Salvaging What Is Left Of America. Step 4. Term limits.

Yes, I know what you are thinking. We have had term limits in California for 27 years and it hasn't made a damn bit of difference! True, but on the other hand, we must find a way to prevent liberal dinosaurs like Diane Feinstein, who already has served in the senate for 25 years and will be 90 years old at the end of her next term, from being elected yet again, despite the fact that she has been senile and clueless for years. Enough is enough already! But there is a much more important reason to support term limits than weeding out senility, that would be to stop, or at least to slow down, the political corruption that is so common in the house of representatives and senate. In politics, especially at the federal level, seniority equates to power and power invariably leads to corruption. The politician sells this power for personal financial gain; the longer he is in office, the more powerful and wealthy he becomes, it's really as simple as that. How else could people with minimal financial recourses when they enter office, retire 20 to 30 years later as multi-millionaires. The answer, of course, is to limit their terms, 3 or 4 terms for a congressman and two terms for a senator seems reasonable to me. In my next blog I will discuss the issues of minimum wage and what we should pay for the goods and services we buy at our local business outlets. Health question of the day. You have a choice of green, red or black grapes, which should you buy? You may follow my blogs on The Conservative Pulpit by Daniel C. Merrill MD. There are over 200 posts to date covering a far ranging list of gardening and health related topics, as well as the political issues of the day.

Salvaging What Is Left Of America. Step 3. Restricting voting rights.

I believe that most of us can agree that only American citizens should be allowed to vote. More controversial, is my contention that there should be other voting right restrictions to prevent non-contributors (welfare queens, felons, the chronically unemployed and permanently disabled, to name only a few of the worst offenders) from voting for unsavory politicians who will, at every turn in the road, use the tax payers money to buy their votes and retain their political stranglehold on the country. In this respect, it is one thing for a politician to campaign on a platform that will increase the minimum wage, financially flawed as it may be, and quite another for a Demoratic (there's that new word again) politico to attempt to buy the vote of a welfare queen by promising to increase her monthly welfare check. It is indisputable that the average liberal politician spends his political career using tax payers dollars to buy the votes of the underclass so that he or she can stay in power and feather their own nests in the process. This blatant political corruption must stop if we are to survive as a fiscally sound nation. So, here are a few voting right changes that we should make to right our floundering financial ship of state. My recommendations would greatly reduce the numbers of people who would be allowed to vote (I've had enough of this pure democracy that is killing our nation). In general only those who contribute to the well being of society would have the privilege of voting, those that don't contribute don't vote. There are several ways one could meet this qualification. Here are a few of the most important. First, anyone who pays federal or state income taxes would be allowed to vote. Second, all retired people on social security would be allowed to vote. However, those on social security because of any form of disability would not be allowed to vote. Second, anyone who owned property and paid property taxes would be allowed to vote but renters who did not pay income taxes would not be allowed to vote. Finally, anyone who served in the military, and was not dishonorably discharged, would have the right to vote. When all is said and done, there is no reason that a welfare-queen or a person on total disability because of a drug addiction (to name two of the worst offenders) should be allowed to vote for a politician who promises to increase their government welfare benefit. At present that is exactly what is happening throughout our once great nation, especially in our inner cities. This form of political corruption must stop if we are to have any chance of righting our failing ship of state. In my next blog I will discuss another thorny issue- the career politicians.

Salvaging What Is Left Of America. Step 2. Birth Control For The Intellectually Challenged.

