Comprehensive Overview of Political Ideas

Comprehensive Overview of Political Ideas
While each and every single belief I have and the resulting policies to create the changes are ideas that can stand on their own, many of them do in fact bleed over in to each other. While I don't necessarily think that every idea is connected, many of them are, and tend to blend in to each other in regards to actual implementation. For instance, I believe that nuclear power should be the future power system of the United States, be it from Uranium power or Thorium, but that funding or subsidization should come from the government, through the use of low-interest banking loans, which would in turn necessitate a national banking system or something similar to it. I believe we need to solve the housing crisis, which lead to the subprime mortgage crisis, which lead to other economic problems in the U.S. now known as the great depression of '08, which also ties back to the idea of a national banking system, and ties in to cheaper building methods for homes such as concrete or rammed earth structures. Initiatives to promote companies or even the U.S. government to start building cheaper homes so people can afford them more easily would obviously blend in to the loans they would require, so in essence many of the ideas are connected. While not as much and for different reasons, there is no denying a fundamental overarching connection between many of the ideas. Part of the reason I believe we should switch to nuclear power sources is because they are cheaper, up to 6 times cheaper than traditional coal, and when coal is switched over to Uranium we can create cheaper advanced materials, such as carbon fibers, lithium titanate batteries and computers. When carbon fiber and batteries are cheaper, electric cars with a practical range of 300 miles and that can be recharged in 10 minutes will become a practical reality without being 100,000 dollars each, and thus we as a country can switch over to electric cars, which is now perhaps ironically powered by the cheaper electricity as well. Cheaper electricity doesn't just lend itself to the immediate benefits of lower prices for heating and air conditioning or less prices to pay for your computers and lighting, but also benefits to manufacturing processes, and in turn our manufacturing industry. For instance, it costs more purely in electricity costs to produce U.S. marbles than the entire cost of Chinese marbles all together, meaning that our energy cost is one of the largest barriers for competing against trade internationally. [1][2] For both industrial and electronic manufacturing in the U.S., the prices could be severely decreased if the price of energy and more specifically electricity was reduced. While switching over the U.S. infrastructure to be entirely electrical has it's own benefits, such as stopping using natural gas to warm homes or cook food, it isn't truly a practical reality without the cheap electricity, first. All of these things necessarily lead to the other, and as a result are inter-dynamically connected and need to be done, together.

When discussing a single idea it's important to keep in mind not only it's individual merits but also the potential benefits to society as a whole. That each thing when connected can create exponentially more benefits than just the impact it would have immediately. For instance, if we were to make homes cheaper and promote loans with lower interest rates, then this would lend trillions of dollars, potentially between 2-3 trillion, in to the economy every year. Just like how the economy fell like Dominoes when the housing bubble popped and the housing market collapsed, sucking out the money of other areas in our economy and funneling it towards the banks, by helping this area of our economy we help our economy as a whole. Cheaper houses isn't just a good thing in it's own right, but it also can prevent another great recession and possibly even reverse it's effects, providing the same level of boost to our economy as it did in collapse. A cheaper housing market could mean huge boons to other areas of the economy that would then benefit from the money that could be diverted to other markets, and provide incredible benefits to our economy. An extra 2-3 trillion in other areas of our economy would be a huge boost, and better than any economic surplus provided by any president in history. As a result it's not just it's own benefit, but also could benefit the economy as a whole. Understanding the connections between the ideas and the rest of the economy and keeping it in the back of our minds when discussing the best way to reduce the price of the average house or housing loan, or the best reasons to implement certain power sources and so on, well help us shape the resulting policies in the direction they are intended for. This in turn will allow us to keep things in perspective, when pushing forward for change.


General Ideas
-National Banking system- essentially a way to provide low interest loans for cars and houses to individual consumers. This would be a government ran bank that took over the loans from the banks, instead of bailing them out for trillions of dollars, and put the same money in to low-interest loans designed to simply run the country. Because interest rates account for roughly half of the housing prices in this country, removing this cost or reducing it substantially could provide between 2-3 trillion dollars to the economy, which would both a substantial boost in growth every year, and also directly combat the causes of every great depression in American history.

