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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ—“๏ธ A Presidential Platform for Americans 2028

๐Ÿ“ข The Opportunity

  • ๐Ÿ‘น Donald Trump has taught us that
    • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Americans want change
    • ๐Ÿ›๏ธ Presidents wield immense power
  • ๐Ÿ’ฅ As his abuses of power flood the country with violence and corruption, the rising American will for positive change presents a unique opportunity to elect a leader to wield this immense power for good.
  • ๐Ÿ™ We need a wise, benevolent leader to work for the people with every available tool.

โš–๏ธ Principles

  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Focus on real wealth. Money fails in the absence of real resources.
  • ๐Ÿš€ Solve problems immediately by any means necessary while building the infrastructure for robust, durable solutions that cannot be revoked by a future administration.

โœ… Priorities

  1. ๐Ÿšซ End poverty
  2. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Strengthen democracy
    1. ๐Ÿ“š Educate
    2. ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ Empower and expand civic participation
    3. ๐Ÿ“ข Fight disinformation

๐Ÿงฉ Problems

  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Economy
    • ๐ŸŽ unaffordable food & ๐Ÿ  housing
    • ๐Ÿ“ˆ inflation
    • ๐Ÿ“‰ unemployment
    • ๐Ÿ˜ฅ poverty
    • โ›บ homelessness
  • ๐Ÿ›๏ธ Democracy
    • ๐Ÿ’ธ corruption
    • ๐Ÿ“‰ loss of trust in institutions
    • ๐Ÿคฅ rampant disinformation
    • ๐Ÿค‘ government by the wealthy, for the wealthy
  • ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Safety
    • ๐Ÿ’ฅ political violence
    • ๐Ÿ”ซ mass shootings
    • ๐ŸŒช๏ธ natural disaster and ๐ŸŒก๏ธ extreme weather

๐Ÿ’ก Ideas

๐Ÿ’ผ The Job Guarantee

  • ๐Ÿš€ Effective immediately, the federal government guarantees a job to anyone willing to work.
    • ๐Ÿ“‰ Involuntary unemployment goes to zero.
    • ๐Ÿ’ช Millions of workers mobilize to improve the nation.
  • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Make America Great.
    • ๐Ÿฅ‡ We will finally step into our oft purported role as the greatest nation on earth by offering the best guaranteed benefits in the world.
  • โš–๏ธ The wages and benefits of the job guarantee immediately become a minimum bar to employing people in America by forcing private businesses to compete with new minimum standards without the need for explicit laws or regulations.
    • โœ… The benefits
      • ๐Ÿ” Food
      • ๐Ÿ  Housing
      • ๐ŸŽ“ Education
      • ๐Ÿฉบ Healthcare
      • ๐Ÿ‘ถ Childcare
      • ๐ŸŒด Paid leave
      • ๐Ÿ’ช Rehabilitation
  • ๐Ÿช The work
    • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Support public policy initiatives
      • ๐Ÿก Build housing
      • ๐ŸŽ Plant food
      • ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿผโ€โš•๏ธ Staff clinics
    • ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ Implement community led public works projects

๐Ÿ“ฑ Public Tech

๐ŸŒ Social Media

  • ๐Ÿ‘Ž Private social media companies sold out the American people.
  • ๐Ÿšซ Thereโ€™s no reason to continue to allow Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump to amass obscene personal wealth by empowering foreign governments, wealthy elites, and ideological zealots to spread propaganda and lies over todayโ€™s most prevalent mass communication platforms.
  • ๐Ÿ’ป Social media technology is easy to build and maintain.
  • ๐Ÿ“ข A public social media platform will
    • ๐Ÿ†“ be free
    • ๐Ÿ†” tie participation to government verified identity
    • ๐Ÿšซ not sell advertising
    • ๐Ÿ”ฌ support, direct, and leverage research on algorithms that improve social cohesion rather than inspiring hate and division
    • ๐Ÿ’ป build free and open source software in the public domain
    • ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ operate transparently
    • ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ self govern, democratically

๐Ÿš— Gig Platform

  • ๐Ÿšซ We need not allow Uber, et. al. to siphon wealth from workers and consumers on every transaction made on the only viable gig work platforms.
  • ๐Ÿ“ข A public gig work platform will
    • ๐Ÿ›๏ธ allow the federal government to subsidize labor that supports public service goals, such as childcare and education
    • ๐Ÿ’ฐ allow workers to keep 100% of their earned revenue

๐Ÿ“š Digital Library

  • ๐Ÿ”Ž Identify the best educational materials: books, audio, videos, games, etc
  • ๐Ÿค Buy the rights from authors as necessary to put them in the public domain
  • ๐Ÿ†“ Offer them for free, without limits, to all Americans via a public digital distribution platform
  • โœ๏ธ Allow content creators to publish new material for sale on the platform
    • โœ… As new material breaches a popularity threshold and passes a quality audit, buy the rights from the author, move it into the public domain, and remove the cost of access

๐Ÿค– Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ๐Ÿš€

  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ As private corporations develop increasingly advanced AI and robotics, they wield immense power, accumulate massive profits ๐Ÿ’ธ, and lay off millions of displaced workers ๐Ÿ˜ฅ.
  • ๐Ÿค” Instead of allowing a few billionaires ๐Ÿค‘ to secure unregulated access to the worldโ€™s most powerful technologies ๐Ÿ’ป with a mandate to maximize shareholder profits, letโ€™s ensure that these revolutionary technologies are used carefully ๐Ÿค in order to serve the public interest ๐ŸŒ without threatening the livelihoods of workers everywhere ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿญ.
  • ๐Ÿ›๏ธ The federal government will hire the worldโ€™s best ๐Ÿ”ฌ scientists and engineers ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป to maintain the cutting edge of innovation โœจ.
  • โš–๏ธ We will continuously evaluate the power of these technologies ๐Ÿ“Š and regulate their private use accordingly ๐Ÿ“œ.

