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Submitted by Kharmatos on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 11:10pm.
Spread the word. from www.freewebs.com/davidinthehouse
I am David L. Mosher and I have thrown my hat into the Idaho 1st District Congressional Race as an Independant Write-In and I hope for your support in November. I am about strict Reform. And a lot of it. Right now we need doers in Washington, not more talkers. What I would like to do is to give more power and attention back to our State, meaning that we would do more to take care of ourselves than to rely on the federal government to help us out when we need it or to actually believe them when they say they're looking out for our best interests when they're clearly not. We do have State Tax and that is what it is for. We should re-work out State Tax to fit our budget and to compensate for our own needs. For instance, we, like the entire Country, need to fix our infrastructure. Washington isn't going to help us out with that as they have shown. If our schools need to be taken care of we would compensate that into our State Tax. We could even have our own Fair Tax, which I am for, because it would make doing your taxes a whole lot easier.
As for the Dems side on Economics their 'plan' is a joke. Giving 30 Billion dollars to the banks isn't going to do anything for anyone, ask a banker, they'll tell you it won't fix the economy. On top of that, how do you think they'll generate that extra money? Hmm, couldn't be that they'll double our taxes could it? Dems are notorious for doing that at all. Now consider the fact that every single Dem candidate across the board is citing this as their economic plan too, including my Dem competition. Does it look like we're going to have a bright future ahead? Does that sound like the kind of thing you "Hope" for? Business is like a teenage girl. She/it complanes all day about being left alone to make their own choices, don't regulate, let us do what we want etc. But in actuality they want the discipline and structure. They want to be bossed around and to have boundaries to work within. Letting them roam free to do whatever they want has been the cause of our economy's collapse. The trick, however, like everything else in existence is about balance. Regulation without strangling them to the point where they can't do anything. Kind of like how the Auto Companies are. I think they are over-regulated and by doing that we've drastically limited what they can do. Team that with the fact that Oil companies own the patents to high gas mileage engines and you have our current fuel crisis. Now, some of you might not like it, but I support John McCain for President. I'll site experience, especially Military experience which is more relevent in a time of War. I will say I don't appreciate his stance on Illegal Immigration, by definition it is ILLEGAL, as in breaking the Law, you know that little thing that if you break it, you go to jail. That little thing that our Country revolves around? You know...The Law. As a leader of our Country it is in the job description that you uphold the law and I fully intend on doing that. So again, I don't agree on a few issues, but honestly, I believe he is the best candidate for the job, this time around. Mac's Foreign Policy will be better and I'm sure he'll do a better job with the Military in Iraq and Afghanistan than Bush did, hell, anybody could. I don't know McCain's plans for the Economy because no one asks him about it and if they do it doesn't get coverage, it's all war, war, war, war, war. They've pidgeon-holed him as a one issue candidate. But also realize, you'll have me in Washington handling the economics and trying to get this country back on track so it's all good.
I think our country is hurting right now and I think we need some drastic help. Oil and Wall Street are out of control and because almost every Nation in the World is connected to our Economy it is effecting the rest of them too.
I also believe that our time in Iraq has been a colossal failure, not because our Troops didn't do their jobs, but because Washington failed to do theirs. If you recall, five plus years ago, when we invaded Iraq it took our Troops a whopping 3 weeks to get Saddam and have the Iraqi Military stand down and surrender. That, by definition is us winning the war. We already did it. War is defined as Military vs. Military and Nation vs. Nation. We already did that. After that time it became our leaders responsiblity to finish. I.E. the political solution. And they failed to do their job. We can blame Republicans all day for it, but also realize that the Democrats have control of the House and Senate. Not one of them did their job either. Notice the speech given by the Dems in '06 when they campaigned saying "Give us control of Congress and We'll make change. We'll end the war. We'll fix the economy." Have they? Two years later and they have accomplished nothing. We're still in the war, which isn't even a war to begin with. Our Boys and Girls and on patrol like Beat Cops fighting an 'enemy' who hides in and behind their own civilian population, which is a cowardly tactic. Our economy is still in shambles if it hasn't gotten worse and I thought Dems were suppose to be good with this kind of thing.
I don't think many if any will say that things don't need to change, except for the rich people who are getting richer and those in Washington, solely because of their ego's, but the biggest question during this election cycle is, 'is anyone doing anything about it?'
