Each president coordinates his
ministers
Each Minister is
responsible for a
different aspect of the city, and each Ministry is independent of the
others, but the work of one ministry will frequently have an effect on
other ministries, so the ministers will regularly
encounter issues
in which they must work together and compromise on policies. The
president is
responsible for coordinating his ministers and resolving disputes
between them.
The main reason that the president has to coordinate the ministers is
because the government has total control of the economy, so the
president and ministers have to make a lot of decisions. They have to
decide which products to produce, when to phase in a new product, when
to discontinue a product, and how to divide up the employees and
resources among the different businesses.
For example, the president and ministers might authorize the production
of a new type of robot, and that could require several different
ministries to get together to plan the production of it. The ministry
that produces iron, copper, and other metals will have to know how much
metal to provide for that particular factory, and when to provide it.
Likewise, the ministries that produce plastic, integrated circuits,
chemicals, and other items will need to know what they have to do to
support that factory.
The
President has the authority to initiate or get
involved
with those discussions, and to make decisions for
the ministers if they disagree on what to do, or if he disapproves of
their
decision.
Sometimes ministers in different divisions have to get together to make
plans on what to do, in which case two, or all three, presidents have
to get involved with the decisions, or to settle disputes.
Presidents
resolve disputes between ministers
When the ministers cannot
resolve their disagreements, any of them can request
their president to get involved and make a decision for them.
If none of the ministers ask the president to settle a dispute,
then
the president must do so if the conflict persists for more than a
month. The president has to respond within a month in order to prevent
a problem that has been occurring frequently in governments; namely,
officials that do nothing
about a problem for years or decades.
A dispute does not always have a definite starting point, so the
president has to make a guess as to when a month has passed.
A president does not have to wait a month. If he regards the issue as
important, and wants it settled quickly, he can get involved and settle
the dispute whenever
he pleases.
If a dispute is so complicated that the president wants
more than one month to investigate the issue, then he can delay his
decision, but
he must post a document in the Explanations
category to explain why he is delaying it.
The Economic President arranges for technical changes
The free enterprise systems
do not allow businesses to get together to make plans on how to deal
with changes in technology or culture. This results in a lot of wasted
labor and resources, and makes managing a business very confusing.
For an example, CD-ROMs were in widespread use during in the 1990's, so
there were a lot of businesses producing, distributing, and selling CD
readers, writers, and discs. As nonvolatile memory became more
advanced, some businesses and consumers began using memory cards in
addition to, or instead of, the CD-ROMs. Everybody had to guess as to
whether the nonvolatile memory would eventually to replace CD-ROMs, and
if so, when.
A free enterprise system does not allow the businesses to get together
to plan for the future, so it was impossible for the
businesses
to make plans on how and when to replace CD-ROMs with nonvolatile
memory. Instead, all
of the businesses had
to continue pandering to the consumers and investors.
The end result was that a lot
of
businesses produced CD-ROM products that were never used, thereby
wasting labor and resources. Furthermore, the inability to plan for the
phasing out of CD-ROMs made it impossible for people to know when their
job or business might vanish, and which jobs would be available in the
future.
To improve upon that chaotic situation, the Economic President has the
responsibility and authority
to plan for changes in technology, and to supervise his ministers so
that they implement the changes as efficiently as possible. This allows
the Economic President to replace old technology without wasting
labor
and resources, and it allows the Health President to arrange for
schools to adjust their curriculum to prepare students for the upcoming
changes in technology and jobs.
The Economic President must
prevent premature
technology
In a free enterprise
system, businesses are in such a
rush to be the first with a new product that they often release new
technology while it is still somewhat crude. Some consumers have become
so annoyed by the premature technology that they wait for the second or
third revision before they purchase it.
The Economic President is required to prevent this problem by setting a
date in the future to switch to the new technology, and by giving the
engineers enough time to put the item through several improvement
cycles before the switch occurs.
No technology is ever "fully developed" because all of it can always be
improved. Therefore, whenever we put new technology into
production, it can always be described as imperfect and in need of
further testing and development. The president has to decide when new
technology has
developed to the extent that the benefits of switching to it
outweigh the disadvantages of using the existing technology.
One reason that the US government created the FDA was to prevent
"premature" drugs from
being released to the public, but no government has an agency to
prevent premature software, robots, drones, or other items.
The Economic President has
that authority and responsibility.
The Social and Health Presidents also prevent premature
technology
The Social and Health
Presidents are also required to prevent
premature technology in
the areas that they have control of, such as the school
curriculum, medical drugs,
holiday celebrations, and social clubs.
For example, if a minister authorizes a new bicycle path, social
activity,
or water fountain for a city plaza, the Social President has the
authority to pass judgment on whether the concept needs more
development
before it is implemented. If so, then he can reject the proposal, and
the minister who approved it will have a failure listed in his database
entry.
