities for all countries involved
      • Mitigate regulatory and labor disparities to the degree possible to create competitive parity
  6. Respond to emerging global issues or threats in a rational way
    • Time permitting, exhaust all diplomatic channels to resolve global issues or threats to the United States
    • In the event that diplomatic channels fail to resolve the issue or threat in a timely manner, pursue and impose economic and other sanctions to achieved the desired result
      • In the event that other countries choose to provide alternatives that allow the infringing country to circumvent such sanctions, the United States would consider deploying cascading sanctions against such enabling countries in a form that would offset any economic (or other) benefit that such enabling countries would otherwise derive
    • In the event that all other efforts fail to successfully resolve an issue in a timely manner and that such issue poses an immediate or impending threat to the United States, all other options (including military) would be explored

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RESOURCE POLICY – addressing energy, environmental issues, natural resources, etc.

  1. Rationalize environmental regulation
    • Distinguish between controllable and non-controllable elements of the environment
      • Restrict regulations to controllable elements
    • Require regulations to be reasonable
      • Prioritized in order of their impact on health, safety, and the preservation of the natural state
    • Require regulations to mandate their efficient disposition by their administrative agencies
    • Enact tort reform that requires losers to pay the legal costs
  2. Execute a comprehensive energy strategy
    • Reevaluate the efficacy of the Department of Energy (and the EPA)
      • The Department of Energy was organized in 1977 specifically to eliminate the United States’ dependency on foreign oil
      • It has grown to 16,000 full-time employees and 100,000 contractors with a budget of approximately $25 billion per year
    • Improve the efficiency of the permitting process for fossil fuel exploration
      • Identify high-probability, low impact areas for oil exploration and begin exploration
      • Identify high-probability, low impact areas for natural gas exploration and begin exploration
    • Update and expand the electrical grid to support the advent of electric vehicles and additional technological demands recognizing that electricity is currently generated approximately as follows:
      • 45% Coal
      • 23% Natural Gas
      • 20% Nuclear
      • 7% Hydroelectric
      • 4% Renewable
      • 1% Petroleum
    • Provide research grants for the development of alternative fuels
    • Provide the private sector with access to declassified Government technologies, which were developed with taxpayer dollars (principally for the DoD), that can reduce energy consumption and / or support advance alternative energy applications
  3. Educate individuals and businesses on voluntary actions they can take to conserve energy and serve as good stewards of the environment
    • Emphasize positive rewards rather than regulatory punishment to shape behavior
  4. Lead by Example
    • Reduce the carbon footprint of the President of the United States
      • Utilize every advanced technology (such as secure web-conferencing, etc.) to facilitate more effective and efficient communication that results in an optimization of work time
      • Eliminate all campaign and Party-related travel (e.g., fund-raising, campaign messaging, candidate endorsements, etc.)
    • Immediately end the pollution associated with political rhetoric (offered only moderately in jest)
      • Eliminate the practice of trying to secure a political advantage by creating public fear and / or anger over a misrepresentation of fact that either Party actually desires to subject future generations to dirty air, unclean water, unsafe food, etc.

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ECONOMIC POLICY – addressing jobs, business expansion, debt management, the money supply, etc.

(NOTE: virtually every other policy recommendation has an economic impact within the context of this platform)

