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Monday, November 9, 2015

Is it Time for a System Restart?

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Is it Time for a System Restart?
By Sam Frescoe, Veteran’s Recall
http://veterans-recall.blogspot.com/
Imagine you are at your desk, on the job, or just trying to get something done. Now, your primary tool (a computer, instrument, or machine) begins to not work quite as expected. Your tool develops a minor hiccup here and there. You notice the problem, but it’s not that big of deal and you continue working. Now there is an occasional hang-up, or it freezes for no apparent reason. And, as if it can’t get worse, it stops working all together. Have you been there? Me too. I bet each of us can think of a tool, or ten or more, that behaved in this way. At some point you have to run a system diagnostic, to clean out the junk and restart the system.

What if the same scenario applied to government? What if you were pleased with the government until its hang-ups could no longer be explained as hiccups? What if it routinely provided what was wrong versus getting it right? What if the government simply stopped addressing its business? Can you think of some examples? Perhaps of a gridlock, a one-person “special” objection, a judgment, an order, or something else more close to you and your home? I have a long list. I bet you may as well.

Congress has an 82% disapproval rating

The Executive branch has a 47% disapproval rating

The Supreme Court has a 50% disapproval rating

What if the answer was to restart the system? What might that look like?

“Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” – Thomas Jefferson

System Restart!

If the primary tool for protecting the American way of life is the right tool for the job, but it’s just not working well enough to get the job done correctly, and prior resets have not solved the problems, then is it time for a complete system restart? What might that look like?

What if anyone at the deputy under secretary level and higher, without exception, is immediately terminated and barred from any and all federal office or service of any kind?

What if any Senator or Representative, including all staff members, without exception, beyond their first term of service in any federal legislative body is immediately terminated and barred from any and all federal office or service of any kind?

What if any Justice having served more than two Presidential terms in any arrangement, including all members of staff, without exception, is immediately terminated and barred from any and all federal office or service of any kind?

Going Forward

The American system of government is a representative republic. It’s not a democracy. It’s not an oligarchy. It’s not a theocracy. It’s not a monarchy. It is a republic that governs according to the consent of the People, not the desires of an executive or the decisions of a judge.

If you are as upset as I am with how the workers (elected and appointed officials) are using our very expensive tool of choice (the Constitution), then what are you willing to do about it?

Your View

If you could restart the system, then what is your solution? I invite you to tell me what you believe at samfrescoe@gmail.com. I am looking forward to addressing your comments and furthering our American discourse. Thank you. – Sam Frescoe

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