So I think that unless he has a heart attack, Trump is gonna go 8 years. After that I couldn't possibly presume to compete with the popularity of Kanye, so I'm eyeing a run in 2032.
My platform has one plank. I plan on being president for about 15 minutes, and then resigning once I've finished signing an executive order to shut down American's high schools
When kids turn 14, they get jobs. Prior to that though, we're gonna take the money we save by not running high schools and put it back in to K through 8, which now runs 7am to 7pm. Obviously that takes more manpower and overhead, so we can re-employ all of the employees from the high school. $0 tax burden, 0 impact to unemployment.
I don't intend for kids to spend all that time in classrooms though. There will be adequate leisure time, physical education, etc. There may be some marginally increased classroom time, however, with so many staff, class sizes will be much smaller and kids will be much more engaged. We're gonna teach them in 8 years, what we used to teach in 12. And because they're there all day, they aren't on the street joining gangs, and they're not watching cartoons on the couch getting fat.
Then we're gonna allow these super-educated 14 years olds to get entry level jobs. Now that there are Americans who actually want those jobs, there will be no reason to support an underground economy of illegal workers. And since these kids are still living as their parents' dependent, we can pay them shit. So farmers and such won't be able to complain at the increased costs of hiring Americans over illegals. No wall, no travel bans, just the cold reality that there is nothing here for anyone who doesn't come correct.
While working, these kids will obviously have some independent study, or online coursework. Very little. Just enough to keep their minds learning and growing. And I'm not talking about having them work full time hours either. Just enough to grow a little 'work ethic'
Imagine that, an 18 year old with an education, a work ethic, and some money in the bank. Boom! College solved.
The reason college is so expensive, is because in the 90's, under Clinton, it was decided that higher education was a "right". Hence you had this outpouring of government spending in the form of student loans. This system was brutally raped by academic institutions. The board at Roody-Poo State University would sit around and try to figure out what to charge for tuition. Instead of calculating their cost and adding a profit margin like any other business, they simply asked "how much is the gov't giving each kid.....ok, that's what tuition costs". Then of course, Hoity-Toity Private College goes and charges 5x more. Now the whole system has been hyper-inflated. No more!!
If people have to pay for their own college, the market will determine the price. And kids will have money to spend on it, so the market will get things in order pretty quickly. The government can stop pouring money into over-burdensome student loans, and divert that money towards the existing national debt.
To review:
1) By extending school hours, I've eliminated the need for daytime childcare. That's up to five-figures of cash I'm putting back into American households
2) By consolidating school staff into 2/3 of the grade levels, I'm giving kids a better quality education
3) Less street violence, because kids are in school all day
4) Less childhood obesity because kids are kept active, and their access to junk food is controlled
5) Illegal Immigration - SOLVED
6) College tuition prices become manageable
7) Gov't student loan spending plummets
8) National debt is relieved
9) Because recent graduates are not burdened by debt, they are able to participate more in the economy, buy their first homes sooner, upgrade their car more often, etc etc etc. All that creates jobs
10) The unused high school buildings can become shelters for the homeless.
And I can accomplish all that with one simple order, shut down high schools.
I hope I can count on your vote
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