Posted on 08/25/2014 9:01:09 AM PDT by HammerT
Put yourself in the place of the supreme maximum leader, his excellency and malevolent ruler of all Barack Hussein Obama. You’re the leader of the free word and aside from playing golf, campaigning and fundraising you occasionally make decisions that affect the fate of the future of the planet.
One of these would be whether to throw opened the gates to the country to every disease and bomb carrying terrorist, thug and leech OR keep them out and save the nation.
ISIL could pose threat to US, Europe, officials say
http://news.yahoo.com/isil-could-pose-threat-to-u-s-—europe—officials-say-135908833.html
AZ Sheriff: ISIS Likely Way into Homeland Is Unsecured Border
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/08/15/AZ-Sheriff-ISIS-likely-Way-Into-Homeland-is-Unsecured-border
Experts: Ebola Could Cross Unsecured U.S. Border
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/08/Experts-Ebola-Could-Cross-Unsecured-U-S-Border
You Are Not Nearly Scared Enough About Ebola
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/08/14/you_are_not_nearly_scared_enough_ebola_vaccine_west_africa_outbreak
Texas Border Bust: Cash, Weapons and Grenades Seized
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/08/24/South-Texas-Authorities-Seize-Over-600000-In-Cash-Weapons-And-Grenades
Despite the warnings that the crisis you created has already has let in criminals and terrorists, you’re signaling that you want to blow open the borders with executive amnesty.
As Obama returns, advocates look for executive action
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/215808-as-obama-returns-advocates-look-for-executive-action
Buchanan: Obama Will ‘Set the Country Completely on Fire’ with Executive Amnesty by Labor Day
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/08/23/Bucahanan-Obama-Will-Set-the-Country-on-Fire-with-Executive-Amnesty-by-Labor-Day
Signally that the border is wide open will only serve to turn a flood into a tsunami – overloading an already over burdened social welfare system to the breaking point. This will also make it impossible to stop people carrying all manner of diseases from entering the country. Not to mention that Terrorists could bring in what ever they need to kill millions of the citizens you swore to protect.
Now of course the smart thing to do would be to keep out the terrorists, disease and looters, not to mention fulfilling your oath of office.
And why isn’t Obama doing it?
Are there any doubts as to the man’s intentions?
I want to respond but will have to do so later when I have more time.
That’s fine – respond when you can.
First of all repeal Obamacare and all the connected law suits dismissed.
Secondly, repeal all the executive orders that Obama has done.
Third, put God back into the military
Fourth, repeal common core and let school teach basics like they used to.
Fire all the czar and dissolve anything they supervised. Get it back to a simple cabinet.
And my list could continue.
Fire all the czars
Repeal all the tax hikes and let business flourish. Thus offering only U. S. citizens jobs.
All of those things make perfect sense – and the reason Obama doesn’t want to do them.
Securing the border also makes perfect sense…. But..
I would sit down the top 5,000 military and political bureaucrats and administer a 100 question open book test. The open book would be the Koran. They would have three hours to complete the test. Any unanswered question would be treated as incorrect answer. A passing grade would be 80%. People of Islamic extraction or practicing Muslims would be bared from taking the test.
Those who failed would be immediately dismissed from Federal Service as being incompetent. These people would be bared from Federal Service and living near the beltway for a decade. Very low scores would be bared for 15 years.
If you don’t understand your enemy how can you effectively fight him? Why would you admit an identified enemy agent into your war councils? Why would want to advised by competent failures when they became lobbyists?
Then, I would repeat the concept with specialized test for DOJ, Energy, Education, EPA, IRS, and State. The concept would be the same - if you don’t know the statutory requirements for your job how can we expect you to perform effectively?
The survivors of this “purge” (as articulated by the MSM) would understand their job requirements and restrictions, at least for a year or three.
Securing the borders has to include stopping people from gaining by coming here illegally so:
Make it illegal to hire illegals.
Make it so illegals can’t go to school, get medical treatment, drive a care, vote, get government benefits.
Put people who are illegally present in our country in prison or at least make it illegal for anyone found illegally in our country to ever legally become a citizen.
Make legal immigration selections based on criteria other than a specific attempt to skew our countries demographic toward a particular political party.
Shut down all legal immigration when our unemployment rate goes above an acceptable level.
These are actually the kind of things any government typically does.
I would also do things like make public sector unions illegal but that’s a whole other topic.
Many people, and most leftists, won’t go near the idea that the guy they supported actually wants to destroy America.
I'd close the border and deport illegals that haven't married a citizen.
I'd build several nuclear plants for cheap energy and prepare many more sites.
I'd terror proof the energy grid.
I'd build some new water reservoirs to provide for our population in the future.
I'd use the anti-trust laws to split the press and MSM up.
I'd run public service announcements educating America on the constitution and on the importance of our rights.
Knowing your enemy is a basic element of fighting them – but the Left wants to deliberately stay ignorant of our current enemy because were they to know them, they wouldn’t have any excuse to appease them.
So.... you'd have about what, 40 people taking the test ?
My mindless vision of what I would do if I could. If we could do this and a few other things it would not only give us purpose and vision but I believe we could lead the world for at least another century.
It will never happen though without melt down, even then it is highly unlikely, because it would take at least two terms and nobody who offered any of this could be elected once let alone twice.
The three main planks (immigration is not included since we just need to enforce the law) are:
1. A real national energy plan for the next century with Thorium as the foundation for fixed power generation. Fossil fuels will remain for transportation and chemicals.