First, let me make one thing perfectly clear. This is not solely a racial issue! Although I spent much of a previous blog describing the inferior mental capacities of American Blacks and Latinos, there also are plenty of White dullards in our country. We will have to deal with all of the intellectually challenged, irrespective of race, if we are to do anything meaningful to improve the quality of life in America for those who will be living here 50 to 100 years from now. As I see it, the first step in this reconstruction project is to do everything possible to increase the IQ of the average American, irrespective race or the color of his skin. I firmly believe that this can be done, but it will take much time and effort. Most importantly, it will take a complete reversal of our present political mindset that refuses to accept the fact that we are not all born with equal intelligence. By way of review, one of the most disastrous decisions ever made by an American president was Lyndon Johnson's executive order to pay unmarried women to have children. Many of our social problems today can be traced back to this bone-headed decision which destroyed the Black family, greatly increased our prison population, and brought America, literally, it its very knees (we just don't know it yet). We must reverse this disastrous policy. Rather than paying women of marginal intellectual capacity to have large numbers of children, we should be paying them not to have children! Once again this not a racial issue. This policy would apply to any female who wants to participate, with one importat exception. Women who have a B or better average in high school would not be legible for this plan. Rather, the Norplant pregnancy prevention program is designed for low IQ females who are floundering in school. As I will discuss later, female students who are successful in school, and in life, should be encouraged to have children by providing maternity leave, child support and other enticements to encourage child bearing. As with most of my suggestions for improving the quality of life for Americans, this one is very doable and very easy to implement. Any women, regardless of race, who does not have a B average in school by the time she reaches puberty, will be offered the option of having a Norplant injection which will prevent pregnancy for a period of 5 years. Those that are willing to participate in this program will be paid a reasonable stipend. I will leave it to the economists to determine the exact amount of this award, but $5000 seems reasonable. At the end of this five year period of paid infertility the participant could elect to continue in the program and receive another Norplant injection and another $5000 from the government's national IQ improvement program. Alternately, she could elect not to have a second Norplant injection and become fertile again. After becoming pregnant, or possibly having a change of mind, she could reenter the Norplant program and remain so enrolled for the remainder of her child bearing years. The rational for this option is based on the fact that it is better for a Low IQ female to have one or two offspring rather 6 or 7 as is, so often, the case now. I expect the first question the reader will ask is whether a program like this will be cost effective and who will pay for it? Well, as with most social programs, the government will pay for it, just as they do for all of their other economic misdeeds. The main goal of the Norplant program is to, over the long haul, raise the average IQ of the American population. Admittedly it will take many generations for the program to achieve this goal. However, some of the other social benefits of the Norplant program will be more immediate. At present 72% of all young blacks are either incarcerated or on probation while one in 31 of all Americans are in prison. The social havoc caused by these individuals when they commit their crimes and the cost of their imprisonment is an enormous burden on society. Even a modest reduction in the birthrate of low IQ children, who are more likely to become criminals than those who are bright, would greatly improve the lives of law-abiding citizens and significantly reduce the costs of the unchecked criminality that we are now experiencing in America's inner cities. It is important to emphasize two points. First, his program is strictly voluntary and may be terminated at the end of every five year period. Second, it is based on an assessment of mental capacity, not race, which can be accurately determined before a female reaches puberty. I'll bet you didn't know that. A females performance in school is a reasonably good indication of her intellectual capacity although we also could just give her an IQ test. Now, you may be asking, why don't we have a similar program for low IQ males? The reason, of course, is that we do not have a Norplant like injection that will render a male infertile for a given period of time, wish we did! At present the only alternative for males is castration or vasectomy both of which are, for practical purposes, permanent and irreversible. However, having said this, I would not be opposed to a program that would pay a young man who is failing, or has dropped out of school, a sizable sum if he agreed to be sterilized, $25,000 seems about right. We might ever consider a higher amount for gang members and other really unsavory individuals. Way to much you say. Well, consider this fact, It costs the state of California $70,812 to incarcerate an inmate for every single year he in prison. That's why California is doing everything possible to reduce its prison population, irrespective of the havoc such policies will have on law abiding citizens when such low-lives reenter the population. In my next blog I will tackle another extremely controversial issue-Who should be allowed to vote.

Salvaging What Is Left Of America. Step 1. Establishing A National Photo Identification Card For Citizenship.

Many of our countries problems could be solved simply by insisting that every citizen carry an identification card, similar to drivers license, to show that they are legal citizens. This card would be necessary for the citizen to vote (I'll have much more to say about who should be allowed to vote in a subsequent blog) and to work. The illegal's that are already in the country should be given a green card that would allow then to work, but not vote, while we determine what to do about their illegal status. Once the wall is completed we could make them permanent non-voting residents or give them a path to citizenship. This card would have two immediate beneficial effects. First, it would put an end to illegal voting. In truth, we have no idea how big a problem this is, but I believe it is far more significant than most people realize. Certainly the liberal politicians think this is the case. Second, it would assure that citizens who want to work have the first crack at the jobs available since an employer would be forced to hire a legal citizen rather than an illegal who would agree to work for less. Most importantly, new illegal's (those who enter the country after the law is passed0 would be prevented from working under any circumstance, rather they would be deported. Of course, there would have to be appropriate, severe penalties, for employers who try to skirt these new right to work laws. It is important to realize that, even if we had such an identification card, we would still have to build the wall since only a meaningful wall will prevent illegal drugs and other contraband from being brought to our country from Mexico. Now back to the identification card. Who could possibly be opposed to such a simple cost effective solution to our voting and immigration problems. Well, just about everybody, that's who! First, there are the liberals and Demoratic politicians who use the tax payers money to buy the votes of the illegal's so that they can stay in power. (Note, Demorat is not a misspelling, rather it is a new word I came up with to characterize these lowlife self-serving vermin who call themselves liberal politicians.) In any case, of equal significance are the individuals in commerce who thrive on cheap labor and will do anything in their power to drive down the cost of the goods and services they peddle to the American public. I'll have a lot more to say about the costs of the goods we buy in a subsequent blog. The bottom line is this. Even though it makes perfect sense to have a national photo ID card to establish citizenship, it will not happen because the politicians and Chamber of Commerce, for their own selfish self-serving interests, won't let it happen. In my next blog I will tackle another unsavory issue-Birth Control for The Intellectually Challenged. You can follow my blogs on The Conservative Pulpit by Daniel C. Merrill MD. There are over 200 of them covering everything from soup to nuts.

