Hillary is supposed to make it official tomorrow that she will throw her hat in the ring for the Democratic nomination for the 2016 Presidential election. Rand Paul will be the Republican contender for his party's nomination.
Who would you go with if these were your final choices as candidates? This actually seems like a tough one. Trump may also throw his name into the mix, but we know how he feels about China and we cannot afford to piss them off, so right off the bat, that makes him a non-choice.
[Edited on 4/11/2015 by gina]
I will not vote for Hilary for a number of reasons and must admit I was a bit intrigued by a Rand Paul run a few months ago. However, he's proving to be a flip flopper on a number of issues and now seems too much like a typical politician for my taste and thus has lost any consideration I previously gave him.
I'm hoping Bernie Sanders runs as an Independent. If he did so, he might get my vote...
I'd love to see Bernie run with Gary Armstrong as VP.
I voted for Gary for prez last time around.
As a nation we need to start telling our leaders what we need, want, expect of them. We cannot let them just run things without representing us. What do you think we need from 2016 onward?
Here's some of my sugggestions.
1) Limited foreign country intervention - take our troops and leave. Provided limited support to allied nations IF and only AFTER they are attacked by others WHEN they request help.
2) Shore up our own borders, limit immigration to people who have jobs. Other countries do not let people come there if they do not have a job, why do we?
Illegals - if they are already working here and taking care of themselves for the most part, leave them alone. Do not send them back. Those caught at the border should be sent home, give them water, a decent meal, a meal to take back with them, and send them back on a bus. The children who sneak over or are sent over, can be sent to boarding schools run by missionaries. (ie. Salesian Missionaries facilities). These groups will house, feed, clothe, educate them. In return when the children are grown, they can make a donation back to the charity after they are on their own, working and on their feet as a thank you.
3) National health care free to all citizens of the country. Private plans with additional options available to those who want to have supplemental plans.
4) Affordable housing.
5) Jobs - employers pay living wages which are different in different parts of the country. Minimum wage must be able to enable someone to get housing working only one full time job. STOP OUTSOURCING to other countries.
6) End Section 8 housing. Force landlords to lower their ridiculous rents and take less profit.
7) English as the official language of America. If you come to this country, you must learn it.
8) Solar energy and wind power. Stop fracturing the land and taking the oil that was meant as stabilizers for the earth.
9) Stop sickening America with diseased food sources. The eggs from Pennsylvania are declared to have to be salmonella free, not so with NY or Connecticut. They keep the chickens in filthy squalor and feed you diseased food. Force farmers to keep clean ranches, stop overloading the cows etc. with antibiotics because the are sick and live in filth.
10) Banking financial reform. Stop the usury. Create state banks to fund their infrastructure projects.
11) End the porno empire. No magazines, videos, cable channels, art showing nude people in any way. Pimps and prostitutes should get sent to rehab and learn other ways to live.
12) End torture. Do not allow it, legislate it in our prisons or in rendition prisons. END rendition as it is currently being done. Look towards the Scandanavian prison concepts for ideas and a new system. NO MORE TORTURE.
Trump is forming an exploratory committee to find out if he would be successful with a Presidential run.
Trump exploratory committee 2016
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-im-going-surprise-lot-172600358.html
There would be some lively debates, I can almost hear him bring up something from Hillary's record and say "Hillary, what happened?" in his boardroom authoritarian way.
So far here's what we have.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/04/30/meet-the-candidate-bernie-sanders/
Learn about them all now before they change their political stance on the issues to satisfy a clue-less majority of voters.
The newest candidate to throw his hat in the ring is Bernie Sanders. Here's where he stands on the issues.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/about
He likes it that Norway, Sweden and Denmark provide free health care and education to their citizens. They have socialist countries but people live better there. He also saw the dangers of the Patriot act and voted against that. The act is in fact, up for renewal and both the House and Senate are seeking to add revisions to it.
This is a comparison of Denmark versus the US.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/what-can-we-learn-from-de_b_3339736.html
If a worker loses his or her job in Denmark, unemployment insurance covers up to 90 percent of earnings for as long as two years. Here benefits can be cut off after as few as 26 weeks. The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day,As the ambassador mentioned, while it is difficult to become very rich in Denmark no one is allowed to be poor.
France is also a socialist country, people pay like 48% of their income in taxes, well look at the us many people pay 35% and they aren't getting much for it.
[Edited on 5/3/2015 by gina]
Dr. Ben Carson announced he will run for the GOP presidential nomination
One of his more brilliant quotes
“A lot of people who go into prison — go into prison straight, and when they come out they’re gay. So did something happen while they were in there,” Carson told CNN’s Chris Cuomo in February.
The GOP debates are going to be epic this year. 
I'm looking forward to Mike Huckabee and his 'turn on the spigot' sequel.
