JOHN FRANCIS SZEMLER FOR COLORADO

In the coming days I'll continue to outline my positions. A commitment to results, common sense, and a perspective of humility is what will guide me in generating solutions to the problems we experience in our Northern Colorado district. Issues that continue to go unanswered by our Republican Representative.

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A quick note to Colorado's hard working immigrant community:

Immigration has been and will continue to be part of the economic life blood of this nation, and diversity is easily one of its greatest benefits. I am, like many of you, a first generation American.

America has and will continue to benefit from the restorative benefits of immigration. It renovates us economically, culturally, and now technologically. In many ways immigration has prevented this nation from stagnating. Diversity is our great strength. This is why it is all the more understandable that as Middle America has deteriorated, the political divergence we are experiencing is not between urban and rural or working class and upper class, but instead is a widening gap that is caused by the dynamism and creative explosion of possibilities that has transformed what it means to be a worker in America. That small town America has been left to deteriorate and forced to reinvent itself now provides an opportunity for all of us to change our perspective and endeavor to stabilize the phenomenon that is America into a more inclusive experience that provides for all.

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VACCINES and HHS

               WTF, RFK?

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THE TRUMP TARIFFS

If you're an American CEO who can't pass along tariff increases that are cutting into your margins, what do you do? You fire people. Then with less people, the people who remain ask for higher wages, which causes a wage price spiral. The result - stagflation, meaning higher unemployment, higher inflation, and slower growth. Tariffs kill productivity and disrupt supply chains.

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Trade deficits are a sign of prosperity and buying power. Declaring a that linear relationship exists between where tariffs and trade deficits originate is something that doesn't make sense. Trump is reducing imports and importing inflation. Trade deficits and structurally remaking the economy are not the same thing.

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Tariffs are a tax on consumers that the President will use to pay for the Trump Tax cut, a reduction he provided to himself that added 7 Trillion 800 Billion dollars to the deficit - debt he is offloading on us.

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I am not a proponent of unrestrained free trade offset by domestic job loss, but Trump's chaotic program will slow growth and destroy jobs. He is making a stupid mistake.

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DOGE

Bureaucracy is not about competition or profit margins, it is about stability in governance, and should be about equality, fairness and justice.

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Donald Trump and DEI
All great wealth begins with a crime. Early America begins with two. The crime of Slavery and the crime of Indian Genocide.

This Nation's great strength resides in her ability to admit mistakes, and work to rectify the tragedies of her past.

Donald Trump wants to pretend that these heartbreaking events do not exist, and that the courage exhibited in resisting was without meaning. In the process he weakens and further divides the nation.

Furthermore, propose from Congress the creation of a Truth and Reconciliation Museum. Remove from the Capital Building every statue and painting of every slave owner, segregationist, and supporter of the intentional massacre of the Plains Indians into this building. Can you imagine the impact? The nation would dissolve into a paroxysm of gratitude and outrage. The courage exhibited in making such a proposal would ring throughout history. It would restore faith internationally in the idea of America. It would demonstrate that we are truly a shining beacon of hope and promise. More importantly, it would be the right thing to do.

 

What will you hear Gabe Evans say on this topic? NOTHING.

Elon Musk
The danger Elon Musk poses is not in his support of Trump. That is his right. It is in the fact that Democrats allowed him to buy Ohio for Trump with $277,000,000, and now millions more in Wisconsin. What would have happened if an equal amount of money were spent on the other side of the ticket. It is insane that money is allowed to buy politicians. It has to stop.

 

Change Gabe Evans' six figure salary (and that of every member of Congress) to the hourly minimum wage rate of $17.50 for DC. If they want a raise they can raise the minimum wage rate for everyone in Washington D.C. Fair, wouldn't you say? (Congressional Ethics)

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REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

It's her body, it's her choice. But the fact remains, abortion is a tragedy. It represents a failure of proactive and preventive services and support programs, and underscores an absence of education regarding options and alternatives. The most effective way to reduce unwanted and terminated pregnancies is to provide full spectrum family planning which supports women, especially for single Moms, that also implements the following:

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• Allow women to deliver anywhere, at home, a birth center, or hospital

• Provide full spectrum care while de-emphasizing often unnecessary interventions like continuous fetal monitoring and Pitocin — a synthetic version of the hormone oxytocin, which causes contractions and is commonly used in the U.S. to induce, strengthen or accelerate labor.

• Provide universal and generous pre and postnatal care programs, midwifery-run maternity units, and integrated options for home deliveries. Obstetricians can handle complications, but overall, licensed midwives would run the show, which can historically be shown to generate excellent outcomes.

