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Responsibility Contents
Number Topics
Core Papers Completed by July 4, 1992
1 Consequences of abuses and usurpations of Constitution.
2 Shortcomings of election process.
3 - 5 Recommended election reforms.
6 Transfer setting of salaries/benefits of Senators & Representatives to States.
7 Codes of Qualifications and Conduct of elected & appointed federal officials.
8 Control of Congressional costs and bloat.
Transfer nomination of Judiciary from President to Judiciary.
9 Nomination and confirmation principles and processes of other federal officials.
Conduct of politically sensitive Congressional hearings.
Proper use of impeachments and pardons.
10 Require Vice President nominees to meet qualifications for President.
Vice President to be Chief of Staff.
President and Vice President election reforms.
11 Constrain expenditures for past Presidents.
12-13 Foreign relations.
War declaration.
War material exports.
Free trade.
Respect health and morality of all nations.
Foster peace and prosperity.
14 Need for explicit foreign and domestic policies.
15-16 Abuses and usurpations borne and shared by Judiciary.
Now most dangerous branch.
17-20 Abortion.
Supreme Court constitutional "Amendments".
Deficient internal workings of Court.
Right to life.
Euthanasia, suicide, world power.
21-22 Human life and happiness, first and only object of good government.
New rights and privacies through Supreme Court legislation and Amendments.
23 Establish veto power over Supreme Court.
24 Ship of State, an analogy.
25-26 Greater roles, multiple panels for Supreme Court.
Reform internal workings.
Correction of past Judicial errors.
27-28 Individuals and families, foundation of our nation.
Supreme Court decisions leading to immorality.
Conjugal copulative act.
Proper limits and constraints on speech and press freedoms.
29-30 Need to bolster families to strengthen nation.
Divorces.
Loose sexual mores.
Help from religions.
Enhance and enliven elections by children's votes.
31-34 Parental full right and responsibility to rear children.
Includes religious/moral, discipline, education and training thru high school.
Free and uninhibited choice of schools.
35 Government grants and student loans.
Post high school and college.
36 Adult education and retraining.
36-41 Health hazards: entertainment/communication industries, tobacco, drugs,
alcohol, guns, cars, gangs, crime.
Nation will inhibit all subversive substances.
42-45 Health care.
46 Litigation.
46-49 Poverty.
Wealth.
Property rights.
50-53 Inviolable principles to govern federal revenues and appropriations.
54 Federal give-aways to retirement plans.
55 Federal give-aways to insurance products.
56 Apply inviolable principles to existing taxes and appropriations.
Remove tax deferred status of retirement plans.
Hugh reductions in deficits and national debt.
57-59 Social Security system.
Shift to "Individual Base Retirement Funds".
No further automatic COLAs (cost of living adjustments).
59 Federal employee and military retirement plans.
Employer provided employee benefits.
Treat same as salaries and wages.
60-62 Change how companies are internally managed.
Protect employees and lenders as well as executives and shareholders.
Employee benefits determination.
62 Income taxation of businesses, trusts, etc.
Implement balanced budget.
Amortize national debt over 50 years.
63 Final observations July 4, 1992.
1st and 2nd Postscripts, outset 42nd President and 103rd Congress, January 1993
64 Continuing government thru money and power.
What can be done?
Committees of Correspondence.
Homosexuals in military.
Nomination of law-breakers.
3rd Postscript, 3 months in office 42nd President and 103rd Congress, March 1993
65 Line-item veto.
Abuses and usurpations of Congress.
States should take on Congress in Supreme Court.
4th Postscript, 5 months in office 42nd President and 103rd Congress, June 1993
66 Immorality, homosexuality, abortion.
Continuation of spoils system of federal appointments.
67 Recession and unemployment relief.
Deficit and national debt.
68-69 Health care premiums and taxes.
Taxes, appropriations, organization reforms.
70 International peace and welfare keeping.
Space and technology.
5th Postscript, August 1993
71 Michigan's gamble on education funding.
Property taxes inappropriate.
Recommendations.
6th Postscript, 1/3 thru President and 2/3 thru Congress terms, April 1994
72 Deficit and national debt reduction.
Economy and interest rates.
73-85 Taxes, appropriations, organizational reforms.
74 Estate and gift taxes.
Corporation taxes.
Health care funding.
75-76 Social Security funding.
77 Corporate debt.
Distribution of business proceeds.
Minimum wage.
Illegal aliens.
Putting welfare recipients to work.
78 Failures to effectuate promised government reorganization, spending cuts.
Pork, oink! oink!
79 Perks, oink! oink!
Equity in federal disaster relief.
80 Tax relief and fee favoritism for use of government land, facilities, services.
81 Update of Michigan education funding.
82 Arizona discontent with sales taxes.
83 Playing federal tax deductions versus choice of state and local taxes.
84 Gaming and gambling.
85 Gambling in high technology era.
Immigration and other federal/states disputes.
86-87 Health care.
88 Poverty, guns, tobacco, alcohol, drugs, abortion, euthanasia, immorality.
Elections, appointments, leadership.
Non Responsibility/Publius IV essays
---- Aug. 24, 1994, Health Care ltrs. to President, AZ Senators/Representatives.
---- Arguments for Delay in Enactment of a Health Care Bill.
---- September 1994. "Post World War II -- Post Cold War Deja Vu".
7th Postscript, outset 104th Congress and 2nd half President terms, Feb.1995
89 Broaden definitions of National Security.
Inadequacies of Republican "Contract with America" and Democratic
"New Covenant".
Categories of national security.
90-91 Structural security.
Failure of two party system.
Influence buying.
Patronage.
Committees as power brokers.
Building analogy.
Line-item veto.
Neglected residual powers of the States.
Proposed, forthcoming "Conference of the States".
92-93 Moral security.
Judicial errors of Dred Scott, abortion, et al.
Immorality, train of decisions.
Proposed veto power over Judiciary.
94-96 Economic security.
Balanced budget amendment.
Social Security.
Medicare.
Tax deferred retirement plans.
Employee benefits.
COLAs. Inflation.
Inviolable principles for taxes and appropriations.
97 Domestic security.
"Bill of Rights" administered as a "Bill of Wrongs".
Religion, education, speech and press, guns, crime, violence,
criminal and civil justice, property.
Inferred rights and privacies.
Powers reserved to the States and to the people.
98 International security.
United Nations, limited powers and accomplishments.
USA a super leader, not a super power.
Peace and Welfare Treaty Organizations.
End patronage appointments.
Non Responsibility nor Publius IV essay and letter
---- October 23, 1995, "The Structure of Our Nation is Unsound".
---- March 19,1996, Letter to editor, re:property taxes/education funding.
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