So without further adieus, I'll let my father and his fellow collaborators speak for themselves. ***
We're ready to roll with our long-awaited political initiative described
in Draft 40 of the platform of the Unite America Party.
We are inspired by the challenge of Pope Francis to to address the roots
causes of global poverty and end the "slavery of money." We thank
America's founders, lawyer-economist-ESOP inventor Louis O. Kelso, ESOP
champion Senator Russell Long, the Aristotelian scholar Mortimer Adler,
Father William Ferree and all the members and counselors of the Center
for Economic and Social Justice and students of Kelsonian binary
economics for the bold ideas and common sense logic behind our work.
As Margaret Meade said: "Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing
that ever has."
We have a great team, many of whom have contributed to the language and
ideas in the platform. The founders of this peaceful and just "Second
American Revolution" have been meeting weekly for several months to
launch a party committed to addressing the root causes for the cancer in
the American economic system. As you know, politics today and for many
decades merely offer superficial answers to address the symptoms of the
cancer. We think the economic and social justice principles and Capital
Homesteading monetary, tax and inheritance reforms in the platform and
the links to underscored terms will heal the cancer in ways that benefit
all Americans, from the bottom up.
Please take the time to read Draft 40 and scan the links. If you like
it, spread the good news to all those you know who are seeking a
"solution" to the economic problems faced by a growing majority of
Americans, especially graduating college students who cannot find a job
and the growing number of workers who are unemployed, underemployed or
who have left the work force.
We welcome your comments. And let us know (if you were not yet active
during our formative period) that you want to be involved.
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PLATFORM OF THE UNITE AMERICA PARTY
DRAFT
#40, MAY 23, 2014
PREAMBLE
The Unite America Party is reaching
out to all who are seeking, and are ready to work together for, a positive and
peaceful “Second American Revolution” inspired by the founding principles of
our nation. This revolution of ideas, we believe, can unite all Americans and,
by example, all of humanity, and move us toward a more hopeful and just future.
Our mission and agenda are fully consistent with the spirit of the original
American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the
Bill of Rights; namely, to create economic liberty, prosperity and justice for
all.
Why
start a new party? Because all of the existing political parties are addressing
the symptoms, not the structural causes, of a cancer within today's economic system
that is increasing the feelings of polarization and pessimism in many Americans
and other people around the world. Through our Platform and the universal
principles of economic
and social justice it expresses, we
seek to unite all Americans and
existing political parties around the cure for that cancer.
We realize that some of the terms
we use may be interpreted negatively by people coming from differing political
philosophies. For this reason, we have carefully defined
our terms — developed over the centuries and based on the writings of the great
moral, religious and political philosophers — in presenting the logic and
applications underlying our platform and program.
Ultimately,
we believe that our Platform is more important than any party, including our
own party. If any well-organized party or candidate wants to adopt our
comprehensive Platform, they will have our support.
I.
THE PARTY’S PHILOSOPHICAL ROOTS AND
FUTURE VISION
The Unite America Party derives its vision from the history
behind the Preamble of the Declaration
of Independence adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776, which declares:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure
domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general
Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do
ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The vision of the Unite America Party is further supported
by America’s Bill of Rights, without which the Constitution would not have been
approved by founders such as George Mason. These first ten amendments to the
Constitution set limits on the power of the Federal government vis-à-vis the people,
reinforcing the civilization-changing ideal that the true source of power and
rights rests with the people, not government.
The Unite America Party bases much of its agenda and
fundamental principles on the largely ignored Ninth Amendment of the
Constitution, which reads:
The
enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to
deny or disparage others retained by the people.
This Amendment subordinates the coercive powers of
government to the God-given sovereignty, freedom, dignity and “unalienable
rights” of each human person. Such fundamental human rights include the right
to own property, which forbids turning people into property. These rights are
inherent in human nature and are based on each person’s capacity to reason and
independently develop moral virtues, which America’s founders devoted their “lives,
fortunes and sacred honor” to defend.
