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    REBELLION; a Common Sense Application to America
    REBELLION; a Common Sense Application to America
    REBELLION; a Common Sense Application to America
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    REBELLION; a Common Sense Application to America

    By Leland Shanle

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    The United States of America is in deep trouble; the two party system that our founding fathers warned against is destroying the country. The answer as always lies within the Greatest Experiment, the Constitution of the United States of America. Solutions presented simply and to the point by a former fighter pilot.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeland Shanle
    Release dateMay 15, 2011
    ISBN9780983710714
    REBELLION; a Common Sense Application to America
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    Leland Shanle

    Leland C Shanle Jr; Lieutenant Commander, USN (Ret). An accomplished writer in both fiction and non-fiction; Leland has also written screenplays for major motion pictures as well as television. He is a member of The Society of Authors in the United Kingdom and the Military Writers Association in the United States. Historical fiction continues to be his passion and he pursues it further with, Vengeance at Midway and Guadalcanal, his latest novel set in WWII. Project 7Alpha, his first novel, was published in 2008. End Game in the Pacific, his next, is scheduled for release in early 2012. And he is hard at work finishing his fourth; A Race With Infamy. Leland has also been an aviation/military technical adviser on 5 major motion pictures (Pearl Harbor, Behind Enemy Lines, xXx, The Day After Tomorrow and Stealth) and a television series pilot (not yet announced). His production company, Broken Wing LLC, is currently working on an intense documentary for 3 major television sponsors. A rare author that has actually lived the passion he writes about; Leland is a retired Naval Aviator and continues to fly with American Airlines and as an active Test Pilot. He also flies for fun with his kids, in his 1967 Beech-Craft Musketeer. Leland received his Masters from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and also graduated from the Naval War College. Studying and writing about historical battles laid the foundation for his novels. He flew 16 different naval aircraft in 10 squadrons; including the F-4 Phantom II, EA-6B Prowler and TA-4J Skyhawk. Attached to CAG (Air Wing) 5, 11 and 1 He cruised on the USS Midway, America and Lincoln. Leland flew 80 missions over the war torn skies of Bosnia, Somalia, and Iraq. An Airline Transport Pilot and Certified Flight Instructor; he has flown numerous civilian types from the Cessna 150 to the Boeing 767-300. Currently he is rated in 767, 757, 727, MD-80 and Sabreliner series aircraft. Leland got into the flight test world in 1995 when he transferred to VX-30, Naval Weapons Test Center Point Mugu. He flew as a Project Officer on various test programs and was the Squadron Operations Officer. Leland also attended the Project Officer/Engineers and the Out of Control Flight (spin school) courses at National Test Pilot School. In 1998 he was inducted as a Full Member in the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP). Closing out his Naval Aviation career in 1998 with 600 carrier landings (200 night) on 11 different carriers; Leland, Laura and their 4 kids moved back to St. Louis. Once settled in at American Airlines, he also concentrated on his writing. Leland was born and raised in St. Louis Missouri. He attended Chaminade College Prep Class of 1977. After High School he joined Naval ROTC at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Upon graduation in December of 1981, he was commissioned an Ensign in the United States Navy. A month later he married Laura L Cantrell and they set out on their Navy adventure together.

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      REBELLION; a Common Sense Application to America - Leland Shanle

      REBELLION

      A Common Sense Application to America

      By

      Lieutenant Commander Leland C Shanle Jr.

      United States Navy (Ret.)

      Smashwords Edition Copyright © 2011 by Leland C. Shanle, Jr.

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      It is too late for a voter revolution in the United States of America; what is needed is a full-scale voter rebellion. Both political parties have abandoned the middle class; by catering to Wall Street and special interest groups. Democrats champion the poor as their primary special interest group and the Republicans corporations. The middle class; what do we get? We get the bill.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

      Chapter 2: Turning Up The Heat

      Chapter 3: Now What?

