Responsibility #14

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fourth Publius condition, for inducing other countries to <I>"be much more disposed to cultivate our friendship than provoke our resentment",</I> is that <B>"our resources and finances [be] discreetly managed."</B>  Allied with this is the fifth condition, <B>"that our credit [be] re-established."</B>  Will other countries view these conditions met when?:</div> <bR> <div> 1. America continues to incur budget deficits of hundreds of billions of dollars per year (a record $292 billion in fiscal year 1992).</div> <bR> <div> 2. Its national debt has quadrupled in the last ten years; now tops $4 trillion; and is likely to go well beyond $5 trillion, before effective measures are taken, to begin to balance the budget.</div> <bR> <div> 3. The interest payments on the national debt continues to snowball, reached $184 billion in fiscal year 1990, and became the third largest outlay item in the federal budget.</div> <bR> <div> 4. The need to attract international capital, to finance federal deficits, means that USA interest rates are increasingly sensitive to international competition for investments.</div> <bR> <div> 5. The federal debt is vulnerable to rate swings, since about 40% of the securities, the government issues to finance the debt, mature in a year or less.</div> <bR> <div> 6. The Congress and the President fail to establish procedures, that will eliminate or control "pork", "pet projects", and extraneous "riders" in the appropriation process.</div> <bR> <div> 7. The federal government works against itself, by such inconsistences as giving subsidies to tobacco farmers, while disbursing funds to fight cancer.</div> <bR> <div> 8. Federal spending consumes fully a quarter of the total domestic output.</div> <bR> <div> 9. Taxes at all government levels are taking at least 40% of the average worker's paycheck.</div> <bR> <div> 10. The total of federal indemnity commitments (that is taxpayer insured loans and securities) was $6 trillion in 1990.  It is growing.  This is a figure considerably larger than the gross national product.</div> <bR> <div> 11. The government uncontrollably deregulates whole sectors of the economy (such as savings & loans, banks, airlines); resulting in wholesale bankruptcies, unemployment, increased costs and decreased benefits to the public.  </div> <bR> <div>      The sixth and last Publius condition is that <B>"our people [be] free, contented, and united."</B>  Our people cannot be free, contented, and united so long as the deleterious consequences of the abuses and usurpations of our government (as cited in Responsibility #1) continue to prevail.  The freedom, contentment, and unity of our citizens cannot be achieved so long as the shortcomings of our national election process are unremedied (Responsibility #2).  The realization of these three blessings for our populace is interdependent with meeting the other five Publius conditions (Responsibility #12).  The disposition of foreign nations <I>"to cultivate our friendship [rather] than provoke our resentment"</I> will be greatly enhanced through the adoption of the reforms proposed in these Responsibility papers. </div> <div>      In 1991 the media, and various politicians, suggested that the then President had placed his total concentration on foreign affairs and, by default, had left the domestic policy to the Congress.  As is evident from the discussions in this and Responsibility #12 and #13 essays, foreign and domestic policies are interrelated.  We must have both and they must be consistent, one with the other.  It is essential that they be thoroughly defined before the fact and not on an ad hoc/ad lib basis.</div> <div>      It is recommended that the President and the Congress be required to establish and publish a Foreign Policy, and a Domestic Policy, at the outset of each Congressional term.  The process would begin with the submission by the President to the Congress of his Policies.  For newly elected Presidents the submission would be required 3 months after his inauguration.  For incumbent Presidents the submission should be coincident with his State of the Union address.  </div> <div>      Congress would be required to complete its action on the President's submissions in three months.  In that 3 months time the executive and legislative branches would strive to agree on concordant policies.  However the resolutions, to be passed by each house, could take whatever exceptions they deemed necessary with the President's policies and between houses.  </div> <div>      Further, the President (and the houses of Congress) would be privileged and expected to amend the Policies as particular foreign or domestic circumstances change.  Action on amendments, submitted by any of the three parties, would be required to be completed in one month.  In the case of Foreign Policy, when and where warranted, classified addenda could be utilized to restrict information to a need to know basis.</div> <div>      What can we hope and expect to achieve through these innovations?</div> <bR> <div>    1. Although it is not eliminated, the constitutional conflict as to the roles to be played in foreign policy by the President versus the Congress can be greatly alleviated.</div> <bR> <div>    2. The President and the Congress will be forced to have in place (and promulgated) before-the-fact foreign and domestic policies.</div> <bR> <div>    3. Where differences exist among the President and each house  of the Congress, our citizens will know where to assign responsibility.</div> <bR> <div>      4. After elections, the electorate can determine whether election campaign slogans and promises are consistent with policy positions taken and voted.</div> <bR> <div>      5. Although at a particular point in time the USA may not meet the Publius conditions, foreign nations will be aware of our intentions and may <I>"be much more disposed to cultivate our friendship than provoke our resentment."</I></div> <bR> <div>      6. By foreign nations being better aware of our policies, we may be able to avoid a future miscalculation of a North Korea (China and USSR) of 1950 or of a Saddam Hussein of 1990-1991.</div> <bR> <div>      7. We may never again have an outstanding question, as to whether a President manipulated a Congress, and the nation, into a war (a la World War II, Vietnam and Desert Storm).</div> <bR> <div>      8. All government entities can be guided in their actions, by a clear awareness of the policies of the President and the Congress.  These would include such diverse areas as: the President and the Congress in nominations and confirmations; Congressional committees in quick disposition of bills and appropriations that are inconsistent with those policies; the Federal Reserve and other financial institutions in monetary steps; ambassadors in unequivocal communications to foreign rulers; commercial enterprises in their pursuit of international business; businesses and wage earners in more predictably controlling their expenditures, savings and investments; ad infinitum.   </div> <bR> <div>           Publius IV</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Responsibility 15"><U>Responsibility #15</U></A></div> <div> Back to: <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Responsibility Contents"><U>Responsibility Contents</U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>