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What is the single most important thing that could be done to restore faith in our government?
What about our media?
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America urgently needs to grasp the basics, in government, journalism, academia, the church, science and finances. Each “professional” must speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Or God help them. There must be accountability. Withholding some truths, is a lie, e.g. I don’t recall the most important decide in my career. There should be varying levels of sanctions for the misconduct: defunding the entire program, firing one or several members of the cabal, total reorganization of an organization to let other eyes, see and judge, or prosecution and imprisonment.
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Balance the budget. Significantly Reduce the size of government while forcing the oligarchs to divest. Split the anti-competitive companies to drive innovation, creativity and real competition. This would end the “need” for DEI and other discriminatory hiring practices. Stop the invasion. End protectionism of big pharma, big old, big ag, etc… End the party system and have representatives vote according to the wants of their constituents. End the bias in the judicial system.
Media – you are doing it. They just need to follow your example.
Truth should be truth, and lies are lies. Without truth, chaos reigns. Those indoctrinating our citizens with a constant bombardment of lies as “truth” should be exposed for who they are.
The only way to restore some semblance of governmental control is to reduce the size of government along with expenditures. The Administrative Deep State runs the government because these unelected bureaucrats never leave government service and continue on long after the elected officials have left. People talk about term-limits but the real power resides with these unelected bureaucrats who make laws through regulations which We The People don’t get to vote on. These government mandates are worse than the laws passed by Congress and have more power.
Look at Climate Control Hoax; Green Energy foolery, wind and solar; EV’s for all even though the public isn’t buying them and can’t afford them at current interest rates; Gas appliances; the list goes on and on.
Accountability. No more moving on.
Trust is earned, so I am not sure our government wants to do the hard work to restore it. Perhaps installing recall thresholds at the local, state, and Federal levels could be a start by reestablishing the “consent of the governed” principle. I think that would be a good start. Additionally, there is a serious problem with classifying way too many documents making the Freedom of Information Act an exercise in futility. A government that hides mountains of information doesn’t seem to want to be trusted.
An honest and unbiased news media would help.
There’s so many problems that it’s hard to give a concise answer. 1) Close the border. 2) Expand & fund policing. 3) Enforce the law – no more turn your back on lawbreakers. 4) Demand prosecution of criminals – stop releasing criminals. 5) Deport illegals. 6) We could probably cut 20% of government employees or more and not see a reduction in service. 7) Too many politicians use their position to gain wealth, not to represent their constituents. 8) Pork in these congressional biils is strangling us. 9) We need term limits for congress. 10) Establish a penalty system to hold the media accountable for untruthful reporting.
#1 Tie. A. Term limits for all in govt (Civil service and elected officials); B. Abolish the IRS – move to minimum and mandatory tax $ from EVERYONE (all citizens, green card holders, etc…everyone) and solicit addl revenue for projects using bonds and annually people can offer up this or that addl amount for the project they want to fund. Not enough funding…project dies.
Repeat at state and local levels.