With elections around the corner, I just thought I’d share my agenda if I were running for president.  Yeah, the presidency isn’t on the line this election, but with all the news surrounding our current president, I just thought I’d share.  Feel free to write your own and leave a link in the comments!

Of course the following list is not investigated in depth at this point, but I would form my agenda around the following priorities:

• Social security.  Figuring out how to fund the major shortfall upcoming.  It’s obvious that our current model will not work.
• Healthcare.  Getting everyone in the country covered will be my primary focus.  Whether that entails a national healthcare system or revising our current system, it will happen.  Everyone will be covered.
• Education.  Without investing in our children, our country will slowly decline in every area.  We need to focus on giving our children all the opportunities a great nation like ours should be able to.
• National Debt.  The only way to fix this is looking at where we are spending our money, cutting waste, and figuring out a way to get us in the black.
• National Security.  Obvious.  A line between our individual rights and security is imperative.  How are we going to maintain our rights at the same time offer the security citizens of this country deserve.
• International Relations.  My priority would be to establish an image of America as the “good neighbor.”  Not the overly intrusive government.  I would assist countries and would push military action ONLY as a last resort.  I will exhaust all resources before that.  I believe forming relationships with our nations is really like forming relationships with people…we just need the right people doing it.  We want people who are effective communicators and, as simple as this seems, likable.  We need to think of international relations like neighbors.  We want to help everyone succeed, and when we see a drug house in our neighborhood, take action…AS AS COMMUNITY.
• Taxes.  Simplify.  That will be my main goal.  Eliminate the millions of complicated unnecessary steps tax time makes our citizens go through.  I want it to be an automatic system.  How?  I’ll need to get back to you on that. 
• Immigration.  Like it or not, illegal immigration will happen.  At the same time immigrants help everyone by keeping costs down and producing product for our country.  Then again, at the same time, jobs for Americans are being lost because of “cheap labor.”  So how to find the fine line yet again?  I believe we should provide a quicker, easier method for immigrants in our country to become citizens.  We will try to prevent illegal immigration, but that will not be the priority since it’s a guaranteed loss proposition.  It just won’t happen.  So, we’ll try to help promote helping the immigrants in our country become citizens and somehow allow companies to keep costs low.  Maybe, dare I say it, LOWER minimum wage.  But I’d also change our tax system to compensate appropriately.

What I consider maintenance, or infrastructure, would receive adequate funding with investments in helping our country move forward and reduce future costs.  I would invest a lot in technology, but I would want a single technology division that will be IT for all government departments.  Unifying and establishing a single technology infrastructure to benefit all government departments.

So you’re wondering, what about “faith based initiatives,” gay marriage, abortion, and the like.  I’d leave that up to the states for most, except faith based initiatives.  I would hold a strict stance on separation of state and church.  In my adminstration, there will be no linking of the two, directly or indirectly.  Any attempts by the federal government, outside of the court system, to affect these, what I consider as less important issues, will be addressed by states individually.

Democrat or Republican?  I don’t know if I want to be a donkey or an elephant…how about neither.  Sadly, that’d never work in the US.

Vote Freedumb!

Yes my agenda is a little bare, but come on…I’m not REALLY running for president.  Yet.  Haha.