FEDERALIST PARTY PLATFORM
The Security of our city is one of the most important
and certainly one of our most vulnerable problems that face us.
1.
Our ports pose as a facility of
mass destruction, with any one of the thousands upon thousands of metal cargo
containers that are shipped here from major ports around the world, each one
could serve as a means of bringing weapons of mass destruction into the city of
Los Angeles.
2.
Virtually all of the containers
are not actually checked at the points of origin and deemed safe
through a system of determining the probability of the degree of risk based on
the point of origin.
3.
U.S. forces must be employed to check the contents in all containers that
are shipped to Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. These forces must be employed at the
port from which the containers are shipped, not once the containers have
arrived in our ports.
4.
Checking containers once they
arrive into our ports is futile because the weapon of mass destruction has
already arrived and could be detonated.
The duty we have to
ourselves, other people around the world and all other creatures on earth both
on land, air and in the sea is to protect our environment from destruction.
- The destruction to our polar ice
caps and the warming of our planet serves as irrefutable evidence that we are
irreparably destroying not only our earth but that which all other life on the
earth relies.
- Removing cars from the road will serve as one of the most
important ways of eliminating greenhouse gases that are causing the
warming of the earth.
- We as citizens of Los Angeles can virtually eliminate
traffic on all freeways by simply stop driving one vehicle per each
person. The environment can no longer withstand the impact from the use
of single person driven vehicles.
- Each person that travels to the same destination every day
can easily be networked with 26 other persons that travel within the same
square mile by traveling in a 27 seat shuttle van. These vans are used
all the time at the airports, and by tour guides.
- By taking 27 vehicles off the freeways both to and from
work with just one 8 cylinder vehicle will enable the passengers the
freedom to do several different things not possible while each person
would be driving an individual vehicle.
- A person can read a book or the paper on the way to work,
work on a laptop computer, organize for the days work schedule, or
relax. With just 100 27- seat shuttle vans being used it would remove
2700 vehicles from the road. This amounts to 10 miles of 5 lanes of solid
traffic.
- 100 vans instead of 2700 vehicles could turn a grinding
1hour and 20 minute ride to work to just 20 minutes. By paying a monthly
fee of possibly $300.00, saving on the cost of fuel at $2.50 a gallon,
wear on the vehicle, parking fees, insurance, etc. there could very well
prove to be a savings as well as adding another hour of the day by not
sitting in traffic unable to do anything except possibly talking on the
phone.
- The efficiency of the shuttle vans would be attained by
linking only those people that live in the very close proximity to one
another, and also work or travel all within the same area.
- The contaminates that are the waste from the vehicles that
we use directly affect the ocean by way of the contaminates mixing with rain
water when it rains and by other means and drains to the ocean from the Los
Angeles river.
The use of jail inmates to repair our infrastructure
must be used.
- The cost to keep an inmate in jail
costs the public tens of thousands of dollars a year without any benefit to the
public other than punishing a person and keeping them from committing further
crimes while in jail. Statistics show that at least 75% of those going to jail
end up back in jail again. From a business standpoint, this is a failing system.
- By giving a non-violent prisoner the option of serving
their time by being part of a full time 40 hour a week work program of
fixing the cities infrastructure there would be a real benefit in
repairing the streets that are badly in need of repair. Additionally, the
sidewalks that are broken or uplifted by tree roots could also be
repaired, bringing pride back to communities by having repaired streets
and sidewalks that are safe to drive and walk on.
- Video tape the streets and sidewalks throughout the city,
create a plan as to what tools and how much and what type of material to
use. Each pothole or broken sidewalk could be repaired with maximum
efficiency. A crew of 3 or 4 prisoners and two supervisors could repair
several pot holes a day, or repair badly broken or uplifted sidewalks.
