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.

Are all blacks racist?

Reading the comments on The Times website, you may be forgiven for coming to the conclusion that all blacks are racist. Many white comments are balanced and logical and don't mention race, but nearly all the blacks bring the subject up all the time, and always labelling whites racist. Any psychologist will tell you that identifying racism in others probably suggests you are racist yourself. And when you consider that just about all of the blacks comments about whites are derogatory, the puzzle falls into place. Racism equates to a form of arrogance. So why are we blacks so arrogant? This may be also why we refuse to abide by rules (we're too important), don't bother to learn (we know it all) and propose that we were always the master race, with superior technologies and discoveries throughout history. And continually kind and pleasant to other races, while they suppress us. Arrogance is one of the seven dealy sins, and may explain why we cannot operate in teams - we are far too individualistic. So instead of chasing all the whites out, we should use them in teams to achieve what we want. The alternative, ie chasing them all overseas or wiping them out, leaves us open to being exploited by others such as the Chinese. The reason we can be exploited so easily is that you only have to bribe our leader to have your way with us, since he is, by definition, individualistic. So although we're super proud, obviously too proud, we're unlikely to make any headway in forming a sustainable African civilisation. Unless its based on war, disease, etc...

Eishkom Load-Shedding

Viva! Amandla! Mshini Wami Mshini Wami....... Awulethe uMshini Wami!! Long live black power! Long live Darkness! Finally we are becoming a black nation. We can be proud that we can begin living as proud Africans, not colonialist pawns. Except I hear the Chinese have moved into Zimbabwe in a big way. But they can make our leaders rich, so long as we can live like Africans. What would we do with those resources anyway? We are born warriors. Lets hope we can get a good fight going here, like the bloodbath promised if they take Msholozi to court. We love Msholozi so much, the way he ignores all the white man's laws, does what the hell he wants to enrich himself and gets away with it! Really strong and ruthless. A true African leader who we are proud of. Now lets rape and steal from the remaining colonialists. Strength is the new law! Men will again take control!

Why do people hate 4x4 drivers?

No, its not global warming, as any 4x4 driver will immediately tell you. Its easy for them to keep their heads in the sand in that respect. Its because they're idiots. And hypocrits. Speak to any one and you'll see what I mean. My friend got an email from one after he joined an anti 4x4 facebook group. He said that he got his SUV not just to be a poser, but because he needed to pull his horsecart, and because he needed luxury. Mostly they'll say they need it to drive offroad on some trip that never happens, or happens once in their lifetime, and they have to make an effort to find somewhere where the 4x4 function is needed, since even in africa there are very few places a sensible person needs it. In fact, if you do, you're probably destroying some small animals home. Which brings me to one of the main attractions. Invincibility. 4x4's can drive over lots of things and bump lots of things without any risk to the driver. I had the front of my car smashed by a 4x4 in a parking lot, and know of many others who had similar. This means you can drive like an idiot without risk. Now that's bound to make you unpopular, but if you don't care, what does it say about you? I know of another 4x4 driver who drove his overpowered, excessively fast 3 ton behemoth into the back of a row of stationary traffic in the fast lane on the highway. He was upset because some "idiot" caused his 4x4 to be written off, and he had to find a lift home. How bothersome. He said he didn't even bother to brake. The insurance gave him a new one. He never mentioned the carnage or how many people died in the car in front. Not that he bothered to check. 4x4's are major obstacles and block the view of other drivers on the road, stretch right across a parking space and damage the car next door when opening their gigantic doors, destroy the environment and kill animals by driving offroad, drive much to fast and endanger other road users, can't stay in their lanes because they're too big and can't see, drive into dogs and cats, small people, parked cars because they can't see them. Basically they're irrational modes of transport, and only a narcissistic jerk would be prepared to have one. You have to think that you are the most important thing in the world, and need to be specially looked after, and are more responsible and clever than everyone else, to buy one. Which makes you what?

4x4 Heaven

As the proud owner of a new 4x4 SUV, I can now say, from an insiders point of view, that this kind of vehicle is most likely to contain an arrogant jerk. A lot is said about testosterone, feeling bigger and better than everyone else, attracting the hottest women, etc. So I suppose that people who need more of all that apparently get it with this kind of car. I can't say its worked for me, but then I didn't consider myself lacking in those departments previously. I can say for sure, that these cars are a complete waste of money and are road hazards for their drivers and all other road users. I've personally watched as a housewif reversed her 4x4 into (luckily) another one, before parking, seemingly oblivious to the damage inflicted. My old car had its bonnet folded by a 4x4 behemoth, who most likely literally felt nothing before driving away. Often they block the view for other road users, and I find myself driving to the left, just to allow the car behind to see whats going on ahead. The road holding is appalling compared to any car. The vehicle is difficult to keep in its lane, because its so wide, and difficult to maneuver and park. People in cars hate you parking next to them, since your huge doors cause quite significant damage to their cars when you get out, especially since you had to squeeze your behemoth into the parking place in the first place. Yes, there's no doubt, you feel like a jerk in a 4x4.

Colonialists Whingeing Again

Do these colonialists never catch on? They’re whingeing about crime (specifically being robbed on table mountain. They’ve always got some problem – disorganisation in govt, corruption, justice system collapse, Manto, you name it! Very little of the whingeing comes from African brothers. Why? Because they accept it, and an individual never bothers to change things for the so called “greater good”. You just worry about yourself and your own situation, ie just protect yourself from crime. To the colonialists I say, go and spend a month in Lagos. That is Africa. So is this. South Africa is no longer a colonialist outpost, since you lost it to us, the Africans. Africa is dark, dangerous, corrupt, unstable and not for white wussies. Do not compare us with Europe, because you can’t compare Apples with Oranges. Also, you can’t have it all. In Africa, you can live like a king, make loads of money and be far more free than is possible in European countries. Just go and ask the remnants of the colonialists still resident in countries north of us. The downside (for whingers, that is – we like it like it is) is the African environment you have to deal with. So unfortunately all the whingers are actually going to have to accept it or leave, because no one in govt gives a damn, unless there’s something in it for them. And as time goes on, they’ll give less and less of a damn. And stop trying to change it, because ultimately Africa is for Africans!

Mlambo-Nguka

I have decided to answer our ex-deputy health minister's question. Yesterday she asked South Africans to just rate her on her performance. Mlambo, you have failed. You failed to be an incompetent, disinterested, ANC arse creeper. You have failed to live up to what the ANC and the people expect of you. You have failed to ignore the people's most pressing problems. You have failed to spout nonsense at every possible opportunity, and to throw your name away with the international community. You have failed to look the other way while hospitals fall apart and babies die. If you want to succeed, you should take up drinking and eating heavily at the taxpayers expense - you need to be fat to be a politician. You also need to do what you're told, not what's right.

DA Leader Arrested

The DA are stupid - why select a delicate white woman to be leader, when all Africans know you need someone tough like Morgan Tsvangirai. How on earth will we beat her up without killing her? This is all part of African politics, and the way we like it. The DA really don't belong in Africa...

Individualism

I see no one less than the president agrees with me (http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=563798-) individualism is what destroys Africa. We Africans have never learnt to be socially oriented. Hence the corruption, democracy failure, rampant capitalism and crime we enjoy here. All great civilisations and advancements were built on working together. Africans just have not developed the mentality to do it. We are consumed by the 7 deadly sins, and we don't even acknowledge them as sins. If you can't understand civilisation, how on earth do you expect to partake in it?