That answer is no. Everyone complanes about it, but do you hear about anyone bringing PLANS to the table. "Hey, my plan for the economy is to double your taxes and give it to the banks that have screwed you over. It ain't a great idea? why not? It's something." Sound familiar? It should, every Democrat is saying that. That's what they do. Their solution like most of the rest of Washington is to throw money at a problem and hope someone else figures it out. Great philosophy, uh no. I don't want to waste more of your time telling you what you're already hearing because all you have to do to hear it is turn on the tv or pick up a newspaper or magazine. It's everywhere. Not to mention just looking at your bank statement or in your wallet or even the fact that you have time to sit there and read a webpage instead of being at work because you lost your job to outsourcing. You know what's going on, but what is anyone doing about it?
I would like to do things about it. You can see my ideas for the future in the "The Point" section as it is The Point of me running all together. I'm going to try and work on some sort of message board, perhaps someone out there who is more webpage savvy could help me out with that, so we can open up a discussion about a number of things. It's a great way to express your opinion and get my response on it. So wander around the site and don't forget to drop some stuff in the guestbook section. I'll also have a contribution page with information on where you can send your hard earned money. Plus, I have to explain a few things about how I feel about contributions as I'm trying to violate the Special Interest and Lobby groups as I view them as THE problem with our leaders. But, more on that later. Enjoy ME!
That's just page one. Tell me one person on here who hasn't pretty much said all of that to themselves. You can't, because you do.

His economic plan
I can win on change alone. The other guy, the Dem, is a Rich guy who ran for our Senate in ‘96 and lost. Which is exactly what we need, another Rich Guy in Washington. But no. I don’t want to win because people are trying to make a statement. I want to win because I am the best candidate for the job. Because, well, I am.
Now my Economic plan alone could win it for me against anyone in this Country, let alone the two clowns who are running against me, but I’m not the kind of guy who is a one trick pony. I really want to drive the knife in deep so I have put together several plans.
The David L. Mosher Economic Resurrection Reform Plan:
The way to fix the economy is actually pretty simple, we have to figure out ways to put money in peoples pockets every month, not these Bush Tax Rebates which does it once. How do you do that? By cutting cost FOR the People. On a side note, the next time you speak to someone who says our economy is doing fine, like Bush himself, bring up two stats, the unemployment rate and per capita of 1999 and compare them to today. That first one is people having jobs, which the Admin continues to bring up stats like a million jobs were created or whatever because they’re trying to cover up the fact that more people are losing their jobs everyday, in general, not to mention outsourcing. If the economy is doing good like they say it is, the per capita would have gone up, but I guarantee you both of those numbers are way down.
You have the basics, but think of the Troops who left their jobs to serve their Country. Think of the Katrina and Rita victims. The 9/11 victims. Jobs gone left and right. Remember what I said before about my Holy Trinity? No jobs, equals no money, i.e. Per Capita. Which actually means the average income in America. If our economy is doing good the number would have risen. Just something to think about.
All right, enough babbling, on with the plan.
#1. I want to eliminate Adjustable Rate Loans across the board. Give the people more truth in advertising. We’re talking about Student Loans, Car Loans, Credit Cards, Small Business loans (yeah that wouldn’t create new jobs at all), Mortgages (want to save your house?), even Big Business could refinance, etc.
#2. I want to put a temporary cap on Fixed Rate Loans, say around 15%.
Now these two alone are a juggernaut, but come on, you think I would stop there? Knife, remember. With this people will be able to refinance and consolidate all of their debt. Consolidation for those of you who don’t know, is you going to the bank and taking out a loan for the total of all of your debt so you can pay off all of your loans and instead of having 4-6 loans you have one loan payment every month. Which saves you money now and in the long run because you’re paying less in interest. Say, for instance, you pay 4,000 a month in loans. If you consolidate all of your debt together you could pay around half of that depending on the loan payment you negotiate. What I want you to do with your savings is to take half of it and put it in a savings account. You have to re-build your nest eggs, but first if you took money out of your 401K, I want you to replace that money. Then I think we should make a positive out of a negative and donate 10% of your first savings to your favorite charity. My two favorites are The Make A Wish Foundation and the ASPCA. Right now it’s pretty much pointless to put your money in the bank because of the really low 1.5% interest rate, which is where number 3 comes in.
