Nicholas Ruiz III
for U.S. Congress 2012
FL District 7
For the new wave of American progress.
The Show Must Go On
by Nicholas Ruiz III

















Everything is a matter of perspective.

In orbit, the experience of the Sun is such that it rises and sets every
ninety minutes. On Earth, the Sun rises and sets once per day, with
some Arctic and Antarctic exceptions. And deep within the ocean,
there are regions where sunlight rarely goes, that is referred to as
the twilight zone. Beyond that ocean depth, sunlight never reaches.
Some call that dark part of the ocean, quite colorfully - the abyss.

Our politics are the same. I’d say now, America is somewhere
between the twilight zone and the abyss.

But of course, it’s relative.

I doubt most of the I-495 Beltway bunch that services American
federal policy, and most of their exceptionally ‘not’ gifted, but rather
intellectually and emotionally bankrupt advisors and acquaintances
feel the cold dark circumstances of the political and sociocultural
abyss they have fostered. No, most signs indicate they’re feeling fat,
happy and warm - 1920s style. On the other hand, many Americans
are underwater, and deeply so. And sinking further everyday. The
many who would define themselves as middle class, the working
poor and the extremely destitute don’t get tickets to the state
dinners and country club. They generally don’t golf and rarely, if
ever, take what might be understood as a ‘vacation.’ This is a large
part of the America that the current political class has created, and
by every measure, it is the status quo they seek to sustain.

I am a political candidate because I believe that America is in need of
a new vision.

My vision is comprehensive and it involves more than just ending
the wars, though that is a part of it, and we should do that. It’s more
than a short term fix to add some more, grossly inadequate, low
wage, low benefit jobs to the community that really won’t lift the
country up at all, but rather is designed to provide a facelift for the
many sagging political candidacies in need of such cosmetic work.
We know that their plan is barely makeup on the fact that their
current proposals serve to sustain a radically suppressed, beaten
down, and increasingly unstable society.

There are broader systemic problems in America that will have to be
addressed in a way that we have never addressed our country’s
problems before. Why? Because we are different now. Times are
different. People are different. Globalization ensures that humanity
will never be the same. It used to be that one full time job could
support a family. Then two full time jobs were needed to support a
family. Now two jobs is quite often, still not enough. How long until
before it takes three and four jobs to sustain a family?

How much oppression remains to be realized before we face the
evidence that America has been abandoned by her former
stewards, through deaths, attrition, and corruption -  and that the full
task of American health and stewardship now falls upon us, a new
generation, to find the strength to carry her on? I need your help to
do it.

We have to trade – but we have to improve our wage and benefit
structure, because for many Americans it is decrepit. We will have to
build and redefine what we understand as work and compensation
for the better. All work is worthy. All work deserves a dignified wage
and benefit reward. Retirement should be allowable earlier, with a
realistic benefit that provides for a reasonable standard of living.
And we should encourage the world to do the same through our
international policy and trade agreements.

There are so many worthy projects dying on the vine – like the
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), that will further enable us,
as has the Hubble project, to elucidate and discover the origins of
the universe, stars and planets. But for a few billion dollars we balk
at their continuation. Where is our sense of wonder? Dulled by our
relentless and barbaric war-mongering, and the trillions of dollars
we have spent to destroy people, knowledge and cultures under the
auspices of some barely nameable defense?

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should be educating
our children, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Institutes of Health
(NIH), and more. These sorts of federal agencies should be part of
any new jobs agenda that seeks to educate our people from
kindergarten through college, and our society as a whole, on all the
brilliance and intricacies of life and community in our country and
on this planet. Cultural, environmental and science centers could be
built and staffed for this purpose. The sociocultural rewards would
be radiant, like sunlight on America. You want brilliant children with
vision, compassion, intellectual and emotional aptitude to sustain a
healthy community and society? This is how we do it. This how you
conceive a sustainable future for our people.

You want bullies, and a culture of dysfunctional greed, debilitating
abuse and self-centered aggression directed at one another, other
countries and the planet as a whole – where he who dies with most
toys wins? Then we continue with outdated models not fit for a
prehistoric society, with standardized, industrial factory-style
testing where the rewards are anathema to a sustainable America,
or anything at all that we could feel comfortable celebrating as
champions of civilization. And America prides herself as just that,
no? We are the champions? Not like this. We are failing ourselves
and our global neighbors with our lead.

We have the moral obligation to provide universal healthcare
services for our society, but our healthcare system remains a profit
trough for a tiny fraction of healthcare corporations that will not let
go willingly. They want to continue to gouge us – and most of our
politicians are willing to let them. Hence our silly healthcare reform
package, that is full of holes and corporate satisfaction. These
corporations should be tasked to pay the people back, by building
clinics and health centers that function to serve healthcare as a
universal access service. If they want to continue to participate in
the healthcare of Americans, then they must be taught to do so on a
non-profit basis, like the police department and fire department.

America must earn her freedom, her right to carry on, her place in
the world, again and again; her privilege to lead and her privilege to
listen when she is wrong.…it is never a birthright.

Help me to become a U.S. Representative in Congress so we can
realize this vision. It matters not where your district lies, by helping
me get elected, you are helping everyone on a national scale
because I will advocate for these policies across the country.

The show must go on.




























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