It'll be interesting to see how he addresses the Libertarian Party National conference later this month.
Huh?
Another Anti-Trumper in our midsts.
The main reason is that the Deep State has had about 70 years to establish itself and Trump only had one term, with Congress firmly against him.
You'd think Ed Stringham would know. He's worked in government for 51 years.
But the truth is, no one can make government work.
Biden hasn't.
Look at the chaos at the border, our military's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the rising cost of living, our unsustainable record-high debt.
In my new video, economist Ed Stringham argues that no government can ever work well, because "even the best person can't implement change….The massive bureaucracy gets bigger and slower."
I learned that as a consumer reporter watching bureaucrats regulate business. Their rules usually made life worse for consumers.
Libertarian, Edstringham has a very niave, almost childlike view of the swamp and why it wasn’t drained. And fellow libertarian John Stossel follows his libertarian brother way off the mark.
He made some mistakes no doubt. In initially tried to work with the RINO Establishment and he thought he could work with the Bureaucrats in Washington. He also did not fire every single last Obama holdover he could in every single last agency. He did - let’s face it - hire some lousy people. Part of that was that he had no choice but to work with the existing Republican operatives who had served under the Bush administration.....but part was he just made some lousy appointments.
This time, he knows he can’t trust the RINO Establishment. He will have a lot more MAGA people to appoint rather than Bush flunkies. He will know better than to allow any Democrat holdovers (look for example how much trouble an obscure appointment like the national archivist caused him). He will have every incentive to clean out the CIA and FIB with a flamethrower....in fact I’d like it if he abolished the FIB entirely. He also has every incentive to fire just as many bureaucrats as possible. If you can’t fire them fine.....just don’t budget any money for them.
“Oh, you still have a job....its just that there is no money to pay you a salary. So if you stay, you get nothing.”
Who?... And who cares?
Stossel was over long ago.
...the swamp was “a lot bigger and a lot murkier.”
That’s what I was going to say except I’d call it Deep State.
He didn’t fail, but he didn’t drain it, yet. He exposed it for all to see. Never has it been so obvious what they are.
Trump needs to ask tough written questions of potential nominees.
These questions should be prepared by conservatives.
Trump loves people and in an executive position that opens Trump up to personnel errors.
I like my Democratic neighbors, but I would not want them running the USA.
It’s more hydra than swamp. You can’t drain it, you have to destroy it.
Trump is not talking about getting out from under the Refugee Convention.
As a result we are getting people not wanted in their homelands and unable to get along with people highly similar to themselves. These people instantly must be given full welfare benefits under the Convention.
simple...there were not enough single vehicular fatalities!
that will be very interesting, since this Libertarian is a TRUMPER ALL THE WAY!
The Contract with America was a legislative agenda advocated by the Republican Party during the 1994 congressional election campaign. Written by Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey, and in part using text from former President Ronald Reagan’s 1985 State of the Union Address, the Contract detailed the actions the Republicans promised to take if they became the majority party in the United States House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. Many of the Contract’s policy ideas originated at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
The Contract with America was introduced six weeks before the 1994 Congressional election, the first midterm election of President Bill Clinton’s administration, and was signed by all but two of the Republican members of the House and all of the Party’s non-incumbent Republican congressional candidates.
The contract described the plan of the Congressional Representatives, seeking to nationalize the Congressional election. Its provisions represented the view of many conservative Republicans on the issues of reducing the size of government, cutting taxes, and both tort reform as well as welfare reform.
The 1994 elections resulted in Republicans gaining 54 House and 8 U.S. Senate seats, flipping both chambers. The Contract was seen as a triumph by party leaders such as Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, and the American conservative movement in general.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America
“Assistance Listings [formerly Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers]
“A government-wide compendium of Federal programs, projects, services, and activities that provide assistance or benefits to the American public. It contains financial and nonfinancial assistance programs.”
I tend to think most federal programs should be replaced by block grants to the states based half on their individual federal income tax paid by residents (to cope with higher costs in higher income states) and half on population (to cope with lower revenue in poorer states like West Virginia).
The federal government would continue to run Social Security[old folks often move to lower cost states] and Medicaid & Medicare drug coverage[federal patents permit for high drug costs].
To really drain the swamp, Trump will need support from the courts and Congress. The swamp consists of unelected bureaucrats protected by federal workers unions, reams of Executive Branch red tape and regulations, and a cowardly Congress which refuses to exercise its Constitutional role and delegates more and more power to the Executive.