Alex P Keaton said:
Agreed. What's your solution?
This is a fair question.
One of the reasons I posted up several articles and videos regarding JD Vance, besides pointing out the hypocrisy of the MSM and Hollywood in essentially "cancelling" the movie critically as a pro Trump film ( I won't deny this is typical Ron Howard Oscar bait, however I've seen the film and it's clearly a family story and not a political one), is that he got a massive amount of socialization in the military. The military structure is used to taking in those with social limitations, those from broken homes, those did not receive parental guidance and love, etc, etc.
You can't force private big business to invest in places where JD Vance grew up. I'm a small business owner, like many here, and one's wish for a better world is often constrained by personal survival financially.
1) Compulsory service from ages 16-19 by everyone in the US. You either enter a junior military environment or a "Public Service Corps". Young people are going to PT, going to classes, learn life skills, learn basic money household management, discipline, team work, meritocracy, work ethic, etc, etc. Clearly the modern US family culture has fallen apart. The mass divorce culture didn't help any. The public school system cannot function as surrogate parents. Give these young people early work, early trade training, early life skill training and socialization.
2) Make youth sports compulsory. High school football saved my life. It gave me a sense of purpose, a team, a surrogate family, an understanding of hard work and sacrifice, and a make shift brotherhood. I'm not the only one here. Our society needs to get kids playing sports. Working as a team. Competing. No more obese kids staring all day into a phone. Outside in open air and in a system where there is a surrogate support system outside the home.
3) No foreign aid, besides food shipments, of any kind until the deficit is resolved. If we have extra crops and harvests, then by all means, share with the world so people don't starve. But otherwise, the purse strings are closed
Frees up lots of money to help American citizens, including rural ones.
4) Mass deportations. Since the Death Penalty is so controversial, and the prison system is so overcrowded and expensive, let's make it simple. Create a classification of crimes where you are stripped of your citizenship, all your assets and are required to leave the country and never return. If Eric Swalwell wants to bang a Chinese spy and give up state secrets like a thirsty broken down simp, then OK, lose your citizenship and get out of the country. Never return. Anyone caught again on US soil is shot by firing squad in two weeks. Want to rob a bank? Deported. Want to throw a molotov cocktail and try to burn people alive? Deported. Want to storm the Capitol? Deported. Want to be a drunk driver and kill some innocent kids in your SUV? Deported. Where will they be sent. Pick the worst country in the world that takes our food aid and tell them do what they want to them, and ship them there as the cost of doing business.
Child molesters get executed by hanging. ( Anyone got a problem with this? Didn't think so.. OK if you have a problem with this, we can build a gigantic rail gun in the desert using solar farms and fire them into the sun. That better? ) Major political crimes are now capital offenses. If Hunter Biden gets caught taking Burisma money for political gain and direct political influence? Then he goes on Death Row. Kushner uses the White House as a personal piggy bank and is convicted? Same thing. For every person deported, a lottery is held to have a prospective immigrant to get a chance to become a citizen.
Our prison system should be a bus stop only for major crimes. People stay long enough to be deported. Or to be sent to a firing squad.
This frees up lots of money to actually support schools, youth sports, libraries, parks, etc, etc.
5) To clean up personal financial political pork, if you run for office and get elected for more than one term, you are restricted for the rest of your life to only earn the top five year average of your actual government political salary. Any overage will be stripped and donated to your home state for their schools, youth sports, music programs, etc, etc. Obama can still sign that massive 60 million dollar book deal and 400K per 20 minute speaking gig. It's just he's restricted to his Presidential pension for life. That 60 million gets stripped and sent to his home state to better the lives of average citizens. You can do all the stock deals you want, just watch them go bye bye. Your direct family can have business dealings with political linkage, just at a 95 percent tax rate. If Hunter Biden wants 10 million a year from Burisma, he can give 9.5 million in taxes to support his home state. All candidate for POTUS, if elected, their adult children must be conscripted for the entire one/two terms of office by their parent. You now work for the Public Service Corps and you are sent to work for the most distressed city in the most distressed state in the entire country. Ivanka Trump should get on her knees and clean a toilet. So should Hunter Biden.
If you make professional politics a zero pathway to massive wealth, there is more incentive in place to create real public policy that helps
6) No Bill in Congress can exceed five pages in length. If you can't explain it in five pages, then you have a problem. All Bills must be single issue items. All Bills need a two week grace period for everyone to actually read the damn thing before voting. Everyone needs to vote. Anyone missing a vote is stripped of their government salary for the entire year.
This allows public policy to be simple enough for the average rural American to understand it. And reduce financial political pork.
7) If you want to sell products in the US, as a major corporation, your company must employ at least 50 percent of it's entire work staff from American citizens. Any product sold in the US, the components to build it must be made with 50 percent of parts derived from wholly US owned and operated and American employed businesses. Apple can decide it wants to make all it's IPhones in China and in those Uighur concentration camps. Fine. You just don't get to sell them in the US.
Any company is free to outsource it's jobs overseas outside of that 50 percent limit, just at an 80 percent tax rate. If you hire a guy in India to be a phone CSR, fine, whatever you are paying him in total compensation, you need to pay 80 percent on top of that in taxes.
We build our IPhone substitutes here. We make our shoes here. We make our clothes here. We give Americans jobs.
Gekko does not desire to make America great again, he simply desires to remind America it's backbone was built on 3000 percent beef eaters and legitimate shooters.
8x) Prostitution is made legal. New jobs, more tax dollars. People are more well adjusted in general and less likely to riot if their stomachs are full and their balls are empty. Consider this a gift to many of you woke manlets out there. I'm a geriatric retiree gangster and can still pull quality and drop loads but I recognize many here are not so naturally dominant.
