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CheetahMan1 is an American wikipedian, known for rather high sense of humor, interest in politics and statistics, and use of technical language. He is also known for strict formatting procedures. He refers to himself in the third person almost exclusively. He likes cheese. He considers himself a hardcore liberal when it comes to social issues and a libertarian-leaning centrist on all issues. He loves all forms of comedy, but mostly improvisational, satirical, observational, and surreal. He is in the development of a film which is known by its working title "Cheetah Man."
[edit] Opinions
As seen in the Right to Par-Par Party or Ripy Platform.
- The Ripy's Fire Doctrine:
- Flexible
- Innovated
- Rational
- Emancipating
- More Efficient Employment Procedures. The Ripies oppose strict quotas of affirmative action in education, employment, health care, or social welfare environments. We believe in innovating the affirmative action process so that it not only helps equally qualified minorities, but also help those who have a lower income in order to eliminate poverty.
- Fairer Campaigns. We believe the McCain-Feingold Bill is insufficient in making political campaigns fairer. We believe campaigns should be funded in the most part by the public at a convenient price of $5 per taxpayer. We aim to close the 527 loophole by requiring these organizations to register as PACs. We believe plutocracy has given politics a bad name, and it has for the most. Small donors cannot make clear what they want the government to do for them. We support the toning down of campaign donations, where we could save 80% to 99.9% in campaign donations. This way, it will be easier for politicians to meet with constituents and find out what the government can do for their constituents.
- Election Reform. The Ripies generally believe that to prevent another Florida controversy from occuring, major innovation in election procedures must be implemented. The Ripies believes the federal government should encourage the states to implement computer voting machines, BUT these machines also cast paper votes, allowing for a back-up vote counting procedure. To ensure that the machine properly tabulated the votes, the State Electoral Board shall take measures to select a percent error and take account of the people who sign in the vote, which will act as the accepted value. We are in favor of raising Congressional membership from 435 to 500.
- Gerrymandering Reform. Gerrymandering is a tough issue to tackle. Gerrymandering can be inherent. It is unconstitutional for a congressional district not to be contiguous. The majority party in state legislatures will often make narrow connections between two bigger areas to get around this. To challenge gerrymanders, we hope to maximize compactness, subject to other constraints such as geographic features and the boundaries of local governments. This cannot be accomplished by a vote in state legislatures, where the majority party could lose control by approving this. A statewide or nationwide referendum could be made to control gerrymandering, making campaigns more competitive, and allowing the voters to have more power.
- Better Education for Our Future. The Ripies will establish a federal school voucher qualification program. With this program low-income students with little bad history behind them will be foremost in line to receive vouchers. Those not qualified include high-income students and those suspended or expelled from school. This program will be further broken down to the state level, thereby maintaining states’ semi-autonomous value.
Voucher Qual Stations will be built across the nation in districts whose formations are based on statistics including but not limited to graduation rate, income, and employment figures.
- Better Tax System. We have found that the wealthy have not been reinvesting what they saved. In resolution, the Ripies propose the rolling back of tax cuts for Americans with an annual salary of $100,000 or greater. We propose tax relief for the people who need it – families in the middle-to-lower class tax bracket. We propose to curtail outsourcing by allotting tax incentives for small businesses that operate within our borders. We are aware that a flat tax would be easier for Americans to assess, but it robs the poor and gives the rich an unfair advantage. We support luxury taxes, because income should be based on merit, not on what people inherit. - (see Warren Buffett)
- Better Gun Safety. We are in favor of banning certain assault weapons (such as ones composed of plastic material) and require registration/background checks.
- Better Health Care. The Ripies has found that one in seven Americans, 80% of whom are from working families, lack health insurance and consequently suffer unnecessary illness and premature death. In resolution, the Ripies is in favor of universal health care, whether public or private.
- Better Social Security. Social Security is running out of money. To combat this, we propose that we have a mixed system of pensions for retired workers, private AND public.
- Transportation, Energy, and the Environment. We believe that in order to have a good economy, we must have a good environment that these affairs can be executed. Air pollution is becoming exceedingly troubling. The Ripies propose the introduction of more hydrogen filling stations in the United States, which have already appeared in Germany, Iceland, California, and Dearborn, Michigan. If this hydrogen vehicle cannot be developed soon enough, we believe the following procedures should be implemented: Focus on more renewable energy (e.g. solar energy, wind power, hydroelectric power, biological processes, and geothermal heat flows).
- Taxation WITH Representation for Washington, D.C. We intend to grant Washington, D.C. full representation in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, independent of any other state. To compromise, we approve of adding one Representative to Utah, temporarily raising the membership to 437, or permanently.
- Our Outreach to our Constituents. We will meet with common people in the biggest cities in America (via train), suburban areas (via minivan) and rural areas (via pickup trucks). We will meet citizens at their doorstep to show we will step out of our way to meet with people. Our party crusaders will give out voting registration forms for those who are not registered voters.
