Liberty Platform from Libertarians, Conservatives and Independents

Safer Streets 2010: The New Liberty Platform

By John Longenecker
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Will 2010 see the emergence of a whole new Liberty Platform from Libertarians, Conservatives and Independents?

Any promises made by candidates running on a liberty platform at all would have to enunciate that they intend to unwind everything the left has done. That means, my friends, everything the left has done over decades. What job security, huh?



I bet candidates running for office can be secure in their jobs of cleaning up the U.S. by cleaning house first. 



Any movement affirming the sovereignty of the electorate over the public servants has to be a sweeping, no-compromise, take-no-prisoners follow-through. It has to be a take-no-prisoners job once elected, and it has to begin immediately upon taking office. No more broken promises. 



The United States looks weak around the globe thanks to – well, how do I put this?—apologies which were never necessary. We don’t have to apologize for anything, and a new Congress can make this clear worldwide. One of the best ways to claim this real estate back, is to push a total liberty platform from individual candidates who will sweep Congress this November. 



1. Health care reform should be put to sleep. With so many Americans happy with their medical care plans, the only ground left is to cover the interests of those whom we know are under-served. America is aware of these under-served human beings, and she knows that larger numbers are a boondoggle. This number is small, and it is further reduced by the fact that no one in this country goes without care.

Let me say that again: No one in the United States goes without medical care.

That leaves some costs, popular elective procedures and diagnostics which ought to be left to the judgment of the patient’s provider, even when practicing ‘defensive Medicine’. These can be dealt with effectively when we make them the only areas of change at all in any sort of reform. The message to the new candidates would come directly from the electorate: “Leave my health care alone!! Focus on the under-served, and be thank you.â€