Have you all seen these points yet? -— Curious to see what you all agree or disagree with. My comments will follow.
http://michaelsavage.wnd.com/?pageId=404
The Savage Manifesto
Domestic
A. Regulate Wall Street: End short selling. Try tycoons who profited from bailouts.
B. Cut Federal Income Taxes by 2 percent per year over four years, for a minimum total of 8 percent over four years.
C. Reduce Federal Government Departments in size by 4 percent each year, for a total reduction of size by 16 percent over four years.
D. Eliminate all public assistance for able-bodied recipients. Cut off all public assistance for immigrants for five years. Repatriate those who are not working, after two years.
E. Immediately impose tariffs on cars and trucks owned by foreign entities, even if they’re manufactured in America.
F. Have illegal aliens build a wall between the United States and Mexico, and then, repatriate them. Pay them a one-time worker fee.
G. Increase pay for active duty combat troops by 10 percent. Number Two. Fire any unmarried military person becoming pregnant while on active duty.
H. Make abortions illegal, except when the physical survival of the mother is threatened, to be determined by three medical doctors. Require Norplant for all women on welfare of childbearing age.
I. Close all houses of sex and massage.
J. Expand the DEA, while decriminalizing most drugs.
K. Regarding the media; one, eliminate all foreign ownership of any American media entity. Two, break up overly large conglomerates, like News Corporation.
L. Encourage child bearing among tax paying citizens. Create a marriage incentive, through lower taxes for married heterosexual couples. And a government subsidy for each child conceived and carried to birth. Increase the subsidies for each year the couple remains married.
M. Repatriate all illegal immigrants now incarcerated. Encourage all other illegals to self-repatriate through double taxation on wages and fines on employers.
International
A. Iraq. Send in Iraqi troops to mop up pockets of resistance. Make Iraq pay with their oil for the cost of the war. Cordon off Sadr City, force all residents to leave, then go in and mop up all resistance fighters. Divide Iraq into three to four sectors; Sunni, Shiite, Kurd, and International. Next, remove all U.S. troops after above achieved.
B. Iran. One, sanctions embargoes and mine their harbors. Nothing goes in, nothing comes out.
C. North Korea. Destroy their launching platforms, impose a Naval blockade on all goods coming in or out, except food.
D. Israel Arab Entities. Give Israel four years to become self-sufficient. Cut off all foreign aid to all nations.
E. China. 20 percent tariffs on all China made goods immediately; rising by 5 percent each year for each year China refuses to revalue their currency.
F. United Nations. Withdraw immediately. Remove all Diplomats and staff. Convert the United Nations building into housing for the working poor.
G. Mexico. Force Mexico to pay one barrel of oil for every illegal alien in the United States of America per month.
A. Regulate Wall Street: End short selling. Try tycoons who profited from bailouts.
<(I think the Treasury Department, Congress and the White House need watching more than Wall Street. FT)>
E. Immediately impose tariffs on cars and trucks owned by foreign entities, even if they’re manufactured in America.
(I'm not sure on this one -F.T.)
J. Expand the DEA, while decriminalizing most drugs.
(Huh? Sounds contradictory. FT )
International
A. Iraq. Send in Iraqi troops to mop up pockets of resistance. Make Iraq pay with their oil for the cost of the war. Cordon off Sadr City, force all residents to leave, then go in and mop up all resistance fighters. Divide Iraq into three to four sectors; Sunni, Shiite, Kurd, and International. Next, remove all U.S. troops after above achieved.
( Some good points here. I say NO to any "international presence". FT )
A. Regulate Wall Street: End short selling.Government out of business unless monopolies or cartels are being persued. Try tycoons government officials who profited from bailouts.
B. Cut Federal Income Taxes by 2 percent per year over four years, for a minimum total of 8 percent over four years.Abolish income tax and the IRS. Set a 10% sales tax. (Would launch an era of prosperity and reduction of poverty never before seen.)
C. Reduce Federal Government Departments in size by 4 percent each year, for a total reduction of size by 16 percent over four years. Eliminate most Cabinet Departments except Department of Defense, Department of Justice, Department of State, Department of the Treasury.
