The Many Things Judge Merchan Wants

    After President-Elect Trump's sweeping victory in the November 5th, 2024, election, he is poised to Make America Great Again.  But, there are those of the opposition who still want to destroy our soon to be President and America at that.

Witness a pretentiously ambitious man, named Judge Merchan.  This person wants to stand in the way of prosperity and peace in our country, and indeed, the world.  Among the many things Judge Merchan wants are:

(1) Increasing, not decreasing inflation.

(2) The Second Great Depression.

(3) Increased taxation.

(4) The destruction of the auto industry because of continued environmental regulations.

(5) American dependence on Middle East oil with all of the complexities of pandering to that region.

(6) Israel being threatened with obliteration.

(7) Continued carnage in Ukraine.

(8) China invading Taiwan.

(9) Illegal aliens committing violence against innocent Americans.

(10) The contradiction of you facilitating the sentencing of one man, Judge Merchan, when there are tens of millions of illegals roaming America, many of whom that one man will pursue, on the premise that you claim that: "No one is above the law.".

It has been said that in the prelude to the January 20th inauguration, it is as if there is a light shining down upon the world.  That is the light that Judge Merchan seeks to extinguish.

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

The National Treasure Question

    Imagine for a moment that availability of government funding was not in question in Government Health Care.  Imagine that you had the possibility of personally receiving the entire annual government budget each year, worth trillions, in the form of health insurance that could only be spent on you.  Would you take it?

While no one can live forever, your Government Health Care trillions would stave off almost all diseases well beyond your 100 years of life.  As you aged beyond that, surgeries would see you through difficult times, perhaps to 105 years of age.  At 110 years of age, you would be approaching the oldest human on Earth, and would be honored in Washington D.C. as a National Treasure.

But at a certain age, despite all the money you have taken from taxpayers and from seizing printed money, your state starts to decline beyond the reach of medical science.  At 115 years of age, the trillions in health care policy that you possess begins to be used on desperate and risky operations to try to keep you alive.  Many of the innovative surgeries are painful.  By 120 years of age you start to object to the Government Health Care, but to no avail.  The State points out that you chose to take the health care insurance, so you don't have a choice to not receive the: medicines, surgical operations, and National Treasure goals of the government.

After a while, you start to wonder if it was wrong to sign up for the windfall Government Health Care opportunity, and at the same time financially devastate and destroy an entire country.

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

 

The Final Executive Order

    In the United States of America there has been an alarming development that mostly started with Barack Obama.  He began the common assertion of the President issuing "Executive Orders".  In practice this evolved into radical reversals of law - with them changing drastically every time a different political party gained the Presidency.  This has gotten out of hand.  For the sake of long-term adherence to law and to prevent bad Presidents from destroying this country for 4 years, it must be stopped!

America has just elected a new, moral President with a sweeping mandate.  In my opinion, I think that what President Trump will achieve in his second Presidency will make him the Greatest President in American History.  This is why I think that now is the right time to shore up the country with all moral and correcting Executive Orders, and then, finally, close the book on that practice for good.

It is necessary to make sure that America gets all the right laws it deserves.  The Constitution will be respected; but Obama and Biden have made such a mess of our government that it is proper for President Trump to make it right before ending the possibility of more executive legislation.  Americans fought The Revolutionary War to have the opportunity to found a new code of law and government.  In England, The Glorious Revolution swept in new laws and a new government, and also had another name: The Bloodless Revolution.

President Trump is going to have a lot to do on January 20th, 2025 at 12:00 PM.  I suggest he have two papers for his signature: the first for the big stack of Executive Orders, and the second that ends that power by the Executive Branch for all future time.

Obviously, this does not stop the potential for change in law.  The American Judiciary can still make rulings.  And, American Legislators can pass law.  It is just that the American President will not have most of the power of all 3 branches.

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

A Hybrid Objectivist - U.S. Constitutional Government

    As I have been writing in my blog, an Objectivist government according to the philosophy of Ayn Rand only has 5 political functions:

    (1) Police

    (2) Military

    (3) Judicial

    (4) Diplomatic

    (5) Treasury

Objectivism does not give legitimacy to anything else.  On the other hand, Ayn Rand and the philosophy of Objectivism is a huge proponent of the U.S. Constitution which does grant legislative powers to defined political bodies - those being the Senate and House of Representatives.

