re: You are given the opportunity to make 5 changes to transform American government

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#2 sounds too harsh to me, especially the tube-cutting part.

But I'm with you on the others

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I’d give them a year buffer (not on voting since we’re now their employer) to have kids since I understand someone temporarily falling on hard times. But if you’re mooching the system, sterilization. Welfare should be an investment in these people and we should make them bust their arse to become a productive member of society and not put up with bullshite. I’m all for giving people a helping hand, but they have to meet us halfway.

Term limits for all elected officials

Abolishing the interstate commerce and necessary and proper clauses

Legalization of marijuana and the scaling back of minimum sentences for low-level drug offenders

Eliminate all federal departments not devoted to the national defense

Pull out of the ME entirely, slash the military budget and tell the dregs of this world they're on their own

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Only a small percentage of our military budget is spent on defending the homeland. Even a slightly more isolationist approach would organically decrease military spending dramatically.

Most of our military budget is burned through playing world police.

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Cut the budget in half and you'll reduce troop levels by 75% or more. Let that reduced force exist for a few years and adversaries will start creeping closer and closer and eventually invade.

Anyone that thinks the ills within DoD are solved by attacking the bottom line is not paying attention. There's a chain of causation there and unless you attack that, there is no use is just talking about dollars.

If you are a net negative to the government you don’t vote, that would solve everything.

1. Repeal the 17th.
2. Only land owners can vote.

The other problems will take care of themselves.

1. Catholic Monarchy
2. Local chieftains
3. Helicopters

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Cut the budget in half and you'll reduce troop levels by 75% or more. Let that reduced force exist for a few years and adversaries will start creeping closer and closer and eventually invade.

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Invade how?

Through our allies Canada? Through the desert and rough terrain from Mexico or across two god damn oceans?

1. Congressmen are given 1 six year term.
2. All congressmen must wear NASCAR style sponsorship jackets and all donors must be displayed on the jacket, the larger the donor, the larger the logo
3. Welfare Reform and mandatory work for welfare.
4. I get 5% of all federally collected income tax deposited into my personal bank account every year
5. Increase the penalties for dealing, manufacturing, and distributing drugs. Decrease the penalties/ minimize jail time of any for recreational use of drugs

im gonna go with 10 things because they are all equally important:

1) Eliminate pretty much all federal departments, especially the fed reserve, and all agencies keeping only FEMA, the NSA, CIA, and FBI. TSA and homeland security gets merged into the NSA.

2) Term limits, 2 terms only on all congressmen and all 6 year terms get reduced to 4 year terms and mandatory retirement at age 70 even if your term isnt finished.

3) federal judges and SCOTUS have to have served as federal judges for no less then 10 years before being eligible for the SCOTUS and both federal judges as well as SCOTUS have a mandatory retirement at age 70. im ok with the lifetime appointments as long as they have mandatory retirement age limit. no more ruth bader "comatose" ginsburg

4) end the 17th amendment.

5) Federal flat tax at 10%, no deductions at all for anything PERIOD.

6) Drug screens mandatory to receive any form of government aid other the soc sec disability or disaster relief funds. unemployment limited to 12 months and you must work for 12 months before you are re-eligible to apply again.

7) eliminate anchor babies, if you arent a citizen at time of birth your kid is listed on birth certificate as a citizen of your native country.

8) end all chain migration except for your spouse and children, no more visa lottery PERIOD, and all immigrants must show a useful skill of benefit they bring to this country as well as they must show the ability to speak good english

9) build the wall and all the money seized at the border go to the cost of building and maintaining it as well as border security.

10) an end to all federal funds going to any institutes of higher learning (colleges) as well as an investigation as well as federal prosecution of any individuals involved in restricting free speech in this country, including but not limited to administration, board of trusties, and/or faculty

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And we'd be invaded within a decade.

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By who? The Mexicans? You’re talking shite. Just the natural barriers, we’re the most well protected country on the planet (save for perhaps Canada and Switzerland). The only natural point of entry is the Gulf of Mexico, which obviously we’re well protected. No one would even try to invade us.