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Other than in the past on a professional basis, when he wrote highly technical articles about IBM's AS/400 computer system, Brian Kelly receives no compensation for his work. Additionally, Kelly has not taken any donations or contributions other than for his US Senate Campaign of 2012. Mr. Kelly has recetly canceled his write-in campaign for the US Senate, and instead he  endorses Tom Smith for US Senator from Pennsylvania v. Robert P. Casey Jr.  If you would like to donate to the closed campaign to help defray costs, feel free to go to www.kellyforussenate.com and click the DONATE button. Your donations are most appreciated.

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In the thirteen original RRR points that we discussed in Part I of this op-ed, almost all of the RRR principles are touched by Romney’s points. There are a few points in the 59 point plan that are out of synch with the precepts of RRR. I put this out not to criticize my presidential hopeful, but in the hope that conservatives can get more of what we want if we are able to ask for it and be heard. There still is some time before the election for a reevaluation and a full adoption of the original RRR. Those areas in which the Romney plan has differences with the RRR plan, and in which they could use some help include the following:

(2) Reduce Immigration

(6) Reindustrialize America

(7) Reduce Offshoring

(8) Raise Tariffs

These four notions are not fully embraced in the Romney 59-point plan. In fact, in some specific RRR factors, a lot of work is needed to obtain full synchronization with the Romney plan. I would like to see this work get done. If the Mitt Romney that took on all of the Republicans in the Primary is the same Romney who gets elected President, then I don’t think I have a problem with Mr. Romney on immigration but do want him to know that Americans are not interested in legal or illegal immigrants taking American jobs. I am sure that when presented with the reality of how Americans are being undermined by their government, the Romney team will side with Americans. However, based on the rhetoric so far, I am not sure where the Romney team stands on that one.

Items 6, 7, and 8 have a lot to do with a basic philosophy on trade, and an understanding that even before corporations became people, people were people. America’s people need to be represented officially by our legislators in a preferential role compared to our more powerful counterparts in corporations.

Therefore, the original RRR plan looks to a new mercantilism to favor the people over corporations while America is being reindustrialized. To bring industrialization back to America in a meaningful way that benefits citizens, while also benefitting corporations, we must reduce offshoring, and we must raise tariffs—at least on those American companies that have taken American jobs offshore.

An area in which I would like Governor Romney and President Obama to explain their positions is free trade. Both Obama and Romney are purported to be strong advocates of free trade. Free trade is anathema to Americans being free and having high paying jobs. Yet, most politicians, Democrat and Republican are in love with free trade and they seem to truly believe that free trade is good for America. They also agree that it creates major job losses in the United States, so how I would ask, “How is that good for Americans?” Even a cursory examination proves that free trade is not good for Americans, nor is it good for America. So, why do major politicians such as Barack Obama and Republicans such as Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan swear America away for the sake of free trade?

Ian Fletcher offers us a great perspective on the evils of free trade in his piece titled: “The Conservative Case Against Free Trade; Free Trade Doesn’t Work.” “…But trade, and free trade are not the same thing. Remember that when somebody tries to tell you how wonderful free trade is: they’re probably just giving arguments in favor of trade. Nobody on the protectionist side is suggesting we become North Korea, but there are very serious reasons why free trade is not sound economics, and the longer America clings to the free-trade delusion, the higher the price we will pay. Indeed, abandoning it is almost certainly a necessary, if not sufficient, condition for revitalizing our economy.”

It is not that free trade is all bad. It is just not good for America and Americans. The RRR plan is about revitalizing the economy by reducing offshoring and creating more jobs on American soil; by raising tariffs so as not to reward American companies for moving factories and operations offshore; and to simply reindustrialize America for all of our collective benefit. Free trade happens to work only for large businesses that will do anything to make a profit. If I were a politician advocating free trade, quite frankly I would be embarrassed. It is actually anti-American in what it does to bread-winners and families. I can understand Obama being an advocate, as he is for everything I am against and he is against everything that I am for. I sure do hope that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan change their minds and become more mercantilist, a philosophy in which the United States and its people can benefit from trade.

As a final thought on free trade, when Barack Obama is really for something as he is with free trade, it disturbs me to see conservatives, such as Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan following his lead. I would love to hear the Presidential team strike out and tell me that I have misread their positions. Free trade works only for the country that gains the markets and gains the jobs. It does not work for US.

Now that we have a new set of Rs (Romney, Ryan, and Reform) to put in front of most of the original R’s in the RRR plan, and we have the few differences of thought already on the table, it is time to launch the Romney, Ryan, and Reform plan for America and Americans First. Let’s talk about why a plan dubbed RRR can help Romney and Ryan take over the executive branch of the government in November. All conservatives at least at this point think this would be an excellent outcome for November.

Many who read my columns know that I am a conservative Democrat, and so, I have gotten accustomed to saying things my party does not like. Quite frankly, I don’t like what my party says most of the time. Unemployment is now 8.3% and the deficit is $1.5 Trillion each year. Progressive Democrats did this to the rest of US! They must be replaced. The RRR can be used as an effective marketing tool to help assure new leadership and It can be an effective implementation tool to make sure the candidates execute the plan. No good changes will occur unless new faces with conservative ideas are brought in to help us all get the job done.