By reviving popular understanding and support for America’s
founding principles, our Party will bring about a new unity among now divided
Americans. We reject the premise that
people are incapable of developing systems that would allow today’s politically
polarized Americans to work together and thrive. What distinguishes this new
party is our approach to uniting Americans through a non-partisan coalition on the
politically suppressed issue of who should own and control the future wealth of
our nation.
The commitment of Americans to “property” was best expressed
in the Virginia Declaration of Rights authored by George Mason and approved on
May 15, 1776 by the Virginia Convention “as the basis and foundation of
government.” Section 1 of the Virginia Declaration’s Preamble reads:
That all
men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent
rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any
compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and
liberty, with the means of acquiring and
possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Therefore, the question is, why did Thomas Jefferson leave
out “property” when revolutionary thinkers like John Locke, Thomas Paine, John
Adams and many others considered the preservation of private property rights as
the highest purpose of government? Many believe that Jefferson, a slave owner,
left out “property” as an essential founding principle in authoring the
Declaration of Independence because he was not prepared politically to address
America’s “original sin” — the institution of slavery.
Slavery violated the “unalienable” right of human beings to
own themselves and other things that can help them become more independently productive
to meet their consumption needs. Slavery dehumanized people by treating them as
“things” whose bodies and economic productiveness would belong to and be
totally controlled by the slave owners, not the enslaved victims.
America’s Civil War, followed by Abraham Lincoln’s successful
promotion of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, ended the
legality of the institution of slavery. Yet the current economic system of
America and the world continues to perpetuate a more subtle form of slavery.
The Unite America Party seeks to emancipate and empower all
of today’s “wage slaves,” “welfare slaves,” “charity slaves,” and “debt slaves.”
We will lift all unjust institutional and legal barriers to equal opportunity
for every citizen to become an economically empowered owner of productive
capital (in other words, wealth-creating, income-earning assets), without
taking away property rights over existing assets from today’s owners. We
believe that a unified culture based on economic democracy, freedom and justice
for all will inspire every child, woman and man to work collaboratively for the
common good, which aims toward the prosperity and fullest development of every
person.
The fundamental right of every
person to become an owner is asserted in Article 17 of The Universal Declaration of Human
Rights adopted on December 10, 1948 by the United Nations. Article 17
reads:
(1)
Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in
association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his
property.
It should be sadly noted,
however, that no nation in the world
systematically promotes and protects this fundamental human right. The
Declaration, in promoting the right to own, would have been strengthened by
adding the language in the Virginia Declaration of Rights emphasizing access to
“the means of acquiring and possessing” property.
The central feature in the platform
of the Unite America Party is its proposed
Capital Homestead Act. This proposal calls for a comprehensive
restructuring of America’s economic policies to grow a sustainable economy in
ways that create a nation of citizen owners. As all citizens gain equal access
to the most effective financial means to become owners — through insured capital
credit repayable with “future savings” — the growing dependency of most
citizens today for their economic well-being on big government, big business,
and big labor would be reversed.
The Capital Homestead Act is based
on the Party’s “Just Third
Way” philosophy. This philosophy embodies a morality, respect for life and
human dignity, and sense of the common good that is more just than socialism
(which institutionalizes envy) or capitalism (which institutionalizes greed).
Because it is based on changing the system for financing future growth to
equalize future ownership opportunities, Capital Homesteading will empower poor
and middle-income Americans, without redistributing existing wealth from
today’s ownership elite.
Through the democratization of the economic system and money
power (now controlled by today’s super-rich in partnership with the political
elite of both major parties) to all citizens under the Capital Homestead Act, our
political democracy will be strengthened. With a more just foundation, the
Unite America Party will attract authentic and responsible leaders to run for
offices at all levels. From political independents and frustrated activists of
other parties, the Party will seek out leaders who are willing to dedicate
their lives to serving, teaching, and empowering others.