Analyzing the 2017 California State Proficiency Test Scores in English and Math. The Liberals Still Don't Get It!

This article was written by Sharon Noguchi and was published on the front page of the 9/28/2017 edition of the East Bay Times. The findings addressed in the article were virtually identical to those from 12 other states, and the Virgin Islands, where students in the same grades took identical tests. The article bemoans the fact that minorities continue to flounder in our public schools and that all efforts to reverse this long standing trend have failed to achieve any meaningful benefit to our community or the minority students. Dan Walters, in a recent editorial, called the results shameful. Walters was right about one thing, our educational system in California is an enormous waste of time and money! Always has been and always will be, because the liberals who run our state believe that we all are born with rough fully equal intelligence and, if given half a chance, will all be equally successful in life. I will not nitpick the explanations provided by the public officials who gave a variety of lame-brained excuses for the miserable results achieved in our public school system. Rather, I would make the case that Noguchi, Walters and the editors of the Times have unwittingly provided undisputable proof that it is not the school system that is failing; rather, it is the inferior intellectual capacity of our minority students that is the root of this ongoing educational and social dilemma. Our failure to recognize the obvious ethnic intellectual differences in the five groups of students studied, Asian, White, Filipino, Latin/Hispanic and African-American is the problem, not the teachers who attempt to educate them. Our political leaders refusal to accept the fact, that you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, no matter how much money you throw at the project (school busing, affirmative action, head start, etc.) has cost our state, and the nation hundreds of billions of dollars each year. First, let's start by reviewing the highlights of the study. The results of the proficiency tests were, for all practical purposes, identical with respect to how the various ethnic groups faired on the math and English tests. Without a single exception, the Asians led the pack and were closely followed by the Whites and Filipinos. Again, without a single exception, the Latinos and African-Americans trailed far behind in every school district studied, as well as the state of California as a whole. Similarly, with one exception, the African-Americans were dead last in math and English proficiency, in every school studied and throughout the state of California. This exception occurred in the county of Santa Clara where slightly more African-Americans (46%) passed the English test than did their Latino/Hispanics counterparts (37%). This should have come as no surprise since, for the vast majority of the Latinos, English is their second language. In this one outlier, 33% of African-American students also were proficient in math while only 27% of Latinos could pass the math test. It is important to realize that these racial differences in math and English proficiency were not slight statistical variations, rather they were enormous disparities in educational achievement. For example, in Contra Costa county 79% of Asians and 70% of Whites were proficient in English while only 26% of African-American students could pass the English test. Similarly, in Contra Costa county 76% of Asians and 60% of Whiles were proficient in Math while only 16% of African-American students could pass the Math test. These marked differences in educational achievement between the races (Asian, White and Filipino on the one hand) and (Latino/African-American on the other) were similar throughout the state of California, the other states studied and the Virgin Islands. IQ tests of any kind have been reviled, and largely ignored, by the scholastic community and the liberal press for the past 25 years. Amazingly, Sharon Noguchi and the editors of the Times do not seem to realize that their article on the English and Math proficiency of California students is, in actuality, nothing more than a test of the inherited genetic differences in the IQs of the students studied. Not surprisingly, the ethnic breakdown of the educational proficiency scores achieved in California are identical to the ethnic differences in cognitive ability described in Part 111 of Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's masterpiece The Bell Curve, first published in 1996. Yes, Noguchi and the editorial board of the Times, unwittingly, have used the most recent data from the California student proficiency tests to prove, once again, that when it comes to education, ethnic inherited intelligence is everything! Yes, those Asians at Cal work hard for their grades but, on average, they also were 3 to 7 IQ points smarter than the rest of us to begin with. Still not convinced! Consider this fact. Jewish people make up about 0.02 % of the world's population yet 35% of my medical school class were Jewish. More significantly, despite the fact that there are so few Jewish people walking the face of the earth, 12.5% of all billionaires are Jewish. There is a reason this segment of the population become so wealthy, they were just a lot smarter than the rest of us to begin with! In the case of Ashkenazi European Jews, 18 IQ points smarter! Now a word or two about one of the really dumb ones, that would be Colon Kaepernick. This is the story of a black kid who was raised by well-to-do white parents in an upper-crust society. Kaepernick, despite all the advantages that were given to him, with his Afro haircut and numerous tattoos (a sure sign of stupidity), remains as black as the ace of spades and as stupid as a box of rocks. His parents must be extremely proud of him! In subsequent blogs I will suggest some simple changes that we as a society can, and should make, to address the inequalities in inherited intellectual capacity that we face in today's America.