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The Christian Constitutional Republic
One Nation Under God
Government of, by, and for the People
Liberty and Justice for All
by: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND
Societal Vision – Creating Prosperity
by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND
Government should be the focal forum in the debate on national priorities. Taxes and group purchases (governmental expenditures) are the action-expression of society’s priorities and desires. These functions reflect government’s Constitutional mandate to “Promote the General Welfare”.
- The application of affordable and plentiful electrical power will allow America (and the world) to address and solve many of the vexing Social/Economic problems facing us:
- Solar, wind, and biomass-derived energy provide the virtually limitless energy needed to drive the engines of industry.
- With sufficient affordable non-polluting power available, the economy of every country could potentially thrive.
- Increased production enables increased consumption and compensation.
- Increased employment follows rising production and consumption
- An abundant productive capacity eases the burden of charitable expenditures & social programs
- Supporting the elderly and poor
- Affordable major medical care for all income brackets
- Providing quality K-12 education, college training, and vocational training and retraining
- A productive society can afford to divert the tools of production to support large group efforts
- Dams, roads, research, and defense
- This vision is only possible with plentiful and affordable energy available to combine with capital, raw materials, labor, and land.
- Plentiful and cheap energy can make universal recycling cost-effective.
- Energy applied to toxic or salty water (desalinization) can produce the pure water needed to expand the available productive land.
- Education, civil law, and submission to the Spirit of the Law of God can harness the passions of humanity to create a stable social order and productive industry.
- The combination of a Godly and moral social order, a willing and able workforce, and the leveraging of human effort by machines and energy are the necessary ingredients for industrial productivity and societal wealth.
- America must first engage the engines of industry in the substantial productive capacity of solar/wind/biomass/hydrogen/fuel-cells.
- Once matured, the technology can be exported to develop the impoverished nations of the world.
- America must begin the process of reducing and eliminating domestic dependence on foreign oil
- Add additional processing to effluents to detoxify air, water, and solid wastes
- Increase the availability of natural/mineral resources by making lower yield ores profitable to extract
- Increase employment by increasing production and consumption
- Increase the arable agricultural land by bringing desalinated water to the deserts and wastelands
- Expanding habitable and productive lands will allow a huge increase in the earth’s capacity to support human population.
- Government sets the direction of the economy through laws, taxes, and moral persuasion.
- The Free Market works well in creating an environment where people desire to work, thereby creating a plethora of products for consumption.
- A vibrant and productive economy can support a modest taxation (20%) without destroying the reward incentive for production.
- But, the Free Market does not direct industry or individuals well toward solving long-term problems.
- Government is the equivalent of the brain, the conscious mind, the overall integrator and director of movement of the body.
- Government must shoulder the responsibility of righteous leadership, vision, and discipline.
- Legislative Goal:
- Creation of a legal and economic environment favorable to the rapid development and installation of a solar/wind energy & Hydrogen based transportation infrastructure
- Tax incentives for installation of increased production capacity
- Grants for industry and university R&D centers to bring more efficient and low cost implementation of the solar/wind/biomass/hydrogen/fuel-cell technologies
- When the people embrace the laws of God, and their Government enshrines His Ways in their laws, then will prosperity, peace and favor pursue that land.