  1. Expose private sector solutions that do not require Government intervention
    • Educate people about how they can deploy their “dollar” votes in our Capitalistic system to reshape corporate behavior. For example:
      • Use shareholder pressure to narrow the compensation gap between between workers and senior executives in publicly-traded companies
      • Use buying behavior to establish market demand that influences change in products and services
    • Educate people on the principles of behavioral economics so that they can use this knowledge to help lessen market volatility
  2. Require the Federal Government to reduce its controllable expenditures
    • Implement the recommendations of the General Accounting Office’s report number GAO-11-318SP (Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue) that was released on March 1, 2011 and GAO-12-342 SP (2012 Annual Report: Opportunities to Reduce Duplication, Overlap and Fragmentation, Achieve Savings, and Enhance Revenue) that was issued on February 28, 2012 – both of which have been largely ignored by the Administration
      • Explore additional opportunities to consolidate Departments and Agencies
      • Eliminate redundant regulations
      • Eliminate conflicting regulations
    • Place an immediate freeze on all non-critical hiring (including contract workers)
      • Orchestrate a reduction in forces through managed attrition and performance evaluations
    • Place an immediate freeze on all travel
      • Exception: Legislators returning to their States or Districts (however, no foreign junkets, etc.)
      • Exception: Travel that clearly requires a physical presence in a different location (such as a site survey) for purposes that clearly are not related to a political campaign
    • Place an immediate freeze on bonuses for all Federal managerial personnel
    • Mandate a 20% reduction in the operating budgets of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches (as would be done in the private sector to establish fiscal stability)
  3. Audit all Federal Departments, Agencies and programs for compliance with the constraints imposed by Article I Section 8 of the Constitution; specifically:
    • “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence (sic) and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States”(emphasis added)
      • Departments, Agencies and programs that do not “provide for the common Defence (sic) and general Welfare of the United States” (i.e., those that relate more specifically to special interests) will be subject to phased elimination
      • Responsibility for special interests will be returned to the the People and / or the States as prescribed by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, respectively
  4. Lock in rational definitions and related calculations for GDP, the rate of inflation and deflation, unemployment, etc.
    • Eliminate the political game of changing definitions to mask or skew results
      • This will permit the establishment of firm baselines and the accurate reporting of trends
  5. Index the Federal Budget to a percentage of GDP(historically in the range of 15% to 17%)
    • Require the Federal Government to operate within that cap including a requirement to allocate a certain percentage of the budget to retire debt each year (possibly weighted by population change)
    • Require Congress to reserve a contingency fund, within the Federal Budget, of a defined percentage to address emergency scenarios
      • At the end of each fiscal year, the residual balance of such contingency fund shall be used to retire debt
  6. Job Growth: Redeploy 14,000 unused Federal buildings to stimulate economic expansion and job growth
    • Make such facilities available rent free(to create more operating capital) for the following tenants:
      • Entrepreneurial start-ups (for a period of five years or until they achieved two consecutive years of profitability) to foster job growth
      • Charitable organizations (with 501(c)3 status) to foster job growth and to increase the private sector’s ability to address special interests in lieu of Government intervention
      • Community Colleges and Trade Schools that teach marketable job skills to foster job growth
    • Require all such tenants to pay for any associated leasehold improvements, utilities and insurance
    • Require all such tenants to certify that they will not directly or indirectly lobby Federal officials or contribute to any political campaign (or PAC) during their tenancies
  7. Job Creation within the public sector
    • Provide public sector jobs and / or training opportunities for all current recipients of Government assistance who are of able mind and body … or discontinue such assistance
      • Break the cycle of dependence, restore hope, and reinforce pride
      • Leverage this available pool of talent to supplement Federal staffing at little to no incremental cost
      • Leverage the previously mentioned training centers to provide free job-skill training to participants, in addition to or in lieu of work assignments, to foster the development of marketable skills
    • Repair, maintain and update infrastructure
      • Prioritize and implement repair, maintenance and updates of road, rail and airport infrastructures on a basis of their impact on safety and commerce
    • Military base construction and / or expansion
      • Build and / or expand military bases on the northern and southern borders of the United States
    • Health care facility maintenance
      • Reduce morbidity and mortality caused by health care-associated illness (e.g., CDF, MRSA, VRE, etc.) by providing public sector employees to supplement the sanitary maintenance of health care facilities
  8. Job Growth: Provide an immediate tax incentive to businesses that create new jobs in the U.S.
    • Provide businesses with a tax credit equal to a 10% reduction in their current tax rate for every 10% increase in U.S.-based jobs they create year-over-year (comparing prior fiscal year-end to current fiscal year-end)
  9. Reduce Unemployment: Provide an immediate tax incentive to businesses that hire individuals who are currently receiving unemployment compensation
    • Provide a tax credit for hiring individuals, who are receiving unemployment compensation, equal to the lesser of one year’s unemployment compensation or the remainder of such individuals’ unemployment compensation coverage
      • This provides a positive incentive for hiring currently unemployed candidates while allowing the businesses the freedom to choose other candidates (rather than imposing a punitive fine for not hiring currently unemployed candidates as the current Administration has recommended)
  10. Economic Expansion: Share declassified, taxpayer-funded, Intellectual Property (IP) with the private sector
    • Use of such IP to manufacture and / or improve products within the United States would:
      • Create jobs within the United States
      • Accelerate time-to-market
      • Reduce R&D costs and allow any associated capital to be redeployed
      • Improve U.S. product quality
      • Potentially reduce product costs (or increase distributable profits)
    • Cost of utilizing the IP for U.S. companies:
      • No cost for the use of such IP within the United States
      • A licensing fee for the use of such IP to manufacture overseas
    • Cost of utilizing the IP for foreign corporations:
      • A licensing fee for the use of such IP to manufacture within the United States
      • A premium licensing fee for the use of such IP to manufacture overseas
    • Provide an ad hoc, fee-based consulting service to companies that request assistance with identifying application-specific IP within the database (creating a new source of revenue for the Federal Government)
      • Foreign corporations would be required to pay a premium fee for such service
  11. Replace the 70,000+ page tax code with an equitable Flat Tax
    • Establish a uniform corporate tax rate based upon the average of the lowest quartile of the G20 countries to firmly establish our Nation’s global competitiveness
      • Eliminate all current corporate tax credits and evaluate permitted deductions for appropriateness
    • Calculate a uniform income tax rate for individuals by working backwards from the Indexed Federal Budget (see #5 above) and subtracting corporate tax revenues
      • Treat all income equally, whether it is actively or passively derived
    • Permit individual taxpayers to receive a tax credit for:
      • Poverty level income for a family of the same size (to preclude placing a tax burden on the poor)
      • All documented charitable contributions (because they reduce the need for possible Government spending)
  12. Audit the Federal Reserve
    • Establish effective protection against the ability of the Federal Reserve to unilaterally manipulate the economy of the United States
      • Audit loans made by the Federal Reserve
  13. Audit the mission and impact of critical economic legislation to determine whether it should stand, be revised, or be repealed
    • Revisit the efficacy of:
      • The repeal of Glass-Steagall
      • The passage of The Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act (Sarbanes-Oxley)
      • The passage of The Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP)
      • The passage of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan (Stimulus)
      • The passage of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Health Care Reform)
      • The passage of The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank)

