If I Were Trump

Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 9 months ago to Politics
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This is what I'd do. I'd dismantle the Department of Education. Then, I'd tear the building down and turn it into a park for kids, and perhaps include museums for math, science and history. I'd dismantle the EPA. A while back a high-level EPA official gave a talk near my office. He was full of crap. I'd institute a flat tax (and consider making Federal taxes voluntary). This would include doing away with giving people tax incentive to buy more house than they can afford (and other avenues of social engineering the code is currently used for). I'd secure the borders. No more people wandering in. I'd institute a nationwide right to CCW. I wouldn't let felons take part, but I'd have a simple, common-sense, background check. Did you beat your wife? If so, you're out of luck. I'd do whatever I could to encourage private and charter schools for kids. Poor kids would no longer be trapped in crappy ghetto schools by anybody other than their parents. I'd dismantle Obamacare. Then, I'd strive to simplify the interface between doctors and patients, allowing more freedom for citizens to choose their doctors, even encouraging a cash market for medical services. Take out the middle-man. My monthly premiums are about $2400/month yet my pediatrician gets about $40 of that. Time to fix that. Nobody can afford it. I'd make "campaign contributions" to Senators and Congressmen illegal. We'd call it bribery and it would result in mandatory jail time and removal from office. I'd remove tenure in public universities. Remove tenure or you get zero government dough. In the past day we've had a "political science prof" call for genocide. That's it. You're been on the feed farm for too long. Our young people deserve better. I'd do away with the Federal student loan program, too. It's resulting in educated people who are forced to work to pay off their debt to the Grand Poobah. And, it's helping to inflate the cost of college. Can't afford college? Work your way through. Yeah, it will take longer. It's worth it.

That's about it. Good luck P.E. Trump. As Ben Hogan once said..."We've handed you the family jewels. Don't F&%4 it up."

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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 6 months ago
    I thought of this post today. Why? Because I'm not sure if this presidency is already coming off the tracks. We, as a nation, are debating this "Obamacare-light" bill, and still getting sucked into debates about the Russians. Still...this is much, much better than Hillary. She would have probably brought about a very dark time.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "He's hinting"
    The thing about the Rorschach blot is nothing's really there, just pareidolia in the mind of the viewer.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Nothing wrong with picking up a bit about automation/robotics. The field is quite large and has many branches/niches. My main profession was programming chemical making and manufacturing systems, which could be considered a branch of automation/robotics. The best programmers in my field were the ones who had gained a working knowledge of many "craftsman" fields such as those mentioned above and more. [Side note: When I was working in China I was exposed to an interesting concept as we were building a new plant and that was to not automate certain things even though we could have. Their concept was to not over automate in order to provide jobs because it was better for people to be in the plant doing something than out on the street doing nothing. Keep in mind doing nothing in China pays a hell of a lot less than doing nothing in the U.S.]
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  • Posted by blackswan 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You should also pass a law that, if someone blocks one's use of one's property, for any reason, that someone must buy that property from the owner at market price plus 20%, to compensate the owner for his lost time and effort. That will stop the environmentalists and landmark proponents from preventing developers from using their property as they see fit.
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  • Posted by blackswan 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    While they're learning welding, painting, etc., they should also learn enough about automation such that when they're replaced by robots, they can make the transition smoothly.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yep. He's hinting towards much of this with his actions. The media and their leftist buddies are losing their minds...
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When it comes to education, choice is really, really good. It's a two way street. Schools shouldn't have to keep a disruptive kid. Private schools don't now.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Trump has a better understanding of, and appreciation for craftsmen and their skills, as he's made a practice of watching the quality of their work on his building projects. He made each of his children (even Ivanka) learn construction crafts and work along side the workers so they could really comprehend how important the crafters were to the value of his big projects. I hope he reaches out to the states to encourage them to help create a new respect for the labor force that has been the backbone of the economic engine of the U.S.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Even though I became a computer programmer by profession, when I went to high school part of the curriculum was "exploratory shops", which included welding, auto mechanics, machine shop, electrical (home and industrial), foundry and casting, and many others to choose from. I even learned about textiles and how to run a sewing machine. Most of these courses were only 4 to 6 weeks in duration and were not in depth, but they gave the student a good "taste" and beginning knowledge and APPRECIATION for all of these professional crafts. I gained experiences that served me my entire life. Too bad this isn't done anymore.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Me dino thinks such a low sales tax for an income tax would have to include everybody.
    No special deals for any special anybody. No loopholes, no special cash register tax deduction passes, no end of the year kickbacks, no nothin'!
    So says a dictionary definition mystic who blows his nose at anyone using that word for a putdown around here.
    And I took a cold to bed for a while this afternoon--so look the freak out!
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years, 8 months ago
    You forgot about the ATF, the NSA, the FBI, the CIA and the federal marshals, and DHS. Can we just have a single federal police force?
    Then privatize the park service. Eliminate the department of the interior, the dept of energy, at a host of others
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  • Posted by Beatlemicah 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hey Allosaur, If foundations, churches and other non-profit corporations had to share the tax burden, we could have a really low sales tax that might cover what is needed. What does your dino think?
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years, 8 months ago
    How about more emphasis on craftsmen education and training? Welders, plumbers, electricians, and any metal crafters can find well paying jobs while the guy with the Art Appreciation BA is flipping burgers, if he's lucky. A craft skill can be provided at a fraction of the cost of the college degree, and most of the hard to find job skills are craftsmen. There are both union and non union markets that are having a hard time finding people to fill their jobs for craftsmen.
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  • Posted by VicW 9 years, 8 months ago
    Banks are competing now for student loans but the competition will be greater if they government were not in the education business and that would result in better rates for students. Did you ever notice that whenever the government makes costs of education "cheaper" university rates go up?
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  • Posted by Stormi 9 years, 8 months ago
    Well said and thought out. You start with that which set the election of Obama in motion, a screwed up education system. Kids can no longer reason, they acuaully wait to be brainwashed. When Hillary's camp communicated with the CFR (who made Reagan keep the Dept. of Ed.), they made it well known that their shared goal was dumbing down everyonel - a nation of socially unaware people. Trump needs you as an advisor, you have it nailed..
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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 8 months ago
    All right, here are my revisions to the original post. Yes, I would dismantle the EPA, and write highly specific laws setting forth exactly what categories of environmental damage (or "injury" as a lawyer says) the law will recognize, who has standing to sue for it, and what remedies a court will allow. A court, not a quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial executive body.

    Then in addition to everything else, I would abolish the FAA, the NTSB, the FDA, OSHA, and a host of other agencies of that nature. I would invite Underwriters' Laboratories to expand to take over most of those functions (except I would have Aviation Radio, Incorporated, which used to handle air traffic control, step up and take that function back). I would do away with farm subsidies of all kinds. And in general: no more special privileges, no more special protections from your competitors.
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