- Most pot hole repairs in the city have a poor or very poor
quality to the repair and in private industry would be unacceptable to the
buyer. For instance, most repairs to the numerous concrete streets
throughout the city have been improperly repaired with asphalt. The
pot-hole repair on concrete is not flat, does not match the surface of the
concrete, does not withstand the elements and regularly breaks down in the
same spot. This improper repair usually results in an inferior repair of
a low area and a raised area in the same spot . This actually still
causes a pot hole and a speed bump from the improper use of asphalt.
- The proper material will be a high strength concrete that
can be mixed on the spot with water and steel trowel smooth. Not only
will the concrete not lose its shape from the hot sun, as does asphalt,
the concrete used in the repair can be made absolutely level, will
actually hold up for several years and will insure that water does not
penetrate where the pot hole was which would cause further deterioration
of the concrete street or sidewalk.
- The prisoners would wear ankle bands to monitor their
travel which would be restricted to their house and the work program.
Removing thousands of non violent prisoners from jail and putting them to
work will save the public millions of dollars a year and actually repair
the city in a professional manner.
- The benefits will bring a new pride to communities around
the city, vehicles that are damaged by the broken roads will be lessened,
a smother and more enjoyable ride, as well as a safer one, especially for
motorcycle riders. The sidewalks will be safer, especially for children
to play on, the handicap, and elderly.
The city of Los Angeles will be greatly beautified through a program of
commissioning several artists to create murals on large freeway and other
concrete walls around the city under overpasses and other areas where
beautification will be desirous.
- With many talented artists ready and willing to create
master works of art throughout the city for the honor of being recognized
for their work, these talented artists will create art throughout the
city.
- The city will have trash cans throughout the city that are
all hand painted by the school children from the closest schools to that
community or neighborhood.
- The artistically painted trash cans by the school children
of the community will serve to bring pride in the children participating
in the artwork and the companies or other private persons that will donate
the funds to buy the trash cans and the art supplies. Those child
artists, their schools, and the private companies or persons will all be noted
on the individual trash cans.
Homeless people
throughout the city must be provided shelter, warm clothes and food.
- The use of vacant and safe commercial buildings can serve
as temporary housing for the homeless throughout the city. Building
owners could make available their buildings through an incentive program
with the city.
- Army cots could be set up in the buildings with temporary
hot showers and restroom facilities.
- The persons wishing to use the facility will be required
to start work at 8:00 a.m. and work until 12:00 p.m. sweeping the
sidewalks and gutters removing the debris and loading the trash into cans
that are loaded onto trucks. The balance of the day would be used for
trying to obtain a job.
Domestic terrorists have to be met with the same force
and resolve as terrorism abroad.
Violent criminals and their racketeering enterprises
have to be stopped.
- Giving a hoodlum the stature of gangster or gang
member to most law abiding citizens has a very negative connotation of an
individual who breaks the law through violence and other corrupt acts.
- Removing the terms gangs and gang members strips them
of the names that they seek to be known by.
- Reclassifying these individuals as cowards and
murderers which many of them are, will start the process
of de-glamorizing their local terrorism.
- The city will sponsor a $25,000.00 reward, payable to the
first person or multiple persons who at the same time provide information
to the authorities who successfully convict a person who sells or
distributes any illegal drugs.
City will start a large
scale job training center that will be free to all trainees. In the wake of
the Los Angeles riots, it was agreed that more needed to be done to
train and employ inter-city youth. Since the 1992 riots, the opposite has happened,
many jobs have evaporated to China and other Asian countries.
- The training center would be set up very much like a
business convention, with booths set up side by side.
- The training will be going simultaneously, with trainees
actually working hands on with materials under the guidance of experts.
- Materials would be provided and donated at no charge to
the center. Many manufacturers have blemished materials or with some
other defects that prohibit the companies from selling these goods as 1st
quality
- Blemished or seconds, as they are commonly referred to,
would serve as excellent material for job training.
- Most of the lumber that is removed from existing buildings
during remodeling or renovation that ordinarily ends up in the landfills
would be reused in the job training center.
