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I agree with many of these ideas but I would completely end welfare. Not one dime. The lie detector idea is silly. The rest are pretty solid.
1 posted on 01/17/2025 2:29:05 PM PST by Strict9
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Oh, and I would also take the druggies off the streets and put them in hospitals for rehabilitation like they used to. It’s cruel to leave them out on the streets. And cruel to subject citizens to their mayhem.


2 posted on 01/17/2025 2:31:49 PM PST by Strict9
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bfl


3 posted on 01/17/2025 2:32:44 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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I agree. Lie detectors don't work. They are used to fool/coerce the fearful and stupid.

We had a famous case here in Georgia where a couple of enterprising sheriff's deputies hooked up a colander to some batteries and a light. Then when the suspect said something, they would mash a button and the light would flash, and they'd yell, "You're Lying!" He confessed.

Conviction was reversed -

4 posted on 01/17/2025 2:34:05 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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THE LIST:
1- Require photo ID to vote.
2- End welfare for illegals.
3-Enforce E-Verify.
4-End wefare for able-bodied citizens.
5-Term limits for Congress, just like the president.
6-Annual lie detector tests formembers of Congress.
7-Go back to the Gold Standard.
8-Reinstituting “three strikes and you’re out” for violent crimes.
9-Get rid of income taxes and the IRS.
10-Solve the problem of paying for college education.


6 posted on 01/17/2025 2:50:10 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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Those work for me.

I hope he sent the list to President Trump.

Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.


8 posted on 01/17/2025 2:54:50 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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Student loans are a big driver of the cost of education. It means too much money is chasing a finite resource which will always result in inflation.

Another part of the problem is desperate parents putting up with criminal and fraudulent behavior in colleges.

You are paying for a service, act like it. Parents need to be willing to pull their kids out of schools that are playing games instead of educating their kids.


11 posted on 01/17/2025 3:05:34 PM PST by hopespringseternal
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There would have to be protections for religious grounds in the
“you must take a job” category.

I read about a German girl who was assigned “sex-worker”. They were trying to force her to be a prostitute.


12 posted on 01/17/2025 3:06:52 PM PST by FrogMom (Time marches on....)
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College plan I disagree with, the degree supported should be the ones we need not liberal arts or similar programs. Help engineers, medical etc


13 posted on 01/17/2025 3:07:07 PM PST by Ronald77
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The homeless and druggies are a state/city issue. So are election laws.


15 posted on 01/17/2025 3:13:14 PM PST by lurk (u)
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as usual, much of what Root writes makes total sense, and much of it nonsense, like going back to the “gold standard” ...

total U.S. gold reserves are approximately 261,484,083 troy ounces ... total U.S. dollars in circulation are 2.37 trillion ... add to that total governmental and private assets, which is worth 425 trillion dollars, for a grand total of roughly 427 trillion dollars ... thus gold would have to be valued at approximately $1,633,000 per ounce to used as a measure of value for all the dollar-denominated U.S. assets ... which means microscopic amounts of gold would have to be used to for daily retail transactions ...


17 posted on 01/17/2025 3:18:05 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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Oddly Mexico elections in the past were totally corrupt. Today Mexico has one of he cleanest election of many nations and far better than ours In Mexico you get what you vote for and this does not happen in the United States in any close electionl


22 posted on 01/17/2025 3:46:02 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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I agree with all of these but one: No government loans for college. If they want to go to college, they’ll work their way through like I did. Furthermore, I don’t trust the politicians not to forgive those loans. NO government college loans!


23 posted on 01/17/2025 4:11:21 PM PST by Savage Beast ( If the hostages aren't released by the time I take office, there will be hell.--Donald Trump)
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NO welfare for ILLEGAL immigrants is a no-brainer, but it should be irrelevant because all ILLEGAL immigrants should be deported immediately.


24 posted on 01/17/2025 4:12:50 PM PST by Savage Beast ( If the hostages aren't released by the time I take office, there will be hell.--Donald Trump)
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Not going to read an article with such a gross headline no matter how good the ideas might be. Why could he not use the word “courage”?


30 posted on 01/17/2025 5:57:47 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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“Now liberals might ask “what jobs are we going to assign to able-bodied welfare recipients?” Simple. Now that all the illegal aliens are either deported, or self-deporting, or prohibited from working, there are millions of job openings in construction, landscaping, restaurants, hotels, housekeepers and nannies (to name a few). American citizens on welfare can fill all these jobs and get off welfare forever. If they don’t want to work, they lose their welfare. I’ll bet we can cut welfare spending by 70% or more.”

Completely agree. The illegals are doing the jobs that Americans won’t do because those Americans are getting paid to not do those jobs.


33 posted on 01/17/2025 7:15:15 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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