What do you want out of an ideal presidential candidate?

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My ideal presidential candidate would:

Withdrawal from Afghanistan faster than 2014
Repeal the Patriot Act
Repeal No Child Left Behind
Create a higher tax rate on the upper class
Reduce the Federal deficit through cuts in defense spending
Close completely Guantanamo Bay
Form an efficient jobs creation program through tax benefits
Increases favoring of banking regulation
Privatizes AMTRAK and most commuter rail services
Creates an iniative to build high speed rail throughout the United States by 2025
Dissolves the TSA and reprivatizes airport security
Agrees to close some unneeded US bases such as in Okinawa, Germany, Australia, and more.
 
1. Do everything to stop lobbyists and money influencing politics
2. Cut military spending
3. Legalize weed
4. Improve Education
5. Space Program
6. Get rid of TSA and Patriot Act

Sadly given our 2 likely options

1. Will never happen
2. Will never happen(most likely a less of 2 evils scenario)
3. Small chance with a second term Obama might push for it since he has nothing to lose, but I don't expect it
4. I can only see slight if any improvements with Obama
5. Will happen......................in 2030
6. Won't happen

But hey their is always Buddy Roemer and Gary Johnson
 
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1. ditto on the lobbyists
2. push for gay marriage
3. ditto on the Patriot Act and TSA
4. ditto on education
5. ditto on the space program
6. a real jobs plan, something skin to the WPA.
7. more bank regulation
 
Ron Paul if he was 25 years younger.
 
Maybe his son will run for President in 2016. By then though the economy should mostly be back to normal, the US will have fully withdrawn from Afghanistan, the world trade center will rebuilt, and Americans will want to move on with their lives and put the negative past behind them in new ways. In all likelihood a Republican is going to take the White House again in that year. They tend to in periods of economic strength.
 
1. Move forward with green energy sources.
2. Have the Attorney General prosecute wealthy tax dodgers, have them pay what they owe in back taxes and the appropriate fine.
3. Also have the A.G. prosecute corporations that knowingly hire illegal immigrants and have them pay a fine.
4. Abolish the Department of Homeland Security, turn over the hunting of terrorists to the FBI and CIA.
5. Abolish the penny. It costs more than it is worth.
6. Increase funding to the Department of Education, with a focus on science and civics/social science education.
7. Reduce the size of the federal government to make it more streamlined and efficient. How exactly they should cut and where, I dont know. :o
 
Two words, Gary...Johnson.

What I would do or what I'd like for a President to do is what Gary mostly stands for.
 
1. Once we hit 5% unemployment then everyone's taxes go back to Clinton era rates. People that think the millionaires and billionaires will get us out of this ditch is laughable.

2. Reduce the size of the government by at least 10%. The bureaucracy of the fed is astoundingly bloated. Comb through all the agencies and bureaus and streamline the government.

3. Reform entitlement spending. Do means testing. Don't let EBT cards be ATM cards. Make people on unemployment over 36 weeks pick up trash on the side of the road or dig ditches.

4. Cut military spending and pull out of the Middle East entirely. Close air bases that haven't seen any action in 10 years.

5. Reform speculation.

6. End corn ethanol subsidies.

7. Simplify the tax code. Leave the graduated system as is. People who think a flat rate for all is fair are astoundingly blind. My iPhone wanted to say blonde but that is also apt.

8. Campaign finance reform.

9. Cut congressional and senate pay by the same percentage as unemployment. Also have in the bill that congressional and senate pay increases must be voted on by the American people each election cycle. It's a sham that they approve their own pay increases.

More to come later
 

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