Over the last several years I've tried to enumerate the points of the New Manifesto but always with some hesitation.
The purpose of the Manifesto is to succinctly enumerate those points we believe in and which we should hold our elected officials to as guidance for all their decisions and actions. Basically I want to state what we believe in as a country. This is very difficult because we are myopic and schizophrenic at times.
But I'm going to try one more time:
We, the People of the United States of America, hold the following ideals and beliefs:
1: We are exceptional. There are things to change in this country, but its still the best bet in the world.
2: We believe in fairness: This means the same rules need to apply to everyone.
3: We believe in making it big: Everyone needs to know they can become one of the 1% if they work hard enough.
4: We believe in gain through personal effort: Handouts are bad whether to the poor or the rich or to foreign nations.
5: We believe in helping our neighbor: Sometimes, despite our best efforts, either we need help or our neighbors need help. Then we help.
6: We believe in honesty: Tell us the truth. Honesty beats unrealistic perfection. We all have faults, we all make mistakes. Just don't lie about it.
7: We believe in equality: Absolute equality. The lady serving your food at the 5 star restaurant doesn't do that because that's her place, she does it because its her job. Things COULD be reversed just as easily.
8: We believe our way of life is perfect. It isn't, but we believe it anyway.
9: We believe some shadowy power, corporations, shadow government, has manipulated our economy and taken over the reigns of power. We're not wrong. We can change that.
There are more points probably. I wish the six or seven people who read this (G) would offer suggestions. The manifesto should describe how we can work together to set our own goals with out the buzzwords and gaming of the election year propaganda.
Just my thoughts.
