SmithieGoesWest

Campaign speech

I believe in General Ulysses Grant.  I trust in what he said about reconstruction, the general welfare of the poor and less fortunate Americans in his memoir of 1885.  With this in mind, Ladies and Gentlemen, do not be too surprised if I say, "my main focus - if elected President, will be to use General Grant's view of duty and care for every single American, to revive the economy of the rust belt states, the gulf coast states, California, and farming communities in the western states - all of whom have been neglected by past Presidents for the past twenty five years."

My goal is to ReBuildUSAtoday - through these communities.  Re-enegize low income and economically depressed areas in these and in other areas accross America, with a green but sustainable plan.  From these places, I will update aging infrastructures nationwide, strengthen the middle class, boost small businesses, and make certain a future for our millennials.  And I will do it by synthesizing ways of dealing with “climate change” for the economic benefit of all.  And I will do it according to what was in the book of Genesis 1:26 and 1 Thessalonians 5:21.

By keeping in line with the American constitution, the Bible, my party’s charter and bylaws, Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand here today to present to you a green but sustainable plan.  By focusing on climate change alone, a green but sustainable plan will not only improve our quality of life, it will boost the current economy ten times better than what we have at the moment.  And this is because I see climate change as a key actor that not only touches upon us all, I see it as an actor that affect services, affect our distribution network and the effectiveness of how we interact within and outside these netwrok.  

In my book, climate change is real.  I will not deny it, and neither will I join those who wanted to keep on denying it.  Fact is, climate change is that something that degrades primary and secondary infrastructures all over the United States.  Regardless of whether these infrastructures are hard or soft.

With this in mind, Ladies and Gentlemen, put me in charge, and watch me rebuildusatoday!  Put me in the White House as President in 2020, and I will tackle climate change as it is, as I see it, and outside fashionable interest.  I will combine the old with the new, meaning, using smart technology and green farming techniques to regenerate lands destroyed by over farming, reckless minning, chemical spillage, lead poisoning, environmental damage and underground pollution.

It also means I will use climate change to refocus our military - by making our combined forces and law enforcement green, and repurpose the Congress by passing a coal act resolution, and by updating the Jones act of 1920.

Let me put it this way, Forrest Gump, said, “to use what God has given us”.  This short sentence, I will use as a guide to tackle climate change on one hand, and as a tool for refining the role of the President, on the other hand. With climate change as a tool, I will not only refocus the military, I will not only turn the USArmyGreen, I will make military weapons, training, manuals and manner of conduct, green and environmentally friendly.  Be they at home or abroad.  Why?

Lead poisoning is commonly found in free range animals that resides on all military training grounds.  These animals roam from place to place, eat everywhere as they go, as well as producing wastes as they go.  As President, it make sense to furnish our military with lead free green bullets, or de-leaded bullets with embedded seeds in a biodegradable bullet casings.  

Ladies and Gentlemen, time of “dense lead” for bullets is over.  Join me and let us usher in an age where missiles are biodegradable and warheads are environmentally friendly.

Let us welcome a new age where - by boosting numbers where needed most, I will not only rebuild our military, I will create a new one capable of moving away from inherited European benefit.  I will create a true “green and eco-friendly” millennial force - tailored to meet the nature of our country’s needs. Capable of dealing with America’s most pressing, most immediate and ever growing national security challenge.

The future I believe is in the Pacific, and so must be the nature, the form and the make up of our force projection from now onwards.  That is why I said, “Put me in CHARGE! And watch me ReBuildUSAtoday!  At this junction, I must say, we are all touched by opiopid and other issues that affect life of women, men, retirees and young ones. We are concerned about healthcare, drugs and abortion issues. I am a realist. And I’d say for the general welfare of all, I will call for a reduction of toxins and toxic elements in the make up of our drugs. I am not only pro-choice when and where deemed necessary, I am also interested in boosting the millennial population. And this I plan to do by creating special taxes, credit and quality living environment for young families.

Healthcare and single payer healthcare system are two different things. I plan to overhaul the current system, create a universal “bucket investment” system whereby everyone - working or not, contributes to. This system is a convertible life insurance policy, meaning if you can draw from it - like a cash payment when you are sick, use it as an investment to buy a house after certain years of payment, and still keep your payment going to boost your retirement needs.

It is also optional. Those who can afford to go private are allowed. Making sure you pay your healthcare due will no longer be the responsibility of the employer. That way we can put forward a better argument for living wage or boost minimum wage without risking inflation, reduction in permanent work time and without loosing jobs to AI and other machine intelligence systems.

When we get to the White House, first thing I will do is to steer away from the established tradition of running the country as if a penal colony. I will reform our wasteful criminal justice system, boost investment in our homegrown human resources - by making sure our education system provide, furnish and prepare our millennials with the type of skills needed for the challenges of future work space, then fix existing immigration problem.

I believe our economy could, and should be doing ten times better than we are at the moment. And that the growth we should be experiencing now is being hampered by the instant gratification of paying little or no tax at all. This type of tax adjustment in the face of low wage is a grave danger to us all. Not only will it force retirement age to 85, if we continue this way, it will put social security, medicaid, social services and retirememt benefits at a huge risk.  And since general welfare of the public is a premier role expected of a President, I therefore see it as most imperative to boost social security, secure retirement benefit and medicaid for 51 million Americans now and more than ever. First, by extending Native Acts to people of Columbian descent “Mexicans” Second, by granting a legal pathway for immigrants in our midst. Third, renew DACA for those who could easily support our pyramidal “benefit” system for our veterans, retirees and those with disability - as a way to boost the power of our nation’s purse, increase family benefits and help farmers and small businesses that needs new immigrants for their day to day needs.

I believe in minimum wage, and I believe in paying living wages to those who contribute to the making of wealth. Nonetheless, I see it as my duty as a President to prepare the future generation of American workers for the emergence of machine intelligence in the work place and artificial intelligence in our daily lives.

Put me in CHARGE! And watch me ReBuildUSAtoday! Put me in the White House as President, and with climate change alone, watch and see me set American economy on a path towards prosperity like we’ve never seen before. The power of the commerce clause plus those of the necessary and property clause were given to the President to be used for the benefit of all. As President, you will not see me shy away from acting to improve family budgets of every single American family.

Once again, I sincerely thank you all for sparing some of your precious time to be here.

May God be with us all.  Abbey S. Laurel-Smith “SmithieGoesWest” SmithieForPresident 2020 

General Secretary, Party Liaison and Founder: ReBuild NY, ReBuildCalifornia, ReBuild Puerto Rico, ReBuild Haiti, ReBuildUSAtoday, ReBuildUK, ReBuildCanada, ReBuildAustralia, ReBuildSaudiArabiaThe PILGRIMS Alliance Party of the United States (La Alianza De Peregrinos de los Estados Unidos)

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