What would be your first three priorities if you were President of the United States?

2017-08-24T12:43:14-04:00

What if it were you? What would be your first three priorities if you were President of the United States?

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 24 at 2017 12:47 PM

2017-08-24T12:47:32-04:00

National Security, Economy and the economy

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 24 at 2017 12:49 PM

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1. Get money out of Politics.
2. Make environmental protection and long term sustainability a national priority.
3. Withdraw all troops from Middle east.

4. Single payer health care.
5. Massive expansion of trade schools, followed by huge growth in infrastructure spending.
6. Major Tax Reform.
7. Convert Federal Reserve to National Bank and print money to pay off all foreign debt.

Response by LTC Orlando Illi made Aug 24 at 2017 12:59 PM

2017-08-24T12:59:12-04:00

1. Reduce Taxes
2. Secure our Borders
3. Maintain a strong deterrent against aggression

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 24 at 2017 1:37 PM

2017-08-24T13:37:54-04:00

Not an easy question to answer. But I will try.

1. Reduce Federal Government's footprint and risk points
a) Term limits on Congress (2 terms?)
b) Remove corporate money. You want to lobby? Lobby with words and petitions.
c) Pull out of State affairs

2. Fiscal responsibility
a) Unburden the tax codes. If you choose to not be in free enterprise (i.e.: an employee) a simplified tax bracket. If you are a business owner (free enterprise) a simplified tax bracket a little lower than employees. Flat rate Corporate tax.
b) Medical decisions taken away from insurance companies, insurance companies severely limited in scope, put the doctors back in charge. Urge the States to do the same.
c) Balanced budget mandatory. No longer promote a "deficit" as a sign of fiscal security. Buckle down and get debt to $0. Remove the Fed Reserve, go back to a national monetary system.

3. Educate our kids on *OUR* systems of politics and finances.
a) We are a Democratic Republic: When speaking of the power source of government specifically, “The United States of America is a Republic,” where elected officials vote for laws, not a Direct Democracy, where citizens vote for laws directly.
b) Free Enterprise: The U.S. economic system of free enterprise operates according to five main principles: the freedom to choose our businesses, the right to private property, the profit motive, competition, and consumer sovereignty. Minimal government oversight/interference/regulation is also a hallmark of our unique system.
c) Constitution and supporting Amendments! If you don't know what we are, how we came about, and most importantly why we came about, you cannot but help believe everything that is in the echo chamber. Education is the key to our future.

With that said, I would probably be assassinated within the first 6 months if elected.

Response by MCPO Roger Collins made Aug 24 at 2017 1:42 PM

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Response by GySgt Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 24 at 2017 2:05 PM

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Restoring our adherence to the Constitution, would work to get Government out of peoples lives.
Provide only what services are specifically listed in the Constitution as what the Federal Government could provide and do. All else left to States.
Strengthen the US Military and cut out any aid to any country that could not with actual reason be called a Friend.

Response by PO3 Donald Murphy made Aug 24 at 2017 2:35 PM

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1. Commission a golden chair that I am to be carried in, wherever I go. The chair will be borne by bearers wearing gold uniforms similar to those in ancient Egypt. They will chant as they carry me (oh-eee-oh, oh, oh. etc). A stand will be on the back for a drummer to keep cadence as we walk. No matter where I go, I will be borne by chair. Each chair trip will be no less than one hour in length. A thousand petal throwers will walk in front of the chair throwing flower petals on the road's surface.

2. Bring back dictator-style parades. There will be one per month in a different state each month. All the tanks and planes will ride by and I will half wave/half salute while remaining stoic looking. I will commission huge medals for those who's marching is really stoic and dictator worthy.

3. Put my picture on all currency and stamps. Rename the value as well. "One dollar" will become "one Don." As I am a foreign banknote collector, I will personally design the new notes. I will hand sign each note above 50000 Don in value.

Response by SFC Michael Hasbun made Aug 24 at 2017 5:54 PM

2017-08-24T17:54:15-04:00

Education, education and education. You fix that, and all other problems go away. A nation of dullards will inevitably collapse..

Response by SN Greg Wright made Aug 24 at 2017 6:23 PM

2017-08-24T18:23:38-04:00

1. My first order would be to bring all our boys and girls home from places in the world where we're not wanted. Okinawa wants us out? Good luck with the Chinese. Afghanistan/Iraq? Fuck em. Leave them to the medieval practices.

2. I'd beef up k-12 education by pouring the money into it that we SHOULD be. Did you know that guaranteeing student loans costs the government more each year than it would to simply PAY for everyone's college outright? So I'd do that, too.

3. Stop trying to be the world's policeman. Stop spending billions on foreign aid.

Response by LTJG Richard Bruce made Aug 25 at 2017 12:05 AM

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1. Reduce the size of the federal Gov't.
2. Reduce the national debt.
3. Reduce entitlement programs.

Response by Maj John Bell made Aug 25 at 2017 12:15 AM

2017-08-25T00:15:22-04:00

1) Tour every last inch of the Whitehouse from top to bottom, all the places the tourists aren't allowed to go.
2) Find out if there really is a "Book of Secrets"
3) Find out what really happened or didn't in Roswell.
4) Turn in my resignation as soon as items 1), 2), & 3) are complete or 48 hours after assuming office, whichever comes first.

Response by SGT Joseph Gunderson made Aug 25 at 2017 8:24 AM

2017-08-25T08:24:34-04:00

1. Abolish the federal reserve and return the country to the gold standard.
2. Overturn all federal policies that invade the privacy of the American citizen.
3. Place limitations on Congress such as, but not limited to: term limits, pay caps (while in office and after leaving), services they are authorized (such as healthcare choices). I believe that they need to be treated just as their constituents; perhaps then we will see real change.

Response by PFC Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 26 at 2017 2:21 AM

2017-08-26T02:21:10-04:00

1. Energy independence.
2. National security
3. Health care reform
4. Tax reform