The Young/Masters 4 Governor, 2015 Blog: My 10 Point Progressive Democratic Platform for Kentucky (2015)

by Johnathan Masters

*Billion Dollar Ideas

Johnathan Masters' 10 Point Plan

1 - Shock Kentucky's Economy

2 - Police Accountability

3 - Stop the Politricks, Increase Government Transparency

4 - Liberation Education

5 – Keep and Protect Our Favorite Social Programs (absent the GMI)

6 - Democracy Now!

7 - New Energy Strategy based on Efficiency & Renewables

8 - Public Works Projects

9 - Free-to-$10/month Internet for Everybody

10 - Push 4 Legislation I Support

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I. Shock Kentucky's Economy

1-Adopt Sweden's Trash-to-Electric Plan on Day 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkHa7OzKtpw

2-Buy 10 Gas Stations, Humana, and KFC*

3-Assemble a team of Grant Writers to aggressively go after every federal grant possible

4-Pass the 2016 Kentucky Employee Free Choice Act*

5-Nationalize Water

6-Establish a Central Bank for Kentucky (like in North Dakota)* http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/03/how-nation%E2%80%99s-only-state-owned-bank-became-envy-wall-street

7-Pass Statewide Glass-Steagall for 21^st Century Act

8-Nationalize Cannabis, Kentucky Proud* http://thefreedomskool.blogspot.com/2015/02/master-path-4-legalization-of-marijuana.html

9-Legalize Gay Marriage*

10-Nationalize Coal* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR_SvK-y-U

11-Cheerlead for Corporate HQs to Set-up Shop Here

12-Pass the Kentucky Homestead Act of 2016 (Land Reform)*

13-Flat Tax, Tax the 1% at 11%, Same as Middle Class, Work Towards Progressive Tax Structure

14-Cut Non-Essential Personnel, Redundancies, Waste, and Overlap, such as 41 Jailers without Jails

15-Eradicate Poverty with the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRx-rO9gZ2Q

16-A 2016 Constitutional Convention, Outlaw Lawyers from being our Representatives* http://thefreedomskool.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-resolution-for-peoples-vote-for.html

17-KentuckyCare. Protect Medicaid. Work towards single-payer healthcare.*

18-Abolish Homelessness with the Kentucky Christian Compassion Act 2016 (Chriz Payne)

19-Nationalize Parks, Trees, and Mountains, Kentucky Proud*

20-Legalize Unionized Charter Schools, and Vouchers http://thefreedomskool.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-dissertation-for-liberation-and.html

21-Start a professional sports team, State-owned, voter-approved, called “The Kentucky Rebels”*

II. Police Accountability

1-Justice for Samantha Ramsey (March 29, 1995 – April 26, 2014)

2-Shop with a Cop Mandatory End of the Year Celebration

3-Criminalize Enhancement Charges

4-Establish County Civilian Review Boards

5-Codify Proper Procedure for CopWatch

6-Body Cameras Mandatory on All Officers

7-Bill of Rights, Kentucky Constitution, New Laws, and Annual Legal Assessments Administered so the police uphold the sacred democratic tradition of the Rule of Law

8-Protect the 2nd Amendment

9-All Public Surveillance Cameras Must Be Fully Accessible to the Public, 24/7

10- $5,000 fine for interfering with anybody for videotaping

III. Stop the Politricks, Increase the Transparency

1-All Government Budgets Throughout the State Published Online

2-All Government Meetings Throughout the State must be Video Recorded and Published Online

3-Disband from the NSA, Opt out of the Patriot Act, Cite State Sovereignty

IV. Liberation Education

1-Protect K-12 and College Spending. Works Towards Universal College.

2-Increase Literacy to 100%

3-Vocation and Job Training

4-Introduce Civics and Democracy into Public Schools, Primary and Secondary

5-Legislate some, any, Pathway to Charter Schools

6-Implement Voucher Program

7-Adopt a Student's Bill of Rights, Primary and Secondary

8-Push Feds to Repeal No Child Left Behind

V. – Keep and Protect Our Favorite Social Programs (absent the GMI)

1-Planned Parenthood

2-WIC

3-Women's Crisis Center

4-LIHEAP

5-Food Stamps

6-Disability

7-Medicaid

VI. Democracy Now!

1-Restore voting rights to former felons

2-Instant Run-off Voting

3-Referendum, Recall, and Initiative

4-Institutionalize Debates

5-Allow 18 year olds, and up, to run for any and all political offices

VII. New Energy Strategy based on Efficiency & Renewables

1- Pass the energy reduction bill, where a certain percentage of Kentucky's energy has to come from clean sources, not Coal, Oil, or Nuclear.

