Perfect
By Mitch Berg
Who who would make the perfect President of the United States?
Well, here’s what I think:
Economic Policy – the ideal President realizes the best thing government can do is get out of the way. That cuts both ways – there’s no such thing as “too big to fail”. Enforcing the laws that exist – against things like fraud and the like – is government’s proper role. And the goverment needs to get out of the systematic structural debt business. Since jacking up taxes to pay for Obama’s level of spending would be ruinous to business, that means slashing goverment spending. Which is fine, because my ideal candidate realizes that…
Role of Government – …our government has poked its nose into a lot of areas where it has no business. We could do without massive swathes of the Federal Government; the Departments of Education and Energy need to be abolished. We need a flat tax (on income above the poverty line, or some reasonable multiple of it).
Of course, every bit as important as the “role of government” is the “role of the citizen”. Nearly half of Americans pay no taxes to the Feds. The burden on the individual taxpayer needs to be lowered – but there need to be more of them. Democracy can not work when a minority is working to pay the bills about the majority.
Oh, yeah – the Tenth Amendment needs to be taken seriously.
Law And Order – Part of our crime problem is that we create so many criminals. It’s time to end the war on drugs. This would end the black market for drugs, which is the motivation for the criminal enterprises small and large that have gutted most of America’s cities and made poverty in America such uniquely and recently nasty and criminality-prone state.
Foreign Policy – Our policy toward our friends and allies are still mired in the days when we were the only nation that could stand up against Communism. The Soviets are gone, the Europeans, Japanese and South Koreans have more than enough economic power to see to their own defense, and we should be out of that business.
We should also make it clear that while we seek redress of international grievances, we will not stand for the destruction of the democracies in Israel or Taiwan. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the US needs to have
Defense – In the eighties, Edwin Luttwak wrote “The Pentagaon and the Art of War”, which argue that the US was spending an obscene amount of money to no visible goal; we were planning, essentially, to re-fight World War II. And while the Pentagon updated its approach by the end of the Cold War, it’s time to do it again. We need military – but what kind? What are America’s interests,and how are they best defended?
So what candidate best meets all of those criteria?
None of them, of course.
So I guess I’ll take my toys and go home.
December 28th, 2011 at 7:57 am
Who who would make the perfect Senate Majority leader?
Well, here’s what I think:………………………………………..(Priceless).
December 28th, 2011 at 8:36 am
Who who would make the perfect President of the United States?
Jesus.
December 28th, 2011 at 10:08 am
I feel sorry for Earsall Mackbee. Up early in the morning fantasizing and rubbing one out to the thought of Koch and her unnamed staffer having an inappropriate relationship. So caught up in his inability to be master of his domain he misreads a post about what qualities people should want in a President of the United States and he comments instead with regard to the object of his sexual fantasy. Hope he sanitized/sterilized the keyboard after he was done.
Maybe tomorrow he’ll be able to get through the day without touching his privates as he thinks of Mme. Koch and the unnamed staffer. This is the season of hope.
December 28th, 2011 at 10:29 am
I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected. 😉
December 28th, 2011 at 10:47 am
I like what you’re saying Mitch, and really don’t disagree with anything your perfect candidate must have. But I do think your Law And Order section needs to be expanded.
Not only do we need to end the “War on drugs”, we need to end the War on “Us”.
Prosecutors feed on convictions. And the more severe the conviction, the fatter the win. Not only do we incarcerate more people than any other country on the planet, we create more felons.
We have 18 year old kids out there dragging around felony convictions for getting caught doing the stupid crap 18 year olds do. Punish them, fine; but hang a big scarlet “F” around their necks for the rest of their lives? Insane.
Even serious crimes that ARE felony level are piled so deep in charges by the time the get to court it takes a sailor to untangle the knots. Not only does that not serve justice, it adds cost to adjudicating cases. How can someone be charged with 3 counts of murder for one dead body?
We need to disincentivise felony convictions, and encourage prosecutors to charge appropriately, not only to the crime, but to the criminal.
Finally, as to “Earsall Mackbee”, I’d like to quote George Bush 41 on the occasion of his introduction to Wellstone…”Who is this chickenshit?”
December 28th, 2011 at 11:00 am
Mitch, is this your way of announcing your candidacy?
December 28th, 2011 at 11:09 am
The argument becomes, then, since none of the Republican candidates have all the requisites for leadership, we have to default to Obama?
And, as far as Jesus being the perfect POTUS, if He were elected, they’d find a new way to crucify Him.
December 28th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Well said, BS. I don’t think He would go so quietly this time, however.
December 28th, 2011 at 1:31 pm
But Bill Maher would be turned into a pillar of salt, so there is an upside.
December 28th, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Somehow, Kermit, I think when He does show up this time, there’s going to be more on our plate than politics.
December 28th, 2011 at 8:46 pm
I surely hope so.