Unkotare
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- Aug 16, 2011
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And there's a lot of truth in that statement.
How do you get the American people to give a shit?
Most dont even take the time to vote let alone learn the issues and what they mean to this country and it's future.
The only way these people wake up is for something to happen that effects them immediately.
Unfortunately politicians know this and screw us incrementally and by the time the American people realize they're being screwed it's to late.
Personally I dont have much hope.
I think we can get it right....I've been writing about how for years and don't find it hard to get agreement. First and foremost we need a guy like Perot or Romney or Trump who has so much money they aren't interested in making more. ONE TERM....use every single executive action that Obozo has used to reverse everything he's done.....that'd chafe the Dims' asses.
First order of business, SHUT THE BORDER. Nobody comes north until further notice. FINISH THE FENCE and mine it with drone surveillance. Pull out of NAFTA and quit the WTO. Tell the Fortune 500 to either return their production to plants they shuttered within 180 days or face crippling tariffs and seizure of their current inventories as contraband. I'm just gettin warmed up.
Close DHS, Dept.of Education, EPA, and Dept.of Commerce. Tell the IRS they have 30 days to get their house in order or face massive layoffs. Institute the flat-tax...no deductions. Cut corporate tax rates to ZERO. Tell the defense contractors either their projects come in ON BUDGET or face criminal penalties. When we agree on a price that price will be met and the check will clear.
BALANCE THE BUDGET in real numbers not smoke and mirrors. Everybody gets a 15% haircut. Build the Keystone XL with the provision none of that oil leaves Louisiana for foreign ports....let's see if that still interests the Canucks. Then clean up the oil leasing fiasco......grant the leases with a 3 window to explore and either drill or not. No activity, the lease is rescinded. I don't care for off-shore oil drilling but if the drillers can absolutely assure the president they can extract oil without danger to the sea, then fine. Open ANWR 1001...there's a sea of oil up there. And then offer outstanding rewards for new energy ideas that can be tested on a small scale. Oh, and reopen the coal industry with the stipulation that they can get tax-credits for effective chimney-scrubbers.
There. I have just created 10-15M new jobs, reopened hundreds of closed manufacturing facilities that puts the small businesses around them back in the black. I have not only made us energy-independent, but I've made OPEC and the Ivans start asking us for loans instead of messing with us. My plan will pay off the debt within 10 years and the country will be booming and prosperous again.
Impractical nonsense is kid's stuff, and not to be taken seriously.