2- Require all coal ash sludge ponds to: 1) be completely dried out; 2) be sealed with a double liner of clay and a synthetic material; 3) have groundwater monitoring, and; 4) have a collection and containment system put in place in case of a spill.

Alternative Energy Sources besides Oil, Nuclear, and Coal:

1-Switch Grass and Hemp

2-Photovoltaic

3-Low-head Hydro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_head_hydro_power

4-Geothermal Power http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_energy

5-Natural Gas

6-Wind

7-Wood

8-Sugar Batteries

9-Our Own Heartbeats http://inhabitat.com/infographic-2014s-most-promising-alternative-energy-trends/

10-Walking

11-Methane

12-Solar

13-Horses

14-Electromagnetic

VIII. Public Works Projects

1-Water for Everybody*

2-Construct Gatewood's Lake, Damming the Kentucky River at Frankfort*

3-High-speed Broadband Internet for Everybody, 1 big pole*

4-Promote Tourism Industry*

5-Construct New Hospitals, Gymnasiums, and Schools*

6-Private Solar Power Generators for Everybody*

IX. Free-to-$10/month Internet for Everybody

1-Community broadcasting access for all working people

2-Adhere to the Principle of Net Neutrality

3-Post all old microfilm newspapers and other historic info on Kentucky's government webpage

4-Work on having a website where all the people of Kentucky can vote on a single issue, pure democracy

X. Push 4 Legislation I Support

1-Outlaw Child Slavery

2-End the Death Penalty Forever

3-Overhaul the Prison System

4-Stop Institutional Racism from the Kentucky GOP, and the US Chamber of Commerce

5-Amnesty 4 Deric Lostutter (KyAnonymous) (and Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Guatemalan children refugees, Canadians, etc)

6-Allow Kentuckians to purchase cheaper prescription pills from Canada

7-Change Kentucky's State Flower, from the Goldenrod, to the Cannabis Flower, the most evolved plant on Planet Earth

8-Freeze Rent Rates

9-Pass Minimum Wage. Work towards $15 - $20 an hour.

10-Freeze Tuition Rates

11-Cap the Co-Pay

12-Pro-Pregnant Woman Worker's Rights

13-Ban the Confederate Flag

14-Single-payer car insurance

15-Change Columbus Day to Indigenous People's Day

16-KET 4 all 120

17- Make Election Days into National Holidays

18- Implement Robin Hood Tax

19- Throw criminal bankers in prison

20- Ban Fracking

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With the above list, I have just defined the Democratic Party of Kentucky for the rest of the 2000s (the entire Millennium). This is my platform for my 2015 campaign for Lieutenant Governor. There's 10 points in the overall platform, and for the first item, to kickstart “Shocking Kentucky's Economy” into gear, I have listed 21 economic STIMULUS ideas. Twenty-one.

Where's the money going to come from?

I have a 21-point Jobs Plan... inside my 10 point Progressive platform.

Also, there's at least 16 separate individual Billion dollar ideas tucked inside this list. There's no need to raise anybody's taxes. Well, except the 1%, so they're paying the same rate as everybody else, but not to raise revenue. To “generate revenue”, the government of Kentucky should do it the old fashion way: earn it. Stop stealing it from everybody, and make some money just like these lawyer politicians in power expect every other citizen in the Commonwealth to do on their own, without the power or influence of government.

It's all about jobs, and trade, and corporations, and GDP, and wages, and the economy, stupid.

Kentucky would go wildly green with a Young Administration: in paper, and environmentally.

Why “Shock” Kentucky's economy?

Well. For obvious starters, Kentucky's poor.

But the terminology comes from Naomi Klein. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkpdVL1Vtv4

The impending Republican Class War will utilize a Shock Doctrine upon us humble Kentuckians. That's what the Republicans have in store for Kentucky. Just like Haiti's economy, and just like what Kissinger and Nixon did to Chile in 1973 to Salvador Allende... a Socialist who happened to be elected by the people! The US couldn't let that happen! Not in South America! That's too close to the Rio Grande!

Disaster capitalism running amok happened with 9-11, the 2^nd Iraq War, and 2005 New Orleans hurricane disaster, where Chris Kyle bragged about sniping American citizens.

The Republican Class War Economic Shell Shock (RCWESS) is going to give us major PTSD issues. Fascism is when the business and government classes collude together. If you're not at the table where the decisions are being made, then you're probably on the menu. Elizabeth Warren is right about that, as she is with many things.

I like Elizabeth Warren. And Bernie Sanders.

Jill Stein, however, beats them both.

