Why I should be President

I wrote kind of an essay to explain what I would do as President or leader of the U.S. I wrote this for another message board and would like to get thoughts and opinions on it from this board. I want to have an intelligent conversation with someone discussing what they agree with, what they disagree with, and why.



This is going to be rather long and a little organized because I'm writing whatever comes to my head:
The only way to truly grow the economy is by science and technology. We need to invest a lot more into science and technology. What are some of your biggest payments on your monthly budget? Housing, vehicles, gas, electricity, food, etc. If we can reduce the price of these things, our economy benefits greatly. How do we reduce the price of these things? Housing and vehicles is mostly materials. We need to find materials for these things that are cheaper, lighter, stronger, and easier to work with. So, we need to invest more into materials science so that it will eventually make these things a lot cheaper. Gas, electricity, and food are mostly energy related. We need to find a better source of energy that is cheaper, safer, and cleaner than what we currently have. I have found that energy source. It is called Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor(LFTR). The LFTR is a nuclear reactor that uses fluid fuel and thorium instead of solid fuel with uranium. Imagine nuclear power with all of its advantages and none of the drawbacks. This is pretty much what the LFTR is. The LFTR is cheaper to build because it has no need for a lot of the safety features that current reactors have and does not need to be pressurized. A conservative estimate is that it would cost 5 cents/kwh. Some estimates have as low as 2 cents/Kwh with the potential to go even lower. The average right now is around 8 cents/Kwh and rising. It is safer than conventional nuclear and is nearly impossible to meltdown. There are no greenhouse emissions(not that I care much about this), just like any nuclear reactor. It only produces about 1% of the nuclear "waste" that conventional reactors produce. These reactors have already been tested in the 60's and 70's so almost all engineering problems are already solved and would not take much development money. Why hasn't this energy source been utilized? It's mostly because the government needed more nuclear weapons when this was being developed, but LFTR's couldn't be used for nuclear weapons. Now we have the opposite problem of proliferation. If we start building these now, we should be able to go 100% nuclear by 2030-2035. So, invest more in science and technology and cut wasteful spending and our economic problems are solved forever.

We need to cut out wasteful spending:
We need to cut almost all foreign aid to other countries. A lot of the aid doesn't even go to the right places and go to the groups that caused the problems in the first place. Why should the U.S. be responsible for other countries' problems? What will help these countries is them eventually getting our technology to improve their lives. So, the more we focus improving our own technology while ignoring these countries, the better off these countries will actually be. We need to cut back on a lot of the welfare people are getting. People shouldn't be making more money being unemployed than when they actually have a job. We need to immediately end the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. As soon as we leave, they're going to go through the same cycle again. We get absolutely no benefit from these wars, but instead waste billions of dollars. We shouldn't have been in any of the wars we were in since world war 2. All of them were for dumb reasons. I'm not a pacifist at all. I like war if it actually benefits us. I will expand more on this later. We need to cut almost all funding to renewables since we already have LFTR's as a perfect energy source. Ethanol is a total waste. All subsides for these things should end. I could go line for line through the budget and find other stupid stuff we spend money on. Now, I'm not advocating for lower taxes. If we spend money in the right places, I wouldn't mind a tax increase. But if we stopped all this unneeded spending, we probably wouldn't need tax increases. We are 20 years ahead of every other country militarily speaking. We need to cut programs that will only benefit us for the next 20 years, since we are already ahead anyways. The F-22 and F-35 programs should be cut. There are a lot of stupid military projects that can be cut. We need to develop stuff now so that in 20 years, we will be 50 years ahead of everyone else. We need to invest heavily in things now such as scramjets, uav fighters with better performance than f-22's, electromagnetic railguns, bullets that can change direction midflight, etc. All we have to do for the next 20 years is avoid the stupid wars we have been in. There is going to be no major threat to us for at least 20 years.

