Ten Things a Candidate Might Promise

[cwo_ghwebb]

I don't agree on the order, but do agree regarding the premise of the problems.


Ten Things a Candidate Might Promise


Close the borders. No need now to fight about amnesty, guest workers, deportation, assimilation, etc. All these key issues loom in the future. For now simply reduce the number of illegal arrivals to zero—through border fencing, more patrolling and manpower, employer sanctions, and stern negotiations with Mexico. Then as we squabble and fight, the number of foreign nationals or those not assimilated will begin to shrink in a variety of ways—once it is not growing. We need to take step one, rather than bicker over steps five and six. Who knows—we might just see many state treasuries miraculously recover, and thereby be spared the mantra that illegal aliens ‘really’ are a budget plus for states?

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Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

I don't agree on the order, but do agree regarding the premise of the problems.


Ten Things a Candidate Might Promise


Close the borders. No need now to fight about amnesty, guest workers, deportation, assimilation, etc. All these key issues loom in the future. For now simply reduce the number of illegal arrivals to zero—through border fencing, more patrolling and manpower, employer sanctions, and stern negotiations with Mexico. Then as we squabble and fight, the number of foreign nationals or those not assimilated will begin to shrink in a variety of ways—once it is not growing. We need to take step one, rather than bicker over steps five and six. Who knows—we might just see many state treasuries miraculously recover, and thereby be spared the mantra that illegal aliens ‘really’ are a budget plus for states?

Health Care. Simply mandate, as in the case of car insurance, that everyone buy catastrophic health care plans, and use health saving accounts for everything else. When we go to K-Mart and see a sign that says “Strep Diagnosis and antibiotics—$50” or ”Check our rates for heart exam and medication” and expect to pay cash up-front out of our saving accounts, while reserving insurance for emergencies and major illnesses, the price of health care will plunge and the patient will become an adult again—rather than rushing to the emergency room at 3AM with the “flu” and no insurance, and less ability or willingness to pay. As someone who has been in emergency rooms four times the last five years for either kidney stones or broken bones, two facts I discovered: more than half don’t have health insurance, and 100% had cell phones, the costs of which per month would nearly pay for catastrophic medical plans. Americans for some reason are outraged that they might pay $3000 in health or drug uninsured costs per year, but hardly object to an extra $2000 in moon roof, rims, or GPS on their new cars. We are Hillary’s proverbial “nation uninsured” with plasma TVs and 4x4 trucks.

No, don't mandate at all. What about some of the youth that can't afford it. Mandating it will drive the prices up. These companies know that. The problem is Americans can't afford it. If it's mandated, the companies will know they have 100% demand and they'll raise the prices. It's just like oil. We're paying out of our arses for oil because we have to have it. The oil companies know we have to have it and they continue to jerk us around because they know they can.

1. Surplus! There should never be a budget surplus! If there is a surplus then people are being over taxed.

2. Close the borders. Complete waste of resources, and we'll go broke trying. The only way to get rid of illegals is to force the SSA to crack down on fraudulent and duplicate SSNs and force employers to fire anyone with a bogus number.

3. Iraq. Treat Iraq the way we treated post-war Europe and Japan.

4. Race. Good luck.

5. Taxes. Good luck.

6. Fuel. Federal, state, and local governments need to treat oil and gasoline the same way they have successfully treated water and electricity, and sell it on a not-for-profit basis.

7. Colleges. We need abandon the idea that anyone can go and complete college so long as they have money. A kid who can barely graduate high school isn't going to make it in college regardless of who picks up the tab, hence the 17% graduation rates in many public-financed colleges.

8. Health Care. Two things: Migrate people away from traditional health plans and into Healthcare Spending Accounts (HSAs) where they control their money and it stays with them regardless of how often they change jobs... and it's only about $45 a month so anyone can afford it. Second, get people to shop for their healthcare the same way the shop for everything else and stop writing doctors blank checks.

9. Infrastructure. There are billions of dollars already available for infrastructure. The problem is priorities not $$$. The state of Minnesota gave millions of tax payer dollars to the Twins, Vikings, and University of Minnesota to build luxury stadiums while their bridges were falling out from under them. If they want to use their bucks to build stadiums, that's their bad.

10. National Security. Allow our warriors to make war, and not some legally scrutinized and approved conversion of opinion with guns. War results in people dying and stuff getting blown up, so let the folks do their job and quit trying to fight a nice, safe, war.

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Originally Posted by Bruzilla

1. Surplus! There should never be a budget surplus! If there is a surplus then people are being over taxed.

I think you need to read it again. He's saying that we need to pay down the debt. The only way to do that is with a budget surplus.

I read what he wrote, and I understand what he's saying. The problem is that you must incorporate paying down debt as a part of your budget, not have it as an incidental cost for a surplus to cover. Governments usually always spend surpluses on spending, not on debt reduction as voters clamor for more cops and teachers more often than lower debt. Debt reduction should always be budgeted in and of there is a surplus it should be returned to the taxpayers.

[cwo_ghwebb]

Originally Posted by Bruzilla

I read what he wrote, and I understand what he's saying. The problem is that you must incorporate paying down debt as a part of your budget, not have it as an incidental cost for a surplus to cover. Governments usually always spend surpluses on spending, not on debt reduction as voters clamor for more cops and teachers more often than lower debt. Debt reduction should always be budgeted in and of there is a surplus it should be returned to the taxpayers.

Good comments, all. My biggest complaint about government is the incompetence. And yet some folks believe government is the only entity that should control certain aspects of our economy.

The outright waste in building schools, lack of control regarding growth and associated planning for infrastructure and lack of transparency to the public have made me disgusted with politicians. Wasn't the Maryland lotto and megamillions money designated for schools (I may be wrong here)? Was that money in addition to the money already budgeted for schools or designed to supplant the money budgeted for schools so the school budget money could be spent elsewhere? Where is the accounting for that money?

As it gets more difficult to maintain the standard of living I've earned over the years, I get more and more disillusioned with government.