"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction,
is the first and only legitimate object of good
government."
--Thomas Jefferson
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This web site outlines the non-partisan People’s Universal, Common Strategic Plan for a Peaceful, Prosperous and Just World.
Outline of the
Proposed
Universal, Common Strategic Plan
for a
Peaceful, Prosperous and Just World
(The "Strategic Plan")
Purpose and Objectives:
- End poverty, hunger, homelessness, wars, occupations, militarism, environment degradation, natural resource depletion, and other injustices.
- Develop and maintain a sustainable “resource based economy”, green environment and world free from want. This neither means that we will have a utopia nor imply “perfection”. A world without challenging problems would be impossible and boring.
- Provide proposed funding sources for all the work that needs to be done and for "deficit reduction"
- Get the 1% back into the 99%
We will accomplish this by:
- Using a principled, values approach
- Improving the effectiveness of reform and change efforts by:
- Working from a common strategic plan, vision, goals, plans and demands
- Careful short and long-range planning and implementation
- Coordinating
(not controlling) joint efforts and sharing information and resources
- Working from a common strategic plan, vision, goals, plans and demands
- Markedly increasing the number of
individuals working on progress, change and reform and resources.
- Ensuring that no one is involuntarily laid-off as a result of this Strategic Plan. Individuals in positions where they are no longer needed should be transferred to jobs where they are needed
- Getting senior public and private sector officials to do their jobs
Scope
This Common Strategic Plan is intended for use by everyone interested and in particular by leaders of organizations, occupiers and other individuals interested in progress, change and reform. This version focuses primarily on the U. S. federal government and national institutions and corporations. Since problems and potential solutions are similar at all government levels and in other countries the more universal this strategic plan becomes the sooner we will be successful.
Although this version focuses primarily at the U.S. federal governments, problems, concerns and potential solutions are similar at all levels of government. The value of working from a common strategic plan, vision, goals and agenda are obvious.
Strategic Plan as used here is the science and art of overall planning and conduct of large-scale actions employing large numbers of people, organizations and resources to develop and implement plans to accomplish specific goals
The Common Strategic Plan
- Hold conferences, workshops and meetings and use emails, videos and
articles to:
• Publicize and familiarize other with this proposed Common Strategic Plan and the below associated documents
• Convince ourselves and others of the Urgent Need for Change and Reform and that there are more than enough people, resource and funding to do the required work and that we can and will succeed if we work together. - Refine the key elements/documents of this plan:
- A Common Vision Statement for all.
- A set of common Goals with the primary goals being to ensure that both jobs (employment opportunities) at living wages and affordable necessities and needs of life are available for all with the entire government, organized and dedicated to ensuring these goals are met.
- Descriptions of the Problems standing in the way of meeting these goals. We must understand what the problems are and why they exist to correct them permanently.
- Descriptions of the underlying Causes of these problems. If these causes are not identified and corrected, the problems will likely reoccur.
- Common Agenda, which consist of proposed demands in the form of plans and actions to ensure the goals are met and the Vision is realized. These demands are divided into specific Immediate demands, which are listed below and longer range demands
- Funding Sources to pay for accomplishing the Common Agenda/Demands and providing funds for "deficit reduction"
- Provide a comprehensive
People's
Information and Education Program

- Build a comprehensive, nationwide United Front -- to help refine, implement and
accomplish this Strategic Plan and work on national, state and local issues, . This United Front will consist of a non-hierarchical, matrix
organization of individuals by state, city, town, community, neighborhood,
apartment building using
five/nine digit zip codes, particular issue/demand(s)
that the individual is working on and organization(s) the individual is
involved with. Encourage these organizations and
individuals to discuss and work with their neighbors on the parts of this
strategic plan and demands that
they are particularly interested in. This will help revive senses of
community, cooperation and caring for one another that we were all born
with. Develop a Communications System for the United
Front - Beginning with members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), inform and educate Congress and members of the administration on this strategic plan. As specific actions items are refined, provide them to the CPC to be put into statues and regulations.
