The President is the duly elected Chief Executive of the Executive Branch defined by Article II of the Constitution — the supreme law of all of the USA. If the President cannot set Policy, then who is better?

For America's future, indeed the future of America in the world, this ranking is rather obvious.

Absolutely the greatest threat to America for the last 20 years is and has been the INVASION of Illegal Aliens who bring a language other than English, disease, crime, drugs, lack of character — a human infusion of extreme weakness and indigence that corrupts and weakens the entire structure of We the People. 

This corruption has enabled the Democrats (Socialists) to infiltrate the body politic of America, to weaken our individual resolve and the desire to achieve wealth and a comfortable life in a background of FREEDOM. These Illegals, predisposed to Socialism, come here not to become self-reliant, productive citizens, but to freeload off of America's wealth. Socialism will destroy the greatest country in world history! Citizens will no longer be free to live a productive life in peace and liberty because the eventual Autocratic State that Democrats envisage will create death, destruction, and mediocrity.

Throughout the world when Socialist/Communist governments have foisted government-run healthcare on their citizens, the result has always caused a shortage of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, a shortage of healthcare personnel, a shortage of doctors and advanced nursing care. 

All of these shortages cause long waiting times for doctor visits, hospital services, surgery, and outpatient facilities. The most egregious effect of Socialist healthcare is a very significant increase in premature death and a shortening of the average lifespan of the population. Instead of healthcare, one might call this 'deathcare'.

American 'Seniors'—citizens of age 65 and older—since July, 1965 have paid a portion of each paycheck by withholding until retirement to receive a benefit called Medicare. Medicare pays 80% of a given senior's healthcare expenses requiring additional insurance coverage for the 20% not covered. 

So, with the "Medicare-for-All" proposal, seniors would be sharing their 'paid-in-capital' (present value calculations yield big dollars from seniors over 30 years) with everyone probably including Illegal Aliens. I am sure that most Americans, not just seniors, are extremely opposed to this Socialist, very costly ($32 trillion over 10 yrs) government control policy that will inevitably fail.

The primary reason that Democrats(Socialists) push government-run healthcare is to "equalize" healthcare for all, but the result is mediocrity for all or death. While healthcare inflation in the USA runs in the high single digits, and health insurance costs increase more than healthcare itself, there are many competent doctors and hospitals in most regions throughout the country. Bad doctors, hospitals, and drugs can be eliminated by regulations and lawsuits. Healthcare inflation including doctors, hospitals, and outpatient clinics must be reduced to the annual inflation rate.

I support any Judge or future Justice that formulates his opinion from the Constitution as a static document with the meaning as determined by the Federalist Papers and any and all documents from the Founders' writings in a background of Liberty as the primary objective. All contemporary things and events are entirely encapsulated by these documents. A Justice of the Supreme Court need only analogize current things and events to the 1787 era and not be so concrete. 

An example is Communication. In 1787, books and newspapers were forms of communication. Today, we have eBooks, eNews, telephone, television, and Internet. A few Socialist rags still exist only because of the convenient reader population that keeps them afloat financially. While today's forms of communication are much more complex and varied, the same affect on readers or viewers occurs.

Liberty as defined by the Founders is assaulted and violated today in 2019. The Founders, particularly Alexander Hamilton, identified and determined that the Judiciary would be the "least dangerous" of the three branches of government. In Federalist 78, writing in the English style of the time, Hamilton very clearly and exhaustively defines the Judiciary Branch (department) as the arbiter that examines and analyzes legislation to determine constitutionality in terms of whether a given Bill or passed Law violates the Liberty of the People as defined by the Constitution.

"Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments."

Yes, of course. Businesses, proprieterships, corporations and their employees are what makes America the greatest country in the world. In the 1800s America was built by the greatest entrepreneurs in the world who were free to create and invent. In a capitalist world, they were able to build great companies and great wealth for America and themselves. 