The Unite America Party will create, from the bottom up,
the political order envisioned by America’s revolutionary founders of “one
nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.” In similar fashion Abraham
Lincoln, viewing America as “the last best hope of earth,” offered ownership of
America’s western lands to property-less citizens through the Homestead Act of
1862.
By combining land grants supported by land grant
universities under this Act, our young nation was elevated to the top of the
most productive agricultural nations in the world. In turn, our agricultural
success freed former farm workers to shift their creative initiatives to industry,
commerce, education and research, development of new communities and
infrastructure and today’s advanced technology post-industrial frontier.
While the nation’s land frontier is finite, our capital
frontier has no known limits. We therefore can open up economic opportunity for
all citizens to become owners, without having to take away anyone’s private
property rights or current accumulations.
We recognize and acknowledge that the principles set forth in
the U.S. Constitution require a sound economic base upon which we can build a
free and just social order. Without a fair and democratic economic system, society
can never attain social justice. A government of, by and for the people can
only be supported and sustained by a stable and just money system and a tax
system that is fair and simple to understand.
As part of a movement respectful of
civilization's most humanizing traditions, the Party can help overcome the
so-called “clash of civilizations” by bringing out the best of all cultures in
their common understanding of justice as a necessary moral framework for peace,
freedom, and democracy. America, by creating a culture based on universal values
and sound ideas, will serve as a model and beacon of hope for every nation
seeking a more free, just, and life-enhancing future for all of its citizens.
The Unite America Party, following in the spirit of America's
revolutionary founders, all of whom recognized that concentrated power is
inherently corrupting, will promote economic democracy through equal ownership
opportunities as a key to effective political democracy and freedom through the
following measures:
Consistent with traditional
principles of social and economic justice, the agenda of the Unite America
Party will build a just, market-based model of economic democracy, resting on
four policy pillars of the Just Third Way:
1.
Democratize
Capital Credit and Ownership of Wealth-Creating, Income-Generating Productive
Assets, in order to promote full and sustainable production, a
life-enhancing environment, affordable shelter, democratic and transparent
corporate governance, and rising property incomes for all. The moral omission
of every economy on the globe is the total indifference of political leaders,
academics, and the media to exclusionary barriers faced by ordinary citizens
and the poor in gaining equal access to capital ownership and capital credit.
2. Limit the Economic Power of the State, in
order to end special privileges and monopolies, especially discriminatory
access by already wealthy people to the money-creation and credit powers of the
Federal Reserve System.
3. Restore Private Property Rights, especially in corporate equity
shares, by
reversing laws and court decisions that deny capital owners: (a) full voting
powers in corporate governance; (b) full transparency over management
decisions; and (c) access to full profit distributions. Discriminatory double-
and triple-taxation of corporate profits would be ended by full dividend
payouts, with capital incomes taxed at the same rates as labor incomes.
Furthermore, new capital would be financed by the issuance of new shares, to be
purchased by workers and other new owners using capital credit. Capital credit
would be insured to cover the risk of default and made repayable with the full
stream of future profits earned on those shares.
4. Restore True Free Markets and Just
Trade as
the most democratic means to determine just prices, just wages, and just
profits. This would eliminate monopolistic, bureaucratic, or other coercive or
unjust attempts to substitute centralized control over economic choices for the
more democratic, more objective, more free, and more efficient laws of supply
and demand.
q End
Wage and Welfare Slavery through Ownership Incomes for Every Citizen
We will reform American economic
policy to shift from its present reliance on inflationary wages, job-destroying
employer benefits, and incomes dependent on redistributing incomes earned by
taxpayers. Instead, we will promote income independence for every citizen by
accelerating investment in new wealth-creating, income-generating productive
assets in ways that widely broaden individual capital accumulations, new jobs
and property-based earnings, while improving ecological conditions for
healthier lives and a healthier planet earth.
q Expand
Capital Ownership through Capital Homesteading
We will enable every child, woman
and man from birth to set up a personal Capital Homestead Account at a local
bank and receive at least $7,000 of Federal Reserve-created, interest-free, and
insured capital credit every year throughout their lives to invest their annual
Capital Homestead credit allocation in newly issued corporate growth stock of
an expanding private sector, with such credit repayable entirely with future pretax
profits derived from the added productiveness of the newly formed capital
assets.
