The first step to reform in this country is to raise the voting age significantly and to implement mandatory drug testing for anyone who believes they are responsible, wise and sober enough to vote. As many of you have noticed throughout these elections, we're not going to be able to have an intelligent dialogue and debate about the challenges we are facing unless and until the hysterics from all sides are duly patted on the head and told to go stand in the corner while the adults carry on the conversation.
In addition to this, our next president should immediately assemble a panel made up of the sharpest and most successful minds in the country -- businessmen, economists, venture capitalists, law enforcement and military officials, professionals in every field etc. (Republican and Democrat politicos past and present, need not apply) -- and put together a plan for...
1) Reforming the tax system
2) Reforming entitlements
3) Reforming the way government spends your money and a plan to end the toxic influence the current special interests yield in Washington.
4) Reform for every govt bureaucracy and dept in existence.
The goal being to eliminate virtually every govt bureaucracy that is broken and exists only to serve ITSELF, rather than WE THE PEOPLE. (This should eliminate about 80% of the current federal budget. lol)
After a deliberate and thorough evaluation concluding with a competent solid plan of action, the president should then approach Congress and ask them to work with him on implementing these reforms.
If Congress balks and/or wants to revert to their old Washington partisan ways, the president must then use his unique bully pulpit and go directly to the American people asking for their help in the way of phone calls, faxes, e-mails DEMANDING "change" -- REAL "CHANGE." (similar to what we witnessed during the Shamnesty debacle.
This is what the next president needs to do, and yes, the right man can do it -- all it takes is a little LEADERSHIP. Not "knowledge" on policy, but WISDOM and LEADERSHIP.
The other day I was having a conversation with a very successful venture capitalist. He was telling me his suggestions for balancing the budget and paying down the dept within a single day -- you heard me right, folks, A SINGLE DAY. It is a very simple reform to our current monetary policies that would I'm guessing revolutionize world markets and world governments. as we know them.
I personally have made suggestions regarding our health care system (no more medical insurance for our daily medical care except for the gravest medical illnesses and most expensive procedures; deregulate the industry and let Corporate America set up medical clinics on every corner in every city, providing the same level of quality care and service we have come to expect from their other products and services).
The point is, we have some BRILLIANT minds in our country -- the best collection of doers in the history of mankind. Millions of Americans are rugged self-made individualists who know how to "think outside the box" rather than the mind-numbing "group think" that permeate that our institutions of "higher education", the media, and of especially the knuckleheads in Washington DC.
Folks, it is beyond obvious that government is broken. Everyone agrees that government no longer works for the PEOPLE it is sworn to serve. We all agree the SYSTEM ITSELF is toxic and poisons any person (running for office) that comes in contact with it.
For too many special interests in this country, government has become an end in itself, rather than the important means it was designed to serve: WE THE PEOPLE.
Your governments spends your hard-earned tax dollars without any accountability, oversight or conscience.
If any business in small town America or Corporate America ran their enterprises the way our government does business, they would be broke and/or in jail.
With all said, I am NOT a tizdoom gloomer -- I have tremendous FAITH in the American people and in my country because after all, the engine that drives this country aren't the spoiled fat cats in Washington. They are the farmers, IT programmers, entrepreneurs, doctors, teachers...YOU...
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE can fix this -- and the solutions to the challenges we face are not insurmountable. They don't require expensive political campaigns....just a little leadership -- and by leadership, I don't mean the latest arrogant white knight who pretends to ride in on his high horse lecturing us on how we need to live our lives and spend our money promising his enlightened "vision" can save us from ourselves. (Any humble student of history can see that B. Hussein Obama is a complete FRAUD!)
The First Principles this country were founded on are far greater than any individual, any politician or any president who wishes to run for the highest office.
We must therefore choose a
humble but tough leader who embodies these First Principles and who, like great leaders of our past, becomes the "reluctant warrior." We must choose a leader with great wisdom and FAITH in the God who created our blessed Republic.
There are many such leaders across our country, but I am sad to say that not a single one of them will step to the fore until we face a crisis and the people demand change --
REAL CHANGE.
Whatever the daily headlines, I promise you, my friends, America's best days are still ahead. But we Americans must look deep within our own souls and our glorious past if we are to chart out a brighter and more prosperous future.
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