Announcing My Candidacy. Here is my Platform

[ODUsmitty]

1. Cut all federal budgets by 20%. Hold managment accountable to meeting targets using zero-based billing exercise and replace those that cannot.
2. End the Dept of Education. Cut funding to Dept of Agriculture by 50% - end electrification projects, subsidies to not produce, and loan programs. Cut funding to the DOL and HHS by 35% using criteria of item #1.
3. Overhaul federal retirement program to match realities of private sector. Don't interere when state/municipalities do the same.
4. Overhaul Social Security. Raise current retirement age to meet funding requirements. Treat as you would a bankruptcy (since it is) and allow non-retirement aged citizens to opt-out, receiving a % of lifetime conributions (35-40%) rolled directly into a 401k account and exclusion waiver from receipt of SS benefits in the future.
5. Get completely out of the United Nations. End all funding and program support. If they want to stay in New York, do not provide any support for diplomatic movement around the city.
6. Repeal the Health-Care Bill. Encourage portability across state lines and pooling of small company employees to receive better premiums.
7. Get out of Afghanistan.
8. Place annual and lifetime benefit cap on the recipient class benefits. Make sum total of Welfare, Section 8 housing, food stamps, and Medicaid reimbursements 20% below minimum wage for 2040 hours annually. Provide incentive at one-year and five-year anniversary of freedom from those programs.
9. Amend constitution to prohibit those receiving Medicaid, Welfare, Foodstamps, and Section 8 housing from participation in federal elections. Do not interfere with states when doing the same.
10. Build the border fence....without walkways on bridges.
11. Allow 6-month period for all illegals to self-deport. For those who participate, expedite a new temporary worker visa for their return and collect all taxes from these folks. Deport the rest with no opportunity to legally enter the US again.
12. Provide no entitlements to illegals or those on aforementioned temp worker visas.
13. End the federal CZAR nominations. If an agency needs a head, let them be approved through the Congressional process like othe appointees.
14. Place limts on what Congress can do during any lame-duck period.....namely items requiring funding and federal mandates.
15. Limit Congressional members to two-terms and overhaul/reduce congressional retirement perks.
16. Get out of the automotive, health-care, banking, and student aid businesses. Blow up Fannie Mae an Feddie Mac and sell of assets to where they belong - the private sector.
17. End gender and race-based quota systems for government employees.
18. Provide congressional oversight of agencies such as EPA to prevent unelected government officials from enacting mandates without a check and balance - i.e. naming CO2 as a priority polluatnt that needs taxing and government control.
19. Provide 4-year college tuition for anyone who honorably enlists and serves in the armed forces for 4 or more years. Use existing GI bill structure to build up funding for living expenses, etc during the post-military education years.
20. Expedite renewal of NRC permits and encourage growth of additional nuclear capability on existing sites (already started, but a VERY slow process). Set reasonable target to increase electrical generation from nukes by 50% over 15 year period.
21.Provide curbs around the EPA's policy-making abilities to ensure some sort of Congressional oversight. This agency is out of control and counter to sensible free-market growth. Placing limits on CO2 as a pollutant when the scientific community is nowhere near united on Global Warming is reckless and economically harmful.
22. Reduce Foreign Aid by 50%.

[TheDancinMonarch]