• Institute 4-4-4 paid leave. Both parents have the independent and non-transferable right to receive payments during maternity/paternity leave for four months. This means that neither parent can have his/her rights transferred to the other. In addition, parents are entitled to a joint right of four additional months; this may be taken by one parent or divided between them. In circumstances where a parent is either unwilling, unable, or ineligible to participate in child rearing activities, a full 8 months accrues to the primary care giver.

• Students and parents who are outside the labor market or working less than 0.25 FTE (full-time equivalent) are entitled to receive a childbirth allowance.

• Maternity/paternity leave and allowance entitlements are cancelled when the child is 18 months old.

• It is expected that those who accept payments from the Maternity/Paternity Leave Fund will not be engaged in work for the duration of the payments. Partial payments would not be allowed.

• Payments amount to 80% of the average of the parent's total wages during a specific period before the birth of the child. The payments can, however, never go below or above pre-determined limits.

• Supplemental parental leave is unpaid leave from work, which either parent may take for up to 13 weeks in order to care of the child. It may be taken in one session, or divided up into shorter periods. This entitlement is attached to each child up to 8 years of age. Parents cannot transfer the right to parental leave. The employer must be notified of the schedule for taking supplemental maternity/paternity leave no later than four weeks before the first day of leave.

• Employers would be legally required to return the employee to an employment equivalent.

• Finally, one of the highest returning investments we know we can make as a country is in early learning. Implement Preschool for All, providing well funded quality public pre-K for low- and middle-income four-year olds.

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Problem solved.

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FOX News

 Enmity, revenge, and unctuous flattery is not journalism. Rupert Murdoch does NOT CARE about America or Americans.

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"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless media; ...whether it is the malign language of law-without-ethics, or language designed for the estrangement of minorities, hiding its racist plunder in its literary cheek – it must be rejected, altered and exposed. It is the language that drinks blood, laps vulnerabilities, tucks its fascist boots under crinolines of respectability and patriotism as it moves relentlessly toward the bottom line and the bottomed-out mind. Sexist language, racist language, theistic language – all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas."

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Toni Morrison's Nobel lecture, as the first African-American writer to receive the prize, in 1993. She died on August 5th 2019.

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​​FACEBOOK

ZUCKERBERG: His platform is a SEWER. His media networks continue to damage Democracy - WORLD WIDE. A good start would be to prohibit him from using bots that provide automated connection recommendations and in the process eliminate a major source of confirmation bias in one stroke. If Neo-Nazis want to connect let them do so manually. If young girls want to research excessive weight loss don't provide them instant feedback on how to accomplish the goal. This unrestrained negative social feedback mechanism is insane. Books have been written on the subject but Congress does NOTHING. Gabe Evans will do NOTHING.

Facebook has turned research in to surveillance. Legislate an individual's right to control internet privacy, including permission and prohibition of all personal and non-PII data. Require full and timely access to current and historical if requested.

I will provide the leadership and submit a bill to eliminate automated bot recommendations in my first month. When proposed, watch Zuckerberg and Musk squirm. Don't let Facebook et al. prevaricate - they could remove them in a week.

 

Trans

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If you choose to identify as Trans that is your right, perhaps even your obligation. There is solid medical evidence to indicate that these conditions are gestational, and scientific evidence to indicate that there is even an evolutionary rationale as well. What is the alternative, legislate a condition that occurs in up to 1 in 2000 births? That path reeks of ignorance, stupidity and futility.

On the other hand, if you have testicles and produce testosterone, even if you are medically defined as a hermaphrodite, then absolutely feel free to compete in sports, but as a man. Permitting individuals with testicles who identify as female in women’s locker rooms is simply insane.

Let’s just acknowledge that gender dysmorphia is a real condition that occurs far more frequently than many of us know. These individuals deserve our empathy and respect as people, not abominations.

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Xi Jinping

 

To the Chinese Trump's tariff's are an existential assault, a tariff war they take literally. At first Xi will discontinue purchasing US debt. Later he will take a 25 Billion dollar haircut on US Treasuries in order to destablize the US financial system and injure Trump. If the 10 year exceeds 5% the US stock market will destablize. Bond prices will continue to fall, interest rates will rise. Our housing and stock markets will tank, again. The economy will tip over into recession. This is the moment Xi will choose to initiate a blockade of Taiwan, a moment he will have manufactured in order to deny the US access to TSMC.

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Congressional Ethics

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Public service isn't a personal enrichment program. Every member must fully divest. Cash and Treasuries only. No Trusts. Obviously this implies no equity purchases while in office.

END THE CONGRESSIONAL PENSION PROGRAM. Congress can contribute to an IRA like everyone else.

Extend tax disclosure to the Presidency. Extend asset divestiture to the Presidency AND all cabinet members. Last but not least, incumbency has been usurped - by incumbents. It's time for an amendment imposing term limits.