I am thinking of running for President in 2016

sparquelito · Aug 23, 2014

Southern Dad said: ↑

Stocking the beer fridge is but a slight price to pay for the second highest office in the land. However, when vetting me you will probably hear rumors that I'm a power mad villain type. So, fair warning, you'd probably want to bring back the position of King's Food Taster.
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Ha ha ha ha!
Fair enough, sir.

PatrickT · Aug 23, 2014

sparquelito said: ↑

I would run as an Independent, and I would not take a dime (for my campaign financing) from any person who I didn't know and trust very well. I would also refuse to take any money from any company or corporation whose products and services that I did not personally use and/or endorse.

Economic Platform
* I support the free market, and I would not use Government funds to bail out any corporation, company, or entity that cannot make it on their own merit.

* I would dismantle the Internal Revenue within four years. I would give the US Congress a reasonable amount of time to implement a system of Federal taxation that takes the best elements of the Fair Tax and the Flat Tax concepts, and then I would sign it into law. The end state would be one where the US taxpayers pay approximately 1/4 of what they are paying currently to the Federal Government, and the States are free to devise a tax system that best supports their unique economic and social concerns. No cookie-cutter approach will work, and in the end, the States will be empowered, and the level of Federal intrusion and oversight will be greatly reduced.

* I would reduce the size of the Federal Government at all levels by 1/3rd, over a period of two years.
Wasteful programs would be eliminated, and useless bureaucrats who do not contribute to the good of the nation and the operation of the Government would be identified and retired. Once retired, they would be free to either succeed or fail (in the civilian workforce) on their own merit.

* I would endorse the legalization of marijuana, but would not endeavor to make it a federal issue. If the voters in each State support it, States would be free to allow it to be grown, packaged, marketed, sold, and taxed, identical to the manner by which tobacco is currently marketed and taxed. Private citizens would be allowed to grow reasonable amounts of marijuana for their own personal enjoyment, as long as they don't make it a business venture. The federal government will stay out of it.

* Prostitution would become legal. If a gal, 21 years of age or older, wants to sell her poon tang, she should be free to do so. A gentleman who wishes to pay for the services of a prostitute, he should be free to do so.
Profits from said ventures would be taxed at the State level, just like any other lawful business. Pimps, procurers, and middlemen would be outlawed, and anyone caught marketing underaged girls would be imprisoned and castrated.

Foreign Policy
* I would give the United Nations exactly one year to clean up their act, demonstrate their worth to the world, and to present an accounting of their tangible and measurable value to the good of the people of the United States. If after one year no such evidence is presented, then the UN Headquarters in New York City would be shut down. I would generously give them another year beyond that to move their operation to some other country.

* A 50 foot fence would be erected along the entire US/Mexican border. Immigration laws currently on the books would be strictly enforced. Application forms (for legal and lawful entry into the United States) would be freely available at all border stations, and there will be federal agents available to help interested immigrants with the application process. Commercial trucks operated by licensed US and Mexican firms with strong reputations for integrity (and zero tolerance for allowing infractions of illegal immigration policies and illegal narcotics transport) would get to use the fast lane. All other vehicles will be searched, coming and going.

* Foreign aid would only be offered to those nations with strong reputations for fair trade practices, and those nations with demonstrated respect for the human rights of their citizens.

Social Programs
* I would eliminate the largest and most wasteful of social welfare programs in the history of the United States; that being the current culture & practices of the tenured Federal Government Servant. The NSPS would be reinstated, and all Government workers would be required to produce tangible work for their considerable pay. Superior workers will be rewarded, and inferior workers will be dismissed. Gone forever will be the days of 'I don't have to work, and you can't make me'. Government Servants who don't demonstrate a dedication to the good of the nation above their own personal concerns (and personal gain/profit) will be dismissed.

* Members of Congress will have to serve for 20 years or more before they receive the retirement compensation package that all members of Congress currently enjoy. Senators and Representatives who only serve for a term or two will receive no retirement or benefits whatsoever, and they will be free to return to the civilian workforce, where they will either succeed or fail on their own merit.

* The death penalty will become the standard for convicted child molesters, rapists, murderers, and people who chose to manufacture and deal crystal methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and date-rape drugs.
There will be no over-crowding in prisons.

* Abortion would remain legal, and the States would be free to manage those programs. Federal dollars would not be used to subsidize abortions.

* The issue of gay marriage is not one for the federal government to get involved in. Individual States shall decide whether they wish to allow same-sex marriage, multiple partner marriage (polygamy), or the lawful marriage between humans and beasts.

In General
* I would eliminate the US Departments of Education and Homeland Defense. The States should be free to run their own education and civil defense programs without Governmental interference and middle-man bureaucracies.

* The Department of Defense would be redirected to concentrate on the defense of the US borders, and to maintain a modern, lean, effective fighting force for deployment when only absolutely necessary for the security of this nation. Redundancies and bureaucracies between the branches of the Armed Forces (Army, Navy, USMC, Air Force) would be eliminated. The overall size of the US Armed Forces would be reduced by 1/5th. The fighting force that remains will be the very best-equipped and trained in the world.

* The Department of Transportation budget for the US Coast Guard would be plussed-up. The Coast Guard would be equipped with only the most modern and state-of-the-art vessels, airplanes, and helicopters.

