Introducing the Bull-Moose Party, the first American political party to make sense. We can truly say we are one of the first political parties to sponsor both liberals and conservatives in our ranks. We are the modern-day revival of Teddy Roosevelt's Bull-Moose party of the election of 1912.
A quick history lesson into the election of 1912: After Roosevelt declined running for office in 1908, Taft was elected and inaugurated. His presidency did little to improve American lives and was ridled with scandal (The Pinchot Affair). Roosevelt was outraged and decided to run for office in 1912 on a third-party ticket. The Bull Moose platform called for the direct election of senators; women's suffrage; monopoly-control laws; minimum-wage and child-labor legislation; tariff reform; and the initiative, recall, and referendum at the federal level. In the election, he pulled more electoral votes than Taft did, but Wilson took all due to the split number of Republican votes.
Notice how all of the things the Bull-Moose party wanted were eventually granted. Direct Election of Senators came about through the 17th Amendment, Women's Suffrage with the 19th. Monopolies were controlled with the Anti-Sherman Act and Anti-Clayton Acts. Minimum wage and child-labor legislation soon came, along with tariff reform, initiative, recall and referendum. However, the Bull-Moose party was soon dissolved when Roosevelt was unable to accomplish anything and he rejoined the Republican Party.
BULL-MOOSE ECONOMIC POLICY
Today is just as troubling as the early 1900's were. We can see the formation of huge monopolies such as Microsoft grow and grow. Competition must be restored. Furthermore, in order to fund federal programs, taxation must occur. The Revived Bull-Moose Party's stance on economic values is as follows:
1) The Federal Government should do all in its power to promote competition and foster capitalism in this nation and abroad
2) Taxation is the inevitable result of government and must occur to make the government effective
3) The Federal Government should do all in its power to avoid levying unnecessary taxes to do unnecessary things, however, taxes for education, defense, and other socially benefitting programs should be encouraged with a certain percentile accounting for the amount of taxes that certain residents must pay. This results in the brunt of the responsibility of the funding of the federal government on those who can afford it and not those who cannot. Our ideals are not meant to be in any form of Socialism, but they are meant to further relieve the poor of government taxation by taking a samll portion of what the wealthy have earned to fund the programs that would improve society as a whole.
4) Government must, however, intervene upon the certain commercial ventures that would harm American Citizens. Prohibition is not a policy of the Bull-Moose Party. The Bull-Moose Party supports the legalization and government control of drugs. With making drugs illegal, the government makes those afflicted with the disease of addicition officially criminals. The Bull-Moose supports the special case of making it legal to buy these drugs, but exercising control over the market and production, so as to see the dangerous impurities eliminated and making them much safter for addicts. Further, the government will heavily tax these products so as to fund centers to help those addicted to free themselves from that bondage. Furthermore, the Bull-Moose Party would have the government regulate where and when drugs could be used and continue to outlaw drugs to heavy to be controlled and helped (such as the incidence of cocaine, crack and so forth). The Drug Problem is inherently crimes of those who make it, not those who take it.
5) On the policy of Social Security, the Bull-Moose party plans to have chief mathematicians to look at the problem. If the problem is unnsolvable and the program is impossible to continue, the Bull-Moose party supports the idea of using government spending to refund all of those who have paid into the program and further paying the Social Security for those who have already or are just about to retire. We plan to have mathematicians decide where that line will be. With those who recieve refunds, those refunds will go to external Stock Market operating retirement fund businesses to invest into the market and recieve their share of their retirement.
BULL MOOSE MORAL AND SOCIAL IDEAS
The Bull-Moose party supports several peices of legislation to make society better. For instance, we profess to follow a Progressive style of government, except in the event of several peices of ideology such as Prohibition and nativist and anti-Catholic sentiments. We believe that all should be treated with equality and respect in a land of freedom. Bull-Moose party ideas of this kind show:
1) The Bull-Moose party supports the passage of the ERA, the Equal Rights Amendment. While in practice in some parts of the country, the passage of this amendment would bring equal rights to women of all areas in the country. This would make all sorts of discrimination illegal in the workplace, unless specific jobs were needed for a particular gender (such as a high school women's sports team needs a female coach simply to avoid awkward and inappropriate situations).
2) The Bull-Moose party is actively Pro-Life. We profess that all forms of life are still life and that abortion is the equivalent of murder. We believe that birth control is acceptable, but one should use this as soon as possible after relations and that failure to do so within at least one month of conception would limit a female's legal right to choose against the pregnancy. We support active education about relations and support the stance of Abstinence until Marriage, as it would solve many problems plaguing society today. We recognize that no legislation can be put so as to limit this before marraige, but we actively support the movement and will even allow birth control but not abortion. There are, however, certain circumstances in which abortion is unavoidable. If the female was raped or the pregnancy is particularly dangerous to the life of the female, then we support her to choose as she so desires. In summary, we do not support abortion as the result of one females capricious whim to cancel an accidental pregnancy.
3) The Bull-Moose party actively supports conservation and animal rights as well. We support the right of all living things to live, great and small. We realize that legislation cannot be passed to prosecute those who kill certain animals, however, we plan to buff up conservation by funding the United States Forestry further to protect public lands and the nation's beauty. We support further prosecution for those who injure endangered, threatened or nearly extinct organisms on the planet. In short, although injury to animals is unavoidable in this world, we support the limiting of this injury to a minimum by use of the Forestry division and the EPA.4) The Bull-Moose party supports limited freedoms in prisons. Prisons have become a vacation to criminals where they can do as they please. While criminals should not lose their rights to the freedoms of speech, expression and the pursuit of happiness, they should not be placed into luxurious prisons. Prisons should be maintained at federal standards, but luxuries such as cable TV and the internet should not be permitted.
5) The Bull-Moose party proposes to acknowledge itself as having Conservative ideals not in order to be formed in any form of Fascism, in overbearance but rather to improve the quality of society by providing a good moral program to instill benevolent virtues in Americans and reform society to become as pure as it had been in the earlier parts of the nation's history.
6) The Bull-Moose Party opposes the cloning of humans, not due to some religious convictions that are common among Americans but rather in concern for the cloned. Cloning is an unorthodox form of birth, and even though we believe those cloned are just like the rest of us, they would be considered different and discriminated against eventually. Furthermore, cloning provides almost anyone to be able to have a child, and this supports the break-up of the nuclear family, which studies have shown, provides a higher crime rate and unhappiness for all those involved. For this same reason, we do not support same sex marriages or any other sort of perversion that would lead to the breakup of the family. Divorces cannot be stopped but we hope to provide legislation that will make young people sure that those who they marry will be those they will be content staying with for the rest of their lives.
BULL MOOSE FOREIGN POLICY
1) The Bull-Moose party actively supports the current foregin policy of the United States. While a friendly hand should be outstretched to the democratic nations of the world in which people enjoy the freedoms that we enjoy, those dictatorial and totalitarian regimes should be reprimanded. Furthermore, terrorist organizations shall not be permitted to exist. We do not support policies such as Roosevelt's policing of Latin America to subjugate them. We would actively support the sending of relief to support foundling democratic nations and fight for the freedoms of people everywhere.
The Bull-Moose Party is to be linked to the ideas of the co-founders, Roy Long and Eric Panter, to provide the United States with further power but more importantly a peacerful, moral, and progressive society that continues to benefit the nation. As will be needed, Amendments will be added to the Party's Constitution to add policies as needs be.
