Change

I've noticed Barack Obama isn't all that specific about policies. If I were running for president, I think I'd want to be specific about just what kind of changes I might bring. Here's a partial platform of my own:

If you vote for me I'll sell the US Postal Service to the highest US bidders. Same for Amtrak, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, among others.

I'll immediately sell 30% of the land the government owns to energy companies for oil drilling, coal mining, nuclear power plants, oil refineries, or other such endeavors. The other 70% will be under review and much of that may end up getting sold as well. I may decide that places like Area 51 though are actually important for defense and continue to reserve that land for government use only.

I'll legalize all drugs and end the war on drugs. Nobody has ever suggested outlawing antifreeze or rat poison and we're not spending billions on those products trying to control traffic and fight related crimes.

I'll stop all federal funding and lift all federal regulation on education.

With all the sales of government property and assets and the closing of so many offices like the NEA, I'm not anticipating needing nearly as much tax revenue, but for now I'll only get rid of the majority of the IRS and make a flat federal tax of 5% on most goods and services, to be collected by the states and forwarded on to the two or three remaining IRS agents. These remaining IRS agents will then determine how much money we currently need to pay off existing Social Security entitlements before we stop that program altogether. Once they know that then they can make a recommendation on how much I can further lower the 5% on goods and services, and at that point those two or three remaining IRS agents will have worked themselves out of a job. Everything else can then be handled by the two remaining officials in the Treasury Department.

I'll propose a constitutional amendment to establish US citizenship at the moment of conception from citizen parents.

I'll build patrolled physical, technological, and psychological border fences. Everyone will know that they are there and what to expect when they get anywhere near them. Nobody will want to get anywhere near them.

Wealthy Americans and businesses will have scads of money back in their pockets that they can use to create more jobs or give directly to the poor, cutting out the bloated middleman/government who thinks it's a charity.

Windfall profits will be encouraged.

Price-gouging will simply be bad for business with so many new competitors.