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EDUCATION POLICY – addressing primary, secondary, trade and higher education content and assistance, etc.

  1. Refocus on the objective of education: the Students
    • Create a merit-based system with respect to educators
      • Tenure (if granted) should be based upon performance rather than longevity
    • Create a curriculum based upon global competitiveness rather than political correctness
      • Include an expanded emphasis on core subjects (reading, writing, math, science, history)
      • Introduce an emphasis on logic, ethics, civics and communication to develop critical thinking and well-reasoned debate
      • Include exposure to life skills in K-12 (i.e., reading labels, balancing checkbooks, understanding loan programs, making better choices with regard to diet, exercise, the environment, etc.)
      • Reintroduce the importance of trade skills, which are a necessary and increasingly more sophisticated element of the workforce
    • Provide block grants to States for K-12 programs that objectively identify substandard public schools and a tactical plan to improve them
      • Provide school vouchers in those States that do not objectively identify substandard schools and a tactical plan to improve them
  2. Integrate more individuals with real-world experience into the educational system (all levels)
    • Provide “our Posterity”with the benefit of experience in addition to theory
      • Consider requiring a period of real-world experience before allowing individuals to enter the teaching profession
  3. Scholarship Reform: Provide parity for performance
    • Create a college scholarship criteria (as is used in other countries) that rewards hard work and individual accomplishment
      • Base scholarships upon performance (i.e., actually reward demonstrated “scholarship” as opposed to qualifying or disqualifying an individual on an unrelated basis)
    • Focus scholarships and grants in areas of cooperative research that improve U.S. competitiveness in the global economy (i.e., health care, renewable energy, technology, etc.)
    • Create a tiered-level of scholarship that reflects the level of a student’s prior academic performance
      • This would provide every student with the opportunity to exercise a level of self-determination and to learn the connection between effort and reward
  4. Student Loan Reform: Instill a sense of obligation
    • Develop a Student Loan program that allows individuals to elect a loan repayment option (or combination) of the following:
      • A traditional loan repayment schedule (1:1 ratio of dollars to debt)
      • A 2:1 ratio for those who work for a qualified charity or in the public sector for one of the three branches of the Federal Government for such time that they serve
      • A 3:1 ratio for those who work in the public sector as teachers or health care providers or who serve the United States military in a non-combat role for such time that they serve
      • A 4:1 ratio for those who work in the public sector as first responders (e.g., police officers, fire fighters, etc.) for such time that they provide such service
      • A 5:1 ratio for those who serve the United States military in an active combat role for such time that they serve
        • Note: all ratios are offered as examples – they would actually be indexed to projected costs
  5. Encourage colleges and trade schools to establish co-op program
    • Co-op programs create:
      • A nexus between academia and the private sector
      • An alternative source of student income to defray expenses
      • Real-world experience related to the student’s college major
      • Potential opportunities for full-time employment upon graduation

