July 6, 2017

Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-objective-truth has not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by listening when people share experiences and observations. The comment box below invites readers to write.

Note 1:  I often dash words in phrases in order to express and preserve an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth despite possible error. In other words, a person expresses his “belief,” knowing he or she could be in error. People may collaboratively approach the-objective-truth.
 Note 2: It is important to note "civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for the people more than for the city.

A personal preamble by & for Phil Beaver:  Willing people in our state routinely, voluntarily collaborate for comprehensive safety and security: continuity (for self, children, grandchildren & beyond), integrity (both fidelity and wholeness), justice (freedom-from oppression), defense (prevent or constrain harm), prosperity (acquire the liberty-to responsibly pursue personal choices), privacy (responsibly discover & pursue personal goals), lawfulness (obey the law and reform injustices); and to preserve and cultivate justice in the USA’s service to the people in their states.
On this statement, or their own paraphrase, citizens may perceive whether they are willing or dissident to the preamble.

  

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_1dae8216-4572-11e7-987e-17aac9980507.html)

As a willing citizen of both Louisiana and the USA, I disagree with both the SOS and The Advocate.

If The Advocate was motivated to paraphrase the preamble to the constitution for the USA so that they could trust and commit to its civic agreement, I wonder how their proposed agreement would be stated and if I could collaborate on it.

Never tempted to change the wonderfully worded original, I continually update my paraphrase for collaboration in 2017. A personal preamble by and for Phil Beaver---one I trust and commit to--- follows:

“Willing people in our state routinely, voluntarily collaborate for comprehensive safety and security: that is, continuity (for self, children, grandchildren & beyond), integrity (both fidelity and wholeness), justice (freedom-from oppression), defense (prevent or constrain harm), prosperity (acquire the liberty-to responsibly pursue personal choices), privacy (responsibly discover & pursue personal goals), lawfulness (obey the law and reform injustices); and to preserve and cultivate justice in the USA’s service to the people in their states.”

It seems there will always be dissidents to comprehensive safety and security. We wonder if some people who vote in presidential elections use false identification to register to vote and whether some registrations are not duly purged when qualifications end.

Our vote in state elections is not for USA management, but our vote in USA elections is our concern, and the state is obligated to us to duly vet competitive USA votes. Discovering the facts would strengthen the value of our votes, and therefore, we request our state to cooperate with the USA in the investigation of USA votes which our state manages within the federal system we the people approved.

Our state votes would be incidentally strengthened if the need for improved vetting were made evident by the data. Citizens in other states are responsible for their federalism.

Respecting voter registrations, I commend SOS Schedler to collaborate with the people who are in agreement with the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Jonah 1:3, CJB). “But Yonah, in order to get away from Adonai, prepared to escape to Tarshish. He went down to Yafo, found a ship headed for Tarshish, paid the fare and went aboard, intending to travel with them to Tarshish and get away from Adonai.” 

Dean says “Don’t run from God, He knows what is best for you.”

It seems important to discover, understand, and benefit from the-objective-truth of which most seems undiscovered and some is understood. For example, the earth is like a globe, and willing people do not lie to each other so that they can communicate.

The-objective-truth does not respond to intellectual constructs. Liars isolate themselves from public discourse.

Letters.

Redistribution  (Rantz). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_8aafcd9e-6196-11e7-af84-cb8a2cafe947.html)

I don’t think well-being and tax redistribution are compatible subjects, because they are both too complex for combination. That’s part of the reason nothing good happens for health care. Rantz, tacking health care on at the end, addressed tax redistribution, and it seems most commenters answered that issue.

  

If we regard the preamble to the constitution for the USA as the divider between willing people and dissidents, it is important to know the objective. Perhaps it is comprehensive safety and security. Thus, if a citizen personally perceives comprehensive safety and security, he or she feels willing and if not he or she feels dissident toward the preamble’s agreement. Financial viability is a first principle of willingness.

  

It seems evident that free enterprise is the best economic system. See the top ten economies and why at humanevents.com/2007/03/05/top-10-most-economically-free-countries/. Protection of property is key to the top countries’ success. The USA free-enterprise system needs tweaking in order to move up from its fourth position.

