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What would you do as POTUS?

Jack Hays

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We now have our 45th POTUS. None has been Jack Hays, which would have disappointed my high school teacher of US government. I'm 66 YOA so I think my political moment has passed. So now, as we wait and watch to see what DJT does, the question arises. What would you do if you were POTUS?
 
We now have our 45th POTUS. None has been Jack Hays, which would have disappointed my high school teacher of US government. I'm 66 YOA so I think my political moment has passed. So now, as we wait and watch to see what DJT does, the question arises. What would you do if you were POTUS?

Bask in the glory of success?
 
Enjoy four years of having everything I want done blocked by both sides of the aisle. :2razz:
 
No ****ing way I'd be president. Have you seen the after pics from their terms? Damn. Anyways, I'd make it a priority to get the parties to work together again.
 
Deregulate the ownership of automatic weapons.
 
We now have our 45th POTUS. None has been Jack Hays, which would have disappointed my high school teacher of US government. I'm 66 YOA so I think my political moment has passed. So now, as we wait and watch to see what DJT does, the question arises. What would you do if you were POTUS?



You didn't happen to go to school in Hays county Texas by chance did you...?

If I was POTUS... Not all of this can be done by one person but this is what I would push congress to do.

  • Conservative / Libertarian Supreme Court Nominees.
  • Drain the Circuit Court swamp as much as possible.
  • Repeal the income tax. Implement a consumption tax.
  • Repeal the ACA. Replace it with disaster coverage.
  • Set a goal to reduce the government workforce by 30% over 4 years through attrition and dismissal.
  • Set a goal of purposefully going after at least 30% of the Wastebook each budget.
  • Secure the border. Walls, fences, guards, checkpoints, etc. Severe penalties for Sanctuary Cities.
  • Eliminate or kneecap the Department of Education.
  • Reign in the EPA.
  • Bring the UN to heel using the power of our purse.
  • Drill, baby, drill.

This other stuff are just some pet peeves or what I think are useless wastes of money.

  • No senate hearings on any kind of sports anything. No steroids, no flat footballs, , no gambling, no anything sports.
  • Stop bringing sports teams to the white house. Bring scientists, authors, inventors and entrepreneurs.
  • Stop referring to "a decrease in an increase in spending" as a cut.
  • Get rid of baseline budgeting.
 
You didn't happen to go to school in Hays county Texas by chance did you...?

If I was POTUS... Not all of this can be done by one person but this is what I would push congress to do.

  • Conservative / Libertarian Supreme Court Nominees.
  • Drain the Circuit Court swamp as much as possible.
  • Repeal the income tax. Implement a consumption tax.
  • Repeal the ACA. Replace it with disaster coverage.
  • Set a goal to reduce the government workforce by 30% over 4 years through attrition and dismissal.
  • Set a goal of purposefully going after at least 30% of the Wastebook each budget.
  • Secure the border. Walls, fences, guards, checkpoints, etc. Severe penalties for Sanctuary Cities.
  • Eliminate or kneecap the Department of Education.
  • Reign in the EPA.
  • Bring the UN to heel using the power of our purse.
  • Drill, baby, drill.

This other stuff are just some pet peeves or what I think are useless wastes of money.

  • No senate hearings on any kind of sports anything. No steroids, no flat footballs, , no gambling, no anything sports.
  • Stop bringing sports teams to the white house. Bring scientists, authors, inventors and entrepreneurs.
  • Stop referring to "a decrease in an increase in spending" as a cut.
  • Get rid of baseline budgeting.

Sullivan County, Indiana.
 
We now have our 45th POTUS. None has been Jack Hays, which would have disappointed my high school teacher of US government. I'm 66 YOA so I think my political moment has passed. So now, as we wait and watch to see what DJT does, the question arises. What would you do if you were POTUS?

I'd spend my first month trying to figure out how to make the political parties work together, and I would not be yapping about wiping every action of my predecessor off the maps of history until I knew what the hell was going on.

Oh, and I'd redecorate the WH from top to bottom. And bring back sheep to the lawn.
 
.[*]Repeal the income tax. Implement a consumption tax.

