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    A Far, Far Better America: Where Do We Start? Our Industries Are Gone We’Re Split into Political Parties Elections Go to Highest Bidders Millions Are out of Work 100,000 Are Homeless We Have Duplicate Legislators and so on . . .
    A Far, Far Better America: Where Do We Start? Our Industries Are Gone We’Re Split into Political Parties Elections Go to Highest Bidders Millions Are out of Work 100,000 Are Homeless We Have Duplicate Legislators and so on . . .
    A Far, Far Better America: Where Do We Start? Our Industries Are Gone We’Re Split into Political Parties Elections Go to Highest Bidders Millions Are out of Work 100,000 Are Homeless We Have Duplicate Legislators and so on . . .
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    A Far, Far Better America: Where Do We Start? Our Industries Are Gone We’Re Split into Political Parties Elections Go to Highest Bidders Millions Are out of Work 100,000 Are Homeless We Have Duplicate Legislators and so on . . .

    By Fred W. Coble

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    Most People Have The Grace


    To Accept What Cannot Be Changed,


    But Lack The Courage To Change


    What Should Be Changed,


    And The Wisdom To Know


    The Difference.



    This Text Is Published


    That All Americans Might Have


    The Far, Far Better Life


    We Were Always


    Meant To Have.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJun 11, 2012
    ISBN9781468594928
    A Far, Far Better America: Where Do We Start? Our Industries Are Gone We’Re Split into Political Parties Elections Go to Highest Bidders Millions Are out of Work 100,000 Are Homeless We Have Duplicate Legislators and so on . . .
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    Fred W. Coble

    About the Author (Found one day on my computer via “Picture clipping. PictClipping” with no sender identi?ed) One might surmise that an author of such visionary ideas and bold assertions might be imbued with strong political and world event opinions. Fatherless from age four, one of eight siblings, living through the great depression, a farm boy raised in Milton Hershey’s famous Boy’s School, a Marine in WWII, employed 43 years as technician/engineer with RCA, and residing in twelve different states, might account for his broadened, inquisitive and challenging curiosity. Daring to express coveted opinions may be risky at best and perhaps foolhardy at worst; since most people harbor strong opinions of their own – some in agreement with the author and others vehemently opposed. Anonymous

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      A Far, Far Better America - Fred W. Coble

      Contents

      Foreword

      Preface

      1.0        Eliminate Politics And Unify Our Nation

      2.0        Eliminate Duplicate Legislatures

      3.0        Honest Elections

      4.0        Reputable Tax Systems

      5.0        Lawful Jurisprudence

      6.0        Win Our Narcotics WAR

      7.0        Humanize Our Homeless

      8.0        Health Care for All

      9.0        Fathers For the Fatherless

      10.0      Modernize Water and Power

      11.0      Make Education Relevant

      12.0      Stop Gay Persecution

      13.0      Purge Our Harmful Laws

      14.0      Regain Our Industrial Power

      15.0      End Our Nation’s Poverty

      16.0      Balanced Lobbying

      17.0      Save Our Newborn

      18.0      Ethnic Blending

      19.0      Restrain Our Competitive Craze

      20.0      Attack Crime At its Roots

      21.0      Unify our Foundation

      22.0      Marriages To be avoided

      23.0      Controlling Maternity Mêlée

      24.0      Right & Left BrainInfluences

      25.0      And, In Conclusion

      Epilogue

      About the Author

      Dedication

      To my loving daughter Claudette.

      She was my entire life

      through her final years.

      My inspiration, confidant, and advisor.

      She’s the reason I embarked

      on

      this awesome crusade.

      Foreword

      There’s an expression: Fat, dumb and happy. Which may apply to most of us. Meaning in essence, that we’re inclined to be content with things, as they are – apathetic, that is.

      Historians record that our nation was born around 1767, when a coup overthrew the King of England, and drafted a set of rules for governing our newly captured thirteen colonies.

      Now, over 200 years later, we’re still a goodly distance from what was originally implied for our promised land.

      In this text we’ve identify some twenty egregious flaws in our nation’s fundamental nature. Solving these flaws would do no harm to intellectual elites except perhaps a restructuring of our nations foundation. And unfortunately, for the conservative, they represent a modification of the status quo.