1. Cut all federal budgets by 20%. Hold managment accountable to meeting targets using zero-based billing exercise and replace those that cannot.
2. End the Dept of Education. Cut funding to Dept of Agriculture by 50% - end electrification projects, subsidies to not produce, and loan programs. Cut funding to the DOL and HHS by 35% using criteria of item #1.
3. Overhaul federal retirement program to match realities of private sector. Don't interere when state/municipalities do the same.
4. Overhaul Social Security. Raise current retirement age to meet funding requirements. Treat as you would a bankruptcy (since it is) and allow non-retirement aged citizens to opt-out, receiving a % of lifetime conributions (35-40%) rolled directly into a 401k account and exclusion waiver from receipt of SS benefits in the future.
5. Get completely out of the United Nations. End all funding and program support. If they want to stay in New York, do not provide any support for diplomatic movement around the city.
6. Repeal the Health-Care Bill. Encourage portability across state lines and pooling of small company employees to receive better premiums.
7. Get out of Afghanistan.
8. Place annual and lifetime benefit cap on the recipient class benefits. Make sum total of Welfare, Section 8 housing, food stamps, and Medicaid reimbursements 20% below minimum wage for 2040 hours annually. Provide incentive at one-year and five-year anniversary of freedom from those programs.
9. Amend constitution to prohibit those receiving Medicaid, Welfare, Foodstamps, and Section 8 housing from participation in federal elections. Do not interfere with states when doing the same.
10. Build the border fence....without walkways on bridges.
11. Allow 6-month period for all illegals to self-deport. For those who participate, expedite a new temporary worker visa for their return and collect all taxes from these folks. Deport the rest with no opportunity to legally enter the US again.
12. Provide no entitlements to illegals or those on aforementioned temp worker visas.
13. End the federal CZAR nominations. If an agency needs a head, let them be approved through the Congressional process like othe appointees.
14. Place limts on what Congress can do during any lame-duck period.....namely items requiring funding and federal mandates.
15. Limit Congressional members to two-terms and overhaul/reduce congressional retirement perks.
16. Get out of the automotive, health-care, banking, and student aid businesses. Blow up Fannie Mae an Feddie Mac and sell of assets to where they belong - the private sector.
17. End gender and race-based quota systems for government employees.
18. Provide congressional oversight of agencies such as EPA to prevent unelected government officials from enacting mandates without a check and balance - i.e. naming CO2 as a priority polluatnt that needs taxing and government control.
19. Provide 4-year college tuition for anyone who honorably enlists and serves in the armed forces for 4 or more years. Use existing GI bill structure to build up funding for living expenses, etc during the post-military education years.
20. Expedite renewal of NRC permits and encourage growth of additional nuclear capability on existing sites (already started, but a VERY slow process). Set reasonable target to increase electrical generation from nukes by 50% over 15 year period.
21.Provide curbs around the EPA's policy-making abilities to ensure some sort of Congressional oversight. This agency is out of control and counter to sensible free-market growth. Placing limits on CO2 as a pollutant when the scientific community is nowhere near united on Global Warming is reckless and economically harmful.
22. Reduce Foreign Aid by 50%.

This is pretty "middle-of-the-road" as far as I am concerned but it will do nicely until a better (more to the right) proposal comes along. For the moment you have my vote.

[Cap'n Cat]

Some good ideas, but, other than that, you're a mouth-breathing Red State moron. Go take over Mexico and start up with this crap.

[Wedgebuster]

[Cap'n Cat]

[∞∞∞]

Oh the irony in that picture.

[bench]

9. Amend constitution to prohibit those receiving Medicaid, Welfare, Foodstamps, and Section 8 housing from participation in federal elections. Do not interfere with states when doing the same.

Wasn't the former practice of fucking poor people at the polls outlawed by — at very least — the 14th and 24th Amendments?

[TheDancinMonarch]

Go take over Mexico ...

We won't have to go there.


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[Ibanez]