In the 1890s, Democrats, Socialists, Populists, and other groups became very jealous of the wealth created by entrepreneurs just as they are today. The Democrats (Socialists) used the federal government to demand a legal way to steal from the object of their jealousy — the wealthy, creative inventors. The Income Tax is nothing more than punishment for success. The Income Tax redistributes earned wealth from productive people to wasteful, spendthrift, massively indebted government and other unproductive, unskilled Americans.

The Democrats (Socialists) created another theft consortium built into the fabric of America — the Federal Reserve. In 1948, the president of the New York Federal Reserve (FED) proclaimed that income taxes are unnecessary and merely a method of social control. His statement implied the power of the FED to generate capital for the U.S. government. What he neglected to say is that in order that the FED can exist as a profitable concern, the Federal Income Tax must exist to pay interest on the "money-from-thin-air" loans from the FED to the U.S. government.

FROM Bob Livingston Alerts

It is an interesting dynamic that the Federal Reserve has conjured in the decade after the 2008 credit crash. They spent several years using artificial stimulus measures to inflate perhaps the largest financial bubble in the history of the U.S., and then a couple years ago something changed. They addicted markets and investors to easy cash only to then cut off the flow of monetary heroin. The system was so dependent on the Fed's "China White" that all it took to give everyone the shakes was interest rate hikes to the "neutral rate of inflation" and a moderate balance sheet selloff. Now, the system is dying from shock, and no amount of intravenous stimulus can save it.

For many this may seem unprecedented, but it's really rather common. The Fed has a long history of inflating bubbles using easy liquidity and then imploding those bubbles with the tightening of credit. It also has a long history of pretending like it is trying to save the economy from crisis when it is actually the source of the crisis.

Absolutely not! We either have a country or not. We have physical boundaries that define the USA or we don't. If hordes of Saudis crossed Iran's borders illegally, Iran (or any other country) would view that as an act of war. The current massive invasion of people from all over the world crossing our border is essentially war. This massive invasion weakens America in virtually every metric one could measure.

USICE, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the enforcer of America's ineffectual and incompetently written immigration laws designed to permit immigration failure and uncontrolled entry across America's borders. Immigration law defines "Alien" and those acts that are illegal in regards to Aliens. ICE focuses on immigration enforcement, preventing terrorism and combating the illegal movement of people and goods.

After WWII, the economies of countries all over the world were devastated, destroyed. Since 1945, countries have labored to restore their devastated lands and America funded the rebuilding of Europe and Japan with billions of dollars.

As countries rebuilt their various residences, farms, cities, offices, manufacturing, other structures, and roads, their businesses began competing against imports from the USA which had sustained them during their rebuilding efforts. The thinking is simple from their viewpoint. European countries saw how much product the USA could manufacture to help win the war against Germany. Now (say 1975), Germany and other countries in Europe and Japan wanted to save their industries against potential voluminous shipments of American goods. 

Former U.S. government officials from 1975 until now decided (in the name of "free trade") to enable the shipment of all materials from foreign countries to enter the U.S. with either no tariff or low tariff with no non-tariff barriers. Their countries produced raw materials and finished goods, shipped them almost tariff free to America, and we produced finished products that no one in foreign countries bought because the price was too high due to their tariffs and/or non-tariff barriers on our products.

Too summarize, former "sucker" Presidents of the USA either out of genuine humanitarianism or to present a USA role model for "free trade" to the world allowed foreign products into the USA with low or no tariffs and no non-tariff barriers and the world probably laughed at America. 

The rest of the world ripped us off with high tariffs and many non-tariff barriers to protect their economies from us. Tariffs on American rice in Japan are 450%. America is a developed, domestically-based economy with many businesses that have the technology to produce massive surpluses. American companies want to sell products at home and products appropriately developed for foreign countries. American companies can't compete in the world if foreign tariffs make our products too expensive. Our technology is under attack. We invent, the rest of the world reverse-engineers and steals.

