RUN FOR PRESIDENT

Here is a brief synopsis of what my Run for President Platform would look like.....
1. More Power! Energy conservation is important, but not very realistic. We can do only what we can do. Drill in my backyard? Sure.... But that is not the true answer. I am all for offshore drilling, drilling in Alaska, etc. I am a guy, and frankly watching Oil Rigs and construction is fun. Just make sure at Christmas or whatever people want to start calling December 25, you put a nice star on top of it, with other pretty lights. We need to free up restrictions on Nuclear Power. As is happening in Texas (very heavily right now) we need to invest in Wind Farms. How many acres and acres of open range are there in the United States? Once again.... during that December 25th thing.... A star at the top, powered by a battery, that was powered by solar during the day would be a nice touch....Then it can be a Christmas/Quanza/Day before Boxing Day Tree. Start a 10 year government program. How do we do this? Move NASA's vision from outer space to what we are doing right here on earth. Let's take care of what is below us, before we start looking at the star again.
2. Change the War Powers Act to state. Any member of Congress, member or member of the Executive branch that votes for war must send 1 child to serve in the War zone.
3. More separation of Church and State. Sorry.... Just don't want radicals in our White House. There are enough of them in the world.
4. The only money a member of Congress or the Executive Branch can collect is his congressional pay. PERIOD. END OF STORY. During a run for office the only money may be paid by individual contributors with a $500 cap.
5. If you want to run for office, you should not have to pay for an application fee or anything else. Collect the signatures and you should be allowed to be on the ballot. It cost to
6. A Constitutional amendment that states "This constitution shall never be used to take away the right of any one individual, which another individual may have." I am not gay. I do not plan on being gay anytime soon....but it scare the hell out of me that we would put something on the Constitution that would allow for the removal of something that one human can do, that another can do. What's next....Only rednecks can carry guns because they know how to shoot?
7. Pay the children to graduate. Set up a national Sales tax (YES I SAID TAX....How else we pay for it? Smaller Government? Get real! Government grows and grows. And yes.... that needs to be fixed, but will take more time then the 4 years I will be in office. I will not run for a second term, if elected.) Pay a child $1 a day that they attend PUBLIC (separation of church and state after all) school at the time of their graduation. It is their Job to go to school, and it is the parent job to see it happen (parents get $1 per day as well). Hopefully this will stop a few kids from dropping out, and a few parents from letting it happen. If they Drop out.... The are to join a military or Job Corps (subsidized by this same program) program of some sort
8. Line Item Veto must exist to cut PORK. That way the blame falls on ME. Not congress.
9. Iraq.....Your time is up. We have given them enough time to get it together. Set a 1 year limit on when we are going to leave. You want to put a country on its feet..... Put some damn weight on its shoulders. If they have a fear of imploding upon themselves, and they have not figured it out yet..... That's on them. We have given them the building blocks of democracy...... NOW USE IT! Move the Troops to Afghanistan and let's finish the job we started with. You remember the one.... Getting Bin Laden at any cost. Any country that is not with us, is with the terrorist? Those phrases ring a bell? Our president said them after 9/11. How short his memory is!
10. Excuse the Debt of all Courtiers that owe us money. Let's face it.... we will never get it back anyway. So let's create some good PR, and go from there. Then any money that we loan out to a country....make their government sign a treaty that states.... Failure to pay this loan in full will result in us Repossessing parts of your country. We will start with your personal houses first and go from there.
OK.... There is a lot more to this rant....I mean Platform..... But I think you are getting the point.

My Name is Dale.... And I endorse this message....because it was written by me an not a speech writer, or a marketing person, or a handler of any sort.