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DEFENSE POLICY – addressing proactive and reactive defense capabilities against foreign & domestic threats

  1. Limit the commitment of combat troops
    • Commit the United States military to potential combat operations only:
      • When there is an immediate or impending threat to the security and interests of the United States that is supported by substantive and corroborated evidence
      • When it is required to fulfill our Nation’s obligations under approved treaties and alliances (e.g., NATO, etc.)
  2. Orchestrate the withdrawal of United States troops from foreign countries (with the concurrence of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) as follows:
    • Withdraw U.S. troops from any country that has not requested our military presence
    • Withdraw U.S. troops from any country that has requested our military presence but has undermined our troops’ safety or effectiveness
    • Withdraw U.S. troops from any country in which the Joint Chiefs of Staff determine that the common defense of the United States as well as our international obligations can be fulfilled without an active presence
      • Coordinate and phase all such withdrawals in a manner that best protects the safety of our troops and, then, the safety of those for whom our troops were originally deployed to protect
  3. Redeploy returning troops to military bases on the northern and southern borders of the United States
    • Build and / or expand military bases on the northern and southern borders of the United States to accommodate such returning troops
    • Patrol such borders to provide for the common defense of the United States against all potential threats that may use such borders to illegally enter or otherwise threaten the security of our Nation
    • Use such exercises to maintain a state of readiness to remain the most efficient and effective military in the world
  4. Continue to support world-wide humanitarian relief initiatives in the event of natural disasters
    • Save lives and build good will on a global basis by utilizing the superior logistics capabilities of the United States military as well as its ability to stabilize volatile environments
  5. Maintain and increase the technological superiority of the United States defense capabilities
    • Continually work to reduce the exposure to risk incurred by members of the United States military in traditional war-fighting environments
    • Future military action and terrorist activities can be expected to include significant cyber-based components.  As such, our Nation needs to aggressively invest in protecting its vital infrastructure against cyber-attacks (e.g., utilities, secured information systems, etc.) and elevating its ability to proactively engage in this emerging type of war fighting environment
  6. Public sector employment preference
    • Retired and Honorably Discharged military personnel should be given a preference with respect to public sector positions for which they have equivalent capabilities as compared to the other top candidates
      • The private sector would be encouraged to do the same at its discretion

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OPERATIONS POLICY – addressing operating efficiencies, regulatory issues, immigration, human resource, etc.