One thing, to which all will agree, RRR is as easy to remember as both pie and 999. From my columns, you may know that in 2011, I analyzed what needed to be done to turn America around from the devastation caused by the current administration. From this analysis, I built RRR as my campaign theme for the US Senate. As an aside, any conservative candidate who wants to use any material on my web site, or the handout or the RRR book, adopting all or part of the RRR plan has my full permission. America is worth the best solutions that we can offer.

George Burns, one of America’s all time best comedians died in 1996 at 100 years of age. He was a shot way from playing the London Palladium, as he had predicted for many years before his 100th birthday. Like you and I, Burns was always concerned about the best people running the US government. Burns once quipped: “Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.” RRR is not just for barber and cabbie chatter and economic recovery, it is for long-term success.

When the RRR plan is adopted by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, Americans will know that this team is 100% pro-American and that they mean business.

A key part of RRR is its focus on mercantilism. This moves the US from pure capitalism to a modified capitalist / mercantilist economy. Elitists do not like mercantilism. They like free trade. Maybe they are not so smart or maybe they do not care about regular people. Capitalism is a core ingredient of RRR mercantilism. RRR mercantilism is designed to help the home country. The home country in our case is the United States of America. The US needs the big bounce that RRR mercantilism can provide. Just announcing it as the plan will help US jump-start the economy.

The United States still controls the world currency, though China has some markers on how long that bet will last. Conservatives and others that are paying attention know our nation is declining. Free trade & one-sided trade agreements are a major part of our problems. Even my dog is smart enough to notice that if we replaced America’s inept trade negotiators with a small pebble, a tsetse fly, a piece of guano, and an empty beer bottle, we would win more trade negotiations and the country would fare better overall. Other countries are eager to take our place as the world leader, and free trade gives them a license to do just that. Why argue for something your foes will give you for nothing?

The RRR plan is Americans first! It stops others at the gate. It’s good for the economy. It is good for the people. It is good for jobs. And, for those corporations ready to sign up to be American-centric, it is also good for corporations. It is a solution balm that offers a gutsy, unique, real, and workable path to get America back on its feet and get Americans back to work. There is nothing like it anywhere else. All we need is the guts to do it

RRR is not warmed over 999 from Herman Cain, though his notion was quite innovative. Many still don’t know what all of Cain’s 9’s stand for. The idea has a great ring to it – 999. Yet, it was only about tax restructuring. For all political candidates, 999 and RRR have two very important similarities; they are both very catchy phrases, And, when Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan or any congressional candidate adopts either of these—999 or RRR, they will gain lots of public attention overnight if not sooner without spending any campaign cash.

Look how popular Cain became when he declared 999 was the cure for everything from constipation to toothaches to athlete’s feet. Well, maybe not athlete’s feet! My point is that hardly anybody cared about what is in 999. It sounded good and it was unforgettable. Even now that it is not on anybody’s front burner, we all still remember the phrase and we remember Herman Cain because of it. As well structured as his list of factors may be, Mitt Romney’s 59 points cannot be recited by one American who I know. I bet Governor Romney would struggle himself in a 59-point recital. Romney and Ryan need to adopt the original RRR plan and add some pizzazz to the campaign.

RRR is a similarly contagious notion as 999 built within a similarly contagious marketing phrase. It is designed to make any candidate successful while America becomes even more successful.

For every major political campaign, a great slogan is important for success. Remember these– I like Ike. Are you better off than you were four years ago? It’s the economy, stupid– Compassionate conservativism, And of course there are short ones, which live longer and perhaps never die—9-9-9, & now there is R-R-R.

Admittedly, sound ideas are more important than slogans. Adopting RRR gives a candidate a great slogan, sound ideas, and a perfect sound bite to sell ideas. The label RRR, however, is as important as the plan. People will remember the label & associate it with whoever adopts it. A candidate that adopts RRR will be known by the people forever—and I make this point again—a very effective and positive public relations job gets done without spending campaign cash.

RRR is not really new. It is a catch-all composite phrase for the solid principles that made our country successful and kept it successful. RRR mercantilism helped America overtake England as the greatest industrial power the word has ever known. England lost 50% of its economy moving from mercantilism to free-trade. Yet, many of our leaders think free trade is the way to go. And, with their thinking, so go American jobs!

By 1944, the English pound officially lost its role as the reserve world currency. The US dollar took its place. The US still represents ¼ of the world market. And, we control the currency? For now, everybody wants to do business with US. Free trade is killing the US economy! The progressive President Wilson moved US away from mercantilism 100 years ago when he brought in the personal income tax. I bet there are not too many conservative fans of the personal income tax. In the days of mercantilism of old, a personal income tax was not needed, and it may not be needed today.

