Ron Wieczorek

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2010 General Election, 2010 Democratic Primary, 2012 General Election, 2012 Democratic Primary, 2014 General Election, 2014 Democratic Primary, 2016 General Election, 2016 Democratic Primary

2010 General Election, 2010 Democratic Primary, 2012 General Election, 2012 Democratic Primary, 2014 General Election, 2014 Democratic Primary, 2016 General Election, 2016 Democratic Primary

Humans are not animals, and must not be treated as such. Human life is sacred from conception to death. I oppose abortion, except under extreme circumstances where the mother’s life is in grave danger--in which the decision to abort the fetus resides solely with the mother (or husband, or other close family member, if the mother is unable to make her wishes known) and her doctor. Such a decision is not for the state to make, and no legislation should ever impair the right of the mother and her family and caregiver to decide. My vision of America is one where family formation is encouraged, where every family is able to thrive and prosper, engaged in productive employment, free from want and fear, where every child has access to the best in nutrition, healthcare, housing, education--enough to support their pursuit of true happiness through their discoveries which make the future even better for everybody. I am opposed to euthanasia, for the same reasons.

Humans are not animals, and must not be treated as such. Human life is sacred from conception to death. I oppose abortion, except under extreme circumstances where the mother’s life is in grave danger--in which the decision to abort the fetus resides solely with the mother (or husband, or other close family member, if the mother is unable to make her wishes known) and her doctor. Such a decision is not for the state to make, and no legislation should ever impair the right of the mother and her family and caregiver to decide. My vision of America is one where family formation is encouraged, where every family is able to thrive and prosper, engaged in productive employment, free from want and fear, where every child has access to the best in nutrition, healthcare, housing, education--enough to support their pursuit of true happiness through their discoveries which make the future even better for everybody. I am opposed to euthanasia, for the same reasons.

“Terrorism” is a product of monetarism, unable to care for those subject to it. Ditch that financial-economic system, in favor of a creditary one, and you’d be surprised at how relations improve among sovereign nations and citizens of those nations. I favor the American System of Political Economy: preserving and protecting commercial banking by re-imposing the Glass-Steagall Act; outlawing monetary and commodity speculation; re-establishing a national bank, tasked with issuing vast amounts of credit for especially high-tech capital infrastructure, including high-speed and maglev networks, massive water management projects, manned outer space exploration/ settlement; and a crash program to bring on line controlled fusion for baseline power production, advanced manufacturing, and space propulsion. The purpose: to increase the productive powers of every citizen. The drug-rock-sex counterculture which took over in the mid-1960s will be found unsatisfying to Americans.

“Terrorism” is a product of monetarism, unable to care for those subject to it. Ditch that financial-economic system, in favor of a creditary one, and you’d be surprised at how relations improve among sovereign nations and citizens of those nations. I favor the American System of Political Economy: preserving and protecting commercial banking by re-imposing the Glass-Steagall Act; outlawing monetary and commodity speculation; re-establishing a national bank, tasked with issuing vast amounts of credit for especially high-tech capital infrastructure, including high-speed and maglev networks, massive water management projects, manned outer space exploration/ settlement; and a crash program to bring on line controlled fusion for baseline power production, advanced manufacturing, and space propulsion. The purpose: to increase the productive powers of every citizen. The drug-rock-sex counterculture which took over in the mid-1960s will be found unsatisfying to Americans.

We chose a republic, not a monarchy--not a democracy, as is often claimed. We chose a federal government over the previous confederal one, with a Presidency, a bi-cameral Legislature, and a Judiciary--each with their own duties and each looking over the shoulder of the others, for support, and to abort the potential for abuse of power. It’s a social arrangement, not an autocratic one. To preserve the Union requires the participation of an informed electorate.

We chose a republic, not a monarchy--not a democracy, as is often claimed. We chose a federal government over the previous confederal one, with a Presidency, a bi-cameral Legislature, and a Judiciary--each with their own duties and each looking over the shoulder of the others, for support, and to abort the potential for abuse of power. It’s a social arrangement, not an autocratic one. To preserve the Union requires the participation of an informed electorate.

I believe in a God who has created the best possible Universe, who has populated this anti-entropic Universe with a wonderful diversity of fauna and flora, who has populated this Universe with humanity whose noetic powers are in the living image of the Creator.

I believe in a God who has created the best possible Universe, who has populated this anti-entropic Universe with a wonderful diversity of fauna and flora, who has populated this Universe with humanity whose noetic powers are in the living image of the Creator.

