Posted on 07/18/2015 5:30:21 AM PDT by Randall_S
With so much riding on the 2016 Presidential Election, even the best candidate can get overwhelmed by the issues. Although many issues will be used to distract voters and divert attention, the four issues below are the most crucial we face as a sovereign nation and as people.
Just as Donald Trump paved the way for an honest discussion on illegal immigration, these issues (including illegal immigration) should be clearly communicated to the American public for their consideration in 2016.
These are NON-PC Talking Points and NON-PC Solutions for NON-PC Candidates!
Rule of Law
Respect for the Constitution. Presidential Executive Actions and Judicial activism were never intended to take the place of Congress.
Solution: Like Ronald Reagan, the next President must RESPECT and BE VOCAL about the Constitution, Rule of Law, Separation of Powers, and Checks and Balances.
Reign in the bureaucracy. Bureaucrats pass regulations that carry the same legal weight as Congressional law. This leads to costly legal confusion and red tape, which strangles commerce, opportunity, and individual liberty.
Solution: Congress must work with the next President to reform the bureaucracy. Congress must set legislative boundaries for regulation that prevent the bureaucracy from acting i) arbitrarily ii) politically. Bad bureaucrats must be fired.
Illegal Immigration
A Secure Southern Border. Thanks to Obama, the Southern border is wide open and Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to do their job. As a result, among the illegal aliens entering the country are criminals, cartels, and terrorists.
Solution: Enforce the existing laws and deploy significant additional law enforcement resources to the border. Build security walls in critical areas. Utilize existing solutions that work for other countries.
Fair Elections for Citizens ONLY! The Democrat Party, along with George Soros, has been importing illegal aliens. Many states are giving them IDs, allowing them to vote. If the Democrat’s agenda is so popular, why must they conspire to commit election fraud?
Solution: Work with States to develop stricter voter ID laws that prevent voter fraud. IDs should be issued to voters only after their citizenship is certified by State authorities.
National Security/Islamic Terrorism
The Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated our government, military, and intelligence agencies. According to multiple high ranking retired sources, this terrorist organization is undermining, and in some cases directing, our war on Islamic radicalism/terrorism. Its influence reaches the Presidency with Barack Hussein Obama. This is a Tier 1 threat to the security of the country and must be exposed and flushed out, akin to the Communist infiltration during the New Deal.
Solution: Establish Executive Tasks Forces within agencies, including the FBI, IRS, CIA, DIA, Pentagon, etc., to identify, investigate, indict, and purge all agencies of any and all Muslim Brotherhood agents of influence.
Obama has intentionally degraded America’s military strength.S. military strength is at its lowest level since 1949. According to the Pentagon, we are no longer able to fight a two-front war.
Solution: Dramatically increase size of armed forces, especially the Navy (600 ships). Revise Rules of Engagement so unconditional surrender of enemies is the objective of America at war.
Regain trust of former allies, and dump terror regimes of Iran and Cuba. America’s traditional allies in Western Europe, South America, and Asia are deeply questioning our commitment to their security and that of the free world. Compounding the problem, the U.S.A. has new friends in corrupt terror regimes of Cuba and Iran.
Solution: The next President should tear up any “deal” with Iran, which provides a clear pathway to nuclear weapons for the world’s leading sponsor of terror. Relations with Cuba should be revised strictly to the benefit of the United States and the democratic hopes of the Cuban people, not the Castro brothers and their police state government. Work to restore faith in our traditional allies (especially Israel, Jordan, and Western European nations) that America is on the right side of history.
Economy
There are more than 93 million Americans not in the labor force! A bubble stock market is not an economic recovery! There are too many Americans out of work and struggling financially.
Solution: Reform, simplify, and flatten that individual and corporate tax codes. Encourage growth and transparency. Make work more attractive than collecting government benefits.
Most new jobs since 2008 have gone to immigrants. It is destroying the Middle Class. While American citizens struggle, new immigrants are getting hired before them. This is unfair. Endless cheap labor only benefits the Chamber of Commerce and big corporations.
