If I Were President

  So thanks to the LOL's 24 hour cablethon of everything royal, I was thinking of the Tom Petty song, "It's Good To Be King".  Contrary to a number of elected officials' belief we do not have a king in this country.  This includes Elvis who hasn't even been seen in a few years now.  We do have a rather ineffective, inept, and overall indifferent President (O so bad for me and my mama) at the moment.  When I was overheard complaining about Ba car wreck someone  asked me what I would do differently.  She asked the wrong person. 

International Policy

  1.  Immediately end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Forget the financial cost and the political futility, the loss of another single American life is both unnecessary and completely in vain.  

  2.  If a country receives any form of US assistance the country will repay the US in natural resources.  The country will repay at wholesale cost as opposed to FFR (Full F-in retail).  The terrorist loving Saudis, Iraq, and Libya can start by sending a couple hundred million barrels of oil.

  3.  If a country can't repay then we can't help.  As seen in Egypt it is not like the aid provided to these countries makes its way to the people.  So to Pakistan and Afghhanistan for starters I say good bye and good luck. 

  4.  If someone is found guilty of committing a terrorist act on US soil that person's nationality shall be banned from visiting, entering or otherwise emigrating to the US permanently.  Further any members of that nationality here illegally will be deported immediately.  This policy should provide a deterrent to any dissension raised by policies 2 and 3.

Domestic Policy

  1.  Oil Companies are subject to a 25% tax on all profits.  Exxon made an $11 billion profit tax free last quarter.  They can get by on $8 billion a quarter, particularly when Big Oil is driving both the price and the economy out of sight.

  2.  If you make over one million dollars a year in income or capital gains you are subject to a 25% flat tax, over $500,000, 15% and over $250,000, 10% percent.  Fifty percent of the people in this country pay one hundred percent of the income tax:  twenty five percent are too poor,  twenty five percent are too rich.   Something just doesn't sound right.

  3.  All bank stimulus money will be recalled immediately.  All future government loans will be made not to mismanaged financial institutions but rather to infratructure repair, high speed rail and any other job creating project.

  The political response to the above common sense ideas is always the same: people do not understand the financial and security risks these changes would create.   

  I understand this, the policies in place for the last ten years have put the working class people of this country in the crapper.  If something doesn't change soon we are all about to get flushed.

KOKO