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Although I have done my honest best to “answer” many of the public school style survey questions 1-23 with their pre-provided multiple-choice answers, the exercise is silly and unsuited to informing the electorate. Life is too rich and too precious to impart or gain anything substantial from such a method. For example, none of the proanswers to Question 28 above apply. “No Answer” is not an answer, either. I consider myself a national patriot and a world citizen, and have acted so throughout my adult life. My Independent candidacy represents a new paradigm, neither Conservative nor Liberal. My candidacy is above the political party system, rightly denounced by George Washington in his Farewell Address to the nation. I am not the opponent of the candidates of the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian parties. My views and programs are the solution to partisan cretinism in this time of worldwide turbulence.

Although I have done my honest best to “answer” many of the public school style survey questions 1-23 with their pre-provided multiple-choice answers, the exercise is silly and unsuited to informing the electorate. Life is too rich and too precious to impart or gain anything substantial from such a method. For example, none of the proanswers to Question 28 above apply. “No Answer” is not an answer, either. I consider myself a national patriot and a world citizen, and have acted so throughout my adult life. My Independent candidacy represents a new paradigm, neither Conservative nor Liberal. My candidacy is above the political party system, rightly denounced by George Washington in his Farewell Address to the nation. I am not the opponent of the candidates of the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian parties. My views and programs are the solution to partisan cretinism in this time of worldwide turbulence.

Americans are being shorted as far as healthcare goes. We need to bring back, in modern form, the Hill-Burton Act of 1948, to construct some appropriate combination of hospitals, urgent care clinics, and physician offices in every county in the nation in general, and South Dakota in particular, so that no citizen has to travel very far for adequate medical care. Hospitals should, in general, be teaching hospitals. Second, we need to greatly increase the number of doctors and nurses, by providing no-charge tuition to medical schools for intellectually and morally qualified young men and women. Third, we should combine Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, sharing the financial cost to provide health care for all Americans. Putting the nation to work in productive employments (see my answer to No. 25 above) will permit the nation to create the required level of tangible wealth to care for our citizens. Private health care insurance companies are not needed. They are simply leeches.

Americans are being shorted as far as healthcare goes. We need to bring back, in modern form, the Hill-Burton Act of 1948, to construct some appropriate combination of hospitals, urgent care clinics, and physician offices in every county in the nation in general, and South Dakota in particular, so that no citizen has to travel very far for adequate medical care. Hospitals should, in general, be teaching hospitals. Second, we need to greatly increase the number of doctors and nurses, by providing no-charge tuition to medical schools for intellectually and morally qualified young men and women. Third, we should combine Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, sharing the financial cost to provide health care for all Americans. Putting the nation to work in productive employments (see my answer to No. 25 above) will permit the nation to create the required level of tangible wealth to care for our citizens. Private health care insurance companies are not needed. They are simply leeches.

We must return to a dirigist economy, where the role of the President is to periodically enunciate a vision of the direction the nation. Among other things, this is the function of the Annual State of the Union Address. In 1963, for example, President Kennedy called on the nation to land a man on the Moon. NASA was put in charge. Private contractors bid to provide various systems, and our public and higher educational institutions transformed the curricula for an increased emphasis on science and engineering. America achieved the mission. JFK gave us the last full measure of his devotion, being cut down before seeing the fruit of his effort, which was being taken down at the height of success. Apollo 17 was the last in 1972- almost fifty years ago. Once again we must return to Article I, Section 8 of our Constitution, which specifies, among other things, that it is the Congress which issues our currency, not some private bankers’ club such as the Federal Reserve, to be dissolved.

Our federal government was initially funded by largely by tariffs on imports and by land sales. The current Internal Revenue System was set up in 1913, along with the Federal Reserve, basically to fleece Americans to pay for the United States to fight World War II, wrongly on the side of the British. To fund a leaner federal government, I propose going back to a regime of minimal tariffs, which put revenue into our economy without debt; and to shift from a system of personal income taxation, to one of corporate taxation.

We must return to a dirigist economy, where the role of the President is to periodically enunciate a vision of the direction the nation. Among other things, this is the function of the Annual State of the Union Address. In 1963, for example, President Kennedy called on the nation to land a man on the Moon. NASA was put in charge. Private contractors bid to provide various systems, and our public and higher educational institutions transformed the curricula for an increased emphasis on science and engineering. America achieved the mission. JFK gave us the last full measure of his devotion, being cut down before seeing the fruit of his effort, which was being taken down at the height of success. Apollo 17 was the last in 1972- almost fifty years ago. Once again we must return to Article I, Section 8 of our Constitution, which specifies, among other things, that it is the Congress which issues our currency, not some private bankers’ club such as the Federal Reserve, to be dissolved.

Our federal government was initially funded by largely by tariffs on imports and by land sales. The current Internal Revenue System was set up in 1913, along with the Federal Reserve, basically to fleece Americans to pay for the United States to fight World War II, wrongly on the side of the British. To fund a leaner federal government, I propose going back to a regime of minimal tariffs, which put revenue into our economy without debt; and to shift from a system of personal income taxation, to one of corporate taxation.

