If I Were President

19. pork for east arkansas. why not a big amusement park at the refinery?

no, seriously. those are private sector enterprises. don't spend tax dollars on them. same with the electric grid. not a government function.

 

14. if you think about it just a little bit you might find, as many do, that the united nations is a useful organization.

16. forbidden by amendment 1.

 

Depends on what they hit doesn't it? An absolute definite city targeted in any nuclear conflict would be Minot, ND. A 500 kiloton nuclear weapon hitting Minot would kill about 12,000 people. Tragic but quite survival by the United States.

 

So, to you that's no big deal ???

 

Not in the context of a conflict of that scale.

 

Inspired by an article in a recent political publication.


I would work to restore American drug production capability. Most of it has been outsourced to China. But in regards to the events of the recent Covid-19 Pandemic and the possibility of other such events in the future it is imperative that the U.S. rebuild its capability of producing the most commonly used generic drugs domestically.


Of course the only way to do this will result in a windfall for "big pharma" but that can't be helped.


Thoughts?

 

There are still lots of great ideas here that I proposed. and all quite doable.

 

Rebooted upon request

 

I've been accused at DebatePolitics.com of being a Nazi based largely on my old avatar

Can any of these proposals be considered the least bit "Nazi istic"?

 

Updated: Note that with the overturn of Roe v. Wade the abortion issue would have to be addressed differently. I'm open to different ideas on that.

 

updated- Reduce the amounts of illegal drugs shipped into the United States by 50%.

 

none of what you preposed is realistic. In essence, you are creating a dictatorship similar to NK where individual freedoms, rights, and rule of law are all out the window. My explanation is below:

1. You cannot cut the deficit by 50% through discretionary funding alone. That would also mean mandatory spending, mostly Social Security and Medicare, the two most popular programs across party lines.

2. In order to solve illegal immigration, and that means EWI, visa overstays, and visa violators, would need a police force 10 times the current size already and that goes against that first plank of yours.

3. You cannot cut the number of elective abortions at all. What you will do is drive abortions underground where everything is underreported. Furthermore, the government, any government, cannot force people on what choices to make. Government can punish people on the choices they make, but not before. This would mean that you would need to punish anyone who has an abortion from the person to the father of the child to the doctor. Again, that is more on the NK side of things.

4. No economy can grow 50% and be sustained for that long. Your best hope is maybe 4%, if you are lucky. What you don't realize is that you will also cause huge inflation because retailers, wholesalers, and other businesses will not have the obligation and the opportunity to raise the prices to meet the maximum utilization of profit. And by that time, in a year or two, double digit inflation and GDP growth of less than 1%. then you have no tax cuts to fall back on, would you?

5. Holding increases in prices will cause shortages in the economy and producers will not want that at all. Again, it goes against point #4 and counteracts to any positives by decreasing the federal deficit by 50% each year.

6. Again, this goes against point #1. Defense spending is one of the three biggest drivers of federal deficits each year. The other two are Social Security and Medicare. Again, this will not work at all.

7. I like this idea, but again, it is unrealistic. The problem is that it takes a lot of time and money. Time you don't have and your money is even far less than you realize if you enact points #1, #4, and #5 because they all counteract with each other.

8. The only one that has a realistic chance if it is the undersecretaries and deputy secretaries and other subordinate level positions. The cabinets you listed will not go away, they will simply aborb into other departments. VA was probably the best move because prior to that, it was part of the DoD budget and they usually got the lowest priority. So, veterans will not be happy with this at all, period.

9. Nice, but does the term "US Homegeny" mean anything to you? You will also need to pay big bucks to allies and enemies to get this resolved and that goes against point #1.

As for the unstated agenda, most of it lacks foresight, logistical competence, and and lack of human nature. Not all Americans are Christians and forcing Christianity onto others is not what Christ has taught us Christians. Christian Nationalism is one of the biggest threats to Democracy and will negate the true meaning of "free exercise thereof" in the Bill of rights. Furthermore, you cannot legislate or force morality, not even a little bit. Again, government punishes people who make certain poor choices that are against the law, but the government is not the thought police either punishing people before they commit a violation of the law. That is a huge distinction you have not yet learned. And I don't want an FBS or whatever communications bureau that is coming from Starship Troopers or Babylon 5 when Clarke was president. Finally, most of the military suggestions are A, already done through the 82nd Airborne/101st Airborne, are outdated, other countries are in this already, or should be left to the control of the states.

 

Clinton cut the deficits by even more than that repeatedly in the 1990s.