Posted on 01/18/2016 8:50:12 AM PST by Isara
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U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv
The U.S. Embassy in Israel is currently in Tel Aviv. Cruz wants to move it to Jerusalem, Israel's "once and eternal" capital.
Commerce Department
In a piece for the National Review, Cruz said shuttering the department would "close the congressional cookie jar" and promote free trade.
Education Department
Another standard line from Cruz: "U.S. Department of Education, which should be abolished." Cruz is a states' rights guy -- he wrote his college thesis on the 10th Amendment -- and wants to give control of schools to states or localities....
Energy Department
Cruz has said the country needs an "energy renaissance." .... The Energy Department is one of five agencies Cruz wants to close. Cruz said that shuttering them, along with four other changes including freezing the hiring of civilian government employees, would save the country $500 billion.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Cruz would scrap many programs and reform those that would remain, including Section 8 housing,...
Internal Revenue Service
In his usual speech, Cruz states that he wants to "abolish the IRS." The reason? The agency, in his estimation, is a symbol of bloated Washington bureaucracy....
Iran nuclear deal
Cruz has called the threat of a nuclear Iran the greatest national security danger to the United States. He has pledged that he would "rip to shreds" the deal on his first day in office....
Islamic State
Cruz has said he wants to "utterly destroy" the terrorist organization,...
Obamacare
...Cruz tells audiences that he wants to "repeal every word" of the law and that "we'll pass common-sense health-care reform that makes health insurance personal and portable and affordable and keeps government from getting in between us and our doctors."
President Obama's executive orders
"The first thing I intend to do is rescind every single illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by this president,"...
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The winnowing process is going along just fine. There is plenty of time to rally around the eventual nominee. Now is the time to fight it out. Unless you want to be like the Democrats and anoint somebody like Hillary.
So you propose abolishing loans?
Dept of Commerce - est 1903
Dept of Housing & Urban Development - est 1965
Dept of Energy - est 1977
Dept of Education - est 1979
Makes you wonder how our republic survived for almost 200 years without these vital government services.
Do you have something against borrowing money for a campaign? Do you prefer that only candidates with huge amounts of personal wealth run for office?
The matter of signup dates has been remarked on today....
Over the years, we have seen 'em come and we have seen 'em go.
The article was written from the view point of a union organizer.
That reminds me of a remark that Jeanine Pierro made on her show over the weekend. She was accusing Haley of attacking Trump and Republicans of putting down New York values. She finished up her rant by saying that NikkimHaley didn’t have much to talk about as far as anger is concerned, her state is a right to work state.
We were stunned. Jeanine Pierro thinks right to work is bad and she wonders how Republicans can say that New Yorkers are out of step with values of most of the Republicans.
I wonder which Congress is going to give these things to Ted Cruz.
They wouldn’t even give up the Department of Education for Ronald Reagan, and it was a brand new agency!
And he, unlike Cruz, was very popular at the time.
no no no! Ted is copying DT as always
That’s a lie and you know it.
All worthwhile endeavors, IMHO.
If the US would adopt representative apportionment (tax bill normalized to a per senator and per representative basis) and then send the tax bill to each state for their representation; the states could then figure out how best to tax and meet that requirement. As such, the subsequent tracking of state payments to the treasury would be a simple low level job that can be handled by a small group of individuals at the US Treasury.
I think Cruz is going to begin closing the gap in the polls, especially in traditional red states. I'm sure I'm not alone with being tired of hearing NY media types puffing their chests and looking down their noses at us "rubes" in fly over country as they talk about how great they are. NY values have led to the collapse of this country culturally and economically.
If one is a small government liberty loving conservative Cruz is their candidate!
Question... Who paid for Trump’s FOUR bankruptcies? Oh yea, it was the tax payers who got soaked for the BILLIONS lost in Trump’s failed businesses.
Meanwhile, Trump uses bribery and political favors to pad his own nest. You okay with that too?
Sounds good to me.
I don't watch Fox News as much as I used to, but with all the discussion about "NY values" I watched some of her. I had to change channels when she started lecturing viewers about the great "NY values". I think the NY media has played right into Cruz's hand the same way Trump has. They both are so arrogant and full of themselves it doesn't even occur to them that most red states don't like NY and it's cultural destruction of this country.
... That’s a lie and you know it.
Yes. I was trying to preempt the trumpees response.
I am for Cruz.
DT is seriously flawed.
Hey Pankaja, are you in Mumbai or Calcutta? Most of the August signups are from Mumbai. Just wondering.
Looks like a good first step toward common-sense constitutional government.
What about abolishing the anti-Constitutional Federal Reserve?
Or, if not abolishing it, nationalize it, or in any manner reduce it from being a private entity?
On the Cruz website’s piece detailing this there is a list of 20 some ‘alphabet’ items he’ll also plans to end. Off the top of my head I don’t recall whether EPA is on that list.
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