A shock from the Republicans will be in the form of cutting taxes, for a few pennies for the middle, working, and poor classes, and millions for the 1%. They will justify this with Keynesian Economics. Richard Nixon said, “We're all Keynesians now.” Milton Friedman represents the New Right's economic behemoth (both the World Bank and the IMF operate on Milton's ideas), and even Friedman said that some government was necessary, even in a pure Capitalist free market world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMb_72hgkJk The Republicans will “shock” the economy using the Keynesian economic tactic of cutting taxes, and supposedly, by all the money the people save from those cut taxes, that extra money will be freed up to be spent elsewhere. But we know how that goes. We saw it with the Big Banks. The American government gave them $700B, and they kept it all. Every bit of it. And they just sat on it. Hid it underneath their mattress, and built up their own personal portfolio with plenty of assets, or giving themselves million dollar golden parachutes when it's all got to be liquidated anyways.

The Republicans will cut as much of the education budget as they can possibly get away with, including K-12 and College spending, which makes up over 50% of Kentucky's budget, and Medicaid, which is about 20-25% of Kentucky's budget, and any and everything else they can get their hands on.

The new 2016 Republican Governor will come in with his chainsaw, and butcher all of the social programs Kentucky has gotten used to, which will strike an immediate fiscal budgetary crisis... perhaps even leading Kentucky to bankruptcy and ruin, and having to sell the whole damn State to China.

Don't think it's possible? Look at Wisconsin's Scott Walker. Look at how the Republicans played Russian Roulette with the Debt Ceiling crisis. The Republicans do not understand economics, and their policies are dangerous and reckless. Especially for working class families.

Just recently, Matt Bevin is bragging about how he's going to dissolve Kentucky's Medicaid program in spite of the expansion of Medicaid cutting Kentucky's uninsured rate by half, and being wildly successful.

Kentucky's Kynect.com (just a “website”) was used a model for the rest of the nation.

Matt Bevin's death panels for poor Kentuckians who need government healthcare will see Bevin dumping over 600,000 poor Kentuckians into the gutter, into a ditch, to take care of their own ailments, or be a burden on the system, and go to the ER.

Or to die, unnecessarily.

If a State can provide healthcare for it's citizens, then it's criminal to let them die. If a State can provide healthcare for it's citizens, yet refuses to do so, and citizens die for causes that healthcare could have prevented, then those in power should be held criminally liable for those unnecessary deaths. They have blood on their hands.

Healthcare is a Human Right. Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are just words without Life.

The Republicans have no alternatives to ObamaCare. Neither does Jack Conway.

Geoff Young does. Single payer. Medicaid for all.

The Republicans will also sell as much of the government's assets as possible. They will sell the national parks, the public buildings, equipment, and the water. They will privatize everything. Instead of government providing water for Kentuckians because we need water to live and survive, now, we'll have private corporations trying to maximize their profits by monopolizing a vital essential-for-life resource.

“What? You're dying of thirst? But you didn't pay your bill! Sorry about your luck! Good day to you sir!”

And that's for all Social Programs Kentucky happens to offer. With 800,000 Kentucky folks in poverty, cutting off valuable social programs right now is the very worst thing a person could do. This will increase the miserable conditions of Kentucky, and exacerbate it. The Republicans will not care, because the more desperate the working masses are, the more likely they'll take a job for less money, or be a scab, or use some cutthroat tactic against one of their comrades, which is all good for the corporatists' political donors, namely, the 1%.

The Republicans will also cut many State workers jobs too. Bevin is already talking about 20% off the top in the Executive Branch, when Beshear braced Kentuckians a few years ago, saying that his 10% cut across the board would be painful. That's Republican economics 101. Austerity measures. Cut social programs. Sell the assets. Increase foreign investment. Increase exports and GDP. Get growth, at all costs, always get growth. And privatize. Everything. Even the water.

The Republicans want government to be shrunk so small, they can drown it in a bathtub.

But, because of Milton Friedman, the Republicans will make sure there's enough government, and tax money coming into their coffers, so that they, and their own, have safety, protection, bailouts, tax breaks, and a court system that will help the corporate citizens, who have more rights than Kentucky citizens, resolve their disputes.

We'll see toll roads and toll bridges too. The Republicans want to be Capitalists... until they don't. They socialize the risk, and capitalize the profits. Our taxes will go to fund the toll bridges, and so will the money in our pockets.

That's the “Shock” that's coming to Kentucky with a Republican Governor in 2016.

