Inauguration Day 2017 - My Two Cents Worth

Today is Inauguration Day.  I think Anticipation Day would be a better description, but nobody asked me when they were setting up the world. 😉

Here are some things I anticipate from the new administration:

1. I believe President Trump will find the job harder than he anticipates, as you can NOT fire Congress.
2. I think his populating his cabinet with business people who know little about their appointed positions will cause him more trouble than he thinks in the end.  To view his appointees click HERE. 
   
   (NOTE: Please comment and list the Education Secretary Appointee's qualifications for me.  I am honestly stumped and can't figure out any she has.  Where is her degree in education?  Which public schools did she attend?  Where was she a school teacher or school administrator?  What qualifies her to head a department that over-sees the future of our children?)
3. I think President Trump will leave the office of President in a few years with the knowledge that running a country is very very very very very different from running a business.  A country can not go bankrupt to fix things without extremely dire consequences.  
4. I believe President Trump will surprise many people by doing some remarkably good things during his administration.
5. I do not want to believe that President Trump's tweets will cause a war, but this is something that I fear.
6. I believe that President Trump will have to learn to compromise to be an effective President of these United States.
7. It is my hope that President Trump learns to be more diplomatic and inclusive while he is in office.  If he does not at least try to bring the country together, he will face adversity at every turn, and he will learn that a President is not a King or a Dictator.  The power of that office is more limited than people tend to believe.
8. Earth is our home.  I hope President Trump learns that if we rape Mother Earth for the almighty dollar, there will be consequences that he does NOT want and will NOT enjoy living through.  
9. I predict learning that climate change is real will be a very hard lesson for our new president.
10. I believe that our new president will do what he thinks is best during his time in office.  I think he really does want to make America great again, but I also think that his definition of making America great may not be the same definition that most women and other minority American citizens hold.  

Having said all that, I will tell you that I did NOT like either candidate for President this past year.  I believe we were given poor choices.

Truly, I am not a very political person.  I have voted Republican in the past, and I have voted Democrat in the past.  I do have opinions about political things.  In a perfect world, here are a few things I would like to see:

1. Universal Healthcare as good as or better than all the other first world countries in the world. 
   
   Some countries with universal health care include: Australia, Austria, Belarus, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Moldova, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Ukraine.
2. Environment protection should be a priority including the development of solar and other "green" energies that would cost our citizens less money as well as help protect our planet.
   
   Protecting the environment also includes protecting animal habitats and protecting the animals themselves, especially the endangered animals. 
   
   Animal cruelty laws should carry heavy penalties, and animal cruelty should ALWAYS be punished by those laws.
   
   State and National Parks should be supported and protected all all costs. Always and forever.
3. Women should be treated with all the respect due to any American citizen.  Equal pay for equal work.  Access to quality healthcare including birth control and all other facets of women's health. Etc. etc. etc.
4. ALL minorities should be treated with all the respect due to any American citizen.  STOP the discrimination based on skin color.  That is just ridiculous.Native Americans, especially, should be given the respect and fair treatment they deserve, and their lands should be protected no matter the costs.  WE are the true immigrants in this great land of ours.  We always need to remember that.
5. There should never be any discrimination based upon religious beliefs.  Period.
6. Gun control should be limited to military assault weapons and basic background checks.  We are Americans.  It is our right to own guns. 
   
   My father was a conscientious man and taught all his children a healthy respect for guns.  If today's parents aren't willing to do that, then I would not be opposed to people having to complete a gun safety course in order to be a gun owner, as there have been way too many gun "accidents" in recent years.
   
   Thinking of guns reminds me that: We need to support and respect our military and their families!!!  VERY important!
7. Gerrymandering should be illegal with prison consequences.
8. All politicians should have the same healthcare and retirement benefits as the least of American citizens.  THAT should fix a lot of things.
9. We should ALWAYS take care of our ELDERLY!!!  It is a shame and disgrace to hear stories of our elderly citizens, who have worked all their lives, widowed and alone and having to eat cat food.  It happens way more often than you think, and every single American should hang their head in shame as they read these words.  Just because you are not yet that person does not mean it won't happen to you.  Have some compassion!  Have some empathy!!  Protect Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid!
10. We should take care of our poor.  People of all socio-economic backgrounds are important to our society.  The poor deserve the same education as the wealthiest among us.  Fully SUPPORT and FUND our public schools, colleges, technical schools, vocational schools, and universities!!!
11. We need to recognize that government should NOT be supported mainly by the middle-class.  Our middle-class is shrinking instead of growing.  That is unacceptable.  The rich need to pay their fair share of taxes.  I personally believe the only fair way to tax is a percentage tax with no deductions for anything.  A flat percentage tax where every single one of us pays the exact same percent in tax based on our profit any particular year.  That would fix the deficit AND pay for the Universal Health Care because the rich 2% that have most of the money would have to pay their fair share to our government which is supposed to be by the people and FOR the people...not just for the rich.
12. There should be term limits for Congress, and nepotism has no place in politics or in the workplace either for that matter.  People should be hired based solely on qualifications.  Period.

That is my two-cents worth. 

Feel free to argue amongst yourselves.