Likewise, if the Medical Minister approves of a new surgical procedure
or drug, the Health President has the authority to reject it if he
considers it to be too premature to implement.
None of the ministers or presidents benefit by being the first to
implement new technology. Instead, they are judged by their value
to society. Therefore, their
goal is to provide the city with the most beneficial
technology.
Presidents
must sometimes compromise with one another
Each president is
independent, but there will regularly be issues that require them to
work together and compromise. For example, the Economic
division has the authority to allocate land for businesses, such as
farms,
mines, and factories, and the Health Division has the authority to use
land for the activities they are in control of, such as hospitals and
schools, and the Social Division has the authority to use land for
their activities, such as recreation and plazas.
When a city is first created, the land will be divided up in a manner
that all organizations get what they need, but there will regularly be
a
need
to alter the way the land is divided as a result of changes in
technology and culture. Earthquakes, volcanoes, sinkholes, and other
changes to
the land and rivers can also result in changes to how the
land is used.
When the presidents have to deal with an issue that affects one
another, such as how to use land, they must work together and
compromise on a solution. Since there are only three presidents, there
will never be a tie when they vote on an issue, so they will always be
able to resolve it.
Presidents
are held accountable for
their decisions
The
presidents are prohibited from making changes to the city in an
anonymous or secretive manner. They are required to post a document in
the Explanations
category to justify each of their decisions. ( More details here
and here.)
By putting all of their documentation in the Explanations
category, it
is easy for the voters and everybody else to pass judgment on
whether a president is making sensible decisions, or whether he is
showing signs of being deceptive, ignorant, or suffering from brain damage.
The voters are required
to
hold the presidents to
higher standards than public
because the presidents have
tremendous authority over our lives, which makes them the most
potentially dangerous. This issue is repeated
and emphasized in many
documents because our natural tendency is to
do
the exact opposite.
Specifically,
we have emotional cravings to become submissive
to
whoever is in a leadership position, but we set high standards for, and
are extremely critical of, the people who are below us in
the hierarchy.
This results in us becoming submissive to leaders who are corrupt,
senile, or incompetent, while being
extremely demanding with gardeners, clerks, factory
workers, and waitresses.
It is important for us to be aware of our animal cravings, and to push
ourselves and one another into being more demanding of our leaders, and
refrain from tormenting the people who are below us in the hierarchy.
Presidents
cannot arrest
or censor
people
Although the presidents are
dictators for their particular division of the government, they cannot have
anybody arrested, and they cannot censor or suppress any information or
people. They have no influence
over the Security or Courts Ministries,
or any of the other ministries in the Analysis Branch.
It is important for the voters to realize that prohibiting the
presidents from being abusive cannot
prevent them from being abusive. For example, the US government
officials are prohibited from arresting people and censoring
information, but they are
censoring information about the JFK assassination, the Apollo moon
landing, the 9/11 attack, the Holocaust, pedophile networks, and
possibly thousands of other issues, and they arrested and convicted Christopher
Bollyn even though he did not commit any crime.
As described in the Laws
documents, we cannot make people
honest. Laws are
only guidelines for us to follow. Therefore, the only way we can
provide ourselves with honest government officials is to restrict voting to people who have
the initiative and ability to routinely pass judgment
on whether the government officials are behaving properly, and replace those that are abusive,
dishonest, or incompetent.
Nepotism
One of the problems of
current and previous governments, businesses, and other organizations
is that a top manager often gives management jobs to his friends
and relatives simply because of his emotional attraction to them.
This allows incompetent people to get into influential
positions.
This problem is difficult to deal with because we tend to pick friends
who are similar to us, so a person with excellent leadership abilities
might have a friend who also has excellent leadership abilities. It is
also possible that some
people who are closely related to each other will have excellent
leadership abilities. In those cases, we benefit by having the friends and
relatives of the leader get into influential positions.
We cannot prevent a president from being biased towards his friends
and relatives, but the voters
can compensate for that bias by deliberately being biased in the opposite manner.
Specifically, when a friend or relative of a president or minister gets
into
a leadership position, everybody
should be more demanding with
those leaders in order to compensate for
the potential bias that they have for one another.
To rephrase that concept, when people in leadership positions are
friends or relatives of each other, we should be more critical of all
of them than we are of the other leaders, in order to compensate
for
potential bias that they have
for one another.
An example is when President Trump brought both his
daughter and her husband into the government. The voters should have
been more demanding of all three of them, and when neither his daughter
nor
her husband did or said anything of value, the voters should have
demanded that both of them be replaced. Furthermore, the voters should
have also considered replacing President Trump for putting such
incompetent relatives into the government.
Another example of this problem is this
accusation that Greta Thunberg is related to the Rothschild family, which would
explain why she was given extremely favorable, worldwide publicity.
Unfortunately, we cannot determine whether that accusation is true
because every culture allows people in leadership positions to have
tremendous secrecy.
