imagine u were candidate for president. you are on the campain trail and you must meet complete the following?

Question

assiments to win!what is your platform? write a five sentence paragraph for each of the following platform issues:

.education: ARE there problems with education and schools?
what would you do to solve the problems? how wuld you make education better if you were president?

.protecting the environment: should we do more to protect the envirement? why or why not? what would you do if you were president?

.healthcare insurance: should the government give free healthcare insurance to every one? why or why not? what might happen to taxes if it is free? what would you do if you were president?
list 3 ways u could try to get more people out to vote

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Answer 1

This sounds like a homework assignment. Just think and write what you feel.

Answer 2

educations - I would expand the NCLB and to support it I would offer legislation that would make it easier for teachers to remove problem children from their classrooms, put them in a detention scenario and if this occurred over 5 times I would want the parents to begin paying fines, for not parenting their children and for obstruction of their child education.
Protecting the environment. I would probably keep the status quo on this except for Alaska where I would open up for more oil exploration to make us less dependent of foreign sources. I would work to get private industry more involved in the alternative energy resource.
Health care - I would go after lawyers and limit payouts to a minimum. This would drastically reduce the astronomical insurance premiums doctors and hospitals have to pay and should make it more affordable for everyone. I would never let the government control health care. They suck at it and the costs would be an additional 30-40% increase in taxes per person.

Answer 3

Is this your HW assignment? If so, you're in the wrong category.

Answer 4

For several decades, the Federal government has tried in vain, to direct local education. They have established a system of funding based on test scores and what they have ended up with are a bunch of kids being taught what they need to know to pass the test and score high enough for the schools to get the funding.
Now what really scares me, what I find terrifying is the near lack of study of things that matter the most in this country. Who are we? How are we governed? What have we done since we began? And the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic.
We have now created at least two generations of children who have become semi-illiterate adults. We have allowed the Teaching Profession to slip from one that is Respected to one with little more regard from Parents than a babysitting service. We have violated the basic premise on which we began. We have sold yet another lie to the American People.
I propose the following:
We need to elevate Teaching back to the Prestigious Profession it should be. We need the best of the best teaching our youth.
This means we raise the bar of education required to teach. We need to offer continued education to those in place and offer better pay for better qualifications.
We need to redefine the curriculum to broaden the education from a narrowly focused test.
We need to offer a bonus to teachers who make the effort to reach and teach their kids.
We need daycare facilities for children of mothers on Welfare so that they can continue their training or education. Let's build those centers and hire college students who want to be teachers to staff them. I'd certainly rather have them working with kids than flipping burgers somewhere.
After the first two years let's bring them into the education system further by making them testers. Every Friday teachers get the day off and the testers who are chosen randomly from the district wide pool, come in and administer tests. This eliminates cheating for the bonus. It offers college students a good paying job in the field they are entering and gives them some classroom experience at all age levels.
We don't need to cut funding to schools with low performance we need to increase it but with that increase in funding should come an increase in watchfulness.

I've heard time and time again how we as a people are sick and tired of watching folks on the welfare rolls just collect a check and do nothing to better their situation. I want to tell you with a certainty that I will put an end to that immediately.
Those daycare centers manned with young aspiring teachers are a start on the road to financial independence for countless thousands of young struggling mothers. While their children are watched and educated, They too will be educated. Career testing and training and job placement to those who qualify is a must. Work in the industry of progress will exist for these people. We have shirked our duty in our metropolitan areas. That duty is Mass Transit. We have continued to fund road building, and the overuse of the automobile because of special interest groups backing of our politicians. Well I don't want the oil money. I don't need the oil money and I want you to start thinking about how you as a citizen of the world are going to stop giving the oil companies your money. I'm not saying to give up the liberty afforded by a vehicle, but I am saying that it's high time we as a nation start to carpool, ride the bus, light-rail, bicycle, walk whatever it takes to reduce our fossil fuel emissions. Now I know you can't ride a bus that doesn't exist. You can't turn a two hour commute into a four hour commute waiting at a bus stop. And I certainly am not asking you to. We can't do this cold turkey. We have to taper our nation off the oil as we build a stronger transit system that works. The Seattle monorail debacle is an excellent example of why we need to wrest this issue from the hands of local government and step in with Federal money, planning, and execution to achieve the best transit system money can buy in every corner of our country. There is nothing to debate here. We need it and I plan on working with Congress to make it happen for America.
We are a nation dependent on medical insurance and that dependence is costing us billions of dollars a year. Now I am not suggesting that after spending 4 years in college, 4 years in med school, 2-4 years in a specialization and a few more years in residency that these fine young people who choose medicine should not be amply rewarded. What I am saying is that the medical suppliers and pharmaceutical companies have lost their minds. They seem to think they are immune to regulation. I call for and frankly expect to see some self-policing in that industry. Just like motorcycle manufacturers have voluntarily limited the top speed of their high end products to avoid government stepping in, I want to see these astronomical costs and profits tamed. It's time we as a people face the reality that we are in control of how companies do business in this country and if they step out of line, then we need to step in. I am not afraid to ask Congress to do just that if that is what it takes to make health care affordable for everyone. If you don't want to be a team player in America, go ahead and become a free agent. because we will trade you in a heartbeat for someone who relishes the opportunity to break into the market here and provide the same pill for less money. To the pharmaceutical companies I say this. Loosen your grip on our wallets or we'll break your grip entirely.
But now listen. These changes are not going to be easy. And they are not going to be cheap. That's reality as unpopular as it is. I'm never going to lie to you. This is going to be hard.
If you really want to better education, mass transit, and welfare reform, in this country, you are going to have to pay for it. If you want long term savings for the country it's going to cost us some short term investment in the future. That either means higher taxes or a re-direction of funding from other sources. I'm open to suggestion on programs you'd like to see cut to generate the funds we need for these betterments to our society. And I have a few ideas myself. We can be another generation who whined and did nothing or we can go down in history as the generation who took the reins and applied the spurs of change. It's time we open the doors of the Whitehouse to the people. It's time to get things done. The email address is scrolling across your screen America - Let's hear what you have to say.

It's time for a change. It's time to join the team. It's time to shine America. Let's Roll!