@Leon Said
1. End the war on drugs. Talk about a money waster, just as bad as Prohibition. Not only has the fight proven to be wholly ineffective in keeping people off drugs, but it has opened up avenues of crime that is bad as the dependence welfare has created for the inner cities, if not much worse. Legalizing drugs would force sellers and traffickers to look for real work, keep families together instead of in jail, end the dangerous threat of cartels coming from south of our border, and open up additional government revenue via taxation rather than money lost as it is today.
Great idea but it will never happen. There are too many private corporations making some individuals extremely wealthy because of it.
@Leon Said
2. Open the borders. Yes, you read that correctly. America was loved and respected over a hundred years ago, part because it was seen as a welcoming inviter for those who wished a better life, and didn't turn people back, and, contrary to popular racist belief today, additional people coming into the country are not a drag to the economy, but are, in fact contributors to our economy. If this were not true then jobs and opportunity wouldn't be there for them to come to, eliminating the magnet. But they are there, and welcoming instead of fighting them would both save government money and gain taxation revenue, much like the ending of the war on drugs would do. Simply letting the market dictate the magnet is the best way to regulate immigration and doing so would gain our respect and save a big political headache. In order for this to work of course, welfare and government assistance should not be one of the magnets.
Once again it's a nice idea but for the same reasons I stated in #1 it wouldn't work. It also wouldn't work because there are too many jobs that nobody else would take.
Presently a good start would be to make it easier for foreigners to practice in their trained field without it taking years of retraining in the USA. Once you get those people working then open your borders to people that will be productive. In other words stop an immigrant from bringing in their grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins twice removed that are too old to be productive.
One last thing... make sure they speak English before they take up residence.
@Leon Said
3. Once the economy is healthy again, end welfare for all except the disabled and elderly. People who are able bodied would learn quickly how to train for and find work as a result, as anybody can who really sets their mind to it. They just don't need to in today's America. Very few homeless people aren't homeless by choice.
What about the victims of misfortune? ie: mothers that have been abandoned by the fathers to name just one type. How do the kids get fed and clothed?
A better solution would be to place tighter controls on those that get welfare and for how long.
@Leon Said
4. End foreign military involvement unless a direct government-level threat is involved. This should have been practiced 10 years ago, before trillions were lost on a meaningless war that alienated the rest of the world. There is a reason the UN and NATO were created, and we should honor these alliances rather than impose our own will over them. One country should never be or behave as the world's police.
The UN and NATO don't work as it stands right now and would need an incredible amount of revamping for them to do any real good. btw, the USA is a major player in both those organizations so you really don't have much to gain. One other thing... for the most part the USA is not alone in fighting those battles even though the majority of Americans think they are.
@Leon Said
5. Turn every school into a charter school. Eliminating the bureaucracy and the one size fits all mentality of school districts and the states, and letting those who do the actual teaching of the students decide what is working and isn't working, via hires, curriculum, and methods, would dictate choice that would alone create success in the schools again and weed out the failures. And, just like all the above, it saves our government money.
Allow the teachers in public schools to be graded and if they fail punt their a** out of the system. Maybe more teachers would change their don't give a s*** attitude into one that means something positive.
@Leon Said
6. Reform campaign finance. Nothing will ever get done for the good of America in the face of corporate greed if we don't do this. Ever.
Why someone would spend millions of dollars to land a job that pays a few hundred thousand is beyond me. Carry on....
@Leon Said
7. Turn our energy system into one that feeds off of the highly cheap and abundant resource of nuclear energy. With enough of these reactors, our dependence on fossil fuels could end overnight and clean the planet, not to mention make energy cheaper. Yes, there is the issue of nuclear waste, but this provides a far smaller environmental burden on our planet than the burning if fossil fuels does.
It's a great idea until a major catastrophe hits as it did in Japan or even Three Mile Island ( USA 1979 ). Japan will be closing it's last necular reactor in the near future and will probably never open another one. There's nothing cheaper than learning from someone elses mistakes.
@Leon Said
8. Advocate gasoline free transportation and vehicles, and this will complete the above goal, not to mention render the volatile Middle East as politically unimportant.
It will happen but not overnight like the tree huggers would like. a** it stands now with the electric vechicles that are available it would take months to cross the USA on your annual vacation.
With reference to oil... you import more oil from Canada than any other part of the world.
@Leon Said
9. Amend the Constitution to define "person". Otherwise corporations will continue to be viewed as one by the court and be allowed to behave as they really are: machines with the sole purpose of profit. Anybody with a head on their shoulders can see that corporations are not people and do not behave like people. They therefore need to be held in check from curtailing the rights of those who are actually people, and such an amendment allows this.
I know nothing of your constitution except the gun part so I'll keepa my moutha shutta.
@Leon Said
10. Reform the tax code by simplifying it and eliminate its avenue for politicians to use as a tool for their agenda and its support.
Da samma goesa for dissa.