We will reduce Social Security,
Medicare and welfare benefits to the extent property incomes from accumulated
assets in a citizen’s tax-sheltered Capital Homestead Account replace that
citizen’s dependency on incomes redistributed from other taxpaying workers and
capital owners. This would radically reduce future deficits for Medicare and
Social Security, a mounting burden on future generations the present value of
which is now projected at $129 trillion, or a hidden debt of over $400,000 on
every child, woman and man in today’s America. (http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
q Lift
Barriers to Universal Access to Money Power and Broad-Based Ownership of
Newly-Created Capital Assets
We will reactivate Section 13(2) of
the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 to supply asset-backed currency through the
discount windows of each of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks in order to: (a) enable
local commercial banks to finance sustainable, non-inflationary regional growth
of industry, commerce, and agriculture through tax-sheltered Capital Homestead
Accounts, (b) de-monopolize the power of money, productive credit and ownership
and decentralize ownership power to every citizen as a new right of
citizenship, and (c) restore an elastic, asset-backed reserve currency to
replace the present government debt-backed currency system. We will amend the
Federal Reserve Act to democratize share ownership of each of the 12 regional
Federal Reserve Banks so that ownership rights and governing powers in each
region’s central bank would be exclusively and equally shared by each one of
its regional citizens.
q Create
a Radically More Simple and Just Tax System
We will control government spending through a national
tax system designed to: (a) encourage accelerated rates of investment,
sustainable green growth in urban and rural communities, productive jobs, and
widespread personalized ownership opportunities; (b) eliminate the double- and
triple-tax on corporate profits and job-destroying Social Security, Medicare,
and other payroll taxes; (c) continue to fund all personal entitlements out of
general revenues until reduced and eventually exceeded by capital incomes
earned through Capital Homestead Account assets; (d) eliminate all individual
income taxes below a “living income” exemption of $30,000 per adult and $20,000
per dependent, (or $100,000 for a family of four); and (e) balance the Federal
budget and gradually repay old debt through a single rate tax on all personal
incomes above the taxpayer’s “living income” exemptions.
We will enable all citizens to
report their incomes from all sources on a postal card, while allowing
corporations, as with subchapter S corporations, partnerships, and
cooperatives, to avoid business income taxes by treating full dividend payouts
and other profit-based distributions as business deductions, taxable only when received
at the personal level. We will provide citizens whose incomes (whether from
private charity or other sources) are below the poverty level, with a monthly
voucher check to meet their basic subsistence needs until earned income from
their Capital Homesteading dividends and labor incomes rises above the poverty level.
q Avoid
Concentrations in Wealth Transfers from One Generation to the Next
We will advocate reforms to the
laws dealing with inheritance and gift tax policies that encourage the top 5
percent of wealth-holders to distribute broadly their capital accumulations
from one generation directly to the next, or through tax-sheltered Capital
Homestead Accounts of individual members of their families, workers, teachers,
the poor and disabled, and other citizens with little or no income-producing
assets. Recipients would be subject to a one-time individual income tax on the
gift or bequest, applied to the portion of the gift or bequest that brings
their personal capital accumulations (excluding their primary residence) above
$1 million.
III. DOMESTIC AND HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES
We, the members of the Unite America Party, American Revolutionaries of the
21st Century, stand for the protection and preservation of the following social
ideals:
q Harmony
in Relationships Between Moral, Religious, and Political Institutions
The Unite America Party supports
the power of people of faith to worship freely and to express their beliefs in
the public square without coercive attempts on the part of government to
diminish free expression. We will preserve
the historic role of the various religions, deeply rooted in the founding of
America as a revolutionary nation, to teach universal moral virtues. America’s
unity, we also reaffirm, is based on the freedom of every person to pursue his or
her own religious and spiritual life
within a religiously pluralistic society.