So instead of having a “shock” from right-wing capitalist fascists, who just want to carve Kentucky up like a freshly cooked Thanksgiving turkey, passing out natural resources and our common wealth to their cronies, and using the Kentucky people as cheap labor, we'll have a more fair and equitable system under a Young Administration. While corporations are a part of the picture, they're not the only part of it. Kentuckians need help in starting their own small businesses, and government should help to develop entrepreneurs. Kentuckians need a good education that can provide returns. In short, we need to develop ourselves. Incorporate ourselves. Then we'll be the ones who are providing the jobs, to ourselves.

Kentucky's Silicone Valley. The Hollywood Appalachian Hills.

The workers already run everything anyways. We're the ones who keep this world going.

We already have a mixed economy, but we can do both, Capitalism and Socialism, so much better just by following the examples of Germany and many other economically successful nations in the world. We need as much Socialism to make sure Kentucky folks aren't dying on our streets, and enough Capitalism to increase our standards of living, and our overall quality of life. Capitalism forgets the people, and Socialism forgets the individual. A synthesis of the two is the reality, and the future, therefore, it should be the narrative.

$100 Million Dollars was put into a 2014 Senate campaign which did all it could do to obfuscate truth, perception, and reality.

These 21 economic shocks for Kentucky are liberal progressive shocks. These are preventive shocks, so if a Chicago Boy would later on become Governor of our beloved Bluegrass State, after having a true Progressive at the helm, then our State would be so strong, both in Solidarity and in producing GDP, both the workers and the capitalists would all be happy because we'd all be making a ton of money... then, Kentucky would survive such a blatant and obvious looming Republican Class War takeover.

But Kentuckians couldn't survive it now. There's too many state workers. There's too many poor whites on welfare, government schools, food stamps, LIHEAP, ObamaCare, etc. Over 50% of Owsley County takes food stamps, and 92.5% of them are white, and 95% of them are Republican. Owsley Countians are chickens voting for Colonel Sanders. Their poor pretend to be temporarily displaced millionaires, taking all of the welfare while simultaneously voting and boasting against it. They're lying to themselves, and others, and they're shooting themselves in the foot because of it.

Progressive sweeping legislation also carries the capacity for economic stimulus as well. Take gay marriage for example.

With Gay Marriage freshly legalized, immediately, Kentucky becomes a favored state for Gay Folks, and that's more folks, more commerce, more small businesses (like Bakeries), more money, more taxes, and that's all good for the economy. If Kentucky reversed herself, and actually protected Gay folks, and became a State that was tolerant of others, our economy would improve dramatically. It would be a “shock” to the toxic homophobic culture as well as being an economic shock. The cost of legalizing Gay Marriage is virtually zero, and the economic benefits, direct and residual, would reverberate continuously, far and wide. Nothing's lost, and everything is to be gained. The tiny town of Vicco, Kentucky with Mayor Johnny Cummings legalized gay marriage. That's one small step for man. Lexington has had a gay mayor for two terms now. That's another small step for man. Now let's make a giant leap for mankind. Paul Patton's “It's that Friendly” license plates can make a comeback, Southern hospitality reinstitutionalized, while that embarrassing 2004 bigoted self-inflicted “black eye” Amendment is put away in it's final resting place, down into the dustbowl of history.

United we Stand, Divided we Fall

For decades in Chile, fascism used violent repression to maintain order and control of the masses, just like how President Grover Cleveland used the US military against the Pullman Railroad Strikers, and once Allende was overthrown by a violent military coup detat, Nixon and Kissinger's Chicago Boys made Chile's economy “scream”.

America forced Chile to become purely capitalistic at the point of the gun, starting in 1973 after assassinating Salvador Allende, and lasting for 2 fascist decades under Pinochet, America's handpicked puppet for Chile.

The impending Republican Class War that's looming over Kentucky will make Kentucky's economy scream. Privatizing prisons turns making citizens into criminals big business. Big Prison. Prison Industrial Complex. The Prison Plantation. Some things shouldn't be for profit.

Prisons. Food. Water. Clothing. Shelter. Healthcare. Education.

With the Republican Class War, Kentuckians will become citizen-subjects. Mere serfs. Nothing but a bunch of lousy un-unionized peasant wage slaves, all having to compete against each other for crappy minimum wage jobs, to battle it out at the workplace for being the boss's #1 sycophant, all so we can pay a greedy landlord 60% of our blood, sweat, toil, and tears, just to stay alive. Make no doubt about it. Any of the Republican candidates will “shock” Kentucky's economy, but not in support of helping or caring about the middle, working, or poor classes of Kentucky. The Republican Class War will all be for the foreign investors, the banks, the 1% elite, and the corporations.

Not for you or me.

Them. It's all for them.

Naomi Klein calls this the “Shock Doctrine”, and she claims this is the new world order being imposed upon Americans after 9-11. Chicago Rahm said you can't let a good crisis go to waste, and therefore, 9-11 has been used as a basis to give the Capitalists—the Owner Class—full control over our economy.