D. Eliminate all public assistance for able-bodied recipients. Cut off all public assistance for immigrants for five years. Repatriate those who are not working, after two years.
E. Immediately impose tariffs on cars and trucks owned by foreign entities, even if they’re manufactured in America. Tariffs stifle free-market competition - they're like welfare for producers of inferior products. Consumers are the losers with tariffs, which robs them (us) of the freedom to choose their preferred products/services for the most competitive price. Instead, domestic business needs to shed the ball and chains of unionism, get off their a-s and make quality products at competitive prices
F. Have illegal aliens build a wall between the United States and Mexico Ha! Good one! , and then, repatriate them.. Pay them a one-time worker fee. Give them a chance to go through the legal channels of immigration with a visa and/or application for citizenship. After a short period of time (a month maybe), deport those unwilling to do so.
G. Increase pay for active duty combat troops by 10 percent. Number Two. Fire any unmarried military person becoming pregnant while on active duty. Bingo! Especially if it’s a guy.
H. Make abortions illegal, except when the physical survival of the mother is threatened, to be determined by three medical doctors. Yes. Preferably get SCOTUS packed with strict constructionists who will overturn Roe v. Wade. (This would in turn send the issue back to the states where it belongs and where it used to be before SCOTUS usurped the Constitution.)) Require Norplant for all women on welfare of childbearing age. Sounds Orwellian – what’s Norplant?
I. Close all houses of sex and massage. Uh, states issue, Michael. Savage is ignoring the Constitutional limits of the federal government, creating a quasi-dictatorial state here.
K. Regarding the media; one, eliminate all foreign ownership of any American media entity. Two, break up overly large conglomerates, like News Corporation. What is this, the Third (Fourth) Reich? “Overly large”? According to whom? Monopolies and cartels are the only things the feds have a constitutional right to mess with. Otherwise its up to the people via their states.
L. Encourage child bearing among tax paying citizens. Create a marriage incentive, through lower taxes for married heterosexual couples. And a government subsidy for each child conceived and carried to birth. Increase the subsidies for each year the couple remains married. More Savage-Socialism. Sales tax (see above) would automatically eliminate this kind of reprehensible government manipulation and coercion through using special tax penalties/incentive/subsidies.
M. Repatriate all illegal immigrants now incarcerated. Repatriate – a nice way to say deport them. Incarcerated illegal immigrants deported immediately! Encourage all other illegals to self-repatriate through double taxation on wages and fines on employers.. Give all (unincarcerated) illegals a grace period of a month or so to step forward and be legally processed with a temporary visa or application for citizenship. After that deport all illegals! Period! Don’t bother businesses. Arrest the illegals and deport them.
International
Looks good except for tariffs. We should also control military-usable exports to rogue nations including China.
A. Iraq. Send in Iraqi troops to mop up pockets of resistance. Make Iraq pay with their oil for the cost of the war. Cordon off Sadr City, force all residents to leave, then go in and mop up all resistance fighters. Divide Iraq into three to four sectors; Sunni, Shiite, Kurd, and International. Next, remove all U.S. troops after above achieved.
B. Iran. One, sanctions embargoes and mine their harbors. Nothing goes in, nothing comes out.
C. North Korea. Destroy their launching platforms, impose a Naval blockade on all goods coming in or out, except food.
D. Israel Arab Entities. Give Israel four years to become self-sufficient. Cut off all foreign aid to all nations.
E. China. 20 percent tariffs on all China made goods immediately; rising by 5 percent each year for each year China refuses to revalue their currency.
F. United Nations. Withdraw immediately. Remove all Diplomats and staff. Convert the United Nations building into housing for the working poor.
G. Mexico. Force Mexico to pay one barrel of oil for every illegal alien in the United States of America per month.
I am a huge Savageaholic but he is in fantasyland with his ideas for a political party. I suspect he will lose interest in this like he has lost interest in dozens of other ideas he has had.
Anyone remember the contest to find a substitute host for him? Hahahah!