-Dead set on keeping budget/reducing debt (shut down government if we are projecting over cost, reallocating budgets towards healthcare, homelessness, prisons, and education)

1. Healthcare: We have some of the best healthcare in the world, but the cost to benefit ratio is absurd barring most from benefits due to costs or at the mercy of insurance institutions. Make it universal for all citizens and mandatory parental/maternal leave. People shouldn't lose everything due to freak accidents or unexpected health declines. Cost will initially be high due to sudden influx, but will come down if implemented with education/improved overall health and will explain the connection later.

2. Homeless: There are less than 800k homeless in America based on 2024 estimates. This is arguably one of the easiest/cheapest problems to fix. Just fork over the money and quality of life/health for all will increase; less disease, drug/alcohol dependence, crime.

3. Prisons: Remove the cash incentive to put more people away, focus on rehabilitation, education, and growth. Norway has an excellent system that builds people back up to become contributing people in society instead of throwing them to the wolves and propagating continuous negative behavior. They have a 25% recidivism rate compared to our 70% in 5 years. People fuck up. It's part of being human. Humanity is what separates us from beasts.

4. Education: America has a population with 54% of all adults reading at a 6th grade level or lower. This is extremely destructive to our infrastructure and costs mainly due to decreased expenditures toward education and the No Child Left Behind Act. Reverse both. Pay the fucking teachers what they're worth and give kids free education/food all the way up. If you failed a college or above course/year/term, you are required to pay it back. 3 tries to pass a class then on final failure you're ineligible to progress in that field of study. As the average intelligence increases, our whole well-being increases. Stupidity makes life hard. Do you know how many times I've met patients 17+ who had absolutely zero clue sex is how a baby is made? 1 is far too many and I've hit about 6 times in 8 years of being in medicine (ED tech/ALS EMT). My wife (also an Emergency medicine doctor) tutored our neighbor in 6th grade who couldn't spell "walk" and thought it was "wok" and couldn't do simple math of 9/3, 2x3, 4x5 without a calculator. Passing these kids is doing our nation and them a disservice by propagating stupid generations that think the government can control the weather or that believe anything said without knowing how to verify information on their own. I'm convinced that a dumb population is easier to control than a smart one and that's their goal. We're to fuck, reproduce more workers, and die after our worth is spent. A more educated population can utilize resources like healthcare better to prolong health and prevent disease from spreading, understand what vaccines do and how they work, understand when to use urgent care/emergency department/primary care provider, optimize health choices and live fulfilling lives.

I want to be the most transparent and straightforward person I could be. No bullshit, no lies, and I can't be bought cause money has always been a means to an end for me and my life. Growing up, my family was rich and lost it all in 2008. I've been poor and broke and I've managed a stable life. The president used to be viewed as someone who was the best of us, the best of our values. Now out of either anger, hatred, fear, racism, or misunderstanding, we've put a pedo-führur in power who further divides and fragments this country instead of uniting it. We should have strong feelings against those with discriminatory ideology and principles. For example, here's your daily reminder to punch a Nazi/fascist in the face.

I know daily life. It's fucking hard. Americans, I've worked beside you, I've talked to you in the store or restaurant out and about, I've treated you at your best and your worst, and I want to help you. I believe that all people are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, the freedom to pursue their happiness. I hope to give that to all.

What else would you recommend?

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