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    A Far, Far Better America: An Awesome Nation Awaits Us at the Voting Booth
    A Far, Far Better America: An Awesome Nation Awaits Us at the Voting Booth
    A Far, Far Better America: An Awesome Nation Awaits Us at the Voting Booth
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    A Far, Far Better America: An Awesome Nation Awaits Us at the Voting Booth

    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


    They Were Always


    Meant To Have.

    LanguageEnglish
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    Release dateDec 15, 2010
    ISBN9781452043739
    A Far, Far Better America: An Awesome Nation Awaits Us at the Voting Booth
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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

      A FAR, FAR

      BETTER

      AMERICA

      Fred W. Coble

      missing image file

      AuthorHouse™

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2010 Fred W. Coble. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 12/7/2010

      ISBN: 978-1-4520-4372-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4520-4373-9 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2010909322

      Printed in the United States of America

      Bloomington, Indiana

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      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.

      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 The 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 Outlaw 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 And In Conclusion

      Epilogue

      About the Author

      End Notes

      Foreword

      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?

      Offered herein are ways and means for building our homeland into a more perfect union, [with] justice, domestic tranquility, and [the] general welfare for which it was established.

      Preface

      Improve on perfection? Not at all. But we certainly can improve on imperfections. Two centuries should have been plenty of time to perfect our richly endowed nation. Sad to say, ours is still far from: A More Perfect Union, well Established Justice, Domestic Tranquility, and General Welfare[1]. Much, much more is yet to be done. In fact, there are at least 20 some egregious failings that haunt our otherwise glorious nation. These failures, if corrected, could raise our nation to heights never before dreamed possible.

      Walking among us are great men and women capable of liberating our nation from: unjust wars, depression, starvation, homelessness, poverty, massive unemployment, and political corruption. They are capable of building the Far, Far Better America our forefathers only pretended to offer[2].

      It is for us then, the caring, to seize the moment, and to locate and place these great people in positions of leadership, and to form the foundation for building this Far, Far greater America. This text offers the ways and means of achieving just that.

      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 the credit for splitting America into two nasty political camps, and turning our nation into one horrendous Hatfield and McCoy feud. Friendships are destroyed; enemies created; animosities erupt; and party-line voting dominates heated debates in every legislative body. This warfare even inhabits our halls of jurisprudence. We have a right to ask: what happened to the Preamble to our Constitution: In order 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 — for Congress to remain united and to avoid the same deplorable schism that plagued the British Parliament.

      Probably the most shameful consequence of political affiliations is the fact that every President (except George Washington) has been loved and approved by half the nation, while being bitterly despised and rejected by the other half.

      Candidates for political offices are invariably hated: not so much for their policies, but for the political party they represent. What sort of unity would one call this sort of behavior?

      Our presidents (and congress persons) should be selected, and elected, for their statesmanship and leadership qualities, not for their association with a particular political party. Plus, they should never come into office carrying the baggage of a political party. Section 3.0 (Honest Elections) explains how we can elect a non-partisan president: of, by, and for the people.[3]

      While still residing in England – prior to coming to America – our Founding Fathers experienced the deplorable behavior in British Parliament, but were not dissuaded from creating the same sort of debacle in our legislative houses of Congress. Apparently it did concern George Washington, for he spoke impassionedly about such horrific divisiveness.

      Although we’ve endured these several centuries as a divided nation, there’s no reason to suffer any further.

      Political parties were never suggested or authorized in our constitution, and their elimination would require nothing more than a simple one-sentence Federal

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