#1: immigration/border
#2: education
#3: healthcare

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Great showing on Fox last night, sir.

The cartels are the main issue with the border, correct? They bring drugs which there is a demand for at cheap/reasonable prices, and they require guns, force, and organization in order to intimidate and protect their drugs, no?

Think like a drug cartel dealer guy.

How do I stop you from operating in my state?

We do not want people going for drugs however they will always have an inclination towards them. Why do we focus on hard-drugs when soft-drugs like marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco could satisfy most of our populace's desire for drugs?

Marijuana has already been dealt with however trying to get, legally to the state, it risks someone's gun rights because it is still illegal at the federal level.

Alcohol is pretty much fine as is. People can get beer, wine, or liquor for quite cheap. Most of the hurdles and stressors are on the alcohol supplier and not the end-user.

Tobacco. We specifically make tobacco more special by requiring it to be behind the cashier where each and every customer is looking at it, from youth to elderly; we specifically have tobacco signs everywhere in order to say "oh no, please do not smoke within 25 feet of the entrance" and, if you were a smoker, you would know people will be complaining if they merely smell it despite being far away from you; the taxes affect the end-user more than the tobacco suppliers.

Homeless people in Santa Maria, CA ask me for cigarettes and give the reason that they just got out of jail for a drug charge for meth/heroin and tobacco gives just the buzz they need in order to stay away from the hard drugs. Anecdotal evidence, sure, however we can see that tobacco does give a buzz and, even if we are hungry, we are satisfied by a McDonalds meal even if it is not a salad or a five-course meal. As such, it makes sense that tobacco would stop hard drug usage better than alcohol or marijuana can: alcohol can cause many issues in the quantity one can consume; marijuana is not going to be supported by legal gun owners (much of us) like alcohol is; legal gun owners can support tobacco.

There are so many taxes on tobacco which, supposedly, go into the education fund much like the marijuana taxes are supposed to do. Yet does this really make any difference in education spending compared to the income tax? No, right?

We can immediately lower our tobacco taxes yesterday. We can let tobacco to be left on shelves away from the cashier (if a kid stole a pack and smoked the whole thing, ya really think they gonna wanna keep smoking tobacco even if they have withdrawl?).

If you were a cartel drug dealer, then I would focus on making tobacco easier to get. That way, you have less of a market to sell hard drugs in Arizona. And, reducing your profits from Arizona, you would probably still be here in Arizona, thanks to Biden, but you would be using us for transporting your drugs into Utah instead of protecting your drugs while notifying people you have them to sell in Arizona.

If we can reduce the market for hard drugs in Arizona, then we can more easily spot the transit of them in Arizona. As such, the cartels would lose their desire to even think of Arizona because it would be such trouble here.

Hope you make my cigarettes cheaper, sir.

Kindest,
Brian

PS we could also work on our own guns, too, such that more citizens are able to defend themselves from cartel people in Arizona by themselves while waiting for the police in non-emergency situations. ... We need to get back to "the right to bear arms shall not be infringed". One way is to offer the citizenry the ability to procure and loan equipment to the National Guard. Imagine the economic incentive if we could pool or individually purchase armoured vehicles and loan them to the National Guard such that they maintain, service, and man them for us? Also, we could more easily take back those same armoured vehicles to let the police use in times of riot, insurrection, or cartel invasion. ... This would be easy for the state to do, while allowing fully automatic weapons (like the Constitution would intend) and McNukes (we can fine and arrest people for not having proper security and fail-safes for their McNuke so, while constitutional, is not actually that scary to imagine) to the full extent which our rights entail requires an effort of civics education and reform from the grassroots to the federal level in order to realize. ... If I were a trillionaire, I would build an Iowa-style battleship to protect my shipping fleet whereas in war the Navy would HAVE A BATTLESHIP. What do we need a battleship for? ... TO HAVE A BATTLESHIP. ... :)

PPS there are still federal laws on the books such that each and every male citizen from 17 to about 37 years of age are technically considered within the National Militia. ... Using this, we not only have an obligation to the country to be healthy enough to fight, we also have an obligation to not use drugs like marijuana that can reduce our ability to fight a war in such a case as an alien invasion (more likely, foreign human invasion) and needing the National Militia in addition to National Guard and Armed Services (an international armed services wouldnt work, look at the UN Peacekeepers).

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I just finished the last half of your Fox spot from last night. Great job, again, sir.

With your summer camp, let us focus more on reading and thinking than merely rote learning the quadratic formula. It is better to know examples of where you would use the quadratic formula and how to regenerate it, than having it stuck in your memory without knowing why it exists or how it came to be.

Just as I mentioned in my "make tobacco easier to procure as well as focus on the National Militia (in the PS)", we can also use our education to help make the federal services better, too.

Imagine just the Navy's NRTC (non-resident training course) library. You can use their books on Mathematics, which are NAVEDTRA 14139, 14140, 14141, and 14142. Assign them as reading to students to help them jigger up their own mathematics knowledge with a teacher available to help them practice as if they would in a normal classroom.

The process of using the Navy's (or other branches') training manuals means that we can help keep them up to date, relevant, and able to cheaply train our less-fortunate members of society which get into the military without much of a decent education.

And, we can also include harder English texts of "The Life Of King Arthur", Shakespeare, and other less-common yet foundational older English texts to properly develop our children such that they can better read when they get back to normal education or later in life when they find lots of free time at their job, especially if they work in healthcare.

