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re: 8 things you would do if elected president of the US
Posted on 10/10/16 at 7:25 am to Cheese Grits
Posted on 10/10/16 at 7:25 am to Cheese Grits
1. Stop illegal immigration/strictly enforce existing immigration law.
2. Sign a bill repealing Obamacare.
3. Terminate the "treaty" with Iran and impose strict sanctions on Iran.
4. Sign a bill requiring work for government benefits and that would limit government benefits to families with more than 2 children aka stop paying indigents to have more children than they can afford.
5. My DOJ would prosecute Hillary Clinton.
6. Greatly restrict immigration from Muslim nations and tell it like it is about Islam as the root cause of terrorism. If Muslims can't be strictly vetted then they don't get in.
7. Sign a bill simplifying the tax code and streamlining the IRS.
8. Take a more businesslike approach to government in general including our foreign policy and military.
2. Sign a bill repealing Obamacare.
3. Terminate the "treaty" with Iran and impose strict sanctions on Iran.
4. Sign a bill requiring work for government benefits and that would limit government benefits to families with more than 2 children aka stop paying indigents to have more children than they can afford.
5. My DOJ would prosecute Hillary Clinton.
6. Greatly restrict immigration from Muslim nations and tell it like it is about Islam as the root cause of terrorism. If Muslims can't be strictly vetted then they don't get in.
7. Sign a bill simplifying the tax code and streamlining the IRS.
8. Take a more businesslike approach to government in general including our foreign policy and military.
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Posted on 10/10/16 at 7:37 am to Cheese Grits
You forgot congressional term limits. Those are a must.
Posted on 10/10/16 at 9:23 am to Pavoloco83
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You forgot congressional term limits. Those are a must.
Agree with this. Lack of term limits leads to professional politicians which is the root cause of crony capitalism.
Posted on 10/10/16 at 9:33 am to Cheese Grits
I would purge the sec rant
Posted on 10/10/16 at 10:52 am to heartbreakTiger
look for a hot intern
Posted on 10/10/16 at 1:20 pm to Cheese Grits
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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
I did not, but that's awesome.
Posted on 10/10/16 at 2:06 pm to Cheese Grits
Well thank God you're not President
Posted on 10/10/16 at 2:14 pm to dawgfan24348
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Well thank God you're not President
Agreed, first thing I would do is put both of them in the public stocks.
I think Hillary is the one in the hat because she clearly wears the pants in the family
I think the other is Trump because of the smaller hands
Posted on 10/10/16 at 2:34 pm to TeLeFaWx
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I did not, but that's awesome.
Was around in the 1970's when a similar idea was proposed. One would carry freight and another would be 1/2 sized and carry cars. High speed (150-300 mph) so you pull your car into a port at Houston and ride in your car at high speed to Dallas, then offload and use your own car instead of a rental. It works even better for distances under 600 miles where wait time in airports and actual drive time in cars can be greatly reduced.
You have "offloads" about every 15 min to 30 min so passengers can take bathroom breaks if necessary as the Meatloaf Mercedes may never come to pass. The only thing with making it totally no driver is that puts several million truckers out of jobs. Elevate rails and run them parallel to existing rails or highways.
Posted on 10/10/16 at 2:38 pm to Cheese Grits
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Was around in the 1970's when a similar idea was proposed. One would carry freight and another would be 1/2 sized and carry cars. High speed (150-300 mph) so you pull your car into a port at Houston and ride in your car at high speed to Dallas, then offload and use your own car instead of a rental. It works even better for distances under 600 miles where wait time in airports and actual drive time in cars can be greatly reduced.
You have "offloads" about every 15 min to 30 min so passengers can take bathroom breaks if necessary as the Meatloaf Mercedes may never come to pass. The only thing with making it totally no driver is that puts several million truckers out of jobs. Elevate rails and run them parallel to existing rails or highways.
If it puts truckers out of work, so what? It sounds effing awesome.
This post was edited on 10/10/16 at 2:40 pm
Posted on 10/10/16 at 3:09 pm to TeLeFaWx
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If it puts truckers out of work, so what? It sounds effing awesome.
You do realize currently the sort and long haul truckers account for maybe 3 million jobs or so, right?
