If you ran for president what are 5 things you would bring to the table for the US?
Pick your top five policies and why.
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Eternity · 26-30, M
1) all private healthcare entities would be forced to combine their capital into one nationwide healthcare conglomerate. It would continue to be privately owned, however, it would be subject to government mandates concerning how much they can charge for what service. I would enlist the aid of known genius economic and capitalistic minds to run it efficiently and I would focus special attention on doing away with as much administrative infrastructure as possible. Administrative cost is a huge reason why healthcare is so ridiculously overpriced. Also innovation would be paramount. No more big pharma buying up cures and burying them so as to keep profiting off treatments. We want cures because they are less expensive.
2) all residences would be required to install boilers, solar panels, wind turbines, or some combination thereof to produce their own clean energy and reduce the demand on power plants. Eventually we would end up with power surpluses so large that we could sell the excess power to Canada and Mexico and send cash checks to each citizen proportionate to how much extra power their household generated.
3) the war on drugs is over. All drugs are legalized. If you die because of your habit that sucks but that's life. Eventually everyone who is gonna die will be dead and there will be no more demand for hard and harmful drugs.
4)border security is essential. All emotional argument aside a nation that is not secure against invasion is no nation at all. There will be set ways to gain legal citizenship. They will be simplified and made much easier and more accessible to common people. As for illegal entrants: it is unethical to mow down innocent people with rifle fire so none of that. But the borders will be made much more perilous than they already are. Wide and deep trenches full of barbed wire and construction debris, minefields, drone protrols that fire at humanoid heat signatures indiscriminately. I wont have any human soldiers pulling any triggers but if an illegal migrant happens to die while trying to enter the country illegally, well, we put up very many signs in multiple languages. They were warned. And if they make it past all that theyll be detained, set back at the safest point past the border, and invited to try the gauntlet again. 3 successful passes gets you a free icecream.
5) an exploratory space program would be made a priority. We would combine NASA with private companies like SpaceEx and work in conjunction with them to commercialize space travel. Moonbase, Mars base, extraterrestrial mining operations. Commercializing the cosmos would be difficult and costly at first but eventually it would bring about a period much like that of the roaring 20s. A worldwide economic boom.
2) all residences would be required to install boilers, solar panels, wind turbines, or some combination thereof to produce their own clean energy and reduce the demand on power plants. Eventually we would end up with power surpluses so large that we could sell the excess power to Canada and Mexico and send cash checks to each citizen proportionate to how much extra power their household generated.
3) the war on drugs is over. All drugs are legalized. If you die because of your habit that sucks but that's life. Eventually everyone who is gonna die will be dead and there will be no more demand for hard and harmful drugs.
4)border security is essential. All emotional argument aside a nation that is not secure against invasion is no nation at all. There will be set ways to gain legal citizenship. They will be simplified and made much easier and more accessible to common people. As for illegal entrants: it is unethical to mow down innocent people with rifle fire so none of that. But the borders will be made much more perilous than they already are. Wide and deep trenches full of barbed wire and construction debris, minefields, drone protrols that fire at humanoid heat signatures indiscriminately. I wont have any human soldiers pulling any triggers but if an illegal migrant happens to die while trying to enter the country illegally, well, we put up very many signs in multiple languages. They were warned. And if they make it past all that theyll be detained, set back at the safest point past the border, and invited to try the gauntlet again. 3 successful passes gets you a free icecream.
5) an exploratory space program would be made a priority. We would combine NASA with private companies like SpaceEx and work in conjunction with them to commercialize space travel. Moonbase, Mars base, extraterrestrial mining operations. Commercializing the cosmos would be difficult and costly at first but eventually it would bring about a period much like that of the roaring 20s. A worldwide economic boom.