After that, we can have specialized interests for children that express interest in electricity and electronics (NEETS: NAVEDTRA 14173-14196), teaching (NAVEDTRA 14300), or healthcare (NAVEDTRA 14295). There are numerous other jobs that are contained within just the Navy's library of NRTCs. There are similar equipment and job training manuals in the Army and Air Force (the Marines might use the Navy's since they eat crayons too much).

Why do we spend so much on education?

Most of our money goes to administrators; replace most of them with computers and databases. Some of it goes to physical education; besides equipment and facilities for basketball, football, and swimming, do we really need physical education teachers? A lot goes into books though we probably throw that onto the parents; if we use and help maintain the Navy's training courses, do we really need to spend much more (besides printing) on textbooks anymore? Also, with the wide range of subjects that the military has training courses on, a child can naturally follow their interests (it is not ADHD) of looking at construction this week and then secretary the next; we only would need to print more common textbooks like for mathematics, whereas the rest of the training courses are already digitized. And, finally, our school libraries can be pruned such that they hold reference material (like CRC's Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, with their appendix book of mathematical tables), non-fiction for American/Arizonan/World history, and fiction which can be from The Life Of King Arthur to Ender's Game to Twilight (ugh). Perhaps even a copy of the Bible, Qu'ran, Vedas, Principia Mathematica (by Issac Newton, in the original Latin), The Book Of Mormon, the Popul Vuh, and other such civilizational products.

The cost at the beginning is minimal. The cost over time is always infinite. Yet, in the process from now to prosperity, civilization keeps itself together, productive, and Arizonan.

Kindest,
Brian

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Last night; Nick Rekieta, on the RekietaLaw youtube channel, made a good point: we should view healthcare like we do retail.

He expanded on it a bit further but here is my rendition.

If a bloke walks into Best Buy talking about Pokemon, we would expect him to leave with a Nintendo Switch and not a shredder. Likewise, if a bloke walked into healthcare with a broken leg and fractured bones sticking out, we would not expect him to leave with a pap smear performed.

We have the emergency room, urgent care, and the doctors office, in healthcare. As well as old wives' tales, quacks (though they could also be inside than outside), and fruitful argumentation with scientists and politicians as well as handymen.

With the emergency room, a person coming in with a heart attack, stroke, or lock-jaw (tetanus) requires immediately to be seen by a doctor. Given the rarer occurrence of these compared to broken legs and other serious yet not so urgent/emergency situations, health insurance could pay the fees for these services and yet, due to the ability to perform and actually meet the urgent need, a hospital's emergency room would be able to do the work pro bono because the skills improvement and meaning of performing the services repays the expense of this situation. Those that jump the chain of healthcare can pay more, especially if they come to the ER with the flu after licking every laptop screen and keyboard at Best Buy during a pandemic and they are healthy, fit, and young. Those people should be charged the most since they are occupying potential room for a stroke patient. ... Same with if you need a million Intel Core i17 billion-core processors, you would try to work out an arrangement with Intel themselves instead of trying to procure them from Best Buy.

With urgent care, these are typically non-serious or serious-but-doctor-is-busy situations such as experiencing appendicitis (if caught early, you can get to an ER or hospital whereas if caught late, you still can make the trip to an ER or hospital for surgery and in-ward treatment). A rate is charged to either the person or the insurance, they have limited ability to image (though you could use a stethoscope to listen or hands to search for abnormal symptoms), and they can listen to symptoms and recommend either immediate treatment or over-the-counter proscriptions until you can talk to a doctor's office. Given that all kinds of people come through urgent care for varying needs, while helping to assist the urgent needs be dealt with in the ER or hospital, a visit fee and corresponding charges for in-ward treatment can be given. Broken legs can be seen here. ... Same with using Best Buy to determine you need a Nintendo Switch to play the latest Pokemon game, talk about where you can find a Gameboy for an old Pokemon game, or offer you a shredder if you have tons of Pokemon fanart you drew that you are embarrassed to let be seen by the world in the landfill.

And, lastly, there is the doctor's office. If you have already suffered, and survived, an urgent need then they can keep tabs on you and ensure you are fine. If you broke a leg, you could make an appointment and wait to see them in two weeks to a month (though they may give you priority). Or, perhaps, you are unhealthy and the doctor can recommend you go to a gym to deal with symptoms such as constipation because you do not exercise enough, a dietitian to resolve your poor nutrition habits, a dentist if perhaps your wisdom teeth are giving you issues due to having a small jaw, or even mental health, a psychologist, a shrink, or treatment programs if you have chronic issues that, while they can resolve, are better treated by outside facilities which specialize in your chronic need. A doctor can also refer you to clinical trials if you are interested in possible quackery, or recommend you to stay away from particular known quackery in contemporary times. ... This would be essentially you knowing you need something and buying it from Wal-Mart, your local stores, or from an online service like Amazon. You can plan, research, and discuss with friends, family, and strangers about the best way to do something common.

And, of course, there are the quacks. This would be perpetual motion machines, fraud schemes, phishing, snake oil, buying the wrong parts to a computer which do not go together, and all kinds of other uneducated, unknown, and malicious stuff. ... Misinformation only comes from official sources, like the government.

Anyways, I hope this has helped show where regulation needs to go as well as where we need to add regulation.

Kindest,
Brian