1. Cut all federal budgets by 20%. Hold managment accountable to meeting targets using zero-based billing exercise and replace those that cannot.
2. End the Dept of Education. Cut funding to Dept of Agriculture by 50% - end electrification projects, subsidies to not produce, and loan programs. Cut funding to the DOL and HHS by 35% using criteria of item #1.
3. Overhaul federal retirement program to match realities of private sector. Don't interere when state/municipalities do the same.
4. Overhaul Social Security. Raise current retirement age to meet funding requirements. Treat as you would a bankruptcy (since it is) and allow non-retirement aged citizens to opt-out, receiving a % of lifetime conributions (35-40%) rolled directly into a 401k account and exclusion waiver from receipt of SS benefits in the future.
5. Get completely out of the United Nations. End all funding and program support. If they want to stay in New York, do not provide any support for diplomatic movement around the city.
6. Repeal the Health-Care Bill. Encourage portability across state lines and pooling of small company employees to receive better premiums.
7. Get out of Afghanistan.
8. Place annual and lifetime benefit cap on the recipient class benefits. Make sum total of Welfare, Section 8 housing, food stamps, and Medicaid reimbursements 20% below minimum wage for 2040 hours annually. Provide incentive at one-year and five-year anniversary of freedom from those programs.
9. Amend constitution to prohibit those receiving Medicaid, Welfare, Foodstamps, and Section 8 housing from participation in federal elections. Do not interfere with states when doing the same.
10. Build the border fence....without walkways on bridges.
11. Allow 6-month period for all illegals to self-deport. For those who participate, expedite a new temporary worker visa for their return and collect all taxes from these folks. Deport the rest with no opportunity to legally enter the US again.
12. Provide no entitlements to illegals or those on aforementioned temp worker visas.
13. End the federal CZAR nominations. If an agency needs a head, let them be approved through the Congressional process like othe appointees.
14. Place limts on what Congress can do during any lame-duck period.....namely items requiring funding and federal mandates.
15. Limit Congressional members to two-terms and overhaul/reduce congressional retirement perks.
16. Get out of the automotive, health-care, banking, and student aid businesses. Blow up Fannie Mae an Feddie Mac and sell of assets to where they belong - the private sector.
17. End gender and race-based quota systems for government employees.
18. Provide congressional oversight of agencies such as EPA to prevent unelected government officials from enacting mandates without a check and balance - i.e. naming CO2 as a priority polluatnt that needs taxing and government control.
19. Provide 4-year college tuition for anyone who honorably enlists and serves in the armed forces for 4 or more years. Use existing GI bill structure to build up funding for living expenses, etc during the post-military education years.
20. Expedite renewal of NRC permits and encourage growth of additional nuclear capability on existing sites (already started, but a VERY slow process). Set reasonable target to increase electrical generation from nukes by 50% over 15 year period.
21.Provide curbs around the EPA's policy-making abilities to ensure some sort of Congressional oversight. This agency is out of control and counter to sensible free-market growth. Placing limits on CO2 as a pollutant when the scientific community is nowhere near united on Global Warming is reckless and economically harmful.
22. Reduce Foreign Aid by 50%.

You have some crazy ideas. You are naive if you believe the Government will eliminate any of it's departments. You are even crazier for suggesting that those on Medicare, etc... shouldn't be allowed to participate in Federal elections. They have as much a right to representation as those that don't use entitlement programs. Among other things, you are too extreme. You need a more middle of the road approach.

[AshevilleApp]

