What are the first things Donald Trump should do upon taking the office of the presidency Jan. 20?
Everyone has their ideas.
Here is my top-17 list for the first 100 days:
- Obamacare needs to be scrapped, dismantled, destroyed and replaced with a system that uses market forces to make health insurance more affordable and available, one without mandates on consumers they don’t need or want. The “experts” will tell you how complicated that is. These are the same “experts” who insisted you could keep your own doctor and your own policy under Obamacare. They are the same “experts” who created a wacky Rube Goldberg-like system designed to fail, designed to drive up the cost of premiums, designed to empower government over consumers.
- The border needs to sealed – no ifs, ands or buts. It’s time for Trump to make good on his most important promise – the one that got him elected.
- A review of all globalist trade deals needs to take place quickly, and the stake needs to be put in the hearts of all of them that are not serving the best interests of the American people.
- Taxes – both personal and corporate – need to be slashed.
- The Internal Revenue Service needs to be scrapped in favor of a much simpler system not subject to political abuse and one that reduces time-consuming and expensive paperwork to comply.
- The U.S. military needs to get back to the business of defending the nation and away from acting as the government’s incubator for social experiments involving sex and gender.
- The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia needs to be replaced by an equivalent jurist in temperament, intellect and constitutional integrity.
- Trump should name a commission to investigate glaring shortcomings in our electoral system – from taxpayer campaign financing to the lingering questions still surrounding the constitutional eligibility proofs for president and vice president. With a new forensic investigation of Barack Obama’s so-called “birth certificate” showing it to be a fraudulent document apparently manufactured at his behest, the nation should never be subjected to this kind of embarrassment again.
- To avoid a looming economic calamity, Trump should have a plan drawn up by his fiscal team to deal with the staggering $20 trillion debt he was left holding the bag with by Obama.
- Trump should ask Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, to draw up a plan to reduce regulation on American consumers and businesses to put people back to work.
- Of course, overturn all of Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders and presidential directives.
- Announce that the Trump family will spend their own money on vacations.
- Appoint a commission to recommend cuts in waste, fraud, abuse and corruption in Washington that leads to legislation providing real protections and incentives for whistleblowers, employees and supervisors who save money and disclose wrongdoing inside the swamp.
- Evaluate every piece of legislation that hits the Oval Office on the basis of the constitutional test.
- Carefully evaluate every judicial appointment by the same standard Trump has promised to apply to the Supreme Court nominations.
- Shake up the White House press corps by overturning the misguided rules of the past that have helped turn the nation’s media into a partisan joke. Invoke drug tests on all reporters, producers and media crews who enter the White House. Institute a lottery system to determine where correspondents are seated for press conferences. Acknowledge the new stature of the digital media by treating them with as much respect as the old guard media establishment.
- Start cutting the size and scope of the federal government, encouraging Cabinet secretaries to reduce spending and interference in matters more properly handled by state governments with an eye toward the elimination of the Department of Education and other agencies.
That would be a good start to the New Year. Don’t you think?
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