 

2nd Part:

Education: We need to completely change education. Our education system sucks. It always has. All arts classes such as music, art, band, etc. should be cut back a lot. Language arts classes and reading should also be severely cut back. I haven't learned anything new in English since 3rd grade. All they do is reteach the same thing every year. I have never paid much attention in english classes. I just do homework from other classes in English class. I got a 36 on the English section of the ACT with never paying attention in class. That means we have way too many English classes. I propose cutting them back to having them every other year or 4 years out of the 12. Science, Math, history, and shop classes should all be increased. Learning should be more fun, and you should work more with your hands instead of sitting in a desk writing notes all day. Science and engineering are the most important professions, and we need as many smart people in these fields as we can get. Also, English should be made the official language of the U.S. and end all requirements for foreign language by colleges unless that is going to be your major. I think the government should also try to pay for kids who are trying to get ahead by taking college credit courses in high school. I know I'm going to get bashed for this but I don't care: We need to pay a lot more attention to the smart kids. Who cares about the dumber kids. They won't amount to anything so there is no point paying so much attention to them. Most of them don't care that they are getting bad grades. Also, special education should be reduced significantly. In a high school of 400 we had NINE special education teachers. NINE. That's just ridiculous. We only have about 25-30 total teachers, but we need nine special education teachers? Their should only be 1 special education teacher in this situation, and find another 8 teachers that can teach upper level courses.

This next section is what I always wanted to do just because I love history, and would love to be part of taking over the whole world. This has nothing to do with the other things I've said. I know this won't be popular with most of you. Everything I've said before would be mentioned in my election campaign. I definitely would not mention taking over the world in my election campaign, but I'd like to try it if I ever was elected as a leader of this country. I said earlier in this post that I didn't like a lot of the wars we've been in because they didn't benefit us. If we took over a country and its resources, that would be directly benefitting us. Here is my plan for taking over the world. The U.S. has the strongest military compared to any other in the history of the world. We have a much better military compared to other countries today than Germany did at the start of world war 2. They came somewhat close to world domination, and it would be much easier for the U.S. to do it. We have an illegal immigration problem, right? To solve it, why don't we take over Mexico and make all former illegals citizens and all current Mexicans citizens become citizens of the U.S. When we take over Mexico, we can build schools, roads, hospitals, and businesses to improve their economy. If we can improve their economy, they won't revolt. The same goes for every other country we take over. This benefits everyone. The U.S. gets more resources and a bigger population base to choose new scientists and engineers from and to improve our military and funding so we can take over more countries. My plan for invasion would be try to make it as secret as possible. We can send over military forces to the border on the ploy that they are there to try to stop illegal immigration or something. At the same time we are planning an invasion for Mexico, we are planning an invasion of Brazil and Iran. Iran is between Iraq and Afghanistan and if we take over Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran, we have a huge amount of oil. Brazil has the best military in South America so I think it's best to hit them while they are suprised. We will make a 3 pronged attack to go straight to Mexico City. One in the Pacific, one in the Atlantic and the other, a huge land invasion. It should take 2 weeks tops to take over all of Mexico. We then move in reserves and national guardsmen to supress any revolts. While that happens, the 3 prongs move into Central America and take over it. After that, we take over Colombia and Venezuela and meet up with the troops in Brazil. This should all take a month at the most. After this, we clear up any revolts and start moving businesses in to improve their economy. At this time we could either take over the rest of the countries in South America or wait awhile and judge international reaction. We could also just clean up the countries we did take over since the remaining countries aren't much of a threat. In 5-10 years we can rebuild all of Latin America and plan an attack on the rest of the world. This time we should have invisibility technology(look it up, it was tested on a British tank, and we probably have some form of it) ready and we can take over countries without even having to fight them. The main idea here is that the conquered country and the U.S. will both benefit here.

I believe all political parties should be abolished. You should run independently. I'm tired of all the republicans voting on one side of an issue and all the democrats voting for another side. I disagree with probably all of Ben Nelson's ideas, but I pretty much respect him the most out of all the other current Congressmen for actually voting for himself and not the party he is in. If people are running independently, we will need to make it so the person with the most votes gets elected, not the person with the majority.

I'm sure I left out some things, but these are basically my political ideas. To summarize this whole essay, investing in science and technology will solve all major problems.