  1. Evaluate all Federal Departments and Agencies for opportunities to consolidate operations
    • Implement the recommendations of the General Accounting Office’s report number GAO-11-318SP (Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue) that was released on March 1, 2011 and GAO-12-342 SP (2012 Annual Report: Opportunities to Reduce Duplication, Overlap and Fragmentation, Achieve Savings, and Enhance Revenue) that was issued on February 28, 2012 – both of which have been largely ignored by the Administration
      • Explore additional opportunities to consolidate Departments and Agencies
  2. Evaluate all Federal Departments and Agencies for opportunities to mitigate the impact of regulatory intervention
    • Use Department and Agency consolidation to reduce regulatory intervention and improve its efficiency and effectiveness
      • Eliminate multiple regulatory filings to reduce any associated cost and time
      • Identify and implement opportunities to compress the time required for regulatory responses
      • Commit to response times to “regulate the Regulators” (i.e, a failure to respond within a committed time frame shall constitute a de facto acceptance of the submitted request)
  3. Evaluate all Federal Departments and Agencies for opportunities to automate operations
    • Identify and implement opportunities to automate processes and to share database information that would accelerate the processing of applications, improve security, etc.
  4. Fully utilize communication technologies
    • Reduce Federal employee travel by utilizing by state-of-the-art web and telecommunications technologies
      • Dramatically reduce the time and money spent on travel that isn’t specifically required to exchange ideas and reach conclusions
      • Dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of the Federal Government in an effort to lead by example (i.e., to “walk-the-talk” for those who pretend to be “environmentally concerned” yet need to fly around the world to tell everybody)
  5. Work with Congress to pass meaningful election reform legislation
    • Eliminate the ability of corporations, unions and other legal entities from directly or indirectly participating in the election process
      • Restrict the right to contribute to a campaign to individuals who are eligible to vote
    • Reduce permissible campaign contributions to a level that is accessible to all eligible voters
    • Introduce the discussion of term limits (and term lengths) for elected Federal officials
  6. Petition Congress to adopt a Code of Ethics for elected Federal officials that establishes firm expectations for behavior and consequences for any violation thereof
    • Reestablish the public trust by requiring candidates to accept a higher standard of accountability with respect to the honor of serving the People.
  7. Direct the Department of Justice to aggressively investigate and prosecute voter fraud and material violations of campaign finance law
    • Protect the sacred trust associated with the right to vote that distinguishes this democratic Republic
  8. Pursue comprehensive immigration reform
    • Develop a rational and comprehensive approach to managing our Nation’s immigration issues
      • Dramatically revise the immigration process to reduce the cost and time associated with granting (or denying) visa and citizenship applications
      • Address the issue of the 13 million illegal immigrants, who currently reside in the United States, in a rational way (i.e., providing a path to citizenship for those who chose to pursue it, and providing a path to deportation for those who don’t)
      • Uniformly enforce the current immigration laws of the United States until such time that more comprehensive reform is passed
    • Create a far more effective way of managing our Nation’s borders
      • Leverage advanced technological surveillance in conjunction with the coordinated patrol and enforcement efforts of the United States Military and associated State militia to protect our borders against foreign and domestic threats
  9. Veto bills that include provisions that are not specifically relevant to addressing the fundamental purpose of the particular legislation (i.e., “pork”)
    • Veto bills that contain any provision that does not conform to the authority vested within Congress under Article I of the Constitution
      • Explain the basis for such veto; name the author of the infringing provision; and provide a list of who supported the bill (and who did not) to assist the public in making informed decisions in future elections
  10. Serve as a full-time President
    • Waste no time or money on politically-driven travel
      • Principally work in Washington, D.C., either in the White House or at the Capitol, to define our Nation’s challenges, identify their root causes, separate controllable and non-controllable aspects, evaluate and select from among all alternatives, and direct the execution of the selected solutions
      • Focus on “fixing the problems … not the blame”
    • Waste no time or money running for reelection
      • Truly serve “at the pleasure of the People” and allow my four-year record to speak for itself
    • Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, which defines our Nation’s vision and mission, and apply the values of the Declaration of Independence in every decision

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MEDICAL POLICY – addressing quality of life (Social Security), health care programs, insurance and costs, etc.

