Installment number 3 of my platform

3.  I propose some changes to our election system.  First off, elected officials will no longer receive a pay check.  It doesn't make any sense to pay a pittance to a man who must be a millionaire to be elected in the first place.  There will be no more election contributions nor PACs.  Instead, to run for election a candidate must procure the backing of a major network.  Let's face it, the current two party system hasn't worked in decades so instead we will have Sen. Joe Smith, Co, CNN.  This strikes me as a win-win deal since the networks will try to get a candidate that they can make look good and gain viewers.  Does anyone really believe we could select a worse candidate this way?  Wouldn't it be great to vote for someone you wanted to instead of the one you hated the least?  I still remember the last presidential candidate that I voted FOR instead of against someone else.  It was Barry Goldwater and the year was 1964.  Anyway, elections will continue to be held in the same way except there will be no primaries unless individual networks want to hold their own.  It's easy to scoff, but think it through. 

The median amount of election fund raising in the House (including the non-voting members...) is $1,350,902 (for Rep. Janice Schakowsky).  This is for a position that pays about $175k per year and they have to run again every other year. 

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/congresspay.htm

Here's installment number two of my platform

2.  There would be no Tea Party if the republican party were representing their constituency.  As it is, somewhere between 18 and 31 per cent of voters support the tea party depending on which poll you believe.  Since the huge majority of tea party members are republicans and no more than 50% of voters are republicans it doesn't take a math prodigy to see that you can't win a national election as a republican without their support.  Having said that, do you really know what the tea party is about?  I took a look at their website www.teaparty.org and didn't see anything extreme about it.  In fact it was probably less inflammatory than Cnn.com or Foxnews.com.  The liberal press is trying to implant in our minds that there is something wrong with the tea party and if they say it enough it becomes fact, just like any other whispering campaign.  I can't support ALL of the political positions of the tea party, but I agree with most of their primary points.  If I were running for election I would make an active attempt to gain their backing. 

 

 

I've decided it's time to post my platform in case I have to run for President.  I'm going to do it in stages but in no particular order.  Anyway, here's the first installment.

Here's my platform in no particular order

 

1.  I don't believe there is any advantage to the US in the current Iran deal.  I believe the sanctions are helping curb the spread of terrorism as well as helping to slow down the attempts by Iran to become a nuclear power.  I believe that removing the sanctions will force Israel to strike against the Iranian nuclear facilities in self defense which cannot help but become a major war in the middle east.  As to the nonsense about the US economy failing and the dollar being dropped as the world's stable currency please consider the fact that the euro has dropped 23% against the dollar.  What would you suggest as the new world currency, the ruble?