Referring to usdebtclock.org, the per-capita GDP is $58,460 but median income is $30,320. The appearance of 50% fairness is distorted, because the median income is not per-capita and GDP includes more than income from labor. However, with the USA’s freedom-from oppression, I have the opportunity to acquire the liberty-to earn $235,000 for my family of four. The cost of living for a family of four is more like $65,000/yr. (investopedia.com/terms/c/cost-of-living.asp) Poverty income for a family of four is $24,600/yr (aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines); it does not seem feasible for save & invest to lift them to cost of living plus save & invest. Perhaps the USA is overdoing protection of property.

I have no idea how to control a culture with islands of exponential wealth such as corporate management, entertainment, banking and finance, and medical coalitions, with income in the 10s of millions of dollars per year. But my first thought is that every job function that is desired by the national economy should have wages that allow human living plus saving and investment so as to accumulate property. Citizens should be protected from illegal immigrants willing to undercut living wages.

In order for Rantz’s point about redistribution to have validity, the argument may first establish that distribution of GDP is fair. I don’t think it is.

Justice (Ausberry). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_f1d71680-618c-11e7-b85b-d71d9f06049c.html)

To Elaine O. Coyle: The choir’s propaganda claiming savings to three significant figures is laughable. And 70% split between perpetrators and victims is typical legislative and administrative preparation for obfuscation.

   

Columns. (The fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)

  

DNC depression (Froma Harrop). providencejournal.com/opinion/20170627/froma-harrop-democrats-should-shake-their-depression

What’s gone wrong is that the nanny state has played out. Perhaps the nadir was James Comey happily witnessing before Congress on TV that for him, honesty is enough:  There’s always someone there to account for integrity.

After usurping AG Lynch’s authority on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server, Comey said, “I know there will be intense public debate in the wake of this recommendation.” (latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-comey-emails-1494374889-htmlstory.html) Before Congress: "At one point, the attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation but instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me," Comey said. (cnn.com/2017/06/08/politics/james-comey-loretta-lynch/index.html) Honesty is insufficient: Integrity is required.

  

Anecdotes (J. Celeste Lay). theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_c8d1ae44-6191-11e7-a246-6b34e67e61ea.html

Lay tells a fish story while millions of Americans are suffering Obamacare.

  

Neglecting civic morality (Robert Samuelson). washingtonpost.com/opinions/everyone-is-mad-at-everyone/2017/07/02/59a66bd4-5db0-11e7-9fc6-c7ef4bc58d13_story.html?utm_term=.dbdb6789a4e8

When the thirteen free and independent states named in the Treaty of Paris, 1783, realized they could not survive as a confederation of states, twelve of them sent delegates to Philadelphia to strengthen the confederation.

The aristocrats from Virginia arrived with a plan to form the world’s first nation predicated on governance of by and for the people (Abraham Lincoln, 1863). With the subject, “We the People of the United States,” willing delegates signed the draft constitution for the USA on September 17, 1787. The willing were 70% of delegates from the represented states, or 2/3 of states’ representatives, leaving 1/3 dissidents.

Among the concerns were the absence of the usual dependency on the Almighty and a bill of rights like they had known as loyal subjects of England. These issues remained when on June 21, 1788, the required nine states ratified the constitution and the USA was established with the promise that the first Congress would negotiate a bill of rights to amend the constitution. By the time the first Congress was seated, Virginia and New York had joined the USA, so there were eleven states. When the bill of rights was ratified on December 15, 1791, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Vermont had joined the USA.

In 1790, 99% of free citizens were factional Protestants and 5% could vote. Today, 14.7% practice the traditional factional Protestant religions and 100% of non-criminals may vote. The neglected preamble to the constitution for the USA, that sentence that made the dramatic change from governance by the states to governance by the people offers civic morality.

It’s a civic sentence that offers an agreement: Willing people in our state want comprehensive safety and security and therefore authorize the USA to serve us in our states. The sentence is neutral to religion, and by 2/3 of citizens adopting that civic agreement, the USA may achieve a better future.

We propose that each June 21 the people commemorate the 1788, nine-state ratification of the USA as Personal Independence Day so as to celebrate an American dream: Freedom-from civic oppression so that each person may acquire the liberty-to responsibly pursue personal preferences rather than an ideal, a civilization, or someone else’s vision for their life.

  

Phil Beaver does not “know” the-indisputable-facts. He trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood. He is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.