America was founded not only to
protect freedom of religion but expressly prohibited government from
“establishing” any religion or religious faction to dominate other religions or
the freedom of belief of other citizens. When addressing the role of religion
in society, we will seek to promote an atmosphere of mutual respect among
people with differing views. No religious authority should be placed in a
position where, as in some other nations, a group representing one set of
religious beliefs is granted the coercive powers of government to infringe on
the religious or spiritual freedoms of any individual, whether or not he or she
belongs to any organized religion.
q The
Family as the Basic Social Institution of Society
We will elevate the needs and concerns of the family (the basic
social unit of any moral society) and the protection of children to the highest
national priority in order to secure the advance of civilization. In the spirit
of family unity, we will seek to eliminate the separation of family members
through deportation of those who are not citizens, leaving other family members
behind. Instead, we favor maximizing the opportunities of non-citizens to
become citizens.
q An
Economic Agenda that Promotes Life, Dignity, Security,
Property, and Freedom through Justice and Equality of Opportunity for Every
Human Being
Our Just Third Way economic
agenda would eliminate financial reasons for terminating a pregnancy, ending anyone's life due to costly
health care for their illness, or limiting
and impairing the life of any person. With economic security society can offer
greater care, dignity and safety for mothers and their unborn.
By working together to heal the wounds of the past and
provide full equality of social and economic opportunity, citizens will fulfill
the ultimate promise of America's founders. Uniting under the fundamental
principles of social and economic justice, Americans can work together to end
poverty and eliminate social and economic injustices. This would radically
reduce the economic roots of crime and terrorism, strengthen personal security,
eliminate class barriers, and give birth to civilization's first model of a
socially and economically just, free and prosperous society.
Our Party will promote equal respect and empowerment between
every woman and man in all decision-making processes, from the level of the
family to all levels of human interactions (including those of business,
government, education, health, and other cultural associations) within
communities, states, regions, nations and international bodies.
Culturally divisive issues (such as gun control, same-sex
marriage and abortion) can be debated and settled in the marketplace of moral
ideas, where economically free and independent citizens can use their powers of
reason and persuasion to settle their differences, rather than through the
coercive and at times oppressive powers of government.
q Educational
Choice and Responsibility of Parents
To achieve quality education for
all, the Unite America Party will promote taxpayer-supported educational
vouchers for all families (until parents earn enough Capital Homesteading
incomes to exercise their own choices) based on the measured educational needs
of each child. In that way the primary responsibility and adequate resources
for exercising choice of schooling will reside with parents, not with any monopoly
of educational services. With greater parental choice, government would still
set minimum educational standards, while teachers, school administrators and
teachers’ unions would have added incentives to collaborate with parents for
closing the educational opportunity gap within the American educational system.
q Lifetime
Learning Opportunities for all Citizens
Since political democracy assumes
and requires educated, informed, and independent-thinking citizens, we will
create a cultural environment that enhances quality-learning opportunities for
all citizens at all stages of their lives. This would include financial
education necessary for participating effectively as an empowered
citizen-owner.
q Universal
Health Insurance and Reduced Costs for Funding New Medical Advances
The Unite America Party will
re-establish privacy and choice through one’s own personal health plan rather
than through an employer. We will encourage the private sector to offer
universal catastrophic health care insurance, reinforced with health care
vouchers for health care insurance for those who cannot afford it.
Under the new health care policy, Capital
Homesteading credit would be provided to health plan subscribers and health
plan providers — the only two groups with a direct and immediate stake in
quality health care. With access to low-cost capital credit and direct
ownership opportunities, these two stakeholder
groups could acquire control and become co-owners of comprehensive and
competitive health care delivery systems. A restoration of power to
stakeholders would help restore the sacred relationship between health care
subscribers and providers that has
been lost in many of today’s Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs).