  1. Create and work with a Presidential Committee comprised of physicians, nurses and other health care providers, pharmacists, insurance professionals, health care administrators, drug and medical research professionals, medical malpractice attorneys, and individuals with extensive patient experience to identify opportunities to improve the quality of care, increase operating efficiencies, and reduce the cost of providing health care
    • Identify and prioritize the objectives of comprehensive health care reform (e.g., the elimination of vexatious litigation, the elimination of preexisting condition restrictions, etc.)
    • Share the recommendations with the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and encourage them to consider each recommendation separately with an up-or-down vote and to use the consensus to build a bipartisan bill that will pass both Chambers
  2. Pursue medical malpractice tort reform
    • Reduce the use of unnecessary procedures, prescriptions and tests that are associated with the defensive practice of medicine that currently inflates the cost of health care as well as insurance
    • Pursue tort reform to eliminate or reduce the filing of frivolous lawsuits that increase the cost of medical malpractice insurance
    • Adopt a “loser pays” scenario relative to court costs and legal fees
    • Adopt a “double or nothing” approach to appeals
      • If the Appellant’s argument wins on appeal, all fines, etc. are dropped
      • If the Appellant loses but presents a well-argued position on appeal, the original fines, etc. stand
      • If the Appellant loses and is deemed to have presented a frivolous argument on appeal, the fines, etc. are doubled (an approach that should significantly reduce the case load of the Federal Courts)
  3. Instruct the Department of Justice to aggressively prosecute medical, pharmaceutical and insurance fraud
    • Prosecute any violators, who are caught, to the fullest extent allowed by law
    • Determine whether IBM’s offer (in 2010) to provide the Federal Government with a system and service that was projected to identify and prevent $900 billion in health care fraud … without charge… is still on the table
      • Accept the offer if it still stands
  4. Restrict pharmaceutical companies from advertising prescription medications to the general public
    • Reduce the cost of prescription medications by eliminating advertising expense and reducing the public’s dependence upon brand names
  5. Evaluate FDA regulations with regard to clinical trials
    • Determine whether there are more efficient and effective ways to conduct clinical trials
    • Evaluate restrictions on the voluntary participation of terminally ill patients in clinical trials to establish sufficient sample sizes and accelerate research and development cycles
  6. Medicare / Medicaid reform
    • Guarantee that the reasonable reliance interests of those who have paid into Medicare / Medicaid and are within an agreed period of eligibility (as an example: the median age at which more than 50% of one’s lifetime contributions will have been made) are fulfilled
      • De-fund other non-essential Government programs to the degree necessary to supplement any projected shortfall in Medicare / Medicaid
    • Determine the impact of comprehensive health care reform (including tort reform and the identification and prosecution of fraud) on the long-term viability of Medicare / Medicaid
      • If additional reform is required to “cure” Medicare / Medicaid, then such adjustments should be made on an inverse-age basis (i.e., the scale of changes should be inversely related to the age of the participant to provide the greatest period of time to adjust to such required changes and the greatest ability to reset expectations)
  7. Provide public sector workers to support health facility maintenance
    • Use public sector workers to expand sterilization, disinfection, and laundry efforts within health care facilities
      • Health care-associated illnesses (e.g., CDF, MRSA, VRE, etc.) contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality rates in health care facilities
      • Reducing the related morbidity and mortality rates will save lives, reduce health care costs, and provide meaningful jobs
  8. Evaluate the impact of labor regulations as they apply to in-home health care providers
    • Evaluate the creation of possible exceptions for in-home health care providers with respect to hours, breaks, minimum wage, etc.
      • In-home health care providers work in environments in which traditional labor laws may not be directly applicable
      • The in-home health care industry will increasingly become an engine of job growth as the supply of providers will need to rise to meet the demand that will be created by the advancing age of the Baby Boom Generation
  9. Instruct the Department of Justice to aggressively prosecute Social Security fraud
    • Prosecute any violators, who are caught, to the fullest extent allowed by law
  10. Social Security reform
    • Preclude Congress from continuing to invade the principal of Social Security
    • Guarantee that the reasonable reliance interests of those who have paid into Social Security and are within agreed period of eligibility (as an example: the median age at which more than 50% of one’s lifetime contributions will have been made) will be fulfilled
      • De-fund other non-essential Government programs to the degree necessary to supplement any projected shortfall in Social Security, and to reimburse with interest any principal that was withdrawn by Congress to fund unrelated programs
    • If additional reform is required to stabilize Social Security, then such adjustments should be made on an inverse-age basis (i.e., the scale of changes should be inversely related to the age of the participant to provide the greatest period of time to adjust to such required changes and the greatest ability to reset expectations)

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This is an open invitation to President Obama and every other candidate who has filed with the FEC for the Office of President of the United States. I will be happy to meet with you to facilitate a “Solution Summit” during which we will address the issue or issues of your choice with the intent to identify the best solution(s) possible and to begin to implement such solution(s) as soon as possible.

From my perspective, it is irrelevant who crafts or contributes to each solution. It is only important that we begin to make progress on behalf of the American people.

 

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