      Members of the intellectual domain happen to be left-brain dominant; implying they are genetically restrained from accepting the Far, Far Better America solutions proposed herein. So this might be like whistling in the dark (?)

      Hopefully, however, there may be investors in our intellectual empire that are on the look out for valuable innovations, and they might be willing to support the implementation of one or more of my solutions.

      Why a Third Edition?

      What, you may ask, justifies the penning of this, our third edition? Feedback from our Second Edition indicated a sizable lack of agreements on many of our solutions, to the nation’s twenty some egregious failings.

      This was anticipated, since our twenty some solutions are clearly changes to the status quo. And since a large slice of our citizenry, by nature, is conservative, our proposed changes to the status quo were naturally met with pensive oppositions.

      Our intent in this third edition is not to defend the offered solutions, but rather to solicit an attitude of consolation – hoping the value of our solutions, to the nation, might over-ride the obligatory to preserve the status quo.

      An online address is available for suggested additions, changes, or deletions:

      fcoble@aol.com

      Preface

      Why should we be anxious about matters that may have little or no affect our lives? Reinhold Niebuhr helped us contemplate such concerns:

      God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.

      There are, of course, many things we cannot change, and we’d be wise to recognize and accept such invincibility; saving our time and concerns for those things for which we can, and should, strive to change.

      We might also be wise, in our search, to bear in mind one of John Locke’s axioms:

      New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed without any reason but because they are not already common.

      Then too, we might do well to listen to George Bernard Shaw’s bit of wisdom:

      You see things as they are; and say, Why? But I dream of things that never were; and I say, Why not?

      Yes! Believe it or not. America really can be far, far better than it’s ever been. And the reason that it’s not is open to question. Oh Yes. Greed is arguably a possible reason. But, those with the greed happen to be the very one’s who would benefit greatest from the Far, Far Better America.

      No. The reason is far more baffling.

      Our Constitution was written by our nations intellectual elite who obviously wanted our government maintained under care and control of a carefully selected congress.

      An Electoral College was deemed necessary to undo unfavorable election results. Election of the president was not in the hands of the masses, and a Bill of Rights was forcefully opposed.

      The small States wanted two representatives per state and the larger States wanted the number based on population. A budget busting compromise established duplicate legislative bodies -- at the federal and State levels.

      Throughout the life of our nation great pains and scrutiny have been on guard to maintain the objectives and benefits of our meticulously concocted Constitution. It’s called conservatism, or Status Quo.

      Guardianship of the Status Quo has provided enviable wealth and power, and is certain to resist any sort of change or modification; even though such changes allege equal benefits for the wealthy and the masses.

      The nationwide upheaval by the Occupy movement is nothing more than a disparate attempt to level the playing field – commonly called liberalism. This sort of rebellion is classic in every nation throughout world history, and should be taken serious – even though the efforts be considered fruitless.

      All the solutions offered in this treatise are considered of intrinsic value to all classes of our nation. Admittedly, most solutions do alter the Status Quo, but not in such a manner as to threaten the wealth or power of the intellectual elites. Eliminating political parties might seem to deprive the elite’s of their partner and friend in Congress, but no more so than is implied in the fairness of democracy.

      Judging from the massive wealth acquired by the one percent, any further quest for great advantages would seem superfluous.

      1.0

      Eliminate Politics

      And

      Unify Our Nation

      Before the ink was dry on our hallowed Constitution, our budding nation was split asunder, and has continued to fragment ever since, into hundreds of warring factions.

      Jefferson and Hamilton get credit for splitting America into two nasty political camps, and turning our nation into one horrendous Hatfield and McCoy feud. Hamilton fought to give the Federal Government total rule over all the States, and Jefferson insisted on maintaining State governments.

      Friendships are destroyed; enemies created; animosities erupt; and party line voting dominates heated debates in every legislative body – at the Federal and State levels.

      This warfare even inhabits our halls of jurisprudence. We have a right to ask: what happened to our nation’s creed: to establish a more perfect Union (?)

      The feud was, indeed, a stupid display of egotism, and was the dreadful reason that split our nation into hateful political affiliations.

      President George Washington pleaded -- obviously to no avail --

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