Viewed another way, think of firing every Wal Mart worker in America and then double it to equal the trucking business. Say Wal Mart pays 20K a year and a trucker can earn twice that.
Some simple math
1.5 million x 20K = 30 Billion in wages for all of Wal Mart
3.0 million x 40K = 120 Billion in wages for all of truckers
Do you really think taking 120 Billion in wages out of the economy will have no effect?
Posted on 10/10/16 at 4:19 pm to Cheese Grits
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Upon graduation from high school you would have to do 2 years in A) military
I believe Israel does this now
Posted on 10/10/16 at 4:25 pm to kywildcatfanone
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I believe Israel does this now
Sorta where I got the idea, and the old man doing WPA work in the depression. my generation had for ends in the peace corps or doing missionary work.
Posted on 10/10/16 at 6:39 pm to Cheese Grits
I know a few things that would get done if we had a leader like Putin running this nation. There wouldn't be any safe spaces for one thing.
Posted on 10/10/16 at 6:53 pm to GurleyGirl
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1. Stop illegal immigration/strictly enforce existing immigration law. 2. Sign a bill repealing Obamacare. 3. Terminate the "treaty" with Iran and impose strict sanctions on Iran. 4. Sign a bill requiring work for government benefits and that would limit government benefits to families with more than 2 children aka stop paying indigents to have more children than they can afford. 5. My DOJ would prosecute Hillary Clinton. 6. Greatly restrict immigration from Muslim nations and tell it like it is about Islam as the root cause of terrorism. If Muslims can't be strictly vetted then they don't get in. 7. Sign a bill simplifying the tax code and streamlining the IRS. 8. Take a more businesslike approach to government in general including our foreign policy and military.
These are actually quite accurate and well thought out. But, those things would never happen because if you ran on these principles you would not get elected in America in 2016.
Posted on 10/10/16 at 7:08 pm to Cheese Grits
Election reform - no one outside the electoral boundaries of that particular race can contribute to a candidate (I.e. only voters in that state can donate money to a statewide race, only city residents in municipal races, etc.). Plus, only actual live persons can donate. No PACs, corporations, etc can donate money.
You choke off the money to the politicians and the rest will take care of itself.
You choke off the money to the politicians and the rest will take care of itself.
Posted on 10/10/16 at 7:26 pm to kywildcatfanone
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8. Take a more businesslike approach to government in general including our foreign policy and military.
Yet we never nominate a managerial accountant
It is not what you spend, but how well you spend it.
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7. Sign a bill simplifying the tax code and streamlining the IRS.
Yet we never nominate a system engineer
A good engineer worth their salt will figure out the best way and figure out how to get more for less
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1. Stop illegal immigration/strictly enforce existing immigration law.
We don't elect a beat cop
A good beat cop keeps the laws while understanding the beat he works to actually keep the peace in the neighborhood.
FWIW, in a land founded on religious freedom, segmenting by religion is one of the most un-American things you can do. You have Muslim bad guys just like bad christians and bad jews. Spending time listening to some white european blowhard talk about muslims is not the same as going to a local mosque and getting to know the actual people and their faith. If you like goat and lamb they have some mighty tasty food, and so far they haven't tried to knock me off.
Posted on 10/10/16 at 7:31 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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Election reform - no one outside the electoral boundaries of that particular race can contribute to a candidate (I.e. only voters in that state can donate money to a statewide race, only city residents in municipal races, etc.). Plus, only actual live persons can donate. No PACs, corporations, etc can donate money.
You choke off the money to the politicians and the rest will take care of itself.
Pretty damn good, I might add "invisible" influence as well. You have a city councilman who gets no apparent political funds but his son gets a KFC franchise in another state as "payment" for a zone change in his city for a big corporation. Arms length really needs to be arms length.
Posted on 10/10/16 at 8:26 pm to Cheese Grits
All persons convicted of a violent crime would be deposited on an island for life. Food would be provided and nothing else.
Posted on 10/10/16 at 8:34 pm to Cheese Grits
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#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.
So, you'd be willing accept 48 Million new people into the union, most of which work for pennies in order to build a cheaper wall? How in the hell would you do that? That's zero revenue from 85% of Central America, plus the fact that they're probably not prepared for a "government".
That's the stupidest fricking thing I've ever heard.
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