- Carpeting, still in good condition that is removed from
homes or building will be donated to needy families whose carpet is in bad
condition and will not be deposited into the landfills.
- All other types of fabricated material or equipment will
be reconditioned at the training center.
- The training expertise will be provided on a volunteer
basis from businesses who are experts in the field.
- The center will be a job hiring center as well as a job
training center.
- The fabricated or reconditioned goods that are produced
will be auctioned and the proceeds will go to fund the training center
When the lottery
started in California, it was touted that our schools would be provided the
funds to enable the schools to be the finest. Not only are most of the schools
in Los Angeles not doing well, most are well below average.
- All students will have a mentor, a student of 3 or 4
grades higher, to work on a weekly basis to monitor, and help with
studies.
- Many families have parents or brothers or sisters who are
unable or unwilling to assist a child with their studies.
- Students receiving scholarships in colleges will pay back
part of the loans through the student mentor program.
- Senior citizens have a lifetime of work, skill and
expertise. Many seniors if they felt a program could fit into their
schedule would be more than willing to help in the schools.
- While this is used on a very limited basis, huge gains
could be achieved by efficiently tapping into a lifetime of expertise.
- Seniors could effectively cut the size of a 30 student per
teacher classroom in half or more by providing assistance to the teacher.
- Additionally children that have a hard time in different
areas could be put in groups and assisted in the classroom by the senior
volunteers.
- By addressing the problems that some students are having
in the classroom, the student will not be passed on grade after grade with
the same problem.
- Physical education class will be mandatory in all grades
from 7th through 12th. We cannot expect to turn
around the child obesity problem by only having physical education as an
elective.
- The Industrial Arts Departments will be brought back to
the High Schools and Middle Schools.
Public Contracting
is notorious for contracting companies being involved in bribery, graft,
collusion, and malfeasance with governmental employees. The vast amounts of
money involved, the sophistication of the work involved, the relative ease in
corruptly working with an official and the severe lack of oversight and audit
accountability all contribute to the breeding ground for corrupt acts that
fleece our resources. The Malibu Pier contracting fiasco involving public
officials corruptly running an illegal contracting operation and then devising
a very elaborate scheme to cover-up their corrupt acts proves of their direct
knowledge and involvement in defrauding the public.
- City contracts will require seven (7) bids to be submitted
on all contracts that are let by the city. The trick to defrauding the
public involves two or possibly three contractors creating a price fixing
situation. The contractors intentionally submit sham bids with the
contractor who will be selected submitting an inflated bid by colluding
with the other contractors who submitted sham bids. This scam directly
defrauds the public by way of removing competition from the contracting
process.
- Requiring all change orders to be re-bid by seven (7)
contractors as well. Many contractors gauge the public of its funds once
they are mobilized on a contracting project. If other contracting
entities can bid on the change orders as they arise, it will cut out the
gauging and collusion that goes on with the contractor and officials that
have control over the project.
- California law requires that contracts and work that is
tainted with fraud are void and unenforceable.
- The city attorney or a private citizen have the right to
recover the funds that are paid out of city funds when a contract is let
contrary to public policy. A vigorous policy of re-covering funds that are
obtained fraudulently will ensure the funds are safeguarded and are not
squandered through criminal acts.
Our borders must be controlled,
not doing so allows foreigners to circumvent our immigration laws. Americans
are entitled to have the immigration laws enforced under the 14th
amendment to our United States Constitution. The 14th amendment
ensures equal protection and equal enforcement of our laws.
- Illegal aliens must not be issued licenses to drive in
this state. This misconceived idea of issuing licenses to people who have
circumvented the immigration process which are laws that all citizens
have a right to be enforced, essentially nullifies immigration law.
- This pandering to people who do not have a lawful right to
be in the country sets a precedent. Several other laws would then be subject
to the same misguided effect, thereby nullifying those legitimate laws.
