CSPSA Mainfesto & Policies

The Common Sense Party (South Africa) is based on the principles of common sense and logic. The aims are to make future decisions based on logic and to correct anomalies in society which are leading to problems for poor people, minorities, the environment and ultimately all of us.

A founding principle is that facts must be faced and addressed, no matter how unpopular or hurtful to some. Another founding principle is that root causes of problems in our societies must slowly but surely be addressed instead of just attending to the symptoms, with the aim of producing lasting and sustainable solutions.

Policies:

Poverty
Are their any logical reasons that we must have poverty stricken people in our country? No. Without exception everyone of us would love to eradicate poverty. Yet we continuously skirt around the issues and seemingly avoid seeing the obvious. A simple three step strategy will do the job:
1) Reduce the cost of living
How? Poor people spend most of whatever they get on food and transport, in that order. Yet somehow, in SA, they are forced to pay high prices for both, possibly more that in most other parts of the world. Particularly transport. Transport for high income Europeans is cheaper. Our transport systems are completely illogical, see below to cut transport costs for poor people to virtually nothing and also reduce costs for everyone else.

2) Increase the income of poor people
This country belongs to the poor people just as much as the rich. Then why are they excluded from the spoils? Even without working, they should be allowed to share in the countries wealth. An example is Saudi Arabia, where oil wealth is shared among every member of the population. See how this could easily be achieved under economics below. Wealth is generated from our resources and our land, both incomes should not be kept only by the rich, as is currently the case, but should be shared with the poor. Obvious, I know, but for some reason not implemented.

3) Make getting a job easy. The first hurdle to be surmounted by a job seeker is the incredibly high cost of transport and the fact that all cheap accommodation is in the middle of nowhere. However, he still has to face the huge barriers associated with employee risk - the risk that an employee will cause huge damage to your company and you can't get rid of him, so employers will do anything to not employ anyone, ESPECIALLY anyone he doesn't know. The current Labour Laws are
so illogical and counter-productive they were almost designed to create poverty. See business encouragement and job creation measures below.

Human Rights

People must be prepared to give up their "human rights" according to a "bill of responsibilities" that will be added to the constitution (ala LeadSA). Only those meeting all of their responsibilities will be afforded all of their rights. This will allow people to not walk around with all these idiotic rights if they don't want them. Also, prisoners can then get productive work in factories. Young people can get proper advice from others. Information can be shared without fear of reprisals. People can look after themselves (and others) and stop expecting others to look after them.


Housing

Building houses miles away from anywhere and giving them to poor people to live in is idiotic to say the least. Ditto for highly mobile professionals to buy expensive suburban houses, which are massively expensive and difficult to trade, and are miles away from their work. Also the tendency for the rich to build fancy holiday homes in various golf and other estates dotted around the country, effectively producing ghost towns. Symbolic of all that is wrong with our society.

How should it be?
People should be able to live close to work. Either property must become easy to buy and sell, or appropriate rental stock must be available, or both. For the poor, this means government-provided high rise flats. The argument against this will be that they will become slums. But this needn't be so.

It is easy enough to ensure discipline in flats, in fact, the privately-owned and low-rent flats in Braamfontein are very well managed. Of course they completely ignore the idiotic eviction laws which require a high court order to remove anyone. People are thrown out immediately for disturbing the peace, not paying the rent, etc. The tenants, I assure you, are very grateful for this. If the landlords did not act fairly the place would be empty, supply and demand keeps the balance.

Transport


Health
Economy
- BEE
Tax
Crime and Corruption
Job creation
Legislation
Large swathes of legislation must be removed completely. These include the most stupid law of the lot, the Consumer Protection Act (CPA), all the labour laws, eviction laws, and squatter laws. The damage these do to small businesses, poor people and the economy is immeasurable. How they ever came about is a mystery that defies logic, and any alien looking down at as must be laughing at our stupidity.

Do we need a CPA? You could be forgiven if you thought this most recent bit of legislation was designed specifically to kill of the last remnants of our small businesses. As usual, the large businesses like MTN will be completely unaffected because they can afford the safeguards to protect themselves. The small businesses can not, and will be the only one's to suffer. And with them, all the rest of us mollycoddled South African's. Do we need protection from evil businesses? No, no, no! People are not stupid and are capable of learning from their mistakes. Good businesses will always thrive, bad businesses go broke, no legislation is necessary (except, of course, competition legislation). This type of legislation only supports the evil elements of our society that will create frivolous cases and problems based on personal vendettas or simply to blackmail others. Ditto labour law and eviction law.