2. Tort reform, we live by or in fear of litigation. It clouds every decision we make.
3. Throw away the tax code and have a flat tax and no matter who he is or how much he works EVERYBODY pays tax at the same rate. Make our corporate tax structure competitive on a world-wide basis as well
The other drivel I wrote (in no particular order but just a brain dump while I was on a roll) in the fall of 2011 was:
1. NO lobbyists, you get a vote and one vote per person. Just wall off K Street.
2. Campaign reform, campaigns costs too much and there is too much room for mischief
3. Regulations overhaul, sunset and eliminate most of them, there are too many and too many overlaps. We live in a nation where we are all probably law breakers of some sort. It has become the land of “Show me the man and I’ll find the crime.”
4. Tort reform, loser pays and so does the loser’s attorney. Loser pays 40% and atty who talked them into suing pays 60%. Pay defendant costs plus a fixed damage amount for pain and suffering (e.g. $250,000 rising with inflation) plus 25% of last year’s taxable income. You can still sue but you better have a good reason to put yourself at risk. Oh, and require a bond to sue... the plaintiff’s atty can post it.
5. Cut spending, no new federal hires, none, make it hurt and make any “required” new hires be fully justified, eliminate whole agencies, you know the ones, Education, HUD, HHS, EPA, Homeland Security. Get back to the original agencies prior to WWII. No business or nation can survive with 25% non-productive overhead.
6. Phase out Social Security. People in, stay in. People not yet getting paid phase out on a linear scale from age 65 to 15, 2% reduction in benefits per year, pay similarly
7. Restructure 401K and allow more flexibility of product offerings, make pension provision competitive not the profiteering free-for-all that Wall Street and Financial Planners now enjoy where they make money if you win or lose.
8. A national energy plan with fossil fuels for the transition to nuclear for base load electricity (Thorium Reactors) and for future transportation fuels still being hydrocarbons. Sponsor reactor research to commercialize Thorium in 10 years with a transition to nearly 100% of base load electric power in 50 years.
9. Restructure medical insurance and Medicare / Medicade, this may be the toughest of them all. At least allow portability across state lines and a national based commercial provision of health care. Structure it so the commercial providers have incentives to save costs and save quality of life. Toughest of them all. People need to have a real stake in health care costs, not just to be users. They need to pay something substantial for going to the doctor as an elective event. Medical care can’t be done for nothing but there has to be a limit for what can be spent since we are all going to end up dead anyway one way or another.
10. Taxes, put the IRS out of business. Flat tax and EVERYBODY pays something and they have to do it by writing a check ever quarter. 18% of GDP sounds like about enough to run the government with a goal of 15% in 20 years. Everybody pays proportionately to their income.
11. S-can government guaranteed loans. Anybody stupid enough to loan or guarantee a loan for someone to pay $200k for a degree in just about any Liberal Arts degree or just about any other degree that can’t earn enough to pay it back. Anybody who promotes such a loan should be shot for being the PIMP that they are. Same goes for housing loans. Anybody stupid enough to take a loan like that and not know that Theater Arts majors don’t make that kind of money for the most part isn’t responsible to get a loan for that much money.
12. Military, get out of anyplace we don’t have a vital national interest. Get some new damn airplanes, ours are worn out! Lockheed is not a good place to get them. They don’t know what on time on budget mean. Best equipped, best trained military in the world but not in numbers. Not possible. Quantity has a quality all its own and with programs like the F-22 we are kidding ourselves. Oh, and spec ops are much more efficient than huge armies for local problems. Use them when you need them and keep your mouth shut. It has been done in the past and needs to be done now. If the lord’s liberation army (Central Africa) needs to be taken out hunt down the leaders, kill them, hang around long enough to find the successors, kill them and leave. If it happens again wash, rise and repeat at will.
13. Foreign aid, same as military. Kick the UN out of the US and cut off our money to them. The UN is nothing but trouble to U.S. from where I sit. Some argue that a place at the table is better than on the outside looking in but most of what gets done worth a damn is by bonafide State Department diplomacy.
14. Adopt the “Penny Plan”. It just makes too much sense not to try it. Get rid of Baseline Budgeting. It doesn’t make sense and it just encourages waste. We don’t need to be penalizing people for saving money and rewarding waste. The end of FY spending spree needs to end.
15. This is the United States we speak English here and that is all we need to print or conduct business or anything else in.
16. Illegals. Seal the border, dig them out, provide work visas, track them (the Feds sure have no trouble tracking us), enforce the laws we have and continue to have the same path to citizenship we have had for ever. Anchor babies.. NO, not anymore. Press the Supreme Court to rule or repeal the 14th Amendment. It is insane and so is United States vs. Wong Kim Ark of 1898. Just stupid, this is one Amendment that is surely now arcane.
17. Repeal the 17th Amendment and replace it with term limits. Being a politician is not meant to be a career.
There is a bunch of other stuff but it won’t ever be done either like things that should really be core curriculum for our kids. We can’t legislate morality, principles, honor, religion, character, integrity and so forth. I think our only hope there is by leaders with those qualities who will encourage them by example. Not everybody though will be perfect. We have lost the visions of self-reliance, hard work, ambition and the will to be a great nation again. We have become a polarized nation of takers and workers and the workers are losing, if they have not lost already. We now have at least three generations who are not much more than dangerous pets and they just aren’t that cute and loving or loyal anymore to their care takers. Other than that they are mostly just useless.
Oh yeah, bring back the Neutron Bomb and clean up ISIS and any other scourges of mankind. It is clean and efficient.
Implement every one of Mark Levin's Liberty Amendments.
That’s one I forgot. Make the fence all along the border like the one in San Diego.
“Fire all the czars”
...... Out of a cannon
On the illegal immigration.
Make them all take the citizenship test again and again and again until they can speak English, answer the questions and become a legal immigrant.
Until them no benefits — they must become a legal immigrant first.
Good ones.
Another one — build the pipeline from ANWR to an increased number of refineries in the U. S.
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