It has taken 100 years for us to feel the full impact of free trade. And, it does not feel good. RRR mercantilism puts the interests of the people of the US—the home country, ahead of the interests of strangers from other countries. It is specifically America first. The details of RRR mercantilism provide a huge carrot to encourage businesses to be good American “citizens.” It also has a big stick to discourage American businesses from playing against the home country.

What real American is happy that we have given up over 20,000,000 manufacturing jobs to foreign countries? RRR mercantilism encourages companies to come home. If businesses choose not to come home to America, it will cost them, and it should cost them.

Analysts predict that over the next decade or two, our not-so-loyal corporations will offshore 40 million more American jobs. The jobs we lose will be the best white collar jobs that exist today—engineering jobs, accounting jobs, even radiologist’s jobs and yes, doctors—even surgeons. You won’t believe the projections. Is it any wonder why our children, the hope of America, are graduating from great Universities only to come home with a huge debt and no job. Thank the free-trade crowd and the open borders crowd for that. Let’s hope we get fair trade from Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and let’s hope we stop granting over six million visas a year, many of which are designed by Congress to take American jobs. Let’s hope that we have a Romney, Ryan, and Reform RRR plan that is real enough to make America whole again.

Technology enables offshoring. When I taught Health Information Technology (HIT) at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA just a few years back, I made sure that as a teacher, I kept up to date on the leading edge of technology. For HIT, as an example, I updated my skills to know how remote controlled robots could perform telesurgery. Some of you may already know that using robotics, surgeons in NY today can operate on patients in Los Angeles. In ten years, you may find a surgeon in Shanghai operating on a patient in Pennsylvania.

In this surgery, no American doctor may be involved. Technology may be great but the point is that it can be used to help hospitals of the future save dollars by offshoring surgeries to other countries’ surgeons and robots. Perhaps if the current President is reelected, the operation would be paid for by Obamacare. That would explain a lot. Do you think our current government has the best interests of the American people at heart? I mean John Q. Public, not elitists. Can you give me one reason why, in say ten years, our government would want a surgeon in Shanghai to be operating on a patient in the US?

Well, one reason might be that the Shanghai Surgeon would more than likely be the lowest cost provider. I sure hope it does not come to that and it would not if free trade and the job losses it creates stopped being the official US modus operandi. Those who do not think government has the best interests of the people at heart would have their worst fears realized in the Shanghai scenario. It helps to remember that in 2010, Obama, through Obamacare, authorized the theft of over $700 Billion from Medicare. In other words, Seniors who have contributed to Medicare will be giving over $700 Billion from an almost bankrupt Medicare to those who have not paid taxes to Medicare. Seniors did not give Obama permission to do that but he claims they did when they elected him? Will Seniors give Obama the chance to take more from Medicare by electing him again ? Do you trust this government? More and more Americans are finding that even our best jobs can be offshored in an anything goes free trade society. It is happening all around us and President Obama is a strong advocate of free trade. “Free trade doesn’t work.”

Has anybody asked how we can get back all the jobs that were exported in the last 30 years? The answer is that we must give businesses from across the world a major incentive to set up shop in America. The RRR plan does just that. If we want to re-industrialize America, we must also protect our markets and support our domestic industries. It is that simple. By the way, China practices mercantilism. That’s why our free traders lose everyday to China. Only the best can compete in China.

As the US weakens, economists predict that the Chinese yuan, aka renminbi will overtake the dollar in the next five years as the world’s reserve currency. The world is beginning to slot the USA and some of our best friends as has-been countries.

A few months ago, for example, former French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, fired a big shot at the failing Brits. He said Britain was a country with ‘no industry.’ When will he say that of US? He is gone but his words linger.

Strong countries today use mercantilism, not free trade.

When you fly, they tell you in the event of cabin decompression, to put your mask on first so you can save your children. The American economy right now is in decompression mode. Average wages have gone down every year since 2000. The United States cannot be helping other countries of the world get stronger while we grow weaker. It is a death strategy.

We have had our oxygen masks yanked from our faces by poor trade policies and poor politicians. It is now time for Americans to put our masks back on so we can recover and grow! When we don’t need the masks anymore, let’s have a great big party. Maybe we can serve some TEA.

We can’t do it alone as citizens. We need a truly people-oriented representative Congress to help us get that job done. And, we need a great President and a great Vice President. From my vantage point, RRR mercantilism is the oxygen mask for both survival and great success. We need to convince the Congress, Mitt Romney, and Paul Ryan that RRR can save America! With the ring it will bring when it is announced, it will be remembered and it will help guide Romney and Ryan to a well anticipated victory in November. Romney, Ryan and Reform as in RRR is the new RRR plan for America and Americans—First!.

Amen!

Brian Kelly is a business owner and former assistant professor at Marywood University; he and his wife live in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Kelly is running for Senate in his state and believes limited government brings liberty and freedom.

 

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Brian Kelly is a business owner and former assistant professor at Marywood University; he and his wife, Pat live in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Kelly ran for COngress and for the US Senate in his state and he believes limited government brings liberty and freedom. Brian's 48th book is titled, Saving America, The How-To Book. It is available at www.checkoutking.com and www.itjungle.com.

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