Posted by
The Crawfish on Saturday, February 23, 2008 8:36:36 PM
Just so every visitor to The Swamp is clear on where The Crawfish stands on the issues, I have put together the 2008 Crawfish Party Platform. This posting will be in a few parts and will be done over the next week or so.
UPDATE: As of 30 APR 2008, the party name has changed to the American Tradition Party!
Topics in our Party Platform include (in no particular order):
National Defense
10th Amendment Commission
Clean Bill Committment
Line Item Veto
The Fair Tax
Entitlement Programs
Foreign Aid
Glo-Bull Warming
What the First Amendment Really Says
Federal Courts and Their Jurisdictions
UnConstitutional Departments, Agencies, and Bureaucracies
Budget
End Social InSecurity Fairly
The English Language
Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Embassy Security
Border Control and Immigration
National Primary Plan
Campaign Finance Reform
Diversity and Multiculturalism
Self-reliance and Responsibility
Political Correctness
Disaster Relief
Abortion
Prisoner's Rights
The War On Terror
Israel and the Palestinians
Energy Policy
Minimum Wage
Legal Reform
Honesty in Governmental Votes
The Second Amendment
Taking Care of Those Who Are Disabled
A Constitutional Amendment to Fix the 14th Amendment
Without further adieu, The American Tradition Party presents the first seven topics in our 2008 Party Platform.
National Defense: The Party is committed to a strong national defense. We will strive to build up our forces and give them every tool they need to fight any enemy, anytime. Whether it be a conventional battle or a fight against unconventional forces, we will have the advanced gear our folks need to win and to take as few casualties as possible. This includes many new and advanced ships for the Navy, an all-new model force of aircraft for all services within 10 years, the best body armor that can be had for our ground forces, and the vehicles they want. We will also greatly increase the quality of medical care our service members get. That will be costly, but worth it. We are committed to giving every member of our armed forces (and retirees) a 10% raise in each of the next 3 years, and 5% raises thereafter. If anybody wants to screw with us, they will quickly assume room temperature. Do something really nasty to us and you will see a lot of large, bright mushrooms…capiche? If war again becomes necessary anywhere, our troops must be ordered to participate with maximum effort necessary to ensure total, absolute, unconditional victory.
10th Amendment Commission: An idea that The Crawfish has considered for years, and that has been made famous recently by Neal Boortz, would be a commission made up of a few politicians (national, state-level, and municipal) and Constitutional experts that would go through the current federal laws, statutes, regulations, bureaucracy, departments, budgets, etc. Everything that doesn’t meet the governmental restrictions found in the Constitution would be highlighted and reported to the President for his weekly television address (Tuesday nights on your local network affiliates). In these weekly addresses, the President will show the American people how their government is acting outside of the Supreme Law of the Land and he will demand that Congress to immediately cancel/slash/zero-out/get rid of/nuke these items.
Clean Bill Commitment: Any bill that comes from Congress that is not clean has exactly zero chance of being signed into law. Any amendment or addition to a bill must be fully voted upon and must be germane to the rest of the bill, or the bill will face certain veto. Even if the President agrees with the non-germane amendment/earmark/addition, if it isn’t in-line with the salient point of the bill, it’s outta there!
Line Item Veto: Kinda goes hand-in-hand with the 10th Amendment Commission, and the Clean Bill Commitment. It is a MUST!
The Fair Tax: This is the most well-thought out and researched tax plan in the history of the USA. If you don’t know the details, read the books. We get rid of the IRS, make taxes simple and fair, tax the underground economy, and stimulate the economy.
Entitlement Programs: These unConstitutional programs have been a cancer upon America since our first socialist President, FDR, and were exacerbated under his disciple, the Fake Texan, LBJ. There’s no place in the Constitution that authorizes the federal government to pay for housing for thems that are too lazy, drug addled, constantly prego with kids from who knows how many daddies, and are just plain criminals. There’s no place in the Constitution that authorizes the federal government to pay welfare or food stamps to those who are too lazy to work. Once we get rid of the illegal aliens, there will be plenty of jobs to go around. If people think those jobs are beneath them, well…those jobs give more of a paycheck than not having one. Real Americans do what they’ve gotta do to survive and thrive. It is time to END the cycle of dependency on the government that has caused so many to be entrapped in poverty. The War on Poverty has spent trillions of dollars, and hasn’t reduced poverty at all. It has just created a permanent underclass of dependency.
Foreign Aid: Most would end. Period. If your nation doesn’t support our policies and freedom, you don’t get the money our taxpayers earned. AIDS in Afreaka? Try monogamy and condom use. Global poverty? Try getting rid of your own corrupt governments and tin-pot dictators. About the only people who could rely upon our support would be Israel and Iraq. The rest would need to EARN it!