Political contributions...

Okeh.

Could someone please tell me how political parties generate their public donor lists?

I have been registered NPA since 1990 (I've never agreed with either major party.  The Republicans are closest to what I think, but they're too centrist for my liking.  I'm too damned far to the Right for the Libertarians!  Tiny government, basic functions only, minimal tax bite, and why are we paying the bastards at all - let alone as much as we do?)

But, the Democrats keep pestering me for $3 at a time.  Probably twice a week.  Over & over again.

I have NEVER donated to the Democrats.  I don't plan to donate to the Democrats.  The last Democrat I can think of that would have gotten my vote was JFK - at least he believed in protecting the nation, not selling it out or selling out the people (Obama, you listening?  Pelosi?  Feinstein?  Boxer?  Lofgren?  You're not following your Oaths!  STOP IT.)

So, why to the Democrats keep pestering me?  Why can't they get the message?  I'm not going to donate to them.  I'm probably NEVER going to donate to them - they're so far to the Left these days that they'd trip over Stalin's grave if they made a centrist move!

I don't really want the job.  I wouldn't spend the first four years campaigning for a second four years.  I figure if I do a good job, you'll tell me - or you can hold my second term in reserve.

But, I'm thinking I could do a better job as President than most people since Reagan.  And, I'd like to use Executive Orders to:
- Stop "riders."  If it doesn't have anything to do with the subject matter of the bill proposed, it gets struck.  Full stop.
- Proposed bills are allowed to be fifty pages long (single-sided) or twenty-five pages long (double-sided.)  If I can't read it in five minutes, it gets kicked back for a rewrite.
- Every law proposed /will/ include a provision to redact an existing law.  This should be doable for the next 30 or 40 years before we start to notice, but it should stop the wild growth of laws.  Seriously - the body of law is like a damned field of dandelions!  Have you ever /been/ to a law library?
- This "full-time legislature" thing is going to stop.  Therefore, they don't need full-time pay, or full-time staff.  This should help bring the budget down.
- Speaking of: If the budget can't propose expenditures of 95% /or/ /less/ of projected income, it gets struck and kicked back for resubmission.  If this goal can't be met one month before the end of the Fiscal Year, ALL elected personnel forfeit their pay until the budget is submitted /and/ /approved/.  Suck it up, buttercup - if you want to get paid, you fix it so everyone knows what's going on!  (This includes Cabinet-level people.  They're not popularly elected, but they /are/ approved by Congress, and they're responsible for the budgets for their departments.)  And no, you don't get back pay once it's done - forfeited pay gets used to service the principal on the Public Debt.
- And speaking of that: The 5% gap between income and expenditures?  3% of projected income is used to service the Public Debt, the remaining 2% is banked as a "Rainy Day Fund" once Social Security and Medicare has been refunded.
- And then Social Security and Medicare are to be left /alone/ - unless it is to fund a project that either benefits the Nation /as/ /a/ /whole/ or the race /as/ /a/ /whole/.  No more pork-barrel crap.
- In fact, no special projects done for cronyism.  If I find out about it, I hope you've picked your replacement - I'm going to find a way to fire your ass!
- No retirement from elected office.  Period.  No benefits accrue.  You can get Social Security like the rest of us.
- No Cadillac health plans, either.  You get MediCare (see how fast those get fixed!)
- Peruse previous Executive Orders, rescind orders prejudicial to liberty.  This is going to require a balancing act, I'm sure - but it's necessary.
- Peruse the /Federal/ /Register/.  Did you know that if something was published in the /Register/ and unchallenged for a given time (90, 120, or 180 days - I don't recall which offhand,) it carried the /force/ /of/ /law/?  /Without/ debate or voting?  Anything that carried the force of law through publication in the /Register/ gets considered, debated openly, and (likely) rescinded.
- Also, go through USC and CFR.  With a red pen.  I'm perfectly willing to bet that fully a quarter to a third of the body of law, at the Federal level, can be rescinded out of hand without any negative social effect.

That's a good start, anyhow.

Discuss.