1. Get rid of the Homeland Security Department by merging it with the other government agencies that do a lot of the same thing.  Jobs would be left mostly in tact.  This bit of government is just...foolish. 
   
2. Privatize Social Security. 
   
3. Lower taxes. 
   
4. Change the age of majority to 18.
   
5. Make consenting adult marriages legal.  This will shut NAMBLA up, because that entire organization is a plague on society.  This excludes goats and any other animals.  Sorry dolphin woman.  Your marriage is null and void. 
   
6. I would repeal the entire Obama Health care plan and instead, give tax breaks and incentives to employers who  offer easier access health care to their employees.  I would leave some of the provisions, like the preexisting conditions part.  I think that insurance companies really need to have a little heart, even if they are business men/women. 
   
7. I would allow health care to be used across states and the like, so that consumers could get the best deals possible. 
   
8. I would sue the stuffing out of BP, and ban them from drilling anywhere near the US coast, while allowing full access to American companies to drill in Alaska, the coast, etc. America needs to become fully independent while also exploring cleaner, renewable resources. 
   
9. I would order the park rangers around the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, etc. to leave children (albeit off-key) alone whilst they are singing the National Anthem.  Free Speech should be protected, regardless of whether it's singing at a monument, burning a flag, walking around with a destroyed fetus sign, or a Bush is Satan sign.  Men and women alike have sacrificed their lives so that we, as Americans, have the right to free speech.  Stifling that, regardless of whether or not we agree with the speech, is a dishonor to their lives.
   
10. Collect back taxes from everyone, including people in our government.  I think it's high time that the members of our government were treated equally with the rest of the American people.  When we do wrong, when we steal as children, we are punished.  Not paying your taxes is stealing from the rest of us, and you should be punished. 
    
11. Restructure the education system.  Tenure must be earned via test scores, overall grades, etc.  Paychecks will be done that way as well.  Remove useless "teachers" and replace them with instructors who will provide a fully immersed educational environment.  Worksheets and the like are not teaching.  They are a tool for laziness and carelessness. 
    
12. Illegal Immigrants will be given two choices:  To be shipped out free-of-charge to their country of origin, or to pay an arbitrary fee and be allowed permanent residence without citizenship.  If they wish to be citizens, they must go back to their country of origin, and wait in line through legal means.  The fine may be waived or lessened if they turn in their employer. 
    
13. Sanctuary states/cities will be fined to the hilt.  When someone hides a criminal, they are found to be helping them.  The cities are doing the same. 
    
14. I would amend the 14th Amendment, removing the loopholes for anchor babies.  At least one (I'm really thinking both) parent needs to be a LEGAL citizen of the USA.  
15. Cap and Trade will never hit the boards.  Sorry.  Never.  Ever.  Ever.

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That's the problem. The govt spends all of the money but it does nothing to put anyone to work. Unless you have a job with the govt. Don't believe the 9.5 % unemployment figure. It is actually closer to 17 %..

You aren't making sense. If the gov't spends the money it goes to someone. That someone probably spends the money on other things in the economy which provide jobs and then other jobs and so on and so on.....Or are you saying someone keeps all the money. Can you be clearer on this for me?

Even Obama's (now former) economic advisor admits that that the multiplier on private spending is about twice the multiplier on government taxing/spending. (A multiplier of 3 vs around 1.4).

That wasn't what he was saying...

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Well as much as folks on the left like to think it was President Clinton, the ONLY Congress to balance a budget and hold spending down in our lifetimes was a Republican run House and Senate. Clinton's proposed budget was deficit spending, and the only reason the budget was ballanced in the end was that the Republicans obstructed the budget and shut the government down. Forcing President Clinton to the table and eventually to make the cuts.

So the only Congress (who controls spending) thus far to actually be willing to make the tough calls and actually cut the budget to a balanced state was controled by the Republicans.

Jobs plan well they have a pretty hands off plan, but here are the points in their plan.

Item #1 a tax cut however before you dismiss this as a trick for the wealthy, it's proposed that the lowest tax brackets be reduced from 10% to 5% and from 15% to 10% at the very bottom of the tax scale. That rate cut would put $500-$1200 a year in the pockets of the working poor for them to spend thus stimulating the economy and boosting jobs in a market based solution.

Item #2 a Small Business Tax Cut. a 20% of income tax deduction for businesses with less than 500 employees. More money in their company coffers should result in more people being hired.

Item #3 Offset the tax cuts with spending cuts They haven;t specified where as yet, but I',m sure it will be in the areas the Democrats like cuts least, social programs, although a large part of it could be paid for by diverting the remaining stimulus money. (not sure just socila program cuts should be considered, a nice across the board cut might be OK.

Item #4 (a really pretty good idea here) Make Unemployment benefits Tax Free. Currently unemployment benefits are taxed as income. At the time when people can least afford to pay the government taxes, when they are not working, wouldn't it be most gracious and benevolent to give the folks dealing with unemployment a break and not tax them on the benefits?

Item #5 Last item in their plan as put forth on the minority whip website.

Stabilize home prices, by putting forth a new Home Buyers Credit of $7,500 for buyers with at least 5% down payment. Which should stimulate the buyers to buy again and help stabilize home prices. (How this makes it a jobs issue I'm not sure but I'm used to both sides putting forth things that are less than directly related into their plans.)


That is what they have put forth a pretty lack luster plan but still seems like a better chance to work plan to me than the one the democrats have put forth that has yielded no results worth mentioning.

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Even Obama's (now former) economic advisor admits that that the multiplier on private spending is about twice the multiplier on government taxing/spending. (A multiplier of 3 vs around 1.4).

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the ONLY Congress to balance a budget and hold spending down in our lifetimes was a Republican run House and Senate.