Furthermore, we will condition all
taxpayer-supported medical research on royalty-free licensing of all patentable
inventions in order to stimulate competition among suppliers and reduce the
costs of producing pharmaceuticals and other life-enhancing health
technologies.
q Discouraging
Judicial Activism that Threatens a Just Constitutional Order
We will encourage the judiciary to return
to the original intent of the founders in interpreting and ruling on the U.S.
Constitution and discourage judges from making laws that should be left to
elected legislators or to the people by referenda.
We will seek rulings from the
Supreme Court that restore the original meaning to the Ninth and Tenth
Amendments and reinstate the rights and powers of the people under the principles
of natural law that govern right and
wrong (which the founders understood and drew upon), and under the principles of English common law that existed prior
to our nation’s founding. Among the fundamental rights of the people that were
supposed to be respected and preserved under the Constitution was universal
access to “the means of acquiring and possessing property,” a right which was
expressly acknowledged under the Virginia and Massachusetts Declarations of
Rights.
IV.
GLOBAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
q Offer
More Creative and Just Approaches to Global Conflict Resolution
The Unite America Party will promote a new model of a
democratic nation-state that promotes and protects freedom of religion and
belief for all individuals, and bans
control over the coercive power of the government by any organized religious
body. These freedoms are guaranteed under the First Amendment of the
Constitution, which opposes laws “respecting the establishment of religion or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” as well as the first two articles of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in
1948.
Based on Article 17 of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights stressing the right to property as a
fundamental human right, the new nation-state should not own land or other
natural resources. Instead, every child, woman and man should share an equal,
lifetime, non-transferable ownership right and share equally in the profits and
governing powers for preserving, extracting and renting economic uses of all of
Nature’s resources. Concerning America’s national parks, ownership rights would
be transferred to a national Citizens Land Bank governed by citizen-owners.
With respect to human-created
economic technologies, rentable space, wealth-producing systems and ideas, and
infrastructure, each citizen should be guaranteed equality to secure future
ownership opportunities and the monetary and legal means to acquire and earn
personal property rights over new and transferred income-producing assets.
Economic democracy would thus become the ultimate check on potential abuses of
concentrated economic power by any level of government, as well as by those
controlling private monopolies of wealth and economic power.
By promoting economic democracy and
grassroots empowerment through equal ownership opportunities, the Unite America
Party’s approach to global poverty eradication and conflict resolution will
radically reduce global crime rates. It will also neutralize the influence of
preachers of hate and violence who recruit economically powerless persons to
enlist as suicide terrorists to use whatever weapons they can acquire to kill innocent
citizens. The new nation-state would thus build a more unifying culture and a
more just economic foundation for peace, prosperity and freedom in the West
Bank/Gaza/Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, poverty-stricken countries, and other
unstable countries or regions that
breed global terrorists.
q Promote
a New Global Standard for Currency Exchange Rates in a Global Common Market to Avoid
Outsourcing of Productive Jobs to Countries with Lower Labor Costs
We will convene a 21st
century version of the Bretton Woods Conference. The first one was held in
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in July 1944, convened by the United States with
43 other allied nations during World War II to plan the design of the post-war global
monetary and financial order. Besides leading to the formation of the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the conference decided to
establish the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency for global trade.
Today many countries question that
global decision, given the instability in the value of the U.S. dollar. (Over
the last 70 years, the dollar’s value has declined by 4,000 percent when
measured by the increased price of an ounce of gold, from $35 to $1,400 today.)
The Unite America Party supports a
new global conference to promote a more free and just global monetary and
financial order consistent with principles of the Just Third Way. Such a
conference would call for adoption of a fixed global standard for measuring the
value of an elastic and asset-backed global reserve currency.
Going beyond the problematic gold
standard, such a fixed global standard could be based on the average global
cost of producing a kilowatt-hour, while adjusting currency exchange rates for
trade among countries so that they take into account the lowest market labor
rates in each country. This would create a more level playing field in tradable
goods and services and stem the exploitative outsourcing of jobs to low-wage-paying
countries and reduce pressures for protectionist trade policies that hurt all
consumers.
q Expand
Global Markets for Commercial Uses of Advanced U.S. Technologies
We will promote truly open global markets to enable America
to sell advanced technologies and high-tech services that enhance civilized
life for all, particularly for sustainable food and fiber production; clean
fuel and renewable technologies; advanced information, health and agricultural
systems; and consulting on Capital Homesteading financing strategies for
turning workers and other citizens into shareholders within commercial,
financial, industrial and agricultural enterprises.