Since Kentucky just reelected a well known professional corruptionist—Mitch McConnell—many Republicans have been emboldened, and they are eyeballing the Governor's Mansion in Frankfort. The oncoming Republican Class War is inevitable, and can't be denied... but yet, somehow, for some unbeknownst reason, Jack Conway hasn't said a single word about stopping the impending Republican Class War. In fact, since Jack Conway was for the Bush Tax Cuts for the 1%, which Mitch helped to become permanent, he may be in favor of the Republican Class War on average Kentuckians. We can't know for sure. Conway's views haven't been parsed enough. He's more of a shuck-and-jiver when it comes to the issues. He'd rather schmooze your vote out of you, instead of winning you over with his vastly superior ideas. People are picturesque creatures anyways! Especially low information voters!

Jack Conway is in favor of the Patriot Act, and he used to be in favor of the Iraq War, and Gay Marriage, for way too long. Jack lacks moral clarity.

Jack's progressive credentials are sorely lacking.

3 of the 4 Republican candidates for Kentucky's Governor's seat are in favor of “Right to Work” legislation, written by ALEC, a major lobbyist for corporations.

“Right to work” aka “right to scab” is only designed to crush the unions... which is already at a dismal 11% level nationally anyways. Unions are the only leverage working class people have in the workplace.

What kinds of people in history come into power butchering trade unions?

Here's a famous poem:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

~Martin Niemöller, Protestant Pastor

Hitler hated the Unions. Hitler was a far right wing fascist. He's the very epitome of far right wing fascism. Hitler used Orwellian language to cover up his intentions. A national Socialist? Hitler went after the Socialists. Then the Trade Unions. Then the Jews... also, the Gypsies, the Disabled, the Blacks... really, anybody and everybody that wasn't beautiful and blonde and blue-eyed as Hitler was. Only the very strong could survive Nazi Germany. The strong, and thoroughly brainwashed.

On May 2, 1933, shortly after coming into power, Hitler crushed all of the Worker's Unions, and then formed his own single umbrella union called the “German Labor Front”. Hitler forced all of the unions to join the German Labor Front, his own personal concoction. Through Hitler's German Labor Front Union, he could benefit the corporations well, and use propaganda to force the workers into submission. It was mostly the independent Union members who were giving Hitler the most trouble, and that's how Hitler crushed them. Hitler started the German Labor Front for Germany's workers, and he outlawed striking, and collective bargaining. Now collective bargaining would be by an agent Hitler picked out personally, and the agreements Hitler's agent agreed to, was bound by law.

The “German Labor Front” was named by the very epitome, the personification of the fascist, who also Orwellian called himself a “National Socialist”, due to it's national appeal.

Adolf Hitler smashed the Unions, and he did it with one large umbrella organization. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/trade_unions_nazi_germany.htm http://ky.aflcio.org/5017/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=27c4edcc-119a-4ee2-b077-13a60e317c5e

http://peoplesworld.org/today-in-labor-history-nazis-destroy-unions/

Haiti lost 600,000 Haitians because they didn't have enough infrastructure to be able to handle such a disaster, the earthquake in 2010. Kentucky is right on the New Madrid Faultline. It hasn't been until 1811 since the last huge earthquake (like 6, or 7 on the Richter scale) happened there, but that doesn't mean it can't happen again. It hadn't happened in Haiti for quite some time, but there were signs of something about to happen, and then... 600,000 dead Haitians.

No doubt, with the New Madrid Faultline, there's something prone to happen there too. When and where, we can't tell, but the New Madrid Faultline is a weak spot in the Earth's crust, a “scarred zone”, and it covers much of the western part of Kentucky. More Fracking here will mean more Earthquakes.

Recently, there has been a group spotted in Kentucky whose trying to bring the great opportunity of fracking into Kentucky.

Horizontal Technology Energy Company is the company that's going to bring the great opportunity of Fracking into Kentucky. They'll say it's for jobs, and say how it'll make everything great, but it's very likely to contribute to the New Madrid Faultline exploding into another earthquake... plus the pollution, and toxins in our ground, and drinking, waters... fracking is just bad business.

Is there no other way to extract natural gas?

Oklahoma has been experiencing more earthquakes these days, and it's directly related to fracking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCvkkuJOiUI

If we give the Governor's chair to a Republican, the possibility of being caught in man-made natural disasters due to fracking without enough emergency personnel could see 600,000 dead Kentuckians after the New Madrid Earthquake, just like Haiti experienced, after privatizing everything, in 2010.