๐Ÿ“Š Patriot Metrics

  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Today we measure, mandate, and reward the hoarding of private profits and generate massive inequality.
  • โš–๏ธ In order to balance the scales, letโ€™s begin by measuring patriotism.
  • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Patriot metrics measure the degree to which businesses improve the lives of their employees, customers, and communities.
  • ๐Ÿš€ Patriot metrics can drive change by
    • ๐Ÿ“ข spreading awareness, which allows individuals to support patriotic businesses and pressure greedy businesses to change
    • ๐Ÿ›๏ธ enabling tax policies that incentivize patriotism
    • ๐Ÿ”Ž allowing for the study, identification, and regulation of extremely unpatriotic practices
  • โœ… Examples
    • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Measure the Geni coefficient across every employee of a business to see how well they distribute wealth internally
    • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Measure the change of wealth distribution over time of a businessโ€™ owners, customers, and surrounding communities to yield insights into exploitative pricing, lasting product and service value, and community impact
    • ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ Measure elected representatives by their donors and impact of policy positions to unveil deceptive politicians working for private interests.

๐ŸŽ Food Security

  • ๐Ÿ’ธ Money doesnโ€™t grow on trees, but food does.
  • ๐Ÿค Give people SNAP benefits; feed them for a political cycle. ๐ŸŒฑ Invest in sustainable micro-agriculture, community gardens, and efficient food supply, distribution, and composting infrastructure and education; feed them for generations.
  • ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿฅ›๐Ÿ”ฌโœจ Universal Nutrition System Design

๐Ÿ˜๏ธ Housing for All

  • ๐Ÿ—๏ธ Build housing. Lots of it. Everywhere.
  • ๐Ÿšซ Ban corporate ownership of housing.
  • ๐Ÿฆ Tax land to disincentivize hoarding and inefficient use.

๐ŸŒ ๐Ÿ‘ถ Universal Childcare

  • ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ‘งโ€๐Ÿ‘ฆ We will support parents and children from birth until they begin public school with
    • ๐Ÿคฐ guaranteed paid parental leave (job guarantee benefits)
    • ๐ŸŽ public preschool
    • ๐Ÿ‘ถ subsidized babysitting (public tech: gig platform)

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ Dynamic Democratic Policy Proposals

  • ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Support policy proposals and debate on public social media.
  • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ All Americans are free to propose and debate policy ideas.
  • ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ฌ Experts employed by the federal government participate in vetting when proposals reach a threshold of popular support.
  • ๐Ÿ’ก Ad-hoc competitions can be sponsored to generate and hone ideas for solutions to the countryโ€™s most pressing issues.

๐Ÿ“Š Continuous Transparent Public Polling

  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Support ad hoc and systematic polling on public social media.
  • โค๏ธ Maintain a continuous, accurate pulse ๐Ÿ’“ on public sentiment for all aspects of government performance.
  • ๐Ÿ‘‚ Government monitors sentiment and adjusts operations based on feedback.

๐Ÿ’ฒ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿง’โ€๐Ÿง’ Pay Mothers

  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Estimates suggest that mothers do the equivalent of $170,000 of unpaid labor per year.
  • ๐Ÿ’ธ Mainstream economics has nothing to say about the most valuable role in society.
  • ๐Ÿ›๏ธ The federal government will pay mothers for the work that markets fail to acknowledge.
  • ๐Ÿš€ This will lift millions of children ๐Ÿง’, women ๐Ÿ‘ฉ, and families ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ‘งโ€๐Ÿ‘ฆ out of poverty, eliminate dependence on various forms of welfare ๐Ÿ“‰, and empower women.
  • ๐ŸŽ Inflation can be addressed by government programs to expand the supply of food ๐ŸŽ, housing ๐Ÿ , healthcare ๐Ÿฅ, transportation ๐Ÿš—, and other essential goods mothers are likely to spend their salaries on.
  • ๐ŸŒ This will also significantly reduce extreme wealth inequality.

๐Ÿ’ผ 4 Day Work Week

  • ๐Ÿ“‰ Widespread mass corporate layoffs demonstrate that businesses donโ€™t need as much labor as they used to.
  • โœจ Letโ€™s leverage progress in automation and productivity ๐Ÿค– to increase the quality of life for all Americans.
  • ๐Ÿค Allow anyone to voluntarily work in the job guarantee program for pay ๐Ÿ’ฐ on a day off.
  • ๐Ÿ”„ Allows for variety in work (e.g. an office worker can get regular outdoor exercise working in a community garden or construction project without sacrificing income)
  • ๐Ÿ˜๏ธ Massively increases participation in community and public focused work.

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