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A little something cooked up in the fertile brain of one Dave Haynie. Google the name or open up an Amiga Computer and look at the motherboard. All will be revealed. He has quite the fertile brain:
We (and I use that term loosely, since right now, the only registered members are me and my cat, "Flaming Mo") believe, foremost, in personal responsibility. This means many things. For one, it means we're RESPONSIBLE for our actions. If you fall (financially), the government should help you up, sure. But then you are going to have to walk, on your own.
Corporations, and those running them, are also RESPONSIBLE. If a corporation pollutes a lake, they are RESPONSIBLE for cleaning it up, once they're caught. 100% so. If necessary, they will be sold to pay up. The people in charge will also be held personally RESPONSIBLE for their actions in such matters. If government officials do a similar screwing-of-the-pooch with Your Tax Dollars, they will be held RESPONSIBLE, which means fines and jail time, for abusing the taxpayers' trust.
If you make huge sums of money, a larger chunk of that is going to the government. You won't starve. The Government, in turn, has to be RESPONSIBLE for spending it wisely, as mentioned. If the army doesn't want a particular weapon, that weapon is not made. Corporate welfare is a capital offense -- corporations are RESPONSIBLE for their own welfare, they do not get hand-outs from the government.
If you do a crime, and are not criminally insane or some-such, you are RESPONSIBLE for that crime. Not your lot in life, your lousy upbringing, etc. If you're a bad guy, doing a crime, you'll get your due process and go to jail. You do not get to sue for the fact that you slipped and broke you butt running from the crime scene. And if you try, you get both the public ridicule thing for a week, and a 6'8", 350lbs. cellmate known only as "The Maneater".
If you got to jail, you don't get a free ride, you work. Not death-camp work, but regular, ordinary everyday manual labor. You don't cost the government. You do learn a skill of your choice. You are RESPONSIBLE for doing this work properly. If you're too much trouble, you get transferred to the Hard Case Prison in Northern Alaska, where you're RESPONSIBLE, or you wind up on an ice floe (well, at least while Alaska still has them).
We also don't take crap. Especially from California. If you spill a cup of hot coffee on your genitals, too bad -- next time, be more careful. If you decide to sue the drive-through fast food place for making your coffee unsafe for application to you genitals, you not only get your case thrown out, you pay all costs, INCLUDING the cost of putting you on display, for public ridicule, for no less than one week. You are not legally required to not behave like a moron, but you will be held RESPONSIBLE for any actions of your that attempt to impose this lifestyle, or the outcome of such, on the public at large.
If you make a baby, you take care of that baby; you are RESPONSIBLE for a kid that can't yet take care of his/herself. If you try to duck that responsibilty, you will be tried in-abstentia for child abuse, and sentenced. Once you're caught, your prison-work salary will then be sent to the guardian of your child. All of it. If you don't want a child, don't have one. Condems are available, free, at dispensers on every street corner. They come with directions and a map.
Then there's the land. It's not yours to fuck up, not remotely. You aren't here, very long, in geological terms. You are RESPONSIBLE, individually and as a corporation, for leaving things as you found them, as any hiker understands. If you mess something up, you WILL pay to fix it, and you'll pay the full cost. The government isn't bailing you out. If your shareholders don't like that, they can sue you. They'll win, and you'll have to pay them, too.
We're RESPONSIBLE for our own international security. Undue dependence on any foreign government is illegal. Oil, technology, manufacturing, doesn't matter. International cooperation is fine, dependence is not.
Anyway, that's my party. But hey, at least I don't have to consult Republican HQ before I know how to think. I'm RESPONSIBLE for that, too. So's the cat...
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