Legal American...
Wrong with all due respect. You are still a democrat. I do not believe anything you wrote. You may believe what you wrote. It is as if you don't know what is going on in real life
Well, I have no reason to misrepresent anything I said. When I was on the school board, it was 1991-1995. My community in PA had the lowest tax in the entire state, 8 mils, and we were not a poor community by any means. Our teachers at one point were the highest paid community in PA, and when I was on the board, they went on strike, demanding a 15% increase. Truth was, we were at odds with them for quite awhile, and a judge ordered us into daily negotiations for three hours per day, and every member of the rank and file were given the right to speak each and every day by the judge before the board and the teachers' reps could negotiate. This went on and on, and I went out of town on a business trip, and the conservative Republicans on the board settled with the teachers while I was out of town at rates higher than I would ever agree to.
The mayor of our community was a Democrat, and tight as a tic on spending or taxing. We were a mixed community of white collar and blue collar. The wards that had the high priced homes with mostly white collar, high education, etc, were held by Republican councilmen/women, and they wanted to spend us blind.
All my neighbors were Republican, all business owners. My councilman was one of these spend us blind Republicans. When I decided I was not going to run for a second term for school board, my neighbors begged me to run against our Councilman, a two term Republican running for a third. They proactively worked to get me elected. My neighbors were conservative, and supporting me. So, Legal American, I do not need your blessing to know if I am conservative or not.
And your calling me a Democrat is laughable. I would love to know what makes that true. I don't know what is going on, well, neither do you.
Trump may not be taking his salary, but that money is being spent! He allocates it to where it is going, so it is spent, and I doubt it is monies to displace budgeted amount, most likely monies in addition to.
And all the things that Trump did do to reduce spending is pocket change. The budget if you want to call it that is through the roof. I do not object to rebuilding our military where it needs it. But to say we do not waste money across the board, including the military is plain false.
I do not question he has done good things, but it is not enough, and I am looking at the bottom line. The bottom line does not reflect any money being saved.
My platform if I were to run for Congress would include the following:
1. Mandatory balanced budget, sole exception during times of war declared by Congress
2. Term limits, and no pensions and golden parachutes upon leaving. Serve the people of America.
3. Strict policies on immigration, with no immigration if unemployment is above a given level
4. End H1-b Visa Program, which would provide hundreds of thousands of jobs to USA citizens
5. Build the wall, and have immediate deportation of illegal invading aliens. No judge, no involved process
6 Amend Constitution to clarify...no anchor babies. To be a citizen, one parent must be a USA citizen.
7. End financing anything in the Middle East. Trillions spent and for what?
8 End foreign aid to countries like Russia, Iraq, etc.
9. Reduce military presence in a large segment of countries, unless they pay us for our presence, i.e Japan, Korea,
Germany, etc.
10. New tax policy. We are a consumer nation, I support a Fair Tax, and the end of Income Taxes. Too many in our
society pay zero dollars in taxes, and yet make a huge income. Too much inequity on taxing.
11. End any favoritism to foreign nations over our own. It has been blatant.
12. Introduce legislation to end abortion(7 people in the Supreme Court had no right to make this decision)
And I could go on and on if I really thought about everything I would like to see. No Democrat wants the above, and good luck finding Republicans that want most of the above. But most of my friends are conservative, and happen to be Republican, and not a one would argue with me on the above other than reducing our presence in the world militarily.
Someone mentioned folks that are conservative. Candace Owens has decided she will run in her state, which I believe is Connecticut. I think that is great. I think Ben Shapiro would make a great addition as a conservative voice, but he would have to move out of California, for those smucks would never elect him.
Smokin Joe said something above about Trump being at 500 for batting as a conservative. I don't disagree with that assessment. His 500 is far better than most Republicans in Congress.
By the way, after I set the process in place, the school board I was on did not have a tax increase for ten years. When I left, one of my fellow board members, a Republican and a true conservative, he held the line on spending. He finally got tired of fighting the battle to hold the line, and he left. After he left, the folks on the board could not wait to spend the community blind, by building a $100 million+ new high school. It was not needed at all. We had a campus high school, with 13 building, much like a college campus, and it did not conform to the ease of control in having one building, limited exits, etc. That was the primary reason they went and built a new high school.
I went to that school in the 60s and 70s, graduated, and I loved the campus concept for high school. The big challenge was traversing the campus to get to the next class if one was going from one end to the other. And the girls would complain about going outside if it was raining or snowing, concerned about their hair! They tore that campus down after building the new school. Terrible waste of taxpayer money.
And last but not least, I do not think Democrats would be happy if I had my way. I believe everyone involved in the coup against Trump should be indicted, convicted, and publicly dispatched. And I am fairly certain that includes Obama. Still waiting for the first indictment from this joke of a DOJ. Trump could end up losing in November, and still nothing done.
And for all those involved in Uranium One, ALL, I think they should experience the same. I am tired of our casual approach to treason.
My friends, when I told them I was called a Democrat on a blog I post, that gave them the laugh for the day. All my close friends are conservative, and if anything, they think I might be a radical conservative, for they think I am more extreme than they are.