The
other day, as I was musing about the terrible state of affairs in America, with
the flood of red ink and joblessness creeping higher by the day, I began to fantasize
about what I would be able to do if I could be made President
for a Day. For
one 24-hour period, I would be able to do an amazing amount of good for the country
by signing Executive Orders
as fast as I could write. Here
are a few of those Executive Orders that would be near the top of my list. Appoint
Governor Sarah Palin as Energy Czar.
With her energy success in Alaska, she would soon win the country to her side.
By the way, Bob Gates did a great job as a Republican Secretary of Defense in
the Obama administration. Therefore, there's no reason why Sarah's party should
be an impediment to her acting in the best interests of the nation. Depose
any Energy Czar Obama might
have put in place before my 24-hour term of office began. Permanently
table Obamacare [Public
Law 111-148 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act] that
the Democrats rammed down our throats in 2010 and Obama signed with much hoopla
and frivolous fanfare. Appoint
a bipartisan health care task force comprised
of physicians, hospital administrators, and health insurance executives to begin
drafting practical legislation to aid only those who do not have, and would like
to have, health coverage.
Obama's primary objective was to drive America
into the ground through a massive socialist sledge hammer. Appoint
William Harrison "Bill" Frist,
Sr., MD, former
Republican senator from Tennessee, as chair of the health care task force.
Create
a Division of Medicare Fraud and Corruption within
the Department of Justice with a full complement of lawyers and peripheral personnel,
to be funded via the savings realized through fraud prevention. Establish
a Medicare Fraud bounty consisting
of 25% of the savings resulting in the conviction of any entity engaged in Medicare
Fraud and Corruption. No person nor entity may earn more than a cumulative $1
million in bounty payments within a calendar year. Open
all areas within the jurisdiction of the 50 states for seeking for oil and gas,
by drilling or any other accepted means of profitable access. Remove
all limitations on coal mining and use of clean coal for
generating power.
Cancel all Green
projects and subsidies since carbon dioxide is a natural part of the
cycle of plant and animal life and since global warming and cooling follows centuries-old
cycles that have nothing to do with the activities of humans and the consumption
of "fossil fuels".
Exception: any projects that are already proving themselves
cost effective.
Cancel all ethanol subsidies, returning corn to a
source of food and not fuel.
Establish a flat
tax for all tax payers and corporations, closing all big business loopholes.
Cancel all nonessential and frivolous pork barrel spending
and grants such as the NIH grant to find out if a
gay man's penis size has any correlation with his sexual health.
Cancel all Federal compliance monitoring of businesses
and agencies of any size unless there is a direct correlation between a company's
practices and the health and welfare of the general public and/or the employees,
or a specific violation of the USC [US
Code].
Depose any member of the NLRB [National
Labor Relations Board] who has any prior involvement in the leadership of
any union. Such a relationship would be a clear conflict of interest.
Make all 50 states Right
to Work states, irrespective of existing state laws
Remove
all grants and subsidies for abortions. Forbid
featherbedding
in any work rule or service contract. The original steam locomotive
needed two men in the cab: an engineer to "drive" the train and a fireman to shovel
in coal to keep the steam up. However, the coming of the diesel locomotive negated
the need for a fireman. However, unions tried to obtain work rules that required
a fireman in the cab of a diesel locomotive. Hence, the term "featherbedding"
came to mean a person hired to do any "no work" job. Abolish
all tenure rules for
all instructional personnel, from preschool through graduate school. Utilize the
regular discipline ladder to handle employee performance problems. At the point
of dismissal, call for a secret ballot vote by all involved students and parents/guardians.
In such a vote, each student will have up to three qualified voters: the student,
and one or two parents/guardians.
If a students has not reached the legal
age of accountability, the parents/guardians may have up to three votes: one for
the student and one for each parent/guardian. If a questionable employee gets
two thirds of the possible fire votes, dismissal
will occur within 30 days.
In the event the employee is charged with a
criminal offense, the dismissal will become effective at end of the appeal process
or 365 days, whichever is shorter. If the offense pertains to interpersonal relationship
with a student[s], the employee will be assigned to non-instructional duties during
the appeal process. Abolish
all rubber rooms as
a place for unsuitable or unneeded employees to put in time. There
is no middle ground between working and dismissal.
This
ends my list of intended Executive Orders for my term as President for a Day.
By Election Day, 2012, the economic and employment complexion of the entire country
will have done such a 360 degree turnaround, I predict that if all these Executive
Orders are left in place until November, 2012, the person who is willing to endorse
them will be elected by a landslide. Of
course the Muslim impostor won't be caught near anything so rational and positive.
But if
candidates such as Sarah Palin or Herman
Cain chooses to make these Executive Orders a national platform, that person
will be able to walk into the Oval Office without breaking a sweat!
Of course it can't be me. I'm too old and have too many medical problems to ever
consider becoming POTUS, even in my dreams. When
will I serve my 24 hours as President for a Day? I choose August
4, 2011. Stephen
Pidgeon [©2011 The Obama Error, page 14] believes Barry was born on
July 1, 1960, and that Malcolm
X was the putative father. That's even worse than Barack Obama, Sr. I
choose August 4 for another more important and personal reason that has nothing
to do with baby Barry. |