Let's Fix America! [Paperback]

Alan B Jones (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1994

"Let's FIX America" identifies many of the real socio-political problems facing Americans today, develops solutions for long-term fixes for these problems, and offers a non-partisan political approach for implementing those solutions. The proposals deal with eliminating inflation, balancing the federal budget and eventually eliminating the federal debt, replacing the income tax, replacing the "untouchable" transfer programs, including Medicare, Social Security and Welfare, dealing definitively with education issues, drugs, urban crime, liability litigation, abortion, AIDS, immigration, foreign policy, and the structural repair of Congress. Solutions are tested against criteria of Locke, Jefferson, and other Constitutionalists.

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"Let's Fix America" discusses 17 major problems facing the citizens of the United States. The thrust of the book, however, is not just to identify the many problems which face us, but to convince and demonstrate to readers that realistic, workable solutions to these problems exist, though not within the political framework of a collectivist government. Inflation can be stopped in its tracks, and our federal budget balanced. The tax load can be reduced, and large-scale capital saving restored, by federal budget caps and major tax reforms. Social Security and Medicare can be privatized, to the benefit of both recipients and our private economy. The real problems with our medical care system are identified and dealt with, with essentially no residual government involvement. Welfare can be returned to local jurisdictions, where it can be effectively monitored. Government bailouts can be a thing of the past. The drug problem can readily be left behind us, and certain legal and societal reforms can result in drastically reducing our prison populations, while making our streets much safer. Schools can readily be restored to safe places of substantive preparation for adult life. Reforms are offered to stop our growing tendency to sue each other whenever a financial reverse is encountered. A rational solution to the 20-year screaming match over abortion is presented. Medical and legal steps to deal with AIDS are discussed. Solutions to illegal immigration issues are proposed, and a rational, inexpensive, and useful foreign policy is presented, nothing like what we presently have. Finally, the fundamental illness of our Congress is diagnosed, and a number of major changes proposed to get that institution back on the track of serving our whole body politic. A strategy for implementing the above changes over the next 20 years or so is discussed.

Proposed changes in federal and state law to implement these reforms are tested against criteria for appropriate law appearing in the writings of our founders (Jefferson, Madison, and their philosophic predecessor John Locke), Frederick Bastiat, Albert Jay Nock, and Ayn Rand. These "Four Graybeards" provide overlapping and complementary prescriptions for judging good vs. bad law. It will not come as a surprise, therefore, that the solutions offered in "Let's Fix America" are consistent with confining government to activities aimed at protecting and preserving the individual rights of our citizens to their own life, liberty and property, and pulling government back from many of the encroachments which it has itself made on those rights.

From the Back Cover

If you have ever had the urge to write a letter to the editor concerning high taxes, unbalanced federal budgets, Social Security, medical care, welfare, education, crime, or lack of congressional responsibility or leadership, then this is the book for you. The book is the result of the author's conviction that real, long term solutions exist to these and other important national problems, and that fixing them lacks only the conviction of the electorate that such solutions exist, and are attainable.

The author outlines the major problems, and then lays out his solutions, along with a program starting at the grass roots for implementing them. His message will open your eyes and encourage you to become part of the burgeoning reform movement which the bulk of today's politicians justly fear.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 239 pages
• Publisher: ABJ Press; First edition. edition (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964084805
• ISBN-13: 978-0964084803
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,757,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars True Enlightenment is Reached in "How The World Really Works", November 21, 2007

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J. White "BontifulGenius" (MD, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let's Fix America! (Paperback)

This book makes some excellent ponits but I would suggest reading "How The World Really Works" first. Then an attempt at the corrective actions in this book may be takened. We must fix America and the world over or better said, a path to true freedom, liberty and right to live in peace for all of humanity must be sought.
Alan B. Jones must have had a true awakening after writing this book because in "How the World REALLY Works" the authors displays a more detail of knowledge, self-reflection and research. Some naiveté shown in believing that much of the corruptness and psychpathic nature of society and government can be reformed or should be saved. When of course any part of such a system cannot, by it's very design inherent in it's own nature. It very roots and depthof it's own corruptness and evil forsakes such a desire.
The system as he suggests in later books can be changed but "We the People" must choose that course not our governments, UN, private institutions, NGOs, etc. or forced by technological convenience or economical and ecological terror.

4.0 out of 5 stars Yes, let's fix the USA: read HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS, December 4, 2011

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hazeleyes "3923ntt" (Northern Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let's Fix America! (Paperback)

Jones admits in HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS that there's more to be done than he recognized when he wrote LET'S FIX AMERICA. His subsequent book, HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS is an eye-opener for readers and must have been for Jones too, because he covers a lot of very serious problems, gives chapter and verse about how these problems came to be, gives clear information about who and what is causing the problems, and talks about how we (the USA) can save ourselves. It's NOT by voting! That hasn't worked for as long as I've voted and it'll never work. Time for citizen revolution; the tools of enslavement must be taken out of the hands of congress and the federal government. It can be done. Wake up America!
Read HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS by Alan B.Jones