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8 things you would do if elected president of the US
Posted on 10/9/16 at 7:03 pm
Posted on 10/9/16 at 7:03 pm
What would your platform be?
#1 Taxes : The day after the tax filing deadline would be a national holiday. Simple flat tax or VAT tax and no more hidden taxes on your phone or cable bill.
#2 Laws : No bill could be more than 10 pages and pork filled additions would be in BOLD and subject to internet review by anyone. Once a maximum number of laws had been reached, congress would be forced to reduce and eliminate old one the average citizen could not understand.
#3 Foreign policy : annex Canada so you control the northern border. Bill everybody else for their share of our defenses in their countries. Engage in carrot and stick foreign policy. You do right, you get the carrot, you mess with US, you get the stick.
#4 Military : declare war on Central America to the Panama Canal (including the island nations) so if you have to build a wall, it is only the length of the Panama Canal. It does not have to be a long war and you don't wan't to destroy the infrastructure so all the factories down there can be repatriated to US for future taxpaying workers down there.
#5 Education : Lower education based on basic math and social skills and less on blue ribbons for special snowflakes. Higher education should be returned to normal spending and education of citizens. No more bloated middlemen spending donations like spendthrifts with a drug habit.
#6 Citizenship : Upon graduation from high school you would have to do 2 years in A) military B) peace corps - overseas version C) peace corps - american inner city version D) WPA type thing for young americans
#7 Community development : Reward "we" based federal financing projects and reject "me" based financing projects. If you want to build a 2 billion dollar NFL stadium, you pick up the check. If you want to build a 2 billion dollar high speed public transit system, government picks up the check
#8 Spending distribution : % for subsidized health care, % for military, % for research , etc, etc, and 0% for the ultra rich and their pork laden pet projects.
#1 Taxes : The day after the tax filing deadline would be a national holiday. Simple flat tax or VAT tax and no more hidden taxes on your phone or cable bill.
#2 Laws : No bill could be more than 10 pages and pork filled additions would be in BOLD and subject to internet review by anyone. Once a maximum number of laws had been reached, congress would be forced to reduce and eliminate old one the average citizen could not understand.
#3 Foreign policy : annex Canada so you control the northern border. Bill everybody else for their share of our defenses in their countries. Engage in carrot and stick foreign policy. You do right, you get the carrot, you mess with US, you get the stick.
#4 Military : declare war on Central America to the Panama Canal (including the island nations) so if you have to build a wall, it is only the length of the Panama Canal. It does not have to be a long war and you don't wan't to destroy the infrastructure so all the factories down there can be repatriated to US for future taxpaying workers down there.
#5 Education : Lower education based on basic math and social skills and less on blue ribbons for special snowflakes. Higher education should be returned to normal spending and education of citizens. No more bloated middlemen spending donations like spendthrifts with a drug habit.
#6 Citizenship : Upon graduation from high school you would have to do 2 years in A) military B) peace corps - overseas version C) peace corps - american inner city version D) WPA type thing for young americans
#7 Community development : Reward "we" based federal financing projects and reject "me" based financing projects. If you want to build a 2 billion dollar NFL stadium, you pick up the check. If you want to build a 2 billion dollar high speed public transit system, government picks up the check
#8 Spending distribution : % for subsidized health care, % for military, % for research , etc, etc, and 0% for the ultra rich and their pork laden pet projects.
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Posted on 10/9/16 at 7:09 pm to Cheese Grits
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#6 Citizenship : Upon graduation from high school you would have to do 2 years in A) military B) peace corps - overseas version C) peace corps - american inner city version D) WPA type thing for young americans
Aside from all the other shite parts of this this is the coup de shite of them all.
Posted on 10/9/16 at 7:14 pm to DirtyDawg
I am bored man, just was hoping to get some random discussion started waiting for the debate to start.
What would you do if you had the job?
What would you do if you had the job?
Posted on 10/9/16 at 7:22 pm to Cheese Grits
Sorry to tell you Cheese Grits but I won't be writing you in on my ballot 
Posted on 10/9/16 at 8:16 pm to Cheese Grits
PIIHB
Posted on 10/9/16 at 8:29 pm to Cheese Grits
#1: Decommission the penny, nickel, and dime. 6 month window to turn in your coins for credit.
Everything else is negotiable.
Everything else is negotiable.
Posted on 10/9/16 at 9:50 pm to Cheese Grits
Wow you're stupid
Posted on 10/9/16 at 10:42 pm to DBU
You realize some of those were not intended to be be taken as serious answers
It was just to out some random things out there to see what other would suggest instead.