* An immediate repeal of the bloated, useless, bureaucratic monstrosity known as Obamacare. Health care would be a free market enterprise, and the only Government run health care programs would be Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE. States shall license and monitor their physicians, nurses, and technicians, and only the most fit and skilled health care professionals will be allowed to practice. Tort reform will be enacted, and the frivolous malpractice lawsuits that drive up insurance costs would become a thing of the past.

Well, thats all I can think of for now.
If you agree with my platform, and want to send me some money for my campaign, please just email me and let me know something about yourself. I would wish to check you out to make sure that you are a reputable and honorable US citizen, one with no nefarious political agendas.
Then and only then would I accept your donation.

By the way, if youre short on cash, I am willing to work for beer.
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But, have you written your fictionalized autobiography yet?

Duke Silver · Aug 23, 2014

Good luck... I guess.

AlpinLuke · Aug 23, 2014

Still thinking?

I would suggest to hurry up, considering the enormous amount of money that a presidential campaign costs, it's time to start to collect financial support ...

DennisTate · Aug 27, 2014

sparquelito said: ↑

It currently costs $680 USD to file an application for citizenship: ($595 application fee and $85 fingerprinting fee.)

$680 seems about right.
I'm not sure where you got the $1054 figure.

I DO know that the application process if far too bureaucratic and convoluted.
But once I'm President, assure you I will square it away, and get it lean and efficient.

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One possible way for you to at least partly finance your campaign would be to volunteer your time to a film production cooperative made up of people who agree with you as well as people who do not.

You could donate a percentage of the revenue from the film project for a worthy project. such as getting homeless people a place to live. or perhaps for assisting immigrants with getting through the process.

http://www.politicalforum.com/polit...urrencies-finance-films-address-problems.html
New Age Communities can print local currencies finance films that address problems?!
At this time I tend to believe that New Age Groups may be the most likely to successfully initiate local currencies and use them to finance film projects in which homeless people could become actors playing the role of homeless people.... .which could easily finance their buying or renting homes????!!!!

City in Austria Printed Local Currency

Worgl, like many other European towns and cities, was hit hard by the Great Depression. There was mass unemployment; four of the five local factories had closed, and the people were starving in the streets. Nobody had any money to buy anything. One of the features of an economic depression is that there is not enough money in circulation to ensure that people can meet their basic needs, and in the 1930s, the shortage of currency in many countries of the world became catastrophic.

The mayor of Worgl, together with local businessmen, decided to try to break this economic impasse by creating their own local currency. They printed and issued 60,000 Austrian shillings worth of local currency. These shillings could only be spent in Worgl, so they remained in the local community and were exchanged over and over again.

The positive impact was immediate and surprising to everyone. In only six weeks, unemployment disappeared, all the factories had reopened and everyone had food. For the inhabitants of Worgl, the economic depression was gone. This dramatic transformation became known as the miracle of Worgl. Surrounding towns, inspired by the success of Worgl, immediately started printing their own local currencies.

Sadly, the miracle did not last long. When the Austrian Central Bank heard about Worgls local currency, they initiated legal proceedings against the mayor and local businessmen. According to Austrian banking law, it was illegal for anyone except the Austrian Central Bank to issue money. The bank won the court case, and the mayor was ordered to shut down the local currency, which he did, under threat of imprisonment. The town then returned to the devastating economic depression of the 1930s, with all the human pain and suffering associated with this catastrophe. Factories closed, and once again, the people starved.

Alternative Currency in the U.S.

Irving Fisher, an American professor of economics at Yale University, visited Worgl before the local currency was suppressed and witnessed the miracle firsthand. When he returned to the United States, Fisher spread the word by traveling and lecturing across the country, advocating the use of the Worgl scrip everywhere. Inspired by his vision, hundreds of communities began issuing their own currency, and by 1934 there were over 1,000 local communities using scrip throughout the U.S.

Every one of these communities experienced a tremendous rejuvenation of their local economies. They thrived while others suffered. Fisher then met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, proposing the implementation of government-sanctioned local scrip in every community in America. When FDR consulted with his top financial advisors and bankers, however, he was advised to shut all the scrip systems down, which he did. Instead, he borrowed large amounts of money from bankers, at interest, and used it to pay for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the other work-creation projects, which collectively came to be known as the New Deal. So ended the last widespread use of a local currency within the U.S.
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http://www.whatcomwatch.org/php/WW_open.php?id=717

I have ran for public office three times already. and you might be surprised how often I refer to events in American history when I attempt to get Canadians to understand what is really going on.

www.BankingSystemFlaws.blogspot.ca/

DennisTate · Aug 27, 2014

AlpinLuke said: ↑

Still thinking?

I would suggest to hurry up, considering the enormous amount of money that a presidential campaign costs, it's time to start to collect financial support ...
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Yes…… and it is worth while to consider that the ideas form the film "The Secret" are generally NOT being applied in American politics!

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nachman_of_Breslov
"Know! You need to judge every person favorably, even someone who is completely wicked, you need to search and find any little bit of good. By finding in him a little good and judging him favorably you actually bring him over to the side of merit and you can return him in teshuva (LM 282)" (Rabbi Nachman of Breslov)

… If you apply this much under-utilized principle in your campaign…. the winner and first runner up…… may listen to your ideas…. and coopt some of what you campaign on?

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