Want to be President? Here’s Your Manifesto. Contributed by Bill Faith
Via email from . The opinions expressed are his; I may or may not agree.
Accept resignations or retirement from all non-technical members of the State Department
Appoint John Bolton Secretary of State
Offer to help move the UN to Switzerland, Vienna, Berlin, or Moscow
Require UN members to support the UN in proportion to their population
Provide foreign aid on submission of national proposals reviewed by a peer group
All foreign aid to be provided by American companies: need new roads, call Halliburton.
Appoint Mark Krikorian special officer in the Department of Justice as Director of Immigration.
Fund and enforce all existing immigration laws.
Establish section of DARPA to develop new (seismic, video, infra-red, etc.) border control technology
Make all medical insurance freely available nationally, i.e., all medical insurance companies will be nationally licensed.
Establish appropriate fund recovery for medical research supported by NIH, and other federal agencies.
Proclaim that military response will be instantly forthcoming to any “act of war” identified by the President and subsequently submitted for review and approval by Congress. “Perdicaris alive or Raisulidead.”
Restore American Merchant Fleet
Speed approval of Nuclear Power plants, nuclear powered merchant fleet, nuclear powered locomotives.
Promote electric home heating and air conditioning
Enhance and extend national rail system.
Design and develop light rail (perhaps electromagnetic or elevated monorail) public transport.
Explore and test coal-into-oil technology
Explore and design rotary motion engines and flywheel power.
Design tidal capture power generation.
Offset costs of small, modest speed, short range personal transport systems (e.g., electric cars, three wheelers, tiller steered etc.)
Establish personal national flat (sales, VAT, or whatever) tax, modulated on occasion.
Establish Board of Tariffs on imported items of commerce to reestablish American production of everything: animal, vegetable, or mineral.
Establish a National Institute of Education similar to NSF
Provide an American Education Curriculum for ages 4 to 10; in twenty years we will have closed a racial-cultural-ethnic-gender achievement gap in reading, writing, and arithmetic
Restore non-academic programs (work preparation) in middle and high schools.
Establish principled public civic education from ages 4 to 18; restore American culture.
Require all 18 year-olds to engage in national service of various appropriate kinds.
Harvest and replace broad leaf trees. Establish federal greenspaces.
Restore freedom of speech and non-violent activities of all kinds: good, bad, or irrelevant
Contributed by Bill Faith on July 3, 2007 at 02:55 PM in |