If I Were Ted Cruz ... A Brilliant Suggestion

American Digest ^ | 3/24/15 | Trevor Loudon

[Little Ray]

As long as we stop funding them and kick ‘em out of the country, too.

[Oldhunk]

Might as well add Jeb on the team to be in charge of immigration.

From National Review Online:

“Cruz is for a guest-worker program and open to offering legal status to illegal immigrants. He voted against an amendment to cap legal immigration over the next decade at 33 million. I can understand how, from the Journal’s perspective, Cruz seems too restrictionist. But I don’t think it’s right to say that Cruz has an anti-immigration message. Cruz also offered an amendment to expand H-1B visas by a factor of five.”

[fatnotlazy]

All of these agencies, departments and bureaus were created presumably to address certain problems. But if they did good work in the beginning, they don't now. Frankly, I think they were actually created to put government in control of our lives. Both parties, Democrats and Republicans, salivate at the prospect of ruling over aspect of our lives. The Dems in particular also hate capitalism, so they use all these bureaus, agencies and departments to strangle business in order to replace them with government.

The other problem is that all of these are run by government. Government as we know, doesn't understand how to implement anything because it's not a business. A successful business is run by people who know something about what a business is supposed to provide and how best to provide that product or service to customers. Most of these government bureaucracies are operated by friends, relatives, cronies and campaign donors somehow affiliated in some way to the president or someone else with clout. Many of them have never worked in the private sector. They don't know what it's like in the real world.

All of these bureaucracies have outlived whatever usefulness they might have had. Today they exist to extort money, overburden the taxpayers and infringe on our rights. They need to go.

The Founders did not intend for the federal government to be this big and powerful. Many of the functions of these bureaucracies should be performed by the states (education, for example). Some might be OK in advisory capacities to lawmakers. But we don't need all of these bureaucracies.

[GraceG]

https://soundcloud.com/docthompson

[Agamemnon]

•Health & Human Services

Elimination of the functions of the HHS entirely is not recommended although devolving many of meaningful functions into smaller, better focused Agencies may be.

HHS today includes the Public Health Service, which came into existence in 1798, and the precursor to the FDA came into existence in 1848 when the then head of the US Patent Office was placed in charge of chemical analysis testing in the context of agriculture products.

Teddy Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drug Act, passed in 1906, and curbed the snake oil salesmen. Hoover's Republican congress formalized the creation of the Food and Drug Administration in 1930.

Assurance of safety and effectiveness of the US drug supply and quality of US food stuffs is unmatched by any other nation today.

Quality standards for food and drugs and Federal enforcement thereof is something most Americans take for granted.

FReegards!

[Argus]

She doesn’t have to be.

[rfreedom4u]

You gotta include a few dems:

Hildabeast: Ambassador to Libya.
Pelosi: Ambassador to Sudan.

[muir_redwoods]

Sec Defense?

[muir_redwoods]

Ollie North?

[arasina]

Will Ted Cruz Make A Good President?

Lots of good info in the comments on this thread but you have to sift through it. The Original Poster apparently doesn't believe he will. There is some documentation regarding Cruz's statements on immigration.

[Oldhunk]

Here’s a good piece that explains how virtually all the Republican potential candidates suck on the immigration issue. They are all bought and paid for by the big money cronies:

http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20150225-ramesh-ponnuru-the-gop-is-united-in-ignoring-immigration.ece

[Mike Darancette]

Very cool.

[Amendment10]

"HHS today includes the Public Health Service, which came into existence in 1798, ..."

I’m glad that you mentioned Public Health Service. The following page shows that it was created when the 5th Congress passed "An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen" in 1798.

United States Public Health Service

That act had been used by Obama supporters to defend the constitutionality of unconstitutional Obamacare. But the reality is that the 5th Congress evidently had the authority to make that legislation under the Constitution’s Clause 17 of Section 8 of Article I. More specifically, seamen were probably associated dock yards mentioned in that clause, Congress having exclusive legislative control over certain places like that.