So, it seems simple, logical, and clear (einfach, logisch, und klar für Deutschland) that unless the WORLD eliminates tariffs and non-tariff barriers or won't sit down at a negotiating table in a meeting and be an adult to work out a reasonable tariff deal, then the USA WILL NO LONGER TOLERATE BEING RIPPED OFF !!!!

Build a complete, impenetrable southern border WALL. A WALL will stop 95% of the illegal traffic which will enable Customs & Border Protection (CBP) to focus its efforts on ports-of-entry to scan vehicles and interdict drugs and human slaves coming in and out of the USA. Even with a WALL, sensors and drones are necessary to monitor the WALL and catch those more intelligent psychopaths who devise a method of entering over or through the WALL. 

Revise immigration laws by eliminating Chain Migration, Visa Lottery, Catch & Release, bogus claims of Entrepreneurship, and phony Asylum requests. Illegal Entry into the USA is an automatic deportation offense. Two or more illegal entries is a felony. All 'emigrants' who want eventual citizenship must speak functional English. No entry into the USA unless a Visitor has a Visa obtained at a U.S. Embassy/Consolate or online (Form DS-160). 

"Birthright Citizenship" will be redefined as based on the citizenship status of the child's parents, i.e., at least one parent must be a citizen of the USA. This birthright is NOT about American soil, it's about the parents. No new births on American soil to foreign parents will be citizens as of the date of the new Immigration Reform Act.

Decrease the budgets of non-military agencies by 5% per annum for the next 6 years. These agencies are already over-funded. During the shutdown caused by Nancy and Chuckie, a senior government official commented anonymously to The Daily Caller. The article is titled "I’m A Senior Trump Official, And I Hope A Long Shutdown Smokes Out The Resistance", January 14, 2019. The article discusses many problems with over-staffed agencies, the employees of which attempt to sabotage President Trump's policies on a daily basis. Referring to emplyee performance, the anonymous Official said that "... 80 percent feel no pressure to produce results ..." referring to federal employees. The "process" is designed to generate the need for new employees who perform counterproductive jobs to increase the complexity of everyone's job thereby wasting everyone's time. The federal government is the most wasteful organization in the world because of this managerial disaster! At least 50% of federal employees are UNNECESSARY!

FROM Shadowbosses:
"The percentage of private sector workers in unions has been declining since the 1950s, both because unionized businesses have been failing and because workers in new businesses don't choose to unionize. Basically, private sector unions have been driving themselves out of business for sixty years."

Work conditions on the job during the industrial revolution in the late 1800s may have necessitated unions to demand both safety, medical care for injuries, pensions, and higher pay, but, today, 95% of U.S. interstate companies provide all of these benefits and more.

"Government employee unions are a totally different animal. Government employee unions use politics as the central plank of their business plans --- unlike private sector unions, which have far less need for politics to maintain their bottom line."

"Then, these unions keep our government inefficient by preventing it from reorganizing, streamlining, and privatizing government services, because more efficient government would mean less union dues revenue. There will be a tipping point when our government gets so big that the last remaining taxpayers in America will no longer be able to support the enormous cost of running our government. And we are rapidly approaching this point."

FROM Here’s How Andrew Jackson Stood Up to Unaccountable ‘Elites’

But Jackson took it a bit further. As small as the federal bureaucracy was at the time, Jackson believed that civil servants, who tended to see their office as their own private property, had wiggled their way into comfy positions in Washington, D.C., and had become slothful, incompetent, and in many cases corrupt. He intended to drain the swamp.

In his first annual message to Congress, Jackson explained his philosophy: “In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense.”

During Jackson’s presidency, there was actually a law on the books that limited a civil servant’s time in office to four years, after which he had to apply for the position again.

Though many have blamed Jackson for instituting the “spoils system”—by which political parties reward their political friends with jobs and punish their enemies by booting them out—Jackson’s role in perpetuating this problem has been vastly overstated. So has its pernicious effect on our politics. That system had marked advantages over the modern one in which, of the nearly 3 million federal government employees today, virtually none can lose their jobs for any reason, including criminal activity.