#3. Have the Fed raise the interest rate back up to 5%.
It’s a good round number and I don’t like weird numbers. Four and quarter is weird to me, so we’ll make it an even 5%. This way with your savings being put back in the bank, you’ll be collecting interest off of it AND the banks will have more money to divide up into more loans and make investments with. This alone fixes our economy. What people need to realize is that there is nothing we can do that will erase the last seven years and put us back to where we were in one move. There is nothing we can do to put the DOW back up toward 14,000 and erase our 9 Trillion in debt as well as increase the value of the dollar. What we need to do is to start over. It’s more realistic. Washington likes to throw money at a problem and hope someone else will figure it out. You would think Millionaires would be good with economics but apparently not.
#4. My personal favorite. We have to get Wall Street under control. Realize that for all of the shady business and scare tactics that Oil puts out, it is actually Wall Street that decides the price. It is the Commodities Traders that do this and it is time for them to take profits in Oil and Metals and re-invest it back into the other markets. As for the gas itself, the market decides that too, but the gas station owner have their mark-up too so they can make a profit. Oil has had a
good run and when I put this plan into action Bush won’t be the President anymore. I have seen energy experts say that the price of oil should actually be around 47 dollars a barrel, but I’ll be nice and say it should drop to 50-55 dollars a barrel. Oil is actually responsible for violating our economy and here is why. Number 1, we’re paying around 5 times more at the pump than we were before, so that is more money out of our pockets. Number 2, so are the Truckers, which I find it maddeningly insane that Diesel costs more than Gas, considering that Diesel fuel is the first
refinement process on the way to making Gas. So, by definition, Diesel should NEVER cost more than Gas. Is Washington doing anything about this? No, but that’s okay because we’ve already established that they’re stupid. So because our Truckers (honk, honk) are having to pay more for fuel, they also have to charge more to compensate for the increase in cost. They charge more to the stores and businesses that rely on shipping which, let’s be real about it, is pretty much every business in America, including our own Government. So those businesses have to compensate with the increase in cost by charging more on the shelves. This means that not only
are we getting violated at the pump, but we’re also getting violated on the shelves at Wal-Mart.
On top of the other things that I mentioned before. Now it is actually very easy to talk to Wall Street about this for these two reasons. Scare Tactic number 1, the shortage. Ask yourself, have you ever, in the last 30 years, seen a gas station closed with a sign out saying “NO GAS”? Of course not, except for that one time in what, the 60's? When America was changing to the Muscle Car Era of automobiles. Oil meets the supply of the demand every time and actually only runs their refineries at 50%, so if the U.S. uses 22 million barrels a day, then we can manage anywhere up to 44 million barrels a day, if the oil companies ran at 100% capacity and there is no way our demand will double in a summer. Number 2, the “constant threat of a terror attack on a oil field” scam. Ask yourself this, if you were out house shopping and you find one you like and you go through all of the preparations to have the house assessed. You call a plumber buddy, an electrician, even a contractor. You go to the bank and take care of the financial arrangements and so on and get ready to buy the house, are you going to blow that house up? Of course not. Guess what, neither will the terrorists. Their house is Oil. They want the oil revenue so there is no way they are actually going to blow up an oil refinery. Let’s not kid ourselves here, the Terrorists, regardless of their ‘anti-Americanism’ or ‘anti-Westernism’ are as Capitalist as we are. Both of these scare tactics are the Oil Companies committing fraud and market manipulation, will anyone in Washington do anything about it? No. Why? Because OIL, OWNS, ALL, OF, THEM, remember? Special Interest.
With that, and the scare tactics debunked, it’s time that Wall Street takes profits. This will fix the stock market because all of these investment companies having taken their money out of their usual stocks and put it into Oil and Gold, will go back into the rest of the sectors stabilizing the market. Not to mention the huge amounts of money that will go back into our pockets.