1. Cut all federal budgets by 20%. Hold managment accountable to meeting targets using zero-based billing exercise and replace those that cannot.
2. End the Dept of Education. Cut funding to Dept of Agriculture by 50% - end electrification projects, subsidies to not produce, and loan programs. Cut funding to the DOL and HHS by 35% using criteria of item #1.
3. Overhaul federal retirement program to match realities of private sector. Don't interere when state/municipalities do the same.
4. Overhaul Social Security. Raise current retirement age to meet funding requirements. Treat as you would a bankruptcy (since it is) and allow non-retirement aged citizens to opt-out, receiving a % of lifetime conributions (35-40%) rolled directly into a 401k account and exclusion waiver from receipt of SS benefits in the future.
5. Get completely out of the United Nations. End all funding and program support. If they want to stay in New York, do not provide any support for diplomatic movement around the city.
6. Repeal the Health-Care Bill. Encourage portability across state lines and pooling of small company employees to receive better premiums.
7. Get out of Afghanistan.
8. Place annual and lifetime benefit cap on the recipient class benefits. Make sum total of Welfare, Section 8 housing, food stamps, and Medicaid reimbursements 20% below minimum wage for 2040 hours annually. Provide incentive at one-year and five-year anniversary of freedom from those programs.
9. Amend constitution to prohibit those receiving Medicaid, Welfare, Foodstamps, and Section 8 housing from participation in federal elections. Do not interfere with states when doing the same.
10. Build the border fence....without walkways on bridges.
11. Allow 6-month period for all illegals to self-deport. For those who participate, expedite a new temporary worker visa for their return and collect all taxes from these folks. Deport the rest with no opportunity to legally enter the US again.
12. Provide no entitlements to illegals or those on aforementioned temp worker visas.
13. End the federal CZAR nominations. If an agency needs a head, let them be approved through the Congressional process like othe appointees.
14. Place limts on what Congress can do during any lame-duck period.....namely items requiring funding and federal mandates.
15. Limit Congressional members to two-terms and overhaul/reduce congressional retirement perks.
16. Get out of the automotive, health-care, banking, and student aid businesses. Blow up Fannie Mae an Feddie Mac and sell of assets to where they belong - the private sector.
17. End gender and race-based quota systems for government employees.
18. Provide congressional oversight of agencies such as EPA to prevent unelected government officials from enacting mandates without a check and balance - i.e. naming CO2 as a priority polluatnt that needs taxing and government control.
19. Provide 4-year college tuition for anyone who honorably enlists and serves in the armed forces for 4 or more years. Use existing GI bill structure to build up funding for living expenses, etc during the post-military education years.
20. Expedite renewal of NRC permits and encourage growth of additional nuclear capability on existing sites (already started, but a VERY slow process). Set reasonable target to increase electrical generation from nukes by 50% over 15 year period.
21.Provide curbs around the EPA's policy-making abilities to ensure some sort of Congressional oversight. This agency is out of control and counter to sensible free-market growth. Placing limits on CO2 as a pollutant when the scientific community is nowhere near united on Global Warming is reckless and economically harmful.
22. Reduce Foreign Aid by 50%.

You lose.

[SuperHornet]

Huge problem with #9. Since at least SOME forms of governmental humanitarian assistance are taxable, that amounts to a return to taxation without representation, which violates the Declaration of Independence.

Are you the nth-grandson of King George III?

[ODUsmitty]

So #9 creates some controversy. Good. That's why I said an amendment would be necessary to enact it.

If you have no skin in the game, your vote will always be self-serving and tainted.

Instead of calling me a Red state Conk, argue the merits of the platform; if you have the intellect to do so (excludes Cap'n Pussy).

[BlueHen86]

So #9 creates some controversy. Good. That's why I said an amendment would be necessary to enact it.

If you have no skin in the game, your vote will always be self-serving and tainted.

Instead of calling me a Red state Conk, argue the merits of the platform; if you have the intellect to do so (excludes Cap'n Pussy).

Nice effort, but too extreme. A good start though.

[ODUsmitty]

So #9 creates some controversy. Good. That's why I said an amendment would be necessary to enact it.

If you have no skin in the game, your vote will always be self-serving and tainted.

Instead of calling me a Red state Conk, argue the merits of the platform; if you have the intellect to do so (excludes Cap'n Pussy).

Nice effort, but too extreme. A good start though.

What is too extreme, and why?

[dbackjon]

So #9 creates some controversy. Good. That's why I said an amendment would be necessary to enact it.

If you have no skin in the game, your vote will always be self-serving and tainted.

Instead of calling me a Red state Conk, argue the merits of the platform; if you have the intellect to do so (excludes Cap'n Pussy).

So why limit that to medicare/medicaid? Why not to farmers like Michelle Bachmann that rake in hundreds of thousands in federal pork? Why is some welfare bad (to the democratic voting poor), while other welfare (to rich farmers, corporations, etc - ok?

By your standards, there would be about 1,000 people that can vote.

[ODUsmitty]

So #9 creates some controversy. Good. That's why I said an amendment would be necessary to enact it.

If you have no skin in the game, your vote will always be self-serving and tainted.

Instead of calling me a Red state Conk, argue the merits of the platform; if you have the intellect to do so (excludes Cap'n Pussy).

So why limit that to medicare/medicaid? Why not to farmers like Michelle Bachmann that rake in hundreds of thousands in federal pork? Why is some welfare bad (to the democratic voting poor), while other welfare (to rich farmers, corporations, etc - ok?