Any new laws and rules that weaken the Constitution will further destroy America. The Constitution is not a 'living document' to be twisted and bent because people can't fix problems otherwise. The Bill of Rights is part of what makes America the greatest country in world history. People in America who can't have what they want legally are tearing down the very fabric of America.

Instead of treating the symptoms by confiscating guns ("In Rem" action), try searching for the cause of violent behaviors and creating treatments for the cause. Since legal action against a person is much more difficult (called Due Process), the lazy people in Law Enforcement just steal a person's property. 

This "In Rem" action is done all over the USA today by local, state, and federal governments. Just take someone's money or other property because the property might be used in a crime, might have been used in a crime, or might have been the profit of a crime. 

Don't bother to collect evidence, indict, and prove a crime in court against the person — the action is against the "thing" not the person, a cheap easy way to tyrannize the public.

Psychopathologically violent persons with a confirmed history of violence — people who assault, maim, and kill for no civilized reason, people with no conscience — are a different situation. Such persons should be treated as combatants and removed from the streets, charged with assault(s) [or murders], confined, and analyzed, treated with various behavior modification techniques to eliminate irrational violence behaviors, and confined for life if completely incorrigible.

All inexpugnable, violent persons who seriously injure others for no plausible reason of self-defense should be convicted and confined after one violent infraction of this type. All killers should be convicted and executed. Guns are a means of self-defense and a means of correcting government tyranny. 

Peaceful, sane people consider weapons to be a Natural Right and as a tool for preventing and defending against violence. Peaceful, sane people don't attack other people for any reason other than self-defense. If someone is insane or irrational, the problem is handled by treating the insane person. "Red Flag" laws are just another way for government to confiscate weapons.

John Adams said, “Without [term limits] every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey”. That being said, here are some of the reasons I believe our country needs Term Limits:

   - Term Limits can help break the cycle of corruption in Congress. Case studies show that the longer an individual stays in office, the more likely they are to stop serving the public and begin serving their own interests.

   - Term Limits will encourage regular citizens to run for office. Presently, there is a 94% re-election rate in the House and 83% in the Senate. Because of name recognition, and usually the advantage of money, it can be easy to stay in office. Without legitimate competition, what is the incentive for a member of Congress to serve the public? Furthermore, it is almost a lost cause for the average citizen to try to campaign against current members of Congress.

   - Term Limits will break the power special interest groups have in Congress. Lobbying should be outlawed.

   - Term Limits will force politicians to think about the impact of their legislation because they will be returning to their communities shortly to live under the laws they enacted.

   - Term Limits will bring diversity of people and fresh ideas to Congress.

Main-stream Media: Camera-happy Narcissistic Fools asking typical stupid, uninformed questions.

The Mainstream-Media and Social-Media (ABC, BLOOMBERG, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Facebook, FOX, FOXBUSINESS, Google, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Twitter, and various other Internet sites are extremely biased against Conservatives in general and President Trump in particular. 

Fortunately, there are many radio programs, many internet sites, OANN.com, OANN (channel 347 DirectTV), OANN on ROKU, OANN on Facebook, OANN's Pearson Sharp presents hard-hitting, factual investigative reports, the TRUTH that no other media ever presents, OAN's Jack Posobiec's very informative, concise interviews with current and former government operatives shines the light on the corrupt federal government, and lastly, NEWSMAX (channel 349 DirectTV). These two companies present the TRUTH without or with bias. A bias toward reputable, good, law-abiding life is better than innuendo, untruths, twisted-truths, and lies presented on the Mainstream Media.

President Trump has a wholly different problem with government employees, their unions, and the protections built-in to the government that prevents termination of really bad, unproductive, even criminal employees. The whole top levels of the DOJ and FBI under Obama were criminals, and so far they have escaped with the equivalent of the ole Catholic school slap on the wrist. Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Ohr, and Hillary should be in prison right now. These bad actors are all over government today.

Absolutely, the 1st president since Reagan that has enhanced the economy and financial freedom by decreasing business taxes and eliminating onerous regulations. 