The only way to effectively do that is to repeal the sixteen amendment. You also have to keep in mind the incredible amounts of funds the government gets through the system, which would need to be replaced if you didn't want huge debts or massive cuts throughout government. An interesting alternative is to just repeal the withholding system and put back in place the old system.
 
I'd spend my first month trying to figure out how to make the political parties work together, and I would not be yapping about wiping every action of my predecessor off the maps of history until I knew what the hell was going on.

Oh, and I'd redecorate the WH from top to bottom. And bring back sheep to the lawn.

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We now have our 45th POTUS. None has been Jack Hays, which would have disappointed my high school teacher of US government. I'm 66 YOA so I think my political moment has passed. So now, as we wait and watch to see what DJT does, the question arises. What would you do if you were POTUS?

Buy a box if cigars and find an intern.
 
We now have our 45th POTUS. None has been Jack Hays, which would have disappointed my high school teacher of US government. I'm 66 YOA so I think my political moment has passed. So now, as we wait and watch to see what DJT does, the question arises. What would you do if you were POTUS?

The very first thing I would do is stop funding extremists in Syria and anywhere else we're screwing things up worse than it was to begin with.
 
And after the first 48 hours?

I would concentrate on the inner-city problems first. Being a volunteer for the past several years showing the moms who live there how to preserve by canning and/or dehydrating food for future meals, and how to make bread and jellies from scratch, too, has shown me how eager they are to learn, and they never miss a class. Many schools stopped teaching "Home Ec" years ago when someone in authority in DC decided that everyone should attend college, and while there's nothing wrong in going to college, too many drop out of high school as soon as they can, for many different reasons - and they just don't know what to do to change their lives. Everyone has to eat, though, and my classes just got bigger and bigger as word of mouth spread. Learning how to sew was popular, too, even how to hem donated clothing, but others taught that.

Since guys usually don't find those things interesting, although there were some in my classes, just teaching them how to build something - toys for children like wagons, etc, or other things like how to grow a garden for food when you live in an apartment building. We have areas in my town where space is donated for people that want to learn, and it's on a first-come sign-up basis and there never seems to be enough space for all who are interested. I believe Trump would find money for people to learn how to become at least semi self-sufficient and it would benefit everyone.

Just a thought about something I am very familiar with, FWIW....
 
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I would concentrate on the inner-city problems first. Being a volunteer for the past several years showing the moms who live there how to preserve by canning and/or dehydrating food for future meals, and how to make bread and jellies from scratch, too, has shown me how eager they are to learn, and they never miss a class. Many schools stopped teaching "Home Ec" years ago when someone in authority in DC decided that everyone should attend college, and while there's nothing wrong in going to college, too many drop out of high school as soon as they can, for many different reasons - and they just don't know what to do to change their lives. Everyone has to eat, though, and my classes just got bigger and bigger as word of mouth spread. Learning how to sew was popular, too, even how to hem donated clothing, but others taught that.

Since guys usually don't find those things interesting, although there were some in my classes, just teaching them how to build something - toys for children like wagons, etc, or other things like how to grow a garden for food when you live in an apartment. We have areas in my town where space is donated for people that want to learn, and it's on a first-come sign-up basis and there never seems to be enough space for all who are interested. I believe Trump would find money for people to learn how to be at least semi self-sufficient and it would benefit everyone.

Just a thought about something I am very familiar with, FWIW....

If we did not have a Polgara we would have to invent one.:2wave:

Would you do this as POTUS? Or order it done?:mrgreen:
 
I would be impeached about as often as I am "temped" on here.

I guess I would hire a good lawyer as my first step. ;)
 
  • Foreign and big money out of politics.
  • Regulate the Pentagon.
  • Rein in mass-surveillance.
  • Protect whistle-blowers, and freedom of speech in general
  • Regulate mega-corporations and mega-banks, the federal reserve, etc.
  • Deregulate the states.
  • Legalize cannabis, both recreational and medicinally.
  • Tuition-free college.
  • Fund planned parenthood.
  • Single-payer healthcare or getting big business out of healthcare, whichever came first.
  • Isolationist foreign policy.
  • Fund a third party.
  • Not get assassinated.
 
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