Posted on 11/22/2014 6:35:45 PM PST by central_va
Ok this is a vanity, but what EO's would you like to see from a Conservative "Friendly" President. Turn about is fair play. "Stroke of the pen - law of the land. Pretty cool."
Well, since Executive Orders are the new way to rule, and no more need for Congress or the Senate:
Executive Order #1: All Executive Orders by Obama are overturned. All of them.
Executive Order #2: All gun laws are declared illegal. Anyone who asks, may purchase any military firearm that is being retired, at our original cost. Handgun vending machines are now legal in airports and schools.
Executive Order #3: All income-based taxes are now illegal. All tax debt is forgiven. Sales taxes (the Flat Tax) are the only way to collect taxes from now on. The IRS is reduced to 1/10 its size and tasked with collecting the Flat sales tax. No information on who or what purchase a sales tax is coming from, is permitted. The sales tax will be collected at the point of sale.
Executive Order #4: The NSA, CIA, FBI, and any other agency, state or federal, are all ordered to stop spying on US citizens. Any agency member that spys on a US citizen without an explicit warrant is jailed and sentenced to be hanged.
Executive Order #5: No federal agency is permitted to have a SWAT team. Those teams are to exist only at the State level and if the feds need one, they can ask the state in question very politely. No more than 1 state SWAT team can exists per 2,000,000 population in the state.
Executive Order #6: NO laws may be interpreted or created or modified by Fed bureaucracy. All former interpretations, creations, or modifications are rescinded. Only Congress may interpret, create, or modify law.
Executive Order #7: All pardons issued by Obama are null and void.
Sorry. Sick to death of playing fair. They come with a gun and we come with a pointy stick. No more.
Congress recognized the huge problem of environmental issues in late 1969 by passing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This statute recast the government's role from a conservator of wilderness to a protector of earth, air, land, and water. Nixon signed it 1/1/70. NEPA directed the President to assemble in his Cabinet a Council on Environmental Quality.
Nixon worked with his Council and then submitted "Reorganization Plan No. 3" to Congress 7/9/70 which combined the work of many separate agencies into the new EPA (three federal Departments, three Bureaus, three Administrations, two Councils, one Commission, one Service, and many diverse offices). Aside -- the same reorg plan created NOAA.
The EPA was cleared through hearings in the Senate and House of Representatives in the summer of 1970. The House Government Operations Subcommittee on Executive and Legislative Reorganization, chaired by Congressman Chet Holifield of California, met in July and August. The Senate Government Operations Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization and Government Research, chaired by Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut met in July. Both subcommittees approved Nixon's proposal and issued reports in September. The EPA opened December 2, 1970.
Department of Health and Human Services (other than Medicare), including all Obamacare funding - $757B - make it zero
Department of Agriculture - $154B - make it zero
Department of Labor - $102B - make it zero
Department of Education - $72B - make it zero
Department of Housing and Urban Development - $46B - make it zero
Department of State (other than their $15B in necessary functions) - $45B - make it zero
Department of Energy (other than their nuclear responsibilities) - $25B - make it zero
Environmental Protection Agency - $9B - make it zero
Small Business Administration - $1.4B - make it zero
Corporation for National and Community Service - $1.1B - make it zero
That’s $1.21T, even before we start cutting pork and waste in departments that have a purpose.
I’d add in a hiring bottleneck in those bloated departments that are retained. They can hire - one new full time for every three full time employees who leave (or part-time equivalents), with individual hires beyond that level requiring cabinet-level approval. The only exceptions to the hiring restrictions would be active duty military and other categories that are unambiguously federal responsibilities.
After four years of FedGov shrinkage, we would have quite a breathing space before even the most wasteful big government liberal (whether RINO or Democrat) could get FedGov back up to its current level of bloat. If the President wanted to be more gentle in the cuts, he could put in an absolute hiring freeze in the areas slated for elimination and let them shrink through attrition, with a 3:1 hiring bottleneck in other departments. With the attrition strategy, there wouldn’t even be any identifiable economic disruption in the cuts, just growth because of reduced FedGov drag on the economy.
What to do with the money saved? Balance the budget with half the savings, pay down the national debt with half of the remaining savings, and refund the other half to taxpayers in proportion to the amount paid in (basically a 20% return of all personal income taxes paid in, no caps, no phase-out, no earned income tax credit). The next year, again balance the budget, pay down the debt with half of the surplus, and refund the other half to the people. After four years of a reduced tax burden, “raising” taxes to the nominal legislated level will be quite unpopular, even if it’s a bipartisan RINO/Democrat effort.
Sorry. You’re playing by the rules of past and I’ve started noticing a personal theme of yours. Acquiescence will not work. Are you a troll?
I don’t think olag intends to play along.
He’s no troll, just a gentleman. These are not gentlemanly times.
You’re dreaming.
“Earned” Income Tax Credit?
History.
A President is the CEO of the country.
What he is supposed to be done is defined by the legislature and the constitution.
Seeing that it does get done is the job of the president.
That’s why it is called the Executive Branch.
It executes the law.
It has no constitutional authority to make laws or ignore laws.
Presidential Executive orders should deal with internal policy, procedure and routine on how the executive branch will carry out the law within the guidelines defined in the US Constitution.
Executive orders should not alter the law in any way, create new “laws” or engage in new policy or action not authorized by existing law.
Presidents of both parties should function in this way but presidents of both parties do not. They routinely violate the limits of their authority and responsibility.
But no one else has come anywhere near the egregious, unconstitutional actions taken by Barack Obama.
Why wait? The constitution’s dead so let’s have a military coup and repeal all of zero’s EOs, ditch the Fed and IRS, and put 0bama in a two foot by four foot cell. We’ve got plenty of FEMA camps so we can put all the Democrats and MSM in there.
I have no idea how to word it, and I’m not even sure it’s a good idea, but something HAS to be done about the liberal media bias.
he might be “CEO” of the government, not the country
20 foot border fence with concertina wire, access road, 20 foot concrete wall with concertina wire, second access road, 2nd 20 foot fence with concertina wire, heavily armed angry border residents.
Yes, those should be interesting. Our prison overcrowding problems solved overnight!
No more government-backed student loans. Immediately, tuition would probably go down 50%, or the schools are out of business. Garbage like Womyn’s Studies would suddenly become very unattractive (so to speak), and the professors could go find more work more suited to their skillset - uhh...whatever that is. Maybe they could become maids and cooks, with all of the illegal aliens gone, those jobs would probably open up. All good for the economy!
Revoke all previous EOs.
+1
“Also, those who participate in vote fraud should serve a mandated 5yr minimum sentence at hard labor...building the wall on the southern border.”
At the very least, a 10 year MINIMUM sentence that cannot be pleaded down. The punishment needs to be so severe that no one would dare do it.
Yep.
Good point.
That’s really what I was driving at.
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