I would suggest that he eliminate the Income Tax and the Federal Reserve, enable the U.S. Treasury to issue debt-free currency after all debt is paid off and prohibit Fractional Reserve Banking. 

Of course, this is not possible without a cooperative and visionary Congress that is capable of analyzing the advantages and benefits of releasing the American citizenry from the annual torture and massively unproductive waste of time that is the Income Tax. The FED is a problem of inflation and deflation. The FED has caused many more problems, i.e., bubbles, recessions, a Great Recession, and a Great Depression, than it's worth.

As if that task weren't big enough, I would begin eliminating obsolete, impractical, wasteful agencies that serve no purpose but to provide subsidy to unproductive employees.

For revenue (after IRS is gone), the U.S. should enact larger user fees on everthing federal domestically and internationally, excise taxes on everything domestic and international, and a 10% sales tax on everything sold domestically and internationally. Of course, tariffs are another income source from countries that dump their products or steal our intellectual property or have high tariffs themselves.

With computer systems, these forms of revenue which were not easily collected in the past are now relatively easily achievable. Local and state governments already have sales taxes point-of-sale (POS) calculated by companies who remit the totals to government. The same could be done on a federal level by modifying the POS systems.

These forms of taxation do not punish successful earners by reducing their on-hand capital. Instead this form of taxation takes capital from consumers who want to purchase a product or service. 

Lastly, there are unstable Senators who want to attack Iran for its many terrorist activities such as attacking Saudi Arabia's oil plants recently ostensibly using their Houthi friends. 

At most, we should support a Saudi military operation against Iran — for a fee — with advisors, by providing satellite imagery of the immediate area, with weapons and technical support in any way. Strategists, engineers and any other necessary troops to aid the Saudis but no U.S. combat troops on the ground. Our Navy can support the Saudis, but no combat troops. If counterattack ground operations are necessary, then the Saudis have the lead. The original attack was against their territory. All allies or business friends should expect to cover U.S. expenses in advisory/supply situations like this.

Continue support for the Space Force and NASA's moon base project.

The best president since Reagan and Eisenhower. In fact, President Trump's two and ¾ years are like Reagan's 4 years in terms of the volume of problems addressed, in progress, and solved to significantly improve the USA. 

President Trump is more concerned with securing America against very serious, previously unattended local threats that have made America the welfare and medical agency of the Western Hemisphere and already weakened America. At the same time he is increasing economic, financial, and social freedom for the CITIZENS with lower taxes and fewer regs. 

He's fixing the parasite problems we've had with the world regarding fair trade whereby we pay high tariffs and experience many non-tariffs barriers (red tape), and the world pays low tariffs with few non-tariff barriers. He's fixing the problems of Illegal Aliens that are weakening America. He has rebuilt the military, the primary concern of the federal government.

He wears the office well like he was born to hold the office, an obvious product of a very successful private sector business. Most of the current political gremlins in CONgress (House) have never experienced the confident, successful feeling of building a private sector business. 

Even though he is not a politician and doesn't play political games, he has a counterpunch that exposes the political clowns for what they are — superficial power freaks, silly people with irrational, unproductive, unrealistic, and uneconomical ideas and goals. The "Squad" is a group of four vicious, vindictive, vile people elected by either stuffed ballot boxes or destructive, ignorant people in their districts. Their constituents surely have experienced an illuminating realization regarding the now obvious fact that these people want to destroy, not build.

I've always said, "If you wanna get rich, get elected, appointed, or hired by the U.S. government and live off We the People." Just don't get caught taking a bribe or padding your expense account. 

President Trump doesn't need the money, he's there to return America to the beacon of freedom without being the welfare agency to the world.

Only Republicans will get my vote in 2020! However, if a clown, incapable of presenting a coherent way forward, gets nominated in 2024, I will withhold my vote until once again we have a president who knows what the hell he's doing (or I die naturally of old age).

Eric Raines, eeraines@bmstahoe.com