Clearly we have two groups at odds with each other so it was a simple exercise to see what folks on here really want done with OUR country, and what we as individual free thinking folks think matters as to what is where the country really needs to go.
While I may have failed in the OP, the responders have failed in not providing discussion points for a solution. Sadly, this is a micro example of what is really happening at the macro level.
It was just to out some random things out there to see what other would suggest instead.
Clearly we have two groups at odds with each other so it was a simple exercise to see what folks on here really want done with OUR country, and what we as individual free thinking folks think matters as to what is where the country really needs to go.
While I may have failed in the OP, the responders have failed in not providing discussion points for a solution. Sadly, this is a micro example of what is really happening at the macro level.
Posted on 10/9/16 at 10:50 pm to Cheese Grits
#1 Apponint a special prosecutor to look into PJ's prognostications
#2 Move the SEC office to NOLA
#2 Move the SEC office to NOLA
Posted on 10/9/16 at 10:52 pm to Cheese Grits
This is tough because the president doesn't really have that much power, tbh.
However, if I were absolute dictator:
1. FAIR Tax Act
2. eliminate race, gender, religion, and ethnicity from being a consideration factor in any and all public decision making (grant applications, higher education, destricting, benefits, employment, ect)
3. Replace all federal entitlement programs with block grants to states, leaving it up to the states to administer and determine standards and eligibility
4. national voter ID
5. change federal election system from party primaries in first round to an open primary
6. replace all campaign finance laws with unlimited contributions and bribes with a catch, candidates must wear their contributors on their clothing like NASCAR drivers, and all bribes must be accepted on live TV during "Greased Palm Sunday" which airs from 8-12 every sunday morning on CSPAN
7. balanced budget amendment
8. create a retirement age for Supreme Court Justices so I can pack the court with constitutionalists, that way I can get lots and lots of bad decisions like KELO, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona (I would have the Miranda Rule embodied in a statute), Whickard v. Filburn, ect
Honorable mentions: repeal ethanol mandates, end all foreign wars, back out of all trade contracts with foreign nations to be replaced with absolutely free trade for all businesses and countries who agree to meet a simplified model regulatory and commercial code, end the war on drugs, take all of those savings and pour a ton of money into NASA and transportation infrastructure.
However, if I were absolute dictator:
1. FAIR Tax Act
2. eliminate race, gender, religion, and ethnicity from being a consideration factor in any and all public decision making (grant applications, higher education, destricting, benefits, employment, ect)
3. Replace all federal entitlement programs with block grants to states, leaving it up to the states to administer and determine standards and eligibility
4. national voter ID
5. change federal election system from party primaries in first round to an open primary
6. replace all campaign finance laws with unlimited contributions and bribes with a catch, candidates must wear their contributors on their clothing like NASCAR drivers, and all bribes must be accepted on live TV during "Greased Palm Sunday" which airs from 8-12 every sunday morning on CSPAN
7. balanced budget amendment
8. create a retirement age for Supreme Court Justices so I can pack the court with constitutionalists, that way I can get lots and lots of bad decisions like KELO, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona (I would have the Miranda Rule embodied in a statute), Whickard v. Filburn, ect
Honorable mentions: repeal ethanol mandates, end all foreign wars, back out of all trade contracts with foreign nations to be replaced with absolutely free trade for all businesses and countries who agree to meet a simplified model regulatory and commercial code, end the war on drugs, take all of those savings and pour a ton of money into NASA and transportation infrastructure.
This post was edited on 10/10/16 at 12:05 am
Posted on 10/9/16 at 10:57 pm to Cheese Grits
Make the iron man suit.
Posted on 10/9/16 at 11:02 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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#1 Apponint a special prosecutor to look into PJ's prognostications
Are you suggesting peej is a mob cooler?
Interesting.
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#2 Move the SEC office to NOLA
What about Nashville, they are like the Switzerland of the SEC
Posted on 10/9/16 at 11:04 pm to kingbob
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5. change federal election system from party primaries in first round to an open primary
6. replace all campaign finance laws with unlimited contributions and bribes with a catch, candidates must wear their contributors on their clothing like NASCAR drivers, and all bribes must be accepted on live TV during "Greased Palm Sunday" which airs from 8-12 every sunday morning on CSPAN
I kinda like these but I really contributors on clothing especially if the biggest bribes get the biggest space on the body!