-Concrete and Rammed Earth homes- If done correctly, rammed earth and concrete homes can be cheaper and safer than regular wood construction houses, and as a result could help benefit the housing market with all the same results as lower interest rates, further boosting the economy nad preventing a depression. Furthermore, rammed earth and concrete homes are incapable of having a structure fire, are more protected against floods and strong winds (say, from a hurricane) and are potentially bullet proof, giving them protection against crime in crime-high areas such as Detroit or Chicago. Not only are they stronger in construction, but they can also be half the price or lower when compared to traditionally built houses, and even have cheaper air conditioning costs.

-Adding regulations from the SEC- The Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act essentially removed regulations from the SEC that prevented "shadowing banking", or basically a parallel banking system whereby banks could trade with other banks that didn't have to follow any regulation rules, thereby eliminating the need for any banks that followed rules set by our regulatory commission. Without this bill being removed and the old SEC rules put in to place, any new banking regulations will have close to no impact on banks as there is essentially a loophole around them, acting a bank to act through another proxy bank to eliminate it's own restrictions on loans. Often cited as a cause for the 2008 recession that laid the groundwork for exploitative banking habits, it simply needs to be removed in order to help avoid another economic recession in the U.S.

-Nuclear Power- Nuclear power is already the cheapest power source in the U.S. when subsidies aren't included, and is among the cleanest and safest alternative power sources to fossil fuels available. Both for practical concerns, long term energy requirements, and lowered price, Nuclear power, be it Thorium and Uranium, is the best option for providing the country's energy needs. There has never been a melt down on U.S. soil, and newer reactor designs such as CANDU reactors or Thorium molten salt reactors are literally incapable of having a melt down at all. Furthermore if a melt down occurs even in our older reactors, it would simply destroy the reactor rather than explode or leak our radioactive waste, due to the superior designs required in the U.S. Nuclear waste isn't much of an issue as it only lasts 50 years, compared to the reported millions of years, and there is ample room to store it in various mountains and caves in the U.S., as well as in the locations we originally dug up the uranium from. Given it's potential to be up to and over 6 times cheaper than current electricity prices, and the resulting cheaper electronics and cheaper electric cars, it seems paramount to switch to Uranium, both to replace our aging energy infrastructure and for it's practical benefits.


Crime and other social issues
-Focus on inner cities- Direct efforts to relatively poor areas of the U.S., specifically the inner cities which have the most violence and some of the worst living standards in the U.S. Poor Urbran environments not only tend to have the worst crime rates, and exponentially higher rates of violence, but also have some of the worst education systems. While national systems are important, we shouldn't deny the local impact that's needed, as well. If we focused on the 60 worst off cities in the U.S., millions could be helped while simultaneously curbing spill over crime and poverty issues.

-Mandatory psychological screenings- Mandatory psychological screenings could not only help to catch criminals early and put emphasis on the people who are more likely to commit violent crimes or go insane, but also help them in general. Mentally ill people are 6 times more likely to be victims of crime, significantly more likely to end up as homeless, and commit suicide. Approximately 90% of suicidal people have a mental illness, so if mental illness was identified and these people were helped many years prior to the culmination of their psychological issues, thousands of lives could be saved, far more than the murders or mass murders that could be prevented.

-Easier access to medical training- EMT training for both students and subsidized by the government should be available, so more people can be trained to treat injuries and how to respond A lot of deaths could be prevented if people simply knew some very basic medical skills, and the widespread adoption of these skillsets could potentially save more than any anti-crime measure, given that accidents cause far more than 10 times more deaths a year than murder.

-Streamlining immigration- Currently, approximately 50% of illegal immigrants are simply those who's visas have ran out, as the immigration process is so complicated the majority of legal immigrants have to become illegal immigrants, commit the law, before they can become law abiding citizens. Streamlining the process from over 7 years to 2 years, focusing on skillsets like learning the English language and what the various traffic signs mean rather than when George Washington's birthday was, and generally an emphasis on practical abilities to make the process simpler and allow legal immigrants to distinguish themselves from illegal immigrants more easily, and help us focus on the real threat of smugglers and international crime.

-Border Wall and organized crime- Organized criminal organizations commit approximately 48% of the violent crime in America, including murders, and that's what is proven. As most of these organizations are connected to global or transnational organizations such as cartels or the Russian mafia, focusing on them could help prevent a large bulk of the most severe crimes in the U.S. A country's laws don't matter if smugglers can bring in or out drugs, guns, or even people with impunity. A border wall, combined with some efforts of border monitoring (such as radar systems to catch aircraft, underground tunneling detectors, and security guards) could be fairly effective in stemming the tide of illegal good across the border.