The real answer to this oil issue is to have higher gas mileage engines. Believe me the Auto companies would love nothing more than to give you what you want and give you those high gas mileage engines, but Oil owns all of the High Gas Mileage Engine patents and it will never happen. They do that to protect their Monopoly on fuel. Kind of like how CNN puts out a ‘report’ that slams Ethanol, but says Oil is perfect. It’s because Special Interest has infiltrated the media now too. Don’t think so? Next time you watch Fox News wait for the commercials and I guarantee you it is going to be either an Oil/Gas commercial or a Pharmaceutical commercial. Two of the BIGGEST Special Interest and Lobby groups there are. Pharma is the reason we don’t have a cure for cancer or aids and won’t. They too own Washington and Washington is responsible for the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration, which is in charge of approving or denying a company from passing a new drug. So you donate your hard earned money to cancer research charities is wasted, as heart-breaking to me as that is, it’s true. They’re not looking for a cure, they’re looking for another treatment because the FDA will never pass The Cure. Cancer is a multi-billion dollar a year, if not quarterly industry for Pharma and they won’t let that cash cow be thrown away. Naturally they’re not the ones who have to stare their bald, dying 7 year old in the
face and say “Sorry, honey, but my company needs to make money so you’ll have to die. My bad.” They don’t, we do and that alone infuriates me to the point of near-violence. I’m not even joking about that. How dare they deny a child their life so they can profit. I bet Ted Kennedy is wishing there was a cure right about now.
#5. Get rid of ALL of the Special Interest Money. Meaning, I will sit down with an IRS agent or four and go through the entire federal tax code, yes all 44 volumes and take out every Special Interest tax cut or break, including your favorite the Tax Break for Outsourcing. This is where the bulk of the work for my economic plan is going to come from, but unlike those in Washington I am not afraid of hard work and have no problem being bored out of mind going through all of this. Part two of my economic plan will be to go through the tax codes at the State level and do the same thing, but for now, it needs to be done federally as well.
#6. Lower middle-middle class and under’s taxes by 20% and compensate the difference by raising upper class taxes. Trust me, they can handle the increase. They won’t go hungry or have to worry about supporting their kids. Middle-Middle class and under do.
I have an idea on how we can save Social Security and possibly pay off our national debt. We take the Social Security money that we do have and invest it into the stock market with a very good dividend play. The Highest Dividend, with the Highest Profit at the cheapest price. Naturally since we have so much money, multi-trillions in Social Security we’ll easily max out on each stock, which I believe a single person can own a maximum of 5% of the outstanding shares, but also realize, that 5% of one billion shares is fifty million. It is actually doable because Social
Security doesn’t have to be fixed right now. It needs to be fixed in 30 or 40 years. With this kind of play there is no risk, regardless of what is going on in the stock market because you’re not playing for the stocks to move, you’re playing quarterly for the dividend and that’s it. If at the end of this bad boy the stocks have moved, which they naturally would it would just be a bonus.
On top of this it would stabilize the stock market, give it it’s bottom that Maria B has been searching for. If I get elected and the Government gets behind me on this reform, my economic plan, than we can actually fix this in no-time. I would also like to have the people who earn a million and over a year to continue to pay into Social Security but not collect it when they retire. Sure it sucks for them, but guess what, they don’t need the Social Security at all and it would help everyone else.
I would also like to pay off our debt to China. I can’t stand the idea of having them have the bulk of our debt and we can take out a loan from ourselves, possibly from Social Security to pay off what we owe to them. These two things could actually jack our dollar through the roof, especially if we stay fiscally responsible, keeping a very close, eagle eye on our budget and our economy. Two committee’s I would like to get on, when elected.
Obviously, the biggest cost we can cut for America is to end the war which I naturally have a plan for also. But I would also like to cut a large cost for our Government by running every Government building on Solar Power. Realize the trick with that is not to have 8 thousand panels, but to have a bunch of batteries to store the energy in. Businesses and buildings have entire floors dedicated to Servers for their computers, so why not have a floor or even share the empty space and have a bunch of those batteries in there. This would decrease the demand for electricity, driving the price down for you, which the extra electricity generated is most often sold back to the power companies, which will also drastically reduce power-outages which I know are more frequent in California and the North East than they are here. The gigantic skyscrapers could also get in on this, by taking apart the panels and running the strips up and down the left and right sides of their windows on all four sides. Most of the windows are black anyway and they’ll fit right in. Then run those strips to the floor of batteries and you’re done. I’ll have this in my Environmental Resurrection Plan and doesn’t need to be done now, but it helps.
Why couldn’t we run our Postal Vans, Police Cars etc on Hybrid technology? That would seriously cut into our dependance of oil. Just commission Ford to outfit Taurus’, Lincoln Navigator’s etc with Hybrid stuff.
And there you go, his economic plan.