If you were President, what would you do to help restore the goodness and greatness of America?

Several specific things that I would consider immediately, include:

1. End our foreign military adventures and close most of our overseas bases, redeploying forces stateside.
2. Secure our nation’s borders, preventing the entry of illegal immigrants, supplementing our border patrol services with military assistance, as required.
3. Dissolve the IRS and replace it with a simple and fair consumption tax.
4. Remove control of money from the Federal Reserve System, repudiating the interest debt, and return the issuance authority to the U.S. Treasury to be backed by gold and/or silver.
5. Balance the federal budget and seek a Constitutional amendment to require it.
6. Reduce government largess by abolishing inefficient and invasive Departments (Education, Energy, Labor, HUD, Homeland Security, Agriculture) and eliminating the “czars” and their staffs.
7. Repeal unconstitutional laws (Patriot Act, NDAA, affirmative action, Obamacare) and return appropriate jurisdiction to the states.
8. Leave the United Nations (as it currently exists) and NATO.
9. Eliminate all foreign aid, excepting specifically approved humanitarian relief efforts.
10. Renegotiate our trade agreements/treaties (GATT, NAFTA/CAFTA, WTO) to make them “fair” rather than “free” and establish reasonable, but protective tariffs.
11. Make English the official language in the United States and require non-English speakers to gain proficiency before being granted citizenship.
12. Remove any dual citizens from security sensitive positions in government.
13. Place term limits on federal offices and reform election finance laws to remove the power of special interests.
14. Require Congress to abide by the same requirements which they legislate upon the American people, without exempting themselves.
15. Repeal the 14^th Amendment and restore to the people and states their sovereignty.
16. Repeal the 16^th Amendment, ending direct federal income tax on the people.
17. Repeal the 17^th Amendment and restore to the states their right to select Senatorial representatives.
18. Encourage development of media alternatives and take anti-trust action against corporate media cartels to break up their information and entertainment monopoly.
19. Develop incentives to relocate and grow the domestic production of natural resources, industry, agriculture and manufacturing.

With these first actions, I believe America could be back on its feet within 1-2 years and the American Dream restored — so that we would once again be emulated by the rest of the world, rather than despised.   In this way, we might leave a world of peace, prosperity and happiness for our progeny.