Thread: What I'd do as president

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What I'd do as president

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Posted: April 26, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

© 2008


The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.
~ Paul Johnson

In the tradition of Dr. Thomas Sowell's columns titled "Random Thoughts," I am attempting my first foray into this genre, which I will call "Arbitrary Ideas." As a prologue to my discourse, let me say that while I'm no Freudian, I truly believe that each of us are profoundly shaped by the experiences of our childhood – that for good or evil those fuzzy, obscure memories from our earliest youth will in great measure determine our destiny.

One of the most disturbing aspects of the human condition in modern times is that everyone wants to matter regardless of his talents or contributions to God or humanity. Shakespeare wrote long ago, "All the world's a stage." True, but the critical question here is what will you do to get on that stage?

Will you compromise your morality? Will you lie, cheat, steal or "throw grandma under the bus" to attain power, position, privilege … pleasure? If yes, have you read Johann Goethe's "Faust"? Warning: The ending is not at all good for professor Faust who sold his soul to the devil (Mephistopheles) for the promise to be young again, to love again, only to lose his life, his soul and destroy the lives of all those whom Faust claimed to have loved.

Conservative intellectual Rush Limbaugh has long been a singular voice of reason in the arena of the battle of ideas. What frustrates him (and me) is that today's Republicans are so bereft of ideas and leadership that we either: blindly accept the sophistic premises of liberal views on public policy, or we tweak liberal and socialist ideas and try to give them the patina of conservatism. Either way, it's like fixing your makeup while holding onto a greased pole to hell.

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President Ronald Reagan made three promises to the American people, which he essentially fulfilled during his two terms in office (1981-89): 1) lower taxes, 2) rebuild the U.S. military and make America a world superpower again, and 3) defeat the Soviet Union and prevent genocidal communism from taking over the world.

If I were to become president, I would solemnly promise the American people that I would do four things: First, using Israel's border wall with the Palestinians as my paradigm, I would immediately build a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico to stem the tide of drugs and illegal aliens. I would include a $250 finder's fee for every illegal alien turned in by an American (a $250 fine if your info is wrong).
This policy will secure our borders, make society much safer for Americans and create thousands of new jobs by shipping these criminals back to their countries of origin. To direct this project, I would appoint Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio to be my czar of homeland security and change his title from "Czar" to "Sheriff." (Sheriff sounds more American to me.)
Second, following FDR's model during World War II, I would declare martial law against our present energy crisis and move five battalions of military forces to the following areas: Anwar, Alaska, off the coasts of Florida, Louisiana and California, and inside designated sections of Colorado.

I would do this to guard oil workers drilling for oil and to keep environmental radicals at bay. I would also build at least 200 oil refineries across America using non-union prison labor and, like France and most all European countries, supplement at least 50 percent of our current energy usage with nuclear power.

Third, to help pay for proposals 1 and 2, I would de-fund the Department of Education and the Department of Commerce, remove the compulsory education requirement after grade 8 (It has never worked anyway: Detroit has a 75 percent dropout rate with compulsory education) and allow the free market to regulate itself.

Four, in the name of America's sovereignty and national and international security, I would shut down the United Nations. Relying upon my new sheriff, Joe Arpaio, I would send in security forces to purge that building of every U.N. bureaucrat and ship them (and their flags) the hell out of America within a year of my taking office.
If I survived impeachment – or assassination – I would run for office again, and I guarantee you that I would win a 49-state landslide victory, as Reagan did in 1984.

Every judge, whether elected by the voters or appointed by the president or a governor, should, at his swearing in ceremony, be given a one page contract that simply says:

BE ADVISED: Should any of your subsequent judicial opinions contravene the original intent of the Constitution's Framers, you will be immediately removed from said judgeship according to Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, clause 2 pertaining to "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

The operative word here is "treason." That sanction would immediately put an end to all of the anti-constitutional, foolish, arrogant and tyrannical judicial opinions that have shocked the conscience of the nation and perverted the Constitution since Marbury v. Madison (1803). See John Rowland's excellent article, "Meaning of 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors.'" This one proposal alone if followed would cause the Democrats to become the Whig Party of the 21st century – extinct.

Regarding the executive and legislative branches of government, any official who cannot stand flatfooted and give an extemporaneous three-minute speech on any topic of domestic or international policy without stuttering or saying one of the following phrases: "uuuhhhmmm," "aaahhh," "you know," "uuhhh," then that pol should either hire a speech therapist, or "We the People" should fire the bum!

Ditto for all journalists that appear on TV (albeit, as president, I would have no authority to enforce this policy).

Regarding our three presidential candidates, Obama, Clinton and McCain, I urge every intelligent American that still gives a damn about this country and hasn't been brainwashed by our Stalinist public education system, on Election Day, Nov. 4, 2008, to write in "N.O.T.A." – None of the above … or write in "Sheriff Joe Arpaio."


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or write in "Sheriff Joe Arpaio."

Maybe that's it; a nationwide write-in campaign!