Within all for-profit enterprises,
non-profit organizations and government agencies, America should be introducing
participatory and justice-based
management and governance systems to increase performance and efficiency.
q Help
Accelerate Third World Development and Debt Relief
We will export the principles of
the Just
Third Way and the financial technologies of Capital
Homesteading to all nations. This would democratize and accelerate economic
growth in developing economies; reduce the economic and political pressures for
individuals and family members to immigrate to other countries and leave behind
their families, friends and cultures; neutralize and marginalize the preachers
and teachers of global terrorism; systematize greater transparency to reduce
public corruption; and build sustainable Just Third Way economies from the
bottom-up.
We will cancel old debt of
developing countries that resulted from borrowing funds that went to non-productive projects or that
enriched corrupt political leaders and their cronies at the expense of their
own people.
q Promote
Long-Term Stewardship of the Global Environment
We will create a ten-year
equivalent of the Marshall Plan or the "Race to the Moon" to conduct
research, develop, and finance advanced sustainable energy technologies (many
of which have already been developed by NASA and other Federal agencies but are
not yet commercially available) that reduce the rising levels of carbon dioxide
and other pollutants created from continued use of finite fossil fuels. We will
seek collaboration among nations and global organizations to better define the
issue and present real world solutions that will not reward special interests
nor cripple national economies.
We will seek to rapidly reduce
America’s dependency on oil and fossil fuels by shifting to renewable sources
of energy, so that existing reserves will not be depleted before a “safety
cushion” is preserved in the ground to handle future emergencies within an
increasingly more fragile and technologically dependent world.
We will seek to design and build technologically and environmentally
sound public transportation systems in cities and metropolitan areas currently
without them, which are convenient and safe for those seeking alternatives to
the use of motor vehicles and traditional urban transit systems. This will
reduce pollution and motor vehicle accidents, decrease the use of fossil fuels,
reduce traffic gridlock, and allow non-drivers access to the advantages of city
life.
q Transform
the United Nations and other International Organizations to Promote Economic
Democracy as an Essential Foundation for Spreading Political Democracy Globally
We will use America's superpower
status to bring together a coalition of free and democratic countries unified
to support the Just Third Way. We will advocate among friendly nations the transformation
or replacement of the United Nations as a global institution for advancing
global peace, prosperity and freedom through global economic, social, and
political justice. Such a global institution would promote peacemaking efforts
that draw upon grassroots initiatives that make all people participatory
shareholders in peace.
q Improve
National Security by Winning the War of Ideas
We will strengthen and transform
the national security policy of America and its coalition partners by
launching, unilaterally if necessary, a Just Third Way offensive in the war of
ideas. To eliminate the breeding grounds for recruiting extremists and
religious and other terrorists, this new national security policy would be
immediately followed by more effective bottom-up assistance from United States
and international development agencies for delivering ideas and strategies that
encourage higher levels of economic and social justice for all citizens within
poor and underdeveloped countries.
We will limit American military
intervention as a last resort in winning the War on Global Terrorism. Instead, America should use its superpower
military and economic status to lead other nations in advancing the efforts of global governance bodies and Just
Third Way initiatives that promote the dignity and quality of life for all people.
We should also supply, unilaterally if necessary, all forms of assistance to
Just Third Way advocacy groups struggling to overcome genocidal dictatorships
in all countries that harbor terrorists and other threats to global peace.
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FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Norm Kurland, Co-Founder, Unite America Party
Mail: P.O. Box 40711, Washington, D.C. 20016
Phone: (703) 243-5155 | Fax: (703) 243-5935