The best way to bring down unemployment is to employ people! The best way to employ people is to employ them in productive work. We must therefore define that which constitutes productive from non-productive. Building, operating, and working in steel mills turning out rail for a brand new 42,000 mile high-speed rail network, for example, is productive. Gambling casinos (in Las Vegas and on Wall Street) are not productive. Loans to entrepreneurs for the former should be at low interest. Loans to sharks for the latter should be high enough to dry out such immoral activities. One hundred percent parity pricing for the products of the land will ensure the family farmer and rancher the income needed to improve their operations.

The only way to guarantee funding for any government function is by ensuring that our citizens are fully engaged in productive employment, generally trending to occupations involving increasingly capital-intensive, higher energy-flux power densities.

The best way to bring down unemployment is to employ people! The best way to employ people is to employ them in productive work. We must therefore define that which constitutes productive from non-productive. Building, operating, and working in steel mills turning out rail for a brand new 42,000 mile high-speed rail network, for example, is productive. Gambling casinos (in Las Vegas and on Wall Street) are not productive. Loans to entrepreneurs for the former should be at low interest. Loans to sharks for the latter should be high enough to dry out such immoral activities. One hundred percent parity pricing for the products of the land will ensure the family farmer and rancher the income needed to improve their operations.

The only way to guarantee funding for any government function is by ensuring that our citizens are fully engaged in productive employment, generally trending to occupations involving increasingly capital-intensive, higher energy-flux power densities.

I am not a lawyer or career government servant. I am self-educated in the image of Abraham Lincoln and Peter Norbeck, S.D.’s 9th Gov. (1917-1921) and Sen. (1921-1936). Although I never met him--I’m only 75--I consider Norbeck an inspiration and one of my best friends. He’s most remembered for promoting and securing federal funding the many of State and National Parks so many enjoy in S.D., including for the giant Mount Rushmore sculpture. But as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency (1928-32), he was the one who called for an investigation of Wall Street bankers after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. It was Norbeck who appointed Ferdinand Pecora as Chief Counsel to the Committee, whose famous hearings let to a number of bankers going to jail for their crimes. I started out my adult life as an Abraham Lincoln Republican, switched to an FDR Democrat, and am now an Independent. When the parties changed their principles, I changed parties.

I am not a lawyer or career government servant. I am self-educated in the image of Abraham Lincoln and Peter Norbeck, S.D.’s 9th Gov. (1917-1921) and Sen. (1921-1936). Although I never met him--I’m only 75--I consider Norbeck an inspiration and one of my best friends. He’s most remembered for promoting and securing federal funding the many of State and National Parks so many enjoy in S.D., including for the giant Mount Rushmore sculpture. But as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency (1928-32), he was the one who called for an investigation of Wall Street bankers after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. It was Norbeck who appointed Ferdinand Pecora as Chief Counsel to the Committee, whose famous hearings let to a number of bankers going to jail for their crimes. I started out my adult life as an Abraham Lincoln Republican, switched to an FDR Democrat, and am now an Independent. When the parties changed their principles, I changed parties.

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My great, great grandfather came to America settling just south of Mt. Vernon. I married my high-school sweetheart, Deanna Johnson, a graduate of the University of South Dakota. Fivty-five years later, she is still my sweetheart. Together we raised 2 children and have 10 grandchildren. In the early 1970s, I opened a Massey-Ferguson farm implements dealership, closing it in 1986, when M-F went bankrupt due to the farm crisis. Beginning in the 1980s, I made many trips to Washington, DC on behalf of farmers and small business owners, fighting the disastrous Carter-Volcker 22% prime interest rate policy. I took testimony on the effects of this interest rate regime on ordinary farmers, and in many cases succeeded in getting the Federal Housing Administration to grant moratoria on farm foreclosures. In 1991, as part of the Plan of Action of the Committee to Save the Children in Iraq, I organized 2 tones of milk powder to be transported to Baghdad. In 1993 I toured Europe fighting Maastricht.

My great, great grandfather came to America settling just south of Mt. Vernon. I married my high-school sweetheart, Deanna Johnson, a graduate of the University of South Dakota. Fivty-five years later, she is still my sweetheart. Together we raised 2 children and have 10 grandchildren. In the early 1970s, I opened a Massey-Ferguson farm implements dealership, closing it in 1986, when M-F went bankrupt due to the farm crisis. Beginning in the 1980s, I made many trips to Washington, DC on behalf of farmers and small business owners, fighting the disastrous Carter-Volcker 22% prime interest rate policy. I took testimony on the effects of this interest rate regime on ordinary farmers, and in many cases succeeded in getting the Federal Housing Administration to grant moratoria on farm foreclosures. In 1991, as part of the Plan of Action of the Committee to Save the Children in Iraq, I organized 2 tones of milk powder to be transported to Baghdad. In 1993 I toured Europe fighting Maastricht.