Posted on 10/9/16 at 11:07 pm to Rebel Land Shark
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I won't be writing you in on my ballot
We cool, I would be a terrible politician as I would take the party that backed me to the woodshed as often as I would the opposing party.
Posted on 10/9/16 at 11:39 pm to Cheese Grits
Now, for the stuff I could actually do as president:
1. Nominate Napolitano to the Supreme Court
2. Make Ron Paul head of the Treasury
3. Instigate a massive purge of federal administrator from all departments, forcing every single employee to justify their existance
4. Reschedule Marijuana, or appoint someone to the FDA who will
5. prosecute any and every federal employee who has committed any federal crime, especially those involved with the IRS scandal and covering up for the Clintons
6. Propose legislation to do all of those things outlined in my first post
7. Defund and refuse to staff the following departments: education, HUD, energy, and labor while block granting their budgets to the states.
8. Instigate a massive role back of regulations put in place by the EPA, OSHA, and Army Corps of Engineers
1. Nominate Napolitano to the Supreme Court
2. Make Ron Paul head of the Treasury
3. Instigate a massive purge of federal administrator from all departments, forcing every single employee to justify their existance
4. Reschedule Marijuana, or appoint someone to the FDA who will
5. prosecute any and every federal employee who has committed any federal crime, especially those involved with the IRS scandal and covering up for the Clintons
6. Propose legislation to do all of those things outlined in my first post
7. Defund and refuse to staff the following departments: education, HUD, energy, and labor while block granting their budgets to the states.
8. Instigate a massive role back of regulations put in place by the EPA, OSHA, and Army Corps of Engineers
Posted on 10/9/16 at 11:59 pm to Cheese Grits
Realistically, I would focus my Presidency in one area. I would spend a ton of money on infrastructure. Like. An obnoxious level.
I'm talking advanced subway systems in every major city expanding to high end growth forecasts to their surrounding suburbs. High speed rail to major cities to get people to air ports, and connect major cities underneath 200 miles from each other.
Public parks as well. Like I'd try and double the number of National Parks, and give huge incentive to every major city to create as vast of a park/waterway/greenspace as possible. Triple tax breaks if it's implemented with rail systems. Imminent domain the frick out of people to mark off shite and create more forests.
Internet access. Municipalities, states, whatever. I'd lay fiber everywhere, let multiple companies try and compete for it, whatever. I'd make it happen.
To pay for it? I'd tax the shite out of people, slash military, foreign aid, NASA, Department of Education, and some other pointless, useless shite. I'd set up a sovereign wealth fund for ongoing payments, and I'd tell everyone to buckle the frick up because it's going to be the biggest Home Improvement project they'd ever seen. Imagine all that money we wasted on foreign wars the last 15 years, double it, and watch it spent directly on making your life more mobile and more beautiful.
I'm talking advanced subway systems in every major city expanding to high end growth forecasts to their surrounding suburbs. High speed rail to major cities to get people to air ports, and connect major cities underneath 200 miles from each other.
Public parks as well. Like I'd try and double the number of National Parks, and give huge incentive to every major city to create as vast of a park/waterway/greenspace as possible. Triple tax breaks if it's implemented with rail systems. Imminent domain the frick out of people to mark off shite and create more forests.
Internet access. Municipalities, states, whatever. I'd lay fiber everywhere, let multiple companies try and compete for it, whatever. I'd make it happen.
To pay for it? I'd tax the shite out of people, slash military, foreign aid, NASA, Department of Education, and some other pointless, useless shite. I'd set up a sovereign wealth fund for ongoing payments, and I'd tell everyone to buckle the frick up because it's going to be the biggest Home Improvement project they'd ever seen. Imagine all that money we wasted on foreign wars the last 15 years, double it, and watch it spent directly on making your life more mobile and more beautiful.
Posted on 10/10/16 at 12:22 am to Cheese Grits
congress would have to do most of those. You'd be president, not emperor.
Posted on 10/10/16 at 4:18 am to MIZ_COU
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congress would have to do most of those. You'd be president, not emperor.
yea, I don't think Cheese has a real good grasp on how our government works (or doesn't).
Posted on 10/10/16 at 5:33 am to five_fivesix
I have a pretty good idea how it doesn't work ;)
Again part of the exercise was just fun
Again part of the exercise was just fun
Posted on 10/10/16 at 5:46 am to TeLeFaWx
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I would spend a ton of money on infrastructure.
Not a bad idea.
Not a bad idea on the parks either
Texas high speed rail
As a Texas A&M guy, did you work on Freight Shuttle System
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