If you
elect me to be the next President of the United States, I promise you these ten
things:
1.
I
promise to reduce the size of Government.
The Government cannot grow at 10% to 20% while the economy that feeds
the government shrinks at -6%.
2.
I
promise to speak less, and do more. I
promise to sit at my desk for long periods.
The cameras will be shut off at times.
I will quietly read budget documents, and quietly understand them. I promise to speak in firm details, not liquid
generalities.
3.
I
promise to read legislation before I sign it.
I promise that I will never insist that an Act of Congress is too
important to read, or too urgent to allow the American People a chance to
provide feedback. I will cut budgets in
ways nobody thought possible.
4.
I
will not use the government to dole free stuff to people, because it isn’t free. Government must take about $13 from the
economy in order to give back $10 of “free” stuff. I will let you keep your
money and wish you well in using it to solve your own problems.
5.
I
promise that hard times will come upon businessmen, bankers, farmers, lawyers,
contractors, unions, media, universities, lobbyists, and religious groups who
think that Government is their personal “ pot of gold”. No rainbows will end in
Washington DC. If people want gold, they will need to earn it from their
customers using hard work.
6.
I
promise that I will drive the government to spend no more than it takes in. Mr. Obama’s budget projections imply that we
would borrow about $700 from each man/woman/child in China in order to pay for a
few insolvent Social Ponzi schemes created by previous liberal Democrats. We must pay for our obligations by a robust
and growing economy, not by borrowing money from impoverished citizens of a
communist nation. At the same time, I
will not create any additional Social Ponzi schemes to “solve” the problems
that we have today.
7.
I
promise to decrease our military deployment levels. Although this will not save enough money to replenish
our bankrupt Social Ponzi schemes, it is important that we do not to spread military
power too thinly in the world. Obama’s “Surge in Afghanistan” was designed to sound
good on television, not to win a war. If
nobody can provide a reasonable strategy, I will get our troops out of
Afghanistan.
8.
I
promise that I will blame Obama for my problems, just as Obama blames
Bush. However, unlike Obama, I will
criticize in order to stop reckless spending, not accelerate it by three fold.
9.
I
promise that I will not prosecute Obama, or those in his administration, for
differences in policies they had in different times and different
circumstances. Even though it might
satisfy the all-consuming hatred of a fringe voter group, such prosecutions reek
of Totalitarianism. So they won’t
happen. The corrupt, incompetent, and
feckless people of the Obama Whitehouse will be judged by History, not an
Attorney General. We will have much more
important things to do.
10. I
promise to return the task of
caring for people in need to citizens, because Government has
thoroughly fumbled
that task. Each citizen is better at
determining how much of their own resource
to give to people in need. You are also
better at sorting out genuine human need from bogus claims of
entitlement. Government is clueless about both . When I am President,
there will be many fewer
government straws for lazy and corrupt people to suck on, and so you
will keep
much more of your money. Thus, if you
want to avoid living in a lousy place, then make sure you are as
generous as
you can be with people who truly need your generosity.
When
I
am elected President of the United States, these will be my promises.
These will be my priorities. It may sound absurdly haughty of me.
However,
if Dennis Kucinich could speak of himself as President, then so may I.