Political party platforms are supposed to be the defining philosophy for the policies its politicians would enact should they get elected. In fact, the Iowa GOP platform requires its candidates to agree with at least 80% of the platform in order to be given any funding from the party. http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/political-party-platforms-dont-matter/

When released last month, the GOP platform garnered lots of attention for its focus on repealing the 13th Amendment (you know, the one that abolished slavery). Instead, Iowa Republicans would substitute it for an earlier version whose provision of stripping citizenship from Americans who accept foreign titles of nobility or honors would effectively remove President Obama’s citizenship for accepting the Nobel prize in 2008.  Guardian     Huffingtonpost

But the existence of this document should offer more than just an opportunity to giggle at “news of the weird” or “silly season” in terms of politics.  

Don’t take mine or anyone else’s word for it. Read the platform for yourself. Try to untangle its nonsensical statements (for equal rights, not for equality?). Count how many times its policies are actually broken by the state's leading Republican elected officials and politicians. Decide –  if its policies were enacted, would this be the state and country you’d live in?

 – Repeal the minimum wage (Section 3.16).

 – No more OSHA (3.25). Let businesses police their own workplace safety because Massey Mine and British Petroleum have showed us how effective they are.

 – Enact stricter standards that would disqualify workers from unemployment benefits (3.01).

 – Nix farm subsidies (3.03). For farm subsidy dependents like Senator Grassley or candidate Ross Paustian, that must be part of the 20% they’re permitted to disagree with.

 – Only business and individuals can create jobs, not the government (3.02). Ignore the reality that, all told, state, local and federal government combined is the largest employer.   
 
 – No government competition with private enterprise. Goodbye post office (3.04). I guess also goodbye all government paid for research and development, since it competes with private enterprise. Say goodbye to such awful marketplace killing research like that which discovered the polio vaccine and most big pharm breakthroughs newledger.com

 – No more of those annoying air standards laws (3.07). Individuals should have freedom to choose dirty, polluted, toxic air in their homes and establishments.

 – While they want to get government out of the business of verifying employment “We oppose government verification guidelines that prevent employers from verifying prospective employees before hiring,” they still want government to prosecute businesses that employ “illegal aliens”– I wonder how this would work. Will employers voluntarily confess to their hiring illegal workers then?  (3.09 and 3.10)
 
 – Get rid of public pensions – move all to 401Ks (because they’re doing so well) (3.14)

 – Strip police unions of bargaining rights (3.23).

 – Let individuals with no training do their own wiring and electrical repairs (3.13).

 – Don’t pay back-breaking construction jobs prevailing wage (3.15).
 
 – Get rid of those United Nations taxes on the internet? Help me here, what is that about? (3.25)

And finally, repeal Davis Bacon (3.26) because there’s nothing more American than We the People underpaying our workers.