Been burning up the Zombie chatlines for a while now with political issues, so I’ve decided to announce my thoughts of running for president in 2016!  Sure, I’m currently underqualified, but there’s plenty of time to fix that!

In keeping with the political theme, I’m going to shift my political rants from the previous posts and try to start a semi-regular political post series detailing why the Government sucks, what it’s doing well, and what MY policies would be.  My platform is currently going to be based on common sense, after all it’s something that’s very simple, but unfortunatley isn’t too common.

So here is a brief (as if anything I post is actually brief) synopsis of my current platform points:

Taxes:
Obama speaks of being fair to the American public, but I’d truly like to be fair.  That’s why I propose we ditch the current tax code and move towards a “fair” / flat tax.  There are several reasons for doing this.  The obvious ones are that more money can be raised for the government while most people paying taxes will pay less.  The down side is that millions and millions of people that don’t currently pay taxes will start paying.  But the best reason to institute a fair tax is that it puts everyone on the same playing field.  Everyone buys into the system.  Everyone has a stake in what’s being done.  It’s your money that they’re working with!  And it prevents people from being a party’s bitch (should presidential candidates swear?  why not…the American public does!!) and being forced to support that party for fear of losing their economic support!

Government Spending:
Obama wants to cut spending with a scapol.  The ’D0g wants to cut government spending with a bazooka!!  Gone are the days increasing the deficit.  These are tough times, and we won’t truly propser if we’re relying on other countries to buy up our debt so we can pay for what we want.  If you hired the government to run your household or business on its budget policy, you’d fire them in a minute!  You’d be bankrupt before the first month was over!  That’s why we need to cut government spending.  Plus, we need a zero-based budget.  But let me take a step way out into crazy-land….not only do we need a balanced budget, but we need to set asside serious cash for debt service payments.  I’d like to be debt free as a government in 30 years!!  So that means we need to cut out some serious pork.  What would be cut out?  Not going to say right now, but let’s just say that no are of the government would go untouched, but some might feel the pinch worse than others.  A complete government streamline.

Voting Fraud/Issues:
ACORN is in the headlines a lot these days, and who can forget the mess in Florida that brought us ”W”? Currently, elections are monitored and run at the state/local levels.  This provides an arena for missmanagement, fraud, and serious mistakes.  I propose 2 serious changes to this system:  1. For national elections (president, house, senate) federal election standards must be followed.  This will ensure that everything is handled the same way everywhere.  2.  Except  for military, no absentee voting can be done, and a valid picture ID must be shown to vote.  The states can do what they want for local elections, but federal elections must be secure.

Economy:
No corporate bailouts.  No nationalizing of industries or companies.  I vow to allow for capitalism and free markets to reign free…but not allow for corruption!  Current talk that regulations on Wall Street were removed over the past 8 years are a joke.  If anything they have become more strict after Sarbanes Oxley and the infamous Enron/Worldcom, etc collapses.  Now, enforcement is another issue.  Regulation will continue, and will be updated, but more importantly we’re going to hold those people (the regulators) accountable for their jobs.  Why add more regulation when we can simply enforce what we already have.

Healthcare:
I was pretty detailed on this in another post, and more to come, but the quick version is allow people to shop across state lines for policies and allow for transparency in the healthcare industry.  No governement support of insurance companies.  No nationalizing health care.  But, affordable health care brought to you by the free market.

So this is just the beginning!  Start your griping and criticizing now, because we’ve got another 8 years until this train wreck crashes into Washington!

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