I have a few ideas:
1. Let's start with all members of the legislative and judicial branches of government, at state and federal levels, reducing their salaries by 20%. They need to show us that they are serious about spending fewer tax dollars.
2. Reduce U.S. Postal deliveries to three day a week, or eliminate the postal service entirely. Yes, there would be personnel losses.
3. Remove all farm subsidies for those farms that are paid to not grow a crop. I understand the reasons for these subsidies, but if you look at who's getting them, it makes no sense.
4. No more NASA unless each and every mission is chock full of real world, immediately practical projects. In other words, eliminate NASA. I understand the need for pure research, but now's not the time.
5. No more esoteric spending, and that includes any pork barrel legislation that is not needed to save lives.
6. Eliminate health insurance companies and do it the right way: a federal health plan. Do you have any idea how much money those blood sucking insurance companies take in profits from the American people and what they do to get it? And how this is a huge substrate of our economic woes? With far less money to spend, consumers aren't lighting up our commerce. Another day, another blog.
7. Birth control. Spend money on teen and young adult sex education and prevention programs. I know for a fact these work. Our planet cannot tolerate the overpopulation it is attempting to support. This is the baseline issue that feeds into all the other ways that the human race is choking itself, and the earth, out of its life-sustaining abilities. These programs must be available everywhere in all corners of the world.
8. Stop all wars that we are engaged in. STOP< STOP< STOP! Wars beget wars, not peace. Reduce defense spending and merge and interlace security and defense services to avoid duplication, of which there is WAY too much.
9. Implement a flat tax with major simplifications of the codes.
10. Make most jobs paid on a merit basis. I am tried of people doing little and getting paid for it, sometimes in inverse proportion to how little they produce. Like congress.
11. Invest in and mandate electric cars, solar energy, nuclear energy (with an eventual phase out), and wind power.
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