Posted by
Jack Cruger on Monday, January 21, 2008 12:22:57 AM
I believe our foreign policy will be shaped after the election, when the new administration knows what is exactly going on. It’s always better when you sit in your armchair and think of all the ways each of the issues should have been prosecuted and talk about how it could have been done differently when you have a frame of reference.
It’s much different if they are your shoes that you are in when things blow up and you have to make the assessments and follow through with the plans of action, and then execute them. All the Bush bashers, especially the leading tier candidates on both sides, one of which will be at the control panel when the “dodo” hits fan, should be very careful what they say now, because shortly one of them will have to react.
This is why we need a leader who couldn't’t give a damn about his or her political future or what party they belong too, or if their actions will help or hinder their party chances of maintaining or getting control of the Congress.
The true leader will unite the sexes, races, liberals, conservatives, the rich and the poor without the help of the big lobbing groups, Dotcoms, or the media. The people running today should not accept anything from any of these sources, if they do nothing more will get done, or if it does it mostly likely will be wrong, when the next President gets elected and he or she will be putting nation more at risk.
The priorities for the next President should be:
1. Get control of our immigration problems by securing the border first and strict enforcement of, at lease, our current hiring laws.
2. Keep our economy robust.
3. Tax reform to stimulate the economy.
4. Build an armed force of at least a million ready personnel and develop advance defensive and offensive technology to secure our future.
5. Maintain the pressure on the radical Islamic war on terror.
6. Develop a health care system that is market driven and out of the control of the federal government.
7. Start separating Social Security away from the government and put it in the hands of the people.
8. Put in place a total government funded medical, disability, and Social Security system for the military, veterans with family assistance.