We must do this now: We cannot wait until the next election, war or economic collapse.
The funding to do all this is clearly and readily available:
- With automation and technology, scientists and engineers have made it possible for a small percentage of the population to feed, clothe and house all the people of the world as shown in Poverty in the Midst of Plenty.
- Potential funding sources to pay for all the work in the Common Agenda are listed in Section E below.
The people, knowhow, wherewithal, and tools to do all this are readily available.
D. Immediate Common Agenda (Demands, Plans and Actions):
- Demand that all senior public servants, legislators, administrators
and Judges do their jobs including
- Caring for the people, environment and natural resources of the world
- Adhering to the spirit and intent of their oath of office, the Constitution and national and international laws.
- Helping to refine and use this Strategic Plan as their own and accomplish all the demands plans and actions from the Common Agenda
- Ensuring that public servants who will not do their jobs, after being appropriately warned, are replaced.
- Provide
Both Employment Opportunities in Meaningful Work at Living Wages and Affordable
Necessities of Life for All.
- Ensure all the people of the United States have adequate, decent warm shelter, food, water, clothing and at least acute and emergency health care within one month.
- Permanently End U.S. Wars, Occupations, Empire Building and Militarism.
Highlights include:
- Initiate immediate unilateral cease fires in Afghanistan and Halt U.S. drone attacks, covert operations and military actions in Pakistan, Libya and worldwide. (These wars, attacks and covert operations are all illegal, should have never happened and must stop immediately)
- Apologize to and provide massive relief efforts in countries harmed by the U.S.
- Close overseas bases and facilities and bring all US troops and government contractors home.
- End the so called "war on terror" and treat terrorist acts as crimes
to be handled by the police and regular courts.
Note: Once items 3 a, b and c are accomplished, terrorist acts and terrorism will essentially end
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Convert the Military Industrial Complex to Support a Peaceful,
Prosperous Green
World.
(With no involuntary layoffs) Highlights include:
- Have troops returning to the US from overseas and DOD employees provide
planning, support and workers for a new Works Projects Administration (WPA) & Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), go to college, go back to their old job, go into the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and serve in the State National Guards, as the world disarms.
- Have troops returning to the US from overseas and DOD employees provide
planning, support and workers for a new Works Projects Administration (WPA) & Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), go to college, go back to their old job, go into the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and serve in the State National Guards, as the world disarms.
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Set Aside, Repeal, Replace or Amend Injurious, Unjust Laws and
Court Rulings, null and void or at least
voidable items, including:
- The Senate Filibuster Rule (Rule XXII)
- The Federal Reserve Act of 1913
- Corporate Personhood
- Citizens United V. Federal Election Commission (Ruling No. 08-205), 130 S. Ct. 876 (2010). The Supreme Court Ruling that rejects corporate spending limits and allows unlimited spending of corporate funds on elections.
- Reform and Revitalize Financial Systems and
Provide Affordable Personal and Commercial Banking, Saving and
Loan Services. Highlights of this plan include:
- Outlaw derivatives, mortgages back security, stock options, the fractional reserve system and bank bailouts
- Incorporate the Federal Reserve into the U.S. Government
- Government provide no-interest loans with simple small handling fees directly to states, manufacturers and small businesses
- Freeze all foreclosures and evictions of owner occupied properties until they are resolved
- Limit interest rates to 4% on all secured mortgages and loans and 6% on unsecured loans, retroactive to the origination of the mortgage or loan with legislation that replaces the Monetary Reform Act (P. L. No. 96-221; 94 Stat. 132) (1980).
- Provide National, Universal Medicare (Single Payer) and Strengthen Social Security For All
- Reform Criminal Justice Systems Using Humane, Constitutional and Restorative Justice Principles and Practices
- Humanely and Privately (Not Secretly) Prosecute Public Servants and Others Who Have Broken the Law So That They Pay Restitution and Mend Their Ways.