I have been searching through my books and using the aynrand.org website to try to find some quotes I remember reading by Ayn Rand about her endorsing an American government with legislation because she writes that that is the way the Founding Fathers set it up.

In essence, it would be unconstitutional for the Supreme Court to uphold DOGE cutting all of Congress.  But, looking on the bright side, it may not be an entirely bad thing to see democrats running to the courts to argue for the upholding of the Constitution.

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Position Maintenance Tribunals

    If anyone has a question about the legality of removing a former government official from a position, the source of pay should be considered.  Government produces nothing.  Generally, the political positions are funded by taxes from a private individual's pocket, or inflationary cash from those who hold onto public money.

    There are only five legitimate sectors of government: police, military, judicial, diplomatic, and treasury.  All other government should be completely abolished.  In some cases, the five sectors will be overhauled partially, despite their fundamental legitimacy.  Examples of political fiascos that DOGE may want to look at are:

    (1) The weaponizing of the FBI against citizens including Trump

    (2) The Afghanistan pullout

    (3) Inviting Russia to invade Ukraine

    (4) Spoon feeding the war in Ukraine to make it last a long time

    (5) Giving Iran billions which led to October 7th in Israel

    (6) The fostering of the woke movement in the Armed Forces

    (7) Judicial rulings to sentence democrats' political enemies from Jan. 6th

    (8) Diplomatic threats to cut off military supplies to Israel

    (9) Causing inflation by printing massive amounts of money

    As I explained above, Trump and DOGE (if Trump authorizes it) have the authority to cut government positions.  Since when do bureaucrats who do bad things deserve a paycheck out of our money?

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

A DOGE Objectivist Philosophy

    The newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) should have a defined moral philosophy.  I am of the school of Objectivist Philosophy, developed by Ayn Rand, which stands for a political system that is a Constitutionally Limited Republic.

    Ayn Rand wrote in her book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal in the Appendix chapter The Nature of Government the following quote:

"The proper functions of a government fall into three broad categories, all of them involving the issues of physical force and the protection of men's rights: the police, to protect men from criminals - the armed services, to protect men from foreign invaders - the law courts, to settle disputes among men according to objective laws."

    The most renown authority on Ayn Rand's philosophy, appointed by her as her intellectual heir before she passed away, explained that there would have to be two more department types for a moral Objectivist government to function - those being: diplomacy and treasury.  But that's it!  There is no further form of moral government.

    So, with legitimate government understood, it is easy to know what departments are DOGE Allies.  To begin:

    The initial question at DOGE should not be: "What does America cut in government?".  The first question should be: "What government departments does America not cut?".

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

A Federal State ID, DOGE, and Private Roads

    Immigration and future voting law is going to require State ID, whether that is a Federal State ID (i.e., an American Identification), or one or more of the current state's identifications.

    It has been said that illegal immigrants are a potential problem because: "we don't know who those people are".  Some could be criminals, terrorists, or foreign agents.  If an illegal alien has no ID, it is difficult for the police to relate to the immigrant or do their function.  If there is no photo, scannable data record, and address of residence, then the police are extremely limited.

    Yesterday, President-Elect Trump outlined his new plans for forming the Department of Government Efficiency.  I call DOGE: Dismantling Overblown Government Efficiently.  It is tasked with cutting government that should not exist.  Assuming government still retains its legitimate functions: military, police, judiciary, diplomacy and treasury, removing illegitimate government will bring great progress for Americans.

    When a typical individual is asked about what the embodiment of government inefficiency is, one often says: the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles).  They do provide a photo ID, but there shouldn't be driver's licenses.  A Federal State ID could cover the function of documentation and a picture that can be used in many situations: public or private.

    The argument for government driver licensing can be defeated if roads were made private.  All public roads (except the ones in legitimate government, such as at military bases) could be auctioned and the proceeds could be returned to prior income tax payers.  With present technology, private Road Tycoons can easily solve any problems that arise in running their road businesses.  Advanced GPS and the dawn of autonomous vehicles make conducting the auction timely.  The conversion of public roads to private property also creates a situation that if an individual obtains property from a bid on a road system, there is no law saying that the winner of an auctioned property has to keep all the roads as roads.  He could dig up the concrete in some road sections and build houses where those streets used to be.

    In future months I will be trying to help DOGE in the effort to restore a Constitutionally Limited Republic.  I think the greatest victories will be when entire departments that are identified as being completely illegitimate are eliminated.

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter