Would you vote for me?

[Mahnarch]

I don't want any responses. Just an unbiased vote based on my platform.

Really! Don't respond. Just vote: after you read my post (it's long, I warn you)

I need to get an idea of how my people think and what they want.

If you post a response I will send a man to come to your house and kick you in the face.

Seriously.


Just vote.


Here's the post:


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My POTUS Platform.

Under Executive Order I will suspend Federal Income Tax for one year.

1) In that year I will call John Linder and Neil Boortz to my office to go over the Fair Tax and figure out how to employ it.

There will be no "pre-bate" checks.

What you buy you get taxed.

You will also not have to do Federal Income Taxes every year.

2) On my Inauguration Day I will announce that I will be discontinuing the employment of 5,000 government employees in six months time (180 days thereafter).

I give this advance warning so all government employees will have the time to either;
Voluntarily retire, or resign to the private sector.

For every employee that leaves the government on a voluntary basis makes for one less employee that I will have to fire.

3) I hereby rescind all extraordinary Tobacco and Alcohol Taxes; including but, not limited to the "formerly known as 'SCHIP' Tax that was intended toward Health Care for the Children and ended up going into the General Coffers.

4) I hereby rescind all Smoking Bans in publicly owned companies [i.e., restaurants, bars and pubs, etc.]

No one holds a gun to your head to attend these functions.
If you don't like the atmosphere. Leave.

5) All citizens will retain the right to purchase and carry guns. No matter their size and caliber.

Gun control laws are created to keep the criminal under control.
Law abiding citizens follow gun laws. Criminals do not.

All citizens retain the right to concealed carry without due bias.
[Obviously, if you're warranted 'insane by the State' you are exempt.]

Several crimes would be prevented if a criminal wasn't positive that a citizen was armed or not.

6) There shall be no extra tax levied against ammunition for firearms.

Ammunition is no good without a firearm.
A firearm is no good without ammunition.
A 12 year old girl is helpless without either when her house is broken into at 2 in the A.M.

7) There will be a cease and desist on all taxes that promote "Global Warming".
It is held by this administration that Global Warming is a hoax, perpetrated by those who only wish to grab power and money for their own good, while they disobey their own redirect in the mean time to promote their own gains.

8) The Speaker of the House will be limited to a Gulfstream G2 for transportation - and nothing else.

Congress will charter their own planes at their own expense.

9) Religion will not enter my Government buildings. Period.

Christian. Jewish. Islam. Buddha. Pagan. Atheist.

You walk into my buildings. You come as a man/woman. Your scripture is checked at the door.

You want a government I.D. you take off your head scarf, mask or ceremonial fan.

10) English is the official language of the U.S.

You speak it, or learn.

The Dutch, German, Irish, Italian, Spanish, French, Finnish, Swedish, Russian, etc. learned it when they came to Ellis Island at the turn of the century.
You will learn it, too.

All publications will be English only.
There will be no, "Press 1 for English. Press 2 for Spanish." There will be no choice.

Driver's tests. Menus. Auto parts. English only.

11) Voting:

If you are on any sort of Government assistance you give up the right to vote.

You will have to be off government assistance for 6 months before your right to vote is reinstated.

When you go to the voting booth, you will be required to swipe your government I.D. (driver's license or state I.D.) before you are allowed to vote.
If you voted in another precinct your I.D. will flag the booth attendant and you will be arrested on-site by police in attendance for voting fraud - a 5 year federal offense.

If you swipe your I.D. and pass, you will be required to take a 10-15 question test about current political events and campaigners views:

"Are You planing to vote for Barack Obama?"
"Yes"
"Why?"
"Because he's black."

You're done. No vote.

12) Congress will have term limits:

Two terms for Senators (12 years)
Three terms for the House of Representatives. I will increase their terms to 4 years - twice their current terms, so they're not constantly bidding for re-election and can concentrate on their jobs, instead (12 years).

No more 'Career Politicians'. Let others rise up in the ranks.

You have your turn. Hand it over.

Two terms is all you afford the President. It's time the same is afforded to Congress.

13) "Drill Here! Drill Now!"

I hereby open ANWR to open drilling for petroleum deposits.
I hereby open ALL natural oil preserves to the domestic oil companies within the U.S. - strictly for sale solely in the U.S.

I believe that oil production is clean enough to collect within our own borders as not to disturb the natural habitats.

Anyone who prevents - or tries to prevent - the progress of our own energy production will be arrested on grounds of treason; for aiding and abetting our nation's enemies in the Arab communities.

The U.S. needs to break it's bonds with foreign nations and start producing oil from it's own grounds here and now!

14) The U.S./Mexico Border:

The entire U.S./Mexican border will be fenced by a poured, re-inforced concrete wall. 12 inches thick and burmed by a 6 foot high dirt embankment on the U.S. side so as to prevent digging under, or crashing though.

The fence will be 50ft inside the U.S. border. My Border Patrol will be ordered to 'shoot on sight'.

Since the fence is 50ft inside our border the Mexican government will have no say so and the intruders will be breaking Federal 'Invasion' laws.

The U.S./Mexico border will also be the largest military base in the world. Spanning from South Bay, Tx to Border Field Nat. Park, Ca. - there will be a 1 mile wide Army/Marine base.
If Illegal Aliens want to cross the border, they'll have to break into a military camp.

3,000 miles long. 1 mile wide.

15) All government vehicles must be 5 years or older.

If an official currently has a newer than 5 year old vehicle he or she can keep it. But, upon replacement is must be 5 years or older from the concurrent year purchased.




With the rescind of Federal Income Taxes, and other taxes the government will need extra funds to fund other things other than employee salaries.

If you visit www.whitehouse.gov you will find links to donate to the project of your choice.
I will NOT take your money via taxes to fund anything you don't want.

Links to donate to projects will change over time.

Many recurring themes will be:

Donate to The Border Fence.
Donate to Support the Elderly and Sick.
Donate to Help the Poor.
Donate to the Military.

[edlin]

It is held by this administration that Global Warming is a hoax

Damn! It sounded wonderful up 'til here.

I don't think the president has enough power to do some of this stuff, though.

[Blastgirl]

Even if the President doesn't have the power to do all of the things on Mahnarch's list I still think that he has a lot of good ideas. I remember a video where Phil said he is not a believer in Global Warming, but it's still a good idea to try to preserve the environment. I think Drill here and now is a good idea because I think the United States could do well to be less reliant on Middle Eastern Nations that dislike us and always will and always have.

[Mahnarch]

Edlin:

South American rainforests are now growing faster than they're being burned down.
Ice sheets are thickening faster in the northern latitudes than they're "melting" in the lower degrees.
Marshlands are increasing, naturally, for the first time in 100 years.

You don't hear about these in the national newspapers because it "doesn't bleed".

The Dow is increasing since March 9, 2009.
How often do you hear about it in the New York Post?


It rises 20% but, falls 5% in the same day.

The NYP headline: "DOW DOWN %5! EARTH DOOMED!!"


I'm all for environmental preservation, alternative fuels and disconnecting from the monopoly that is the gas and electrical company but, I don't believe in taxing the consumer to death until they're mandated into switching.

If you want to buy a new 3500 Silverado - do it.
If you want to buy a new Prius - do it.


I'm not going to FORCE you to buy a Prius.

I'm about individual choice. That's where I come from in that paragraph.


Unless you want to dump toxic waste into my drinking water you can be as dirty or clean as you want.


Heck! I have a solar panel that's integrated into my household electrical system.
If the power goes out here I can still watch one TV or have a couple of lights on.

I won't force everyone to use this system.

[Phil]

I'm not a big fan of the Kennedys but JFK did say 'let us begin.' That's a good rule of thumb.

[Kimm]

I might have posted for McCain before reading through. I liked the platforms Mahnarch has shown. Esp people on government assistance should not be vote eligible. I dont mean short term unemployment though. If you lose your job in September and its November and youre looking for employment you can still vote. If youve been on multiple programs for a long time then no.

Social security after you have retired after working all your life? I dont know where that falls but that should not disqualify you from voting either. Disability? yes.

[edlin]

Apr 24, 2009 2:33:11 GMT -5 Mahnarch said:

Edlin:

What do you mean?

Are you Global Warmist? or, you don't think I can do anything about it?

Yeah, I'm "global warmist", as you put it. The graphs of average temperature and atmospheric CO₂ concentrations correlate just a little too closely for me to be anything else.

On the other hand, it probably won't affect us too much. Even if the coasts flood and temperatures rise, people will just move inland and north.

And it's also true that most things done to reduce global warming will help the environment in general anyway, which is good.

[thunderbird]

They might not deliver the promised tax cuts to the middle class.
My business is considered higher that middle class, but me personally taking a salary from the business makes me middle class. See I get to pay twice because I'm such a good American.

I like Mahnarch's poins though.
I am all about the English. Phil has made some vids about this so have a lot of other people. Getting an English speaking person in some places has become a challenge. Like Mahnarch said everybody else has had to learn English.

I think if there was ever going to be any chance of getting corruption out of government you have to limit terms. Even if you had to compromise to 3 terms an end in sight.

Strum Thermond held office til age 100. I'm not a believer that he did much his last 2 terms. The point to electing him that last time at age 94 was to see a senator who was 100 years old before he retires.

I think 3 terms and sit out a whole term then you can try again. It has to be a whole term though. If your 6 year term ends and 2 years later the other senate seat from your state is up you're not a legal candidate. You must be out of government at least one full term. You can't hold another elected office in the meantime.

You must have no elected position at all for the length of a term before you can stage a comeback. You may seek a different elected job once your term is up but you have to be out of government office for a whole term's length before you can run for the same seat.

How about you must know at least a little about each candidate. Like you have to know that John McCain is an Arizona Senator and Barack Obama as in Illinois senator before you can cast a ballot too. You have to know at least one other government position held by the candidate.

While you do not have ot have already had a prior job in government in order to run, the voters should at least have to know that mayoral hopeful Jack Tucker has never held an elected office before. He is a trout fisherman by trade.

You can vote for him but you have to know what government experience if any he has.

[Demona]

The only thing that really bugs me is the government assistance disqualifying you to vote. I have friends on disability because they do have legitimate disabilities and CAN'T get jobs. That's not right at all.

Also, about the border fence, don't forget Canada. We don't need a fence for it, but it's not all perfect either. Ok, so we don't have a flood of illegals, but it's still foreign and some undesirables have come through from there.

I think you should also crack down on companies who send jobs out of the country and screw over the workers. It's a big reason why people can't make ends meet and are on assistance.

[Peon]

Mahnarch, even if the President had that kind of power, which in reality isn't anywhere even close to approaching that, your country running under these policies would crumble completely within a decade. We'd lose any bit of money and power we still have and we would no longer operate as a superpower.

I appreciate your zeal but honestly it's Congress that wears the pants in the government. The president is just a figurehead.

[thunderbird]

I know a lot of people do think the President is a large part a figurehead. I don't fully agree but I'm not in the Capitol when work is done. Is there any work done there?

I am a Republican but I have voted for Democrats and independents sometimes.

I am not sure how Peon felt about the Bush administration so please don't think I'm talking to you personally on this but I will say that a number of people I know who said the President is a figurehead are heavy Democrats and especially Bush bashers.

My question for them is if the President is nothing but a figurehead, and congress rules the government, then isn't it the democratic dominated congress who mostly made the decisions that have the country in financial trouble?

Me personally (Terry aka Thunderbird) doesn't feel that government made a whole lot of our trouble at all. I think Americans getting lazy week and reliant on perks made their own bed more than any governmental thing.

I have seen Phil's videos, read Mahnarch, Demona Firebrand and others say they work with people that take days off of work or just skip it altogether or they're useless when they get there.

I am second generation business owner and I employ over 100 people. We have the same trouble that the others mention the people they work with have. I have a good amount of guys who get sick easy, miss days once they've earned a little extra money, take birthdays off, or just feel they haven't missed a day in a few weeks and this is as good a day as any to miss.

They're on a part of a job that's undesirable to do so missing a day will get them out of part of it.

That careless attitude has weakened economy and attitude overall. Depending on sickdays, personal days, and other benefits at the employer's expense is another thing that seems to be a must that was once a perk.

Instead of seeing that as an emergency measure people have grown to live on these things.
That's the same as living out of the reserve non perishables kept in the basement in case there's a blizzard, or a hurricane or some reason supermarkets are not able to provide food. (Where I live a heavy snow storm will sometimes cause grocery stores to run out of milk, bread and other bear essentials.)

So all my growing up years my mother kept a stash of pears, and other canned goods non perishables downstairs for an emergencies. The stock got rotated now and then.
That was not intended to be our supper.
Taking days off could lead to having to eat that if our family operated the way people appear to today.

My father ran the business I operate from 1964 until I got out of the army in 1992. In fact my dad still ran it with me for about 5 years. Now he's there in a figurehead capacity it's me and my brother everyday.

My father swears that workers he employed for over 30 years had harder work ethics than they do now.

Realize that its not all and none but the average bar is lower now than it was before.

[Peon]

Apr 28, 2009 11:08:05 GMT -5 thunderbird said:

I know a lot of people do think the President is a large part a figurehead. I don't fully agree but I'm not in the Capitol when work is done. Is there any work done there?

I am a Republican but I have voted for Democrats and independents sometimes.

I am not sure how Peon felt about the Bush administration so please don't think I'm talking to you personally on this but I will say that a number of people I know who said the President is a figurehead are heavy Democrats and especially Bush bashers.

My question for them is if the President is nothing but a figurehead, and congress rules the government, then isn't it the democratic dominated congress who mostly made the decisions that have the country in financial trouble?

You're preaching to the choir here. I never had any particular problems with President Bush just like I don't have any problems with President Obama, and I'm about as far from a Democrat as anyone can get.

I just think it's ridiculous that people spend so much time and effort on deciding who is President when all being President gives you is a right to veto. If Congress is unified enough in disagreeing with any given President then the President is basically powerless.

[Phil]

Peon is right. In fact I think 60 percent is enough. If I have the count right Obama has his majority of congress right now as far as party lines go. That's not to assume tha tall democrats would vote with him and all republicans would not, it does seem that is how it goes though. Mostly they do stick together.

[Mahnarch]

Demona: I say "ALL" citizens on government assistance because GA is a form of.... I don't want to say 'punishment' but, I can relate it to that.
If someone gets laid off and then starts to receive government checks in the same amount that they were making after a 40 hour work week then they tend to get lazy and decide, "Hey! I don't even HAVE to work!"

I also don't want Welfare, Disability and Unemployment voters to vote themselves a raise (or, potential raise - if that particular Democrat promises one).

And, as far as, "CAN'T" work...... Unless you've got MS or are completely paralyzed...you can do something: Pushing papers. Making websites. Medical transcription. Food critic. Camera man. Author. Copy Editor. Guy who stands outside a business in a costume and waves at people who drive past.....

Not every job has to include lifting 200lb boxes and/or garbage bins.



With the Fair Tax, companies will come back and/or stay here.
It's win/win/win for them.
No need to punish them with taxes and fines.


Peon: How much do you know about economics?
I'm curious.


The way B.O. is doing it is all wrong.
You can't spend your way out of a recession.
You let the people keep their money so they can spend it.
Reagan dropped taxes from 70% to 28%(?) and the economy flourished.


As far as a figurehead: That is only because every POTUS recently has allowed it.
The President is supposed to be the most powerful man on the planet - except for political reasons and 'not wanting to ruffle any feathers' they've been subservient to Congress.


When I start charging Senators and Representatives with High Treason for cavorting with the enemy they'll change face and shape up (or, I'll blow up their cars....either way. )

I don't care about Political prowess and being nice to Congress.
[I'll serve my 8 years and return to the private sector.]

Amnesty is not the answer.
Pandering to Islam is not the answer.

Pelosi commanders a military plane to fly to Serbia - she's out of a job when she gets back [and is going to spend some time in jail for Grand Theft Airplane].

I'll also have 'Executive Order'.
And, as Commander in Chief I will die to defend you.
You and every citizen on this planet. I would go down fighting to my last breath if it came to the jeopardy of my people caming to pass.

I will not hand you over to the enemy because 'it might offend him, otherwise'.


Thunderbird:
I see that you get my 10-15 question quiz idea.

People need to be informed and not vote for someone based on a billboard that "makes him look nice".


edlin: Oh...man...

Have you seen the video, "The Global Warming Swindle"?
Have you heard about the Greenland Ice Sheet?
Antarctic ice shelf expansion?

Dude, I'm all for living cleaner but, I'm not going to mandate it.
Hell, I have a solar panel, myself, to power smaller appliances if I have a power failure but, I'd hate it if Ottawa County TOLD me to put it in.

My view is that; you can do all the green you want to do. Just don't force it on me.
Same with religion. Believe whatever you want. Just don't force it on me.

[edlin]

Apr 30, 2009 0:40:00 GMT -5 Mahnarch said:

Dude, I'm all for living cleaner but, I'm not going to mandate it.
Hell, I have a solar panel, myself, to power smaller appliances if I have a power failure but, I'd hate it if Ottawa County TOLD me to put it in.

My view is that; you can do all the green you want to do. Just don't force it on me.
Same with religion. Believe whatever you want. Just don't force it on me.

Actually, that makes good sense. CRAZY environmentalism is bad, and I don't deny that. However, strip-mining everything to kingdom come is also bad. On global warming, well... wait 20 years, and we'll see who's right.

Reagan dropped taxes from 70% to 28%(?) and the economy flourished.

Urr.... he also racked up $1 trillion in debt, though.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms
(not that, say, Clinton, did any better though. )

[Demona]

Apr 30, 2009 0:40:00 GMT -5 Mahnarch said:

Demona: I say "ALL" citizens on government assistance because GA is a form of.... I don't want to say 'punishment' but, I can relate it to that.
If someone gets laid off and then starts to receive government checks in the same amount that they were making after a 40 hour work week then they tend to get lazy and decide, "Hey! I don't even HAVE to work!"

I also don't want Welfare, Disability and Unemployment voters to vote themselves a raise (or, potential raise - if that particular Democrat promises one).

And, as far as, "CAN'T" work...... Unless you've got MS or are completely paralyzed...you can do something: Pushing papers. Making websites. Medical transcription. Food critic. Camera man. Author. Copy Editor. Guy who stands outside a business in a costume and waves at people who drive past.....

Not every job has to include lifting 200lb boxes and/or garbage bins.



With the Fair Tax, companies will come back and/or stay here.
It's win/win/win for them.
No need to punish them with taxes and fines.


Peon: How much do you know about economics?
I'm curious.


The way B.O. is doing it is all wrong.
You can't spend your way out of a recession.
You let the people keep their money so they can spend it.
Reagan dropped taxes from 70% to 28%(?) and the economy flourished.


As far as a figurehead: That is only because every POTUS recently has allowed it.
The President is supposed to be the most powerful man on the planet - except for political reasons and 'not wanting to ruffle any feathers' they've been subservient to Congress.


When I start charging Senators and Representatives with High Treason for cavorting with the enemy they'll change face and shape up (or, I'll blow up their cars....either way. )

I don't care about Political prowess and being nice to Congress.
[I'll serve my 8 years and return to the private sector.]

Amnesty is not the answer.
Pandering to Islam is not the answer.

Pelosi commanders a military plane to fly to Serbia - she's out of a job when she gets back [and is going to spend some time in jail for Grand Theft Airplane].

I'll also have 'Executive Order'.
And, as Commander in Chief I will die to defend you.
You and every citizen on this planet. I would go down fighting to my last breath if it came to the jeopardy of my people caming to pass.

I will not hand you over to the enemy because 'it might offend him, otherwise'.


Thunderbird:
I see that you get my 10-15 question quiz idea.

People need to be informed and not vote for someone based on a billboard that "makes him look nice".


edlin: Oh...man...

Have you seen the video, "The Global Warming Swindle"?
Have you heard about the Greenland Ice Sheet?
Antarctic ice shelf expansion?

Dude, I'm all for living cleaner but, I'm not going to mandate it.
Hell, I have a solar panel, myself, to power smaller appliances if I have a power failure but, I'd hate it if Ottawa County TOLD me to put it in.

My view is that; you can do all the green you want to do. Just don't force it on me.
Same with religion. Believe whatever you want. Just don't force it on me.

Yes, 98% of them can do something, but what I've they've looked like crazy for a job and for a number of years even, have found nothing?

The two friends I have on it are in different situations. One I've worked with before, he's held jobs for short amounts of time. His disability deals with bad short term memory. He has a tough time keeping jobs for that reason, but he can drive and take care of himself and all that.

The other lives near Detroit, and the unemployment rate is said to be over 20%. That's bad. He's an intelligent person, and has some minor learning disability. I think it's math related. He's looked for jobs for years. His biggest two barriers are lack of official work experience and the fact he can't drive. He shares a walking paper route with his teenage sister.

You never know how long a run of bad luck will last, so if you can use a government program as a last resort, it's there for that reason. To tell a person like that to just "get off your butt and get a job" is pretty rude, when that's what they really want to do.

[Peon]

Apr 30, 2009 0:40:00 GMT -5 Mahnarch said:

Peon: How much do you know about economics?
I'm curious.

I know as much as a college macroeconomics course has taught me. How much do you know about economics?

Apr 30, 2009 0:40:00 GMT -5 Mahnarch said:

The way B.O. is doing it is all wrong.
You can't spend your way out of a recession.
You let the people keep their money so they can spend it.
Reagan dropped taxes from 70% to 28%(?) and the economy flourished.

It's really hard to compare isolated instances especially with something as complicated as the economy. Some tactics will work fine in some cases and be disastrous in others. FDR's methods for improving the economy were drastically different from Reagan's methods and both arguably worked well. Increased government spending was the first thing that really got the world economy moving back in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

It's just not as simple as it looks. I've always supported Jeffersonian government but looking back I'm not entirely sure that it would have been able to give us the jump start that propelled us to being the most powerful country in the world.

Are you familiar with Keynesian economics? It's the school of thought that basically says the exact opposite of what you just claimed.

Apr 30, 2009 0:40:00 GMT -5 Mahnarch said:

As far as a figurehead: That is only because every POTUS recently has allowed it.
The President is supposed to be the most powerful man on the planet - except for political reasons and 'not wanting to ruffle any feathers' they've been subservient to Congress.

Do you even understand the way the federal government operates? The President, even with all the authority he commands, has no power to simply introduce legislation. As I said before, the President's main power regarding legislation is the ability to veto, which can be overridden by a unified Congress vote. Without a Congress backing the President there is no ability to take all your great ideas into effect. You seem to be sadly misinformed.

Apr 30, 2009 0:40:00 GMT -5 Mahnarch said:

When I start charging Senators and Representatives with High Treason for cavorting with the enemy they'll change face and shape up (or, I'll blow up their cars....either way. )

I don't care about Political prowess and being nice to Congress.
[I'll serve my 8 years and return to the private sector.]

Amnesty is not the answer.
Pandering to Islam is not the answer.

Pelosi commanders a military plane to fly to Serbia - she's out of a job when she gets back [and is going to spend some time in jail for Grand Theft Airplane].

I'll also have 'Executive Order'.
And, as Commander in Chief I will die to defend you.
You and every citizen on this planet. I would go down fighting to my last breath if it came to the jeopardy of my people caming to pass.

I will not hand you over to the enemy because 'it might offend him, otherwise'.

See above. You seem to think that the President has a lot more power than he really does.

[Phil]

I had this argument with somebody I know. This guy does seasonal work. He has been known to take unemployment for the rest of the time and say 'I work all season this is my off time.'

Unemployment is a transition time until you find a regular job, not a 4 month treat for people who worked 8 months.