That took forever to write. I almost wrote a 5 page essay. I've had most of these ideas for awhile now. Here's the link for the LFTR. I suggest you look it up on google and read more about it:
Link: http://thorium.50webs.com/

 

Summary if you didn't feel like reading the whole thing: Investing in science and technology will solve all major problems. If you don't agree with this statement, you should go back and read a little more.

 

Interesting report; I'd heard that fissile uranium-233 was condemned by ethical scientist's from around the world as being very unstable, however this report seems to contradict that theory.

Thanks for posting that.

 

I read what you wrote. You have a very narrow view and a very limited vocabulary. You oversimplify every issue a lot and seem to be very young. You know you have to 35 to be president right?

This thread should be called "Why I should NOT be president"... Good luck with your education. Take it seriously.

 

Maybe everyone else is just trying to make every issue complex when it is really simple. Why does it matter how my vocabulary is? That's not a requirement for anything.

 

You're right. An ability to articulate your views is unnecessary when you're president.

That's what teleprompters are for.

 

I'm skeptical that everyone else is wrong. Many things in life are simple. Not politics, if they were simple there would be no need for debate.

In order to express complex ideas a complex vocabulary is paramount.

 

I disagree. You should try to explain your ideas so that everyone can understand them. Complex vocabulary isn't going to express complex ideas any better than without it.

 

I clearly expressed my ideas.

 

I think you'd make a better president than the one we have now.

Thank you for taking the time to write that. Right or wrong, it shows you care about your country.
I think you made some good points.

 

I don't understand your reasons behind politics being complex. Just because people have debates about it means it is complex? Compared to a lot of other things, politics is not that complex.

 

That's not really saying much. I know a lot of people who would make a better President than our current one. Is there any specific examples that you think are right or wrong?

 

Very friendly.

 

Honest criticism never seems friendly. (I take it you were being sarcastic)

 

Major problems for who: Internet, satelite, radio were invented using tax payer funding for military, then it was bought by special interests who bribed or controlled our government, and they further reinvented it and now we have monthly internet, phone, tv bill, same with gas: after USSR collapsed some wise ass millionaire bought up all the oil industry of the russian people - if someone bought up all the medical industry or social security industry in your country and then resell it to you, how would you feel? THAT is the problem

 

Yeah, which is why I'm free to make fun of your backwards views whenever I wanna!!

 

Make sure that people don't outreproduce the world to the extent where overpopulation is putting a strain on resources and making them unnecessarily scarce as a result.

THAT'S FUC*ING HOW.

 

Socialism will fix that problem.

 

No, it won't. Geoism will. Please look up geoism.

Again though, the second thing would be to implement what I would like to call "responsible reproduction". People have it in their heads, DEEP down, that it's their "right" to reproduce with whoever they want whenever they want and however many times they want.

Well as much as it is a shock to people and their reductionist, simple minded interpretation of what it means to live in a "free" country, they're WRONG. It's not an exercise in "freedom" to dampen our society with several times as many people than this Earth can realistically sustain with it's limited resources; that is simply hindering everyone else by contributing to overpopulation.

 

I want to have 20 kids. What do you do with people who want to have more kids? We could have stopped at a couple thousand for world population, but we didn't. I don't think world population will go down for a long time.

 

My sperm can produce about 3 a day, (with right selection of women especially) I could beat you hands down even at 37. I could make about 500 a year easy. but I got fishes they could make 300 a day

 

We don't let them do so unless they can produce enough, on their own labor, to support them.

 

Also how 'bout this: EFFICIENCY!!!!

Bicycles replacing cars.

4-6 people living in an apartment rather than 2.

Living on LESS food with LESS caloric intake that way OBESITY can decrease, health can increase and the COST OF FOOD will DECREASE DRAMATICALLY (due to lessening demand).

Does ANY of this make ANY sense whatsoever?

 

I agree. Many of those "creationist" believe it's god that creates life, yet they feel freedom to do as you say. If only all people would truly believe in god, especialy leaders who had power.