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06-19-2015, 03:18 PM
While I'm forced to hear about mostly idiot candidates over the next year and a half, I sat down today to figure out who I'd vote for; the following candidate who matched up to most of these positions:
1. Pro-Environment - focus on preservation, conservation, overhaul the way we handle waste (no more landfills); no plastic bags; crack down on pollution even more. More national land acquisition if possible. (National Parks; promote funding of State Parks). National campaign to get Americans concerned about their surroundings. I still see folks throwing trash out the car window regularly.
2. Energy - focus on renewable energy and spend "some" money to clean up older fossil fuel plants but lead to eventually phase them out.
3. Infrastructure - new jobs, better roads; who can argue with that?
4. Military - maintain a strong presence, but reign in wasteful projects; immediate stop. I support Ike's warning still about the military industrial complex.
5. Gay marriage; let's just get this one over with. Who cares? It's no one else's business anyway. Again; if the church objects, let them. A civil union will be the best the couple will get. Keep the government out of it beyond allowing the civil union.
6. 100% separation of church and state; if the church gets public on any political point like they do today, they immediately lose any special tax status.
7. No more corporate bailouts; primarily banks.
8. The POTUS does not create jobs.
9. Healthcare; although the AHA is not good by any means, it needs to rework, not elimination. We need a universal or single payer system. All standard h/c needs like runny nose, broken bones, fever are covered 100%; any risky business you may do like race care driving, bungie jumping requires your own additional insurance; and that could include using firearms....sorry guys!
10. Gun Control; a candidate that is willing to work both sides of the aisle; knowing his boundaries, and come up with a reasonable plan to identify those folks if possible that shouldn't have them. Beyond that is out of bounds. You cannot punish law abiding folks. I'd also like to see the POTUS work to unify States reciprocity nationwide, so as to make all Americans easily understand what the laws are.
11. Taxes: flat tax in which all personal income is taxed 20% with no write-offs. Corporations too have a flat tax on all revenue, say at 30%. Whatever the numbers turn out to be, if you simplify the tax and hold firm, the Feds can make due with that. Any direct subsidies are eliminated from all corporate ventures (oil/gas/agriculture/wind farms too); however the Feds can encourage competition by offering awards for the most innovation.
12. 100% fair global trade agreements that will benefit the American worker AND the corporations equally.
13. Foreign policy: stay out of other nation's problems unless they specifically and publicly ask for help. If we go in to kill the enemy, don't be "nice" about it and accept the fact that there will be collateral damage. Be up front about it and go in hard and decisively. If you can't do that, you've already lost.
The US needs to lead the way and other nations can follow. Right now, we have no plan and it seems the status quo is comfortable to most our leadership today.
1. Pro-Environment - focus on preservation, conservation, overhaul the way we handle waste (no more landfills); no plastic bags; crack down on pollution even more. More national land acquisition if possible. (National Parks; promote funding of State Parks). National campaign to get Americans concerned about their surroundings. I still see folks throwing trash out the car window regularly.
2. Energy - focus on renewable energy and spend "some" money to clean up older fossil fuel plants but lead to eventually phase them out.
3. Infrastructure - new jobs, better roads; who can argue with that?
4. Military - maintain a strong presence, but reign in wasteful projects; immediate stop. I support Ike's warning still about the military industrial complex.
5. Gay marriage; let's just get this one over with. Who cares? It's no one else's business anyway. Again; if the church objects, let them. A civil union will be the best the couple will get. Keep the government out of it beyond allowing the civil union.
6. 100% separation of church and state; if the church gets public on any political point like they do today, they immediately lose any special tax status.
7. No more corporate bailouts; primarily banks.
8. The POTUS does not create jobs.
9. Healthcare; although the AHA is not good by any means, it needs to rework, not elimination. We need a universal or single payer system. All standard h/c needs like runny nose, broken bones, fever are covered 100%; any risky business you may do like race care driving, bungie jumping requires your own additional insurance; and that could include using firearms....sorry guys!
10. Gun Control; a candidate that is willing to work both sides of the aisle; knowing his boundaries, and come up with a reasonable plan to identify those folks if possible that shouldn't have them. Beyond that is out of bounds. You cannot punish law abiding folks. I'd also like to see the POTUS work to unify States reciprocity nationwide, so as to make all Americans easily understand what the laws are.
11. Taxes: flat tax in which all personal income is taxed 20% with no write-offs. Corporations too have a flat tax on all revenue, say at 30%. Whatever the numbers turn out to be, if you simplify the tax and hold firm, the Feds can make due with that. Any direct subsidies are eliminated from all corporate ventures (oil/gas/agriculture/wind farms too); however the Feds can encourage competition by offering awards for the most innovation.
12. 100% fair global trade agreements that will benefit the American worker AND the corporations equally.
13. Foreign policy: stay out of other nation's problems unless they specifically and publicly ask for help. If we go in to kill the enemy, don't be "nice" about it and accept the fact that there will be collateral damage. Be up front about it and go in hard and decisively. If you can't do that, you've already lost.
The US needs to lead the way and other nations can follow. Right now, we have no plan and it seems the status quo is comfortable to most our leadership today.
1. Pro-Environment - focus on preservation, conservation, overhaul the way we handle waste (no more landfills); no plastic bags; crack down on pollution even more. More national land acquisition if possible. (National Parks; promote funding of State Parks). National campaign to get Americans concerned about their surroundings. I still see folks throwing trash out the car window regularly.
2. Energy - focus on renewable energy and spend "some" money to clean up older fossil fuel plants but lead to eventually phase them out.
3. Infrastructure - new jobs, better roads; who can argue with that?
4. Military - maintain a strong presence, but reign in wasteful projects; immediate stop. I support Ike's warning still about the military industrial complex.
5. Gay marriage; let's just get this one over with. Who cares? It's no one else's business anyway. Again; if the church objects, let them. A civil union will be the best the couple will get. Keep the government out of it beyond allowing the civil union.
6. 100% separation of church and state; if the church gets public on any political point like they do today, they immediately lose any special tax status.
7. No more corporate bailouts; primarily banks.
8. The POTUS does not create jobs.
9. Healthcare; although the AHA is not good by any means, it needs to rework, not elimination. We need a universal or single payer system. All standard h/c needs like runny nose, broken bones, fever are covered 100%; any risky business you may do like race care driving, bungie jumping requires your own additional insurance; and that could include using firearms....sorry guys!
10. Gun Control; a candidate that is willing to work both sides of the aisle; knowing his boundaries, and come up with a reasonable plan to identify those folks if possible that shouldn't have them. Beyond that is out of bounds. You cannot punish law abiding folks. I'd also like to see the POTUS work to unify States reciprocity nationwide, so as to make all Americans easily understand what the laws are.
11. Taxes: flat tax in which all personal income is taxed 20% with no write-offs. Corporations too have a flat tax on all revenue, say at 30%. Whatever the numbers turn out to be, if you simplify the tax and hold firm, the Feds can make due with that. Any direct subsidies are eliminated from all corporate ventures (oil/gas/agriculture/wind farms too); however the Feds can encourage competition by offering awards for the most innovation.
12. 100% fair global trade agreements that will benefit the American worker AND the corporations equally.
13. Foreign policy: stay out of other nation's problems unless they specifically and publicly ask for help. If we go in to kill the enemy, don't be "nice" about it and accept the fact that there will be collateral damage. Be up front about it and go in hard and decisively. If you can't do that, you've already lost.
The US needs to lead the way and other nations can follow. Right now, we have no plan and it seems the status quo is comfortable to most our leadership today.