Solution: Immigration reform must put the American citizen and worker first – it’s only fair. To restore the American Middle Class, new immigration should be heavily restricted until labor participation reaches a historically normal rate.
National Debt of $18+ trillion is a threat to national security. The debt is so large it has become a serious threat to our national security. The government spends far too much money, runs too many programs and agencies, and lacks any reasonable standards of accountability.
Solution: Sunset entire agencies (e.g., Department of Education, Department of Energy, DHS). Decentralize government programs to States through Federalism. Enact Fed monetary reform to increase interest rates, which will force borrowing to slow. Work with allies to unwind debt.
I was going to say something similar - that our transformation is well enough entrenched that 2016 doesn’t really matter anymore.
And with this Iran ‘deal’, I suppose the world is close to being fundamentally transformed as well.
All good issues for sure. However, my personal feeling is that illegal invasion into this country is a very heavily contributing factor to the other three.
Rule of law is being subverted/ignored to get more illegal Democrat voters and cheap workers (for the economy). Illegals’ true social, fiscal and moral costs have a great impact on our economy.
Lastly, Democrats’ and CoC RINOs and ‘bidness’ rabid compulsions wrt illegals is presenting us with a very dire National Security threat because if they aren’t watching for illegals, they aren’t watching for terrorists, despite their claims to the contrary. They only ‘catch’ these terrorists after the damage is done.
“Solution: Encourage growth and transparency. Make work more attractive than collecting government benefits.”
“Solution: Sunset entire agencies (e.g., Department of Education, Department of Energy, DHS). Decentralize government programs to States through Federalism. Enact Fed monetary reform to increase interest rates, which will force borrowing to slow. Work with allies to unwind debt.”
Agreed! But it illustrates the problem of winning - To 98% of the voters, growth and austerity are completely contradictory. This is where we are, and why it can never, ever get fixed. See Greece.
I agree.The illegal alien inundation is the root of most of the other things.
I intend to vote for Cruz in the primary, but if Trump gets the nomination and wins, he will build that wall.
He can even put his name on it if he wants to.
Seems to be a thing with him.
I intend to vote for Cruz here in the Georgia Primary. I’m not sure what will happen after that. I know there are only two possible others that I’d vote for if he doesn’t get the nomination. In no case are Jeb, Marco, Rand, Huck, Kasich and the like a vote I’d cast. I’ll sit out first.
I always vote, even if I can’t hold my nose for the GOP candidate.
Vote third party or write in, it prevents anyone else voting for you.....
And if there is a RINO nominee, there might as well be no 2016 election.
And it falls apart right there. If the Republicans win the White House then the Democrats won't work with them. If the Democrats win the White House then the Republicans won't work with them.
You have omitted the most fundamental tenet of conservatism: the defense of the family, which is the foundation of society.
There are issues in the campaign, but as well, there is a pressing need for “structural reform” of the federal government, which needs to fix the problems leading to these issues in the first place.
1) Congressional and presidential reforms to the branches of government. In order:
a) The executive branch bureaucracy, with the closing of entire agencies, the downsizing of many more, the firing of perhaps half a million federal employees, and the criminal indictment of many who misused their offices.
b) Reform of the judicial branch, all federal courts subordinate to the SCOTUS, the demographic based reordering of the circuit courts, the replacement of many federal courts occupied by “bad” judges who will be retired, then new, “good” judges selected for the new courts. Likewise the streamlining of judicial precedent, that precedent is subordinate to constitutionality. And finally removal from the federal judiciary many issues that do not rise to being federal cases. They will no longer be under federal authority.
c) Reform of congress. To do the above, the Democrats cannot be allowed to interfere, block, or slow down the reforms, so should be as excluded from the process as were the Republicans by Harry Reid.
d) Finally, the reform of the office of the president. This means stripping the president of unconstitutional acts such as Presidential Signing Statements, Czars, and land grabbing proclamations. Then there is the restoration of the Posse Comitatus Act and the War Powers Act. And unless foreign treaties are confirmed by the US senate, they have no force in law. And the senate cannot vote to abrogate this responsibility.
They seem to be getting along famously right now so what makes you think they won't work with Hillary?
Point well taken.
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