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Vice Presidental Speech
Good morning everyone, my name is Terrence McCauley, I am currently running for Vice President of the United States. I was born on Long Island and resided in a town called Bellmore for my childhood and early in my life. I have been to many places and have experienced a lot of things. Now I'm not going to sit up here and feed you a bunch of bologna for 20 minutes. I'm going to get straight to the point because i like to get things done the right way as soon as possible. Ever since I was young I have always wanted to help people and my community. I joined the volunteer fire department when I was 14 and have been in it ever since rising to the rank of chief. I come from a long line of civil servants with 2 of my uncles being in the Fire Department in New York City as well as in the Volunteer Fire Department with my grandfather who served as chief and my father and aunt. I felt that it was only right that I follow in their footsteps and serve my community. I believe that being in the fire department has taught me and made me gain a lot of traits such as leadership skills, and being on the “front lines” of the community getting things done. I believe that if you have that mindset with everything in life and you work hard and you’re dedicated, you can get anything done. I believe that having that mindset was a big impact on my career, and was one of the main reasons I was able to go on to become the Governor of Iowa. While I was campaigning and while I was in office I would always be talking to the people in our great Iowa neighborhoods and going to the problem areas myself and communicating with the people in there to determine what needed to be done and reformed to get rid of these problems.Talking to these regular, working class people is critical to solving problems because these people are the solution to the problem. The roots of the problems in this country always starts at the regular working class of people, which in turn means it will go back to the people to solve problems, I am just here to assist and guide them to the best solution. I believe that with me as your Vice President and Tom as your President we can achieve the same things just on a grander scale. As your Vice President I would get things done fast, and right, much like John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States. John Tyler is considered to be lesser known and many of you may not know who he is. I am trying to emulate that, I’m not trying to be your Vice President for the fame or money, I am just trying to make the United States a better place for everyone of our citizens. John Tyler had many foreign policy achievements, Me and my running mate will try to have these achievements as well. In Tyler’s presidency he had foreign policies that helped the U.S. Tyler ended a bloody war against the Seminole Indians. Hostilities ended in 1842. He creates the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, after a longtime feud was settled with England over where Maine ended and where British- ruled Canada began. In his terms of dealing with the foreign policies, Tyler took an assertive approach to end the issues with compromises. His actions will inspire me in dealing with issues such as the War in Afghanistan and combating terrorism. I vow to help end the war and become neutral with all the nations of the world. John Tyler will inspire me to improve our education ranking in the world by making school less stressful and more laid back to a point where students are really learning and absorbing the information. As of right now in Bellmore-Merrick our graduation rate is 97% of students. To make it 100% I will change the amount of classes that are to be taken per year. I believe that required classes are the most important and electives should be optional. To make our schools safer I will hire trained security and install metal detectors to insure that all students and staff are safe throughout the day. Tyler didn’t help the economy. Tyler made no changes he vetoed everything that Congress tried to pass. Unlike Him I will attempt to change the economy for the better. When handling our debt in the United States, I will try to reduce the amount of debt by cutting military and domestic spending and reduce or end popular tax breaks. Also, I will change the entitlement programs of Social Security and Medicare. I will increase tax by 1% for ordinary salary and increase tax by 4% with salaries over $1 million. I promise to deliver these changes. I promise to change the world. As John Tyler once said “My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.”