The Next US President's Priorities

I don't know specifics on how a normal administration would handle a pandemic crisis like we're facing now so I'm not thinking of including that in my thoughts, but obviously any competent human can handle it better than this administration. So, in no order:

- Campaign Finance Reform: Should be crystal clear where $ to a campaign is coming from. Donald Trump won an election due to breaking campaign finance laws, this is a must.

- Medicare for all/Unviersal health care: I don't want to not call 911 due to an emergency but I can't afford it, lets fix that America. Like Jesus.

- Sane Gun Laws: Abolish the 2nd amendment if you ask me, no normal citizen should have any reason to have a weapon of mass destruction in their hands.

- Free Public College/Tuition: Best thing to help our future is make sure people are educated. I decided to not go to college as to not be in debt for the rest of my life, so it'd be nice to offer my eventual children an affordable college option that doesn't tie them down to payments for their next 20 years while colleges make up to a billion in profits. Its shameful.



But goddamn, looking at this list we have so much sh!t to fix in our country, like, wow. Shows how corrupt and mismanaged we truly are.

In our country now, basically nothing will get done unless the party of the POTUS controls the entire government. First, I truly doubt Pelosi will be elected speaker again. A Democratic House will try for legislation that will never see the light of day with a Republican controlled Senate. Next, Schumer does not have the political skills necessary to do some "Horse Trading" . To be fair, McConnell and Reid before him were just as bad. In other words, the only things that the next POTUS (Trump, Biden or Bernie) will get done will be by executive action. That is the sad state of the people we put into Congress.

Arggghhhhh...insomnia has kicked in. I'm reluctantly going to add "Nationwide Fracking Ban" to the list. The issues involved are sundry and well laid out here and here. I'm not a fan of the shale oil (aka fracking) industry but agree with FindingNamo's assessment that Coronavirus changes everything. And a bear market doesn't help matters one bit. We can't afford to let any industry go under. If ever there was a time for politicos to set aside hyper-partisanship & egos, it's now.

ETA: I do think that the Dem's need new leadership in both chambers of Congress regardless of Trump's fate. This is not an indictment of Pelosi however who has done a remarkable job keeping her caucus together. Schumer, on the other hand, has become somewhat reckless.

Updated On: 3/12/20 at 03:42 AM

The first priority of the next US President must be to remove any and all Republicans in general and Trump appointees in particular from positions of responsibility. Only then will there be anything like hope.

Mr Roxy said: "If enacted your priorities would destroy what is left of the country.

I pity children being born into this along with those young people growing up. We are in for a world of ****.

Thankfully, the older folks who are stuck several decades in the past won’t be around when we younger citizens are in control, so there’s nothing for you to worry about, boo. xoxo

"I'd also like to put out that while some form of universal health care exits in Canada, it doesn't include coverage for undocumented migrants."

If refugee status is claimed, the Feds provide healthcare until the process for determining if they meet that criteria which can take years. If they r accepted as refugees they get landed status and provincial health care applies. IF they don't meet the criteria they can be deported but there is usually a lot of delaying tactics and then they point to the fact they now have children born here who would be penalized. Many refugee claimants are not people who face persecution in their home country or the country where they normally live, or who would face persecution if they returned to that country due to religion, nationality, political opinion, or. their membership in a particular social group (including groups that the person cannot change, such as gender, sexual orientation, past memberships, or groups they choose to join).but are in fact economic refugees. There was a situation some years ago where a large number of Portuguese claimants were simply queue jumping saying they were persecuted in Portugal for being Jehovah Witnesses. They shared he same group of immigration consultants and they were advising them to do this.

Point being there, r avenues for care including my old Hassle Free Clinic

>The younger citizens who need to be on Mommy and Daddy's health care until they are 26, need "safe" places on college campus because they are afraid of speech they don't agree with and want the government to pay for their student loans instead of being a grown up and pay your bills. Have fun in country that is controlled by you and others who think the same way - lol. No need for you to reply "OK Boomer", I will do it for you.

Ahh... what drivel... Boomers who have insisted that children need to go to college as the costs of attaining a college degree continue to balloon and balloon.. the amounts of debt they're saddled with compared to debts Boomers had when they went to college. Debt so insurmountable that they can never get out from under and will spend their entire lives just paying on the interest. A bulk of them entering the job market that despite their degrees are low paying forcing them into having to take second jobs. We **** on lower skilled employees for demanding a living wage but then watch as the world falls apart when they can't do THEIR jobs. You've done plenty to **** over the people of this country. There is no more entitled groups of people than ****ing Baby Boomers.

" You've done plenty to **** over the people of this country. There is no more entitled groups of people than ****ing Baby Boomers. "

Really, what entitlements am I getting. Social Security was not my doing, it was FDR (1935) before I was born. I would have been more than happy to have all the money I put in Social Security for myself and let me decide how to invest it. I have three pensions from jobs I have had and I could survive on just them without Social Security. Let's take Medicare which I paid into during my working years. It is not totally free and I still pay for it, in addition I pay for Medicare Supplemental. I also pay for Medicare prescription plan so please tell me how entitled I am.

Updated On: 3/22/20 at 03:48 PM

TheatreFan4 said: "You've done plenty to **** over the people of this country. There is no more entitled groups of people than ****ing Baby Boomers."



I am a 73-year-old ****ing Baby Boomer. I devoted more than two decades of my life to the people of the United States as a U.S. Navy sailor. I'm sorry you have no respect for my service......or to the multitude of other ****ing Baby Boomers who offered up their lives to ensure that there would be a United States left for you.

Updated On: 3/22/20 at 05:01 PM

TheatreFan4 said: "Well good on you for wanting to destroy what you worked so hard to preserve I guess? Weird flex, but okay...

Also, don't obfuscate your actions now with your military service then. It's not cute."



Now you're just trolling. It's not cute.

TheatreFan4 said: "Hey, you're the one voting for policies to bankrupt the middle class. That's all on you..."



Is that so? This life-long Democrat? Someone who has voted for every single Democratic candidate and initiative since 1968? The guy who time and again here has stated his support for Joe Biden, our next President? The veteran who has voiced his disgust of the draft dodger who currently occupies the Oval Office? I guess you know me better than I know myself. Show me where I have indicated that I am "voting for policies to bankrupt the middle class". Go ahead. SHOW ME.