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 $ allosaur 9 years, 8 months ago
    Me dino is partial to a national sales tax becoming the only federal income tax.
    Sick and tired of keeping up with crap and jumping through hoops for the IRS.
    What an nonconstructive waste of time!
    Of course, me dino is even more partial to no taxes at all.
    Fat chance that as sure as death will ever happen.
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  • Posted by GaryL 9 years, 8 months ago
    The school choice thing is a can of worms. I agree with having a choice but disagree that all schools should accept all students. Any kid who serves to hold back those who want to learn by being the class idiot or thug should be expelled right back to the failing schools he/she deserves.
    It is not at all about white, black or brown but it is all about shut up and pay attention. Teachers should be strictly monitored and directed to keep their personal political views out of the classroom.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    First thing I think is to get government OUT of the college business. No more guaranteed student loans. No more federal college funding. Force them to be cost conscious. Maybe that will help get rid of tenure. Maybe tenure is just a reward for professors bringing money to the university, which isn't my idea of what a professor should be doing
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 9 months ago
    I pretty much agree. The swamp is deep and wide and it will be a tough road to get this stuff through
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 9 months ago
    President elect Trump is a Rorscharch blot. If you look long enough you can see those policy initiatives.
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  • Posted by $ 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My son is getting into playing golf. I'm so proud when he comes to me and says, "Dad. Let's watch some videos of Ben Hogan." My boy's already got a beautiful swing, too. - unlike me.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 9 months ago
    +1 for eliminating tenure. My university is the only one of the top 200 universities in the world (according to the London Times) that doesn't have tenure (Unfortunately it is being considered over the next few years, but I am fighting it, as are a lot of faculty.).

    +1 for any reference to Ben Hogan, who honed the most repeatable and biomechanically correct golf swing by a human ever.
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