By your standards, there would be about 1,000 people that can vote.

Jon, I'd be open to expanding this exemption to all that receive porkulus....

[BlueHen86]

Nice effort, but too extreme. A good start though.

What is too extreme, and why?

I don't have time to go point by point, so I'll just do number 1 for now. I don't like the idea of cutting all programs across the board by 20%. I'd rather see each program evaluated individually and make the cuts accordingly. Maybe some get cut more than 20%, maybe some get cut less.

[ODUsmitty]

Which is where the zero-based budgeting exercise takes effect.

If you think that 20% from each agency is too much, please explain the great monetary efficiency that federal beaurocracies empower that I have been missing. In the private sector, you have minimal management to direct the workerbees to do their jobs.....cut out the multiple layers of crap in government is the goal here.

I'd love to learn how the feds need this structure when the more efficient private sector does not.

[BlueHen86]

Which is where the zero-based budgeting exercise takes effect.

If you think that 20% from each agency is too much, please explain the great monetary efficiency that federal beaurocracies empower that I have been missing. In the private sector, you have minimal management to direct the workerbees to do their jobs.....cut out the multiple layers of crap in government is the goal here.

I'd love to learn how the feds need this structure when the more efficient private sector does not.

Where did I say that? Reread my post.

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

Great start but its not nearly radical enough, you need to cut much deeper and get rid of more government agencies.

I like all of the ideas, especially the idea of the poor having to pull some of the wagon or be left behind. Those fu*kers have had a free lunch WAY too long and its time we get something out of them.

[ASUMountaineer]

6. Repeal the Health-Care Bill. Encourage portability across state lines and pooling of small company employees to receive better premiums.
15. Limit Congressional members to two-terms and overhaul/reduce congressional retirement perks.

I like most of what you have, and could vote for this platform. #15 is the only one I take real issue with, not because I'm opposed to term limits, but because it gives the Senate too much power. A Senate term is for 6 years and a House term is for 2 years. By your platform a Senator could hold office for 12 years and a Representative could only hold office for 4 years. It should be balanced--I would say Senate gets 2 terms and House gets 6 terms. I would also go further and only allow the President one, six-year term. No more spending two years running re-election. One term, and you're done.

Other than that JBBP, decent points.

[ODUsmitty]

To Jon and Ibanez-

Please note I never said anything about Medicare recipients as part of #9. People pay into Medicare and rightfully expect a return, like Social Security.

Medicaid is a whole different story.

To ASU-

Really strong point about Senate power. I agree with you.

[Grizalltheway]

6. Repeal the Health-Care Bill. Encourage portability across state lines and pooling of small company employees to receive better premiums.
15. Limit Congressional members to two-terms and overhaul/reduce congressional retirement perks.

I like most of what you have, and could vote for this platform. #15 is the only one I take real issue with, not because I'm opposed to term limits, but because it gives the Senate too much power. A Senate term is for 6 years and a House term is for 2 years. By your platform a Senator could hold office for 12 years and a Representative could only hold office for 4 years. It should be balanced--I would say Senate gets 2 terms and House gets 6 terms. I would also go further and only allow the President one, six-year term. No more spending two years running re-election. One term, and you're done.

Other than that JBBP, decent points.

[Ibanez]

To Jon and Ibanez-

Please note I never said anything about Medicare recipients as part of #9. People pay into Medicare and rightfully expect a return, like Social Security.

Medicaid is a whole different story.

To ASU-

Really strong point about Senate power. I agree with you.

That doesn't matter. You are still disenfranchising a large part of the population for no good cause, not all those that accept entitlements are doing it for bad, lazy reasons.

[Grizalltheway]

To Jon and Ibanez-

Please note I never said anything about Medicare recipients as part of #9. People pay into Medicare and rightfully expect a return, like Social Security.

Medicaid is a whole different story.

To ASU-

Really strong point about Senate power. I agree with you.

That doesn't matter. You are still disenfranchising a large part of the population for no good cause, not all those that accept entitlements are doing it for bad, lazy reasons.

Of course they are. Rush and St. Onge say so.