- Provide meaningful, publicly supported child support -- pre-kindergarten through college education and vocational training for all for life.
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Get Corporate Funds Out of Elections by September 1, 2012. (under development)
Commence planning for all other items in the Common Demands.
E. Salient, Potential Funding Sources for
Work in the Common Agenda and for Deficit Reduction
Congress provide funding for the work in the Common Agenda and deficit reduction from the following sources. No involuntary layoffs should happen as a result of these actions:
- End U.S. wars, occupations, attacks, and covert operations, close U.S. overseas bases and facilities and drastically reduce the size and roles of the standing Army, Navy and Air Force. Strengthen the national/state guards and UN peace keeping forces as outlined in Permanently End U.S. Wars, Occupations and Empire Building & Convert the Military Industrial Complex to Support a Peaceful, Green Economy and End Militarism. Reprogram 90% of annual funding and budgets for the military-industrial complex (MIC) and intelligence spending
- End the war on terror, torture, assassinations, secret arrests, renditions, abusive treatment, spying on the people of the U.S. and CIA spending on drones. Reprogram 100% of the funding and budgets for these items.
- Integrate the Federal Reserve into the Federal government and the government provide zero interest loans directly to states, manufacturers and small businesses.
- Recoup as much as possible of the over $29.6 trillion provided by the Federal Reserve and the U.S. in loans and guaranties to bail out American and foreign financial institutions and businesses.
- Reform and streamline tax codes.
- Enact progressive income/revenue and net worth taxes on individuals and corporations. Provide varying degrees of tax deduction rates for charitable contributions depending upon the worthiness of the cause.
- Enact a "pure worldwide" tax system, in which all taxes on property, revenue and profits of American corporations, whether they are generated in the U.S. or abroad, are taxed by the U.S. (From Kevin Zeese, Occupy Washington DC, Freedom Plaza)
- Tax investment-related income, including interest and capital gains, at rates at least equal to or more than the rates on work-related income.
- Enact progressive income/revenue and net worth taxes on individuals and corporations. Provide varying degrees of tax deduction rates for charitable contributions depending upon the worthiness of the cause.
- End tax havens through refinement and passage of the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act. The U.S. Treasury estimates this costs $100 billion per year. (From Kevin Zeese, Occupy Washington DC, Freedom Plaza)
- Close corporate tax loopholes.
- Enact a speculative (sales) tax on stock sales.
- Eliminate military aid to foreign countries.
- Eliminate farm subsidies on large farms and oil depletion allowances
- Use time and material type contracts with no profits or fees everywhere in the government.
- Reduce high level public servant pay scales by an amount proportional to the amount of salary. Change pay increases for inflation to fixed amounts instead of basing them on a percentage of pay.
- If necessary, Congress should "coin" high value $10 to $100 billion serialized coins (Ellen Brown's suggestion)
RESULTS:
As employment increases, there will be more customers, businesses will increase employment, social security and other tax revenues will increase and so on. The national debt will be paid off, and social security and Medicare will be secure forever.
Please subscribe to this web site, consider it as a
work-in-progress, financially support these efforts, work together and provide additional items and constructive comments/recommendations on this approach to
.
I am an honors graduate of the Naval Academy and made 15 nuclear submarine patrols during the Cold War on ballistic missile and attack submarines. My awards include the Legion of Merit. The last submarine I served on could have single-handedly destroyed over a hundred bases or medium size cities and killed millions of civilians in a very few minutes. Happily we never had to fire those missiles with real war heads on them. I am firmly convinced and working on phasing out all submarines, offensive weapons systems and nuclear power plants.
There is more about me on www.RonFisherForCongress.com and Linked[in] (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ron-fisher-captain-us-navy-retired/29/b71/a65)
Thanks.
Sincerely,
Ron Fisher
Captain US Navy (retired)
Chair, VFP Democracy/Constitution/War Powers Working Group
Co-Chair, VFP Prosecute War Criminals Working Group
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