      The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

      The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription

      The Bill of Rights: A Transcription

      Chapter 1: TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

      They have fixed the game through federal regulation that virtually guarantees no third party can rise up, let alone succeed. Tea Party activists have recognized this tactic and are trying to beat them at their own game, by taking over the Republican Party. It is time for a movement in the Democratic Party as well. Blue Dog Democrats were an attempt to push back against the socialist wing of the Democratic Party. Thus far the Blue Dogs have failed; and the jury is still out on the Tea Party.

      The United States of America’s credit rating has been downgraded; the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has declared the Chinese Economy will surpass the USA’s by 2016. Five years until the end of America’s dominance in the world economy. How did we get here? Rather than regurgitate an endless litany of economic tables, charts and data; let’s keep it simple. Both political parties spent us into oblivion and sent our best jobs overseas. Period; end of story.

      That’s it in a nutshell; and it did not happen overnight. It took forty years to get us here and we are firmly here; here is an economic Armageddon. How do you boil a frog? By turning up the heat very slowly; the heat increase was initiated in the early sixties. Both political parties raising it, systemically, for their special interest groups and of course Wall Street.

      Let’s take an anecdotal look at America before the heat was applied and after. I will use my own extended family as an example. It is an easy comparative because after retiring from the Navy my wife and I moved back to the same suburb we both grew up in. My wife’s sisters both live in the area as well. It is quite obvious to me now that our parent’s generation was the last to live what is commonly called the American Dream.

      My family was white collar, my wife’s blue. Both lived in nice neighborhoods in Webster Groves, Missouri, a quaint 150 year old suburb of Saint Louis. My parents moved to Saint Louis when my father was transferred here with Sears Roebuck and Company. He had served as an Officer in the Army after graduating John Carol University. He started at the bottom with Sears as a shoe salesman. His father had spent his entire working life at Sears, after leaving the family farm in Mount Pulaski, Illinois, to attend the State University. My Grandfather had climbed the corporate ladder and been very close to the top as a Senior Vice President when he retired.

      Sears Roebuck and Company’s history is a microcosm of what has happened in America. The company was a juggernaut; you could order anything from thimble and thread to a house. It was everywhere; farms, cities and suburbs, via the pre-internet line of communication known as the catalog. Quality, American- made products delivered to your house; even if it was a house.

      In the twenties Sears Management recognized the car was transforming America by allowing mobility to the masses. Always on the cutting edge of retail; they transformed the company by opening retail stores in the cities. All in on automobiles they started Allstate Insurance as well, eventually putting agents in stores.

      By mid century Sears reached their zenith, expanding internationally, their success was capped in 1973 by the completion of the 110 story Sears Tower in Chicago. The stock was stable and flourished as did the company. Everyone at Sears from the CEO to the shoe salesman was tied to the company by its stock. Certainly the higher you went up the food chain the more stock you held. Bottom line; all hands had a vested interest in the long term health of the company.

      If you worked for Sears you were set. It didn’t matter if you worked the floor selling shoes or had a corner office in the Sears Tower-you were invested and tied to the company and its success. And you could live the American Dream; buy a house, a car and raise a family. If you worked hard, Sears in return, took care of you and provided a career and retirement. Stock options were available to employees and made those that took them very comfortable.

      Sears was manned by career employees that worked their way up. They knew retail and Sears from the bottom to the top. Indeed they were a ruthless competitor. That was the culture at Sears; it all began to change in the 80’s.

      MBA’s began to run Sears; no longer did you rise through the ranks of the retail giant learning the business. It is obvious to any observer that the new Management was more interested in doing a financial deal than running a retail giant. Twenty years of doing deals weakened Sears to the point that a bankrupt KMART corporation bought the once proud retailer by leveraging Sears’s real-estate. In third quarter 2006 one third of Sears’s pre-tax income came from financial deals.

      Deals were the focus, quick money; pump and dump. The managers seemed to treat the once proud retailer as a bank to finance deals. Self enrichment was the new goal; at the cost of the company and its future. A Washington Post article dated March 11, 2007, described the current Sears as a hedge fund with money being diverted from the maintenance and improvement of stores to non-retail financial investments. Management was so distracted by the Big Deals they missed a little something called the inter-net. Leadership in

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