@jerv and @CaptainHarley
I like your styles. I would recommend on the tax basis that all companies working outside of the country pay a percentage to sell or offer services in the US. That way companies will absorb the losses, or, if in keeping to their (often too predictable) creed, come back to the US to reestablish those millions of jobs lost when they had left. As well, large box stores (Costco, Walmart, BestBuy, etc.) will pay a certain percentage if they are selling or serving in a state other than their parent company. This will pay as property tax to the towns involved, that schools (a big part of property taxes where I’m from) will benefit, roads, and other services as well. It may also go as far as making those corporations think twice about coming into a small town environment and gobbling their resources. Any companies shirking their duties to their employees (already a big issue with Walmart over medical insurance) will incur heavy penalties. Basically, this action will bring their prices up a bit, and let nearby olde-towne shops continue on their own way.
@JLeslie @filmfann I would hope that the Major Parties would be abolished before my time. America was founded on equal opportunity (for people considered citizens, at least). I would prefer to not be considered on the back-burner for running with a third party. I know that many consider there to be three parties only, but it’s actually more like thirty. Very few people ever get to see a twelfth-party candidate in the primaries, but I can’t seem to figure why not? I know, of course, it’s mostly the fault of the news corporations. Abolish those as well, and we might have something equitable in the system, for once in my lifetime.
I have little doubt, if the parties remain strictly Democrat vs. Republican I will not be elected… because I am neither.
Other input:
I would seek to raise popularity again with organic (or even less organic old school) farms. Less monocultures (for within which we are subject at any time to another Dust Bowl type scenario), less stockpiling of surplus grain (if we have it, it should go further to gaining world trust than feeding our coffers), and seek knowledge in further areas of agriculture.
A strong challenge to individuals and companies to compete for government industry jobs. Instead of giving the job to private lobbies who pay the most into the system for contracts, or who promise to do the job for the least amount of money, try weeding through the corporate lobbies to those smaller companies which can do the job better, and more lasting. (If you’d like to know more of Haliburton and those other war contractors see the documentary Iraq For Sale, The War Profiteers)
More schools. Free Universities, in the styles of ancient culture. Where the information is available daily in our library. Services will be offered, such as within a marketplace. Trade will be encouraged, skills will likewise come to light of individuals we’ve overlooked by making education something feared (indebted, billed). Schools for children encouraged to be more outdoor education. We need better infrastructure in this country and the best ways to build come from our imitation of nature.
To have children cooped up inside (to be one of those children) is possibly the worst thing one can imagine for such a large percentage of that population that is done repeatedly with little or no discrimination. In short, schools ought to be a proponent of healthy outdoor activity, with basis in skill sets, such as gardening, architecture, engineering, etc.. Mathematics weren’t learned in a dark classroom, they were taught in an amphitheatre to those who had an ear for them.
I fear I’m saying a bit too much, exposing my ignorance. No, I’m not the smartest cookie in the shed, but I am passionate to get things done when I have the power to put them into action. I’ve been a president before, of an environmental group through my former college, but the infrastructure there was weak, and little work got done because I had no support base on which to rely. The whole thing was a joke, and I fell right into it. However, because I was such a bull-head about getting stuff done, this more recent leader had enough support from those I banded together that the group is now going strong. This is the sort of thing I wish to do with the United States. I admit that a lot of the current issues of states and the Fed aren’t going to be worked out before or even during my time, but I’d try to make a stand for more ways that work, by letting people become more empowered within the system, rather than keeping the government above the people.
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