We provide our leaders with so much secrecy that we do not know who
decided to make
Thunberg a world leader; who told journalists to promote her; who
told her what
to say; or who her parents are working with or related to.
Thunberg is another example of why we must
eliminate secrecy, give our
leaders job performance reviews;
and replace the leaders who
fail to
bring
improvements to our world. Thunberg is also an example of why we must
prohibit adults from using children
to manipulate us.
Presidents
must justify firing and
hiring ministers
The presidents are
responsible for hiring and replacing ministers, and they can combine
and split ministries, but a president must
provide documentation whenever he makes such changes so that the
voters, and everybody else, can pass judgment
on whether he is truly providing useful leadership.
This constitution gives presidents much more
authority than the US Constitution, so it is important
that we do not allow the presidents to operate in secrecy. If we allow
the presidents to fire ministers secretly, we run the risk that
they get rid of the people who are honest and replace them with their
friends or crime network members.
For example, the US military is frequently firing people in leadership
positions with the meaningless explanation of "Loss of confidence in
ability to lead". If the military leadership had been successfully
protecting us from our enemies, then we would realize that they have
been doing an excellent job of removing the
incompetent leaders, and we would not need to be concerned about them
firing people.
However, the US military leaders have been behaving just like other
government officials, and just like the Hollywood celebrities,
journalists, and business executives. Specifically, they have been
fooled into supporting the world wars, Israel, the attack on the USS
liberty, the 9/11 attack. They have been helping our enemy destroy our
nation. Therefore, we should wonder which of their leaders they are
replacing. Are they removing the people who realize that Jews are our
enemy, and replacing them with blackmailed pedophiles who follow orders
from Jews?
Requiring the presidents to post a document to explain why they are
replacing a minister is not putting a burden on them because in order
for them to make such a decision, they must
first spend some time thinking about
the issue. That thinking process provides them with the reasons
for their decisions.
Therefore, requiring them to
document their decisions is requiring them to let us know what they
were thinking. We are not
asking them to do any additional research or analyses. We are simply
asking them to give us a summary of the reasons that they
made their decision. With software to convert speech into text, they
can easily and quickly create such documents.
Humans and other animals do our best work when we are under pressure.
Allowing government officials to operate secretly encourages them to do
whatever they please without any concern for the effect they have on
other people. Making them explain their decisions puts pressure on them
to think
more carefully about their decisions.
Another reason that it is detrimental to let government officials fire
people in secrecy is that it can cause other officials to worry about
being fired. This can be seen
in the communist nations when government officials are fired or executed for
reasons that other officials cannot understand. That
confusion creates a miserable social environment because it causes both
citizens and other officials to be afraid of and disgusted with the top leaders
rather
than be impressed by them.
The president is required to occasionally replace the worst performing
minister, so by requiring him to explain his decision, everybody will
understand how he is judging the ministers, and that allows everybody
to pass judgment on whether his analysis is intelligent.
The presidents, and all other government officials, do not have to
provide lengthy, detailed documents when they explain their
decisions. They only
need to write enough to allow people to understand what they did,
and why. If a voter wants more detail, they have the authority to
demand a president provide it.
Presidents are city employees
Several sections of this
Constitution emphasize the concept that the presidents, ministers,
business executives, and other leaders of the city are employees of the
city. They do not work for themselves, or for their
organization. They
do not have any special privileges or treatment. They have a lot of
authority, but they are equal in
status to gardeners, farmers, technicians, and all other city employees.
This concept is emphasized more than once because we inherited the
animal's craving to be submissive to whoever is above us in the social
hierarchy. This results in us tolerating
abuse by people in leadership
positions, and giving them special
treatment.
In order to improve our leadership, modern humans must be aware of our
emotional craving to become submissive to our leaders, and we must have
enough self-control to suppress the craving. We must differentiate
between being "submissive" to a leader, and treating him with respect.
We must treat our leaders with respect, but we must also treat the
gardeners, farmers, technicians, and everybody else with respect.
Modern humans must regard everybody as a team member of equal status,
but who have different jobs. A president, a business executive, and a
minister are team members in a management position. The people in
management positions are not allowed to
have any special privileges or
treatment, and nobody should become submissive to them. The people in
management positions are city employees, not Kings or Queens.
When a president hires or fires a minister, he is doing so for the
benefit of the city, not for his own selfish desires, or to appease his
friends. He is working for the city,
so the city has the right to know
why he is hiring and firing other city employees.
When a person is hired to be a president or minister, he is hired to
bring improvements to the city and the lives of the people. He is not
hired to be worshiped or pampered. He is hired to do a job.
When he
creates or modifies a law or custom, he must do so for the benefit of
the city,
not for himself or an organization.Therefore, everybody in the city has
the right to know his reasoning for making changes to their city and
culture, and
they have the right to pass judgment on whether they believe he truly
is bringing improvements to it.
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