[MtnClimber]

Leftist politicians will block these efforts to make America great.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[ckilmer]

I find these kinds of articles annoying because what the man says should happen is what is happening in the USA.the dimwit just doesn’t get it.

[pierrem15]

A few required elements that are missing:

1) get rid of "free trade." This was always a con to allow US manufacturers to employ wage arbitrage to lower US wages or turn them into fraudulent importers buying at Third World prices and reselling at First World prices.

2) Call a halt to almost all immigration. Right now it simply pushes up housing costs and crime and lowers wages.

3) Get rid of hyper-regulation. It's ridiculous that the legal size of a toilet tank in Boise is set by some office in DC. Relax environmental and other regulations so a foundry or blast furnace can be setup and built in less than a year. Allow resource extraction here.

4) Get rid of most zoning regulations. When I first moved to my big city, there were large factory buildings with rail access surrounded by 3 or 4 flat apartments and single family homes where the workers used to live. Allow increases in housing density.

5) Clean up crime. Americans pay an enormous crime premium: razor wire chain link fences, alarm systems, security guards, etc., etc. I recall a study from 30 years ago that pointed out incarceration cost $60K/year but allowing the criminal on the street incurred $450k per year in direct and indirect costs. If this requires half of black males 15 - 30 to be incarcerated until too old to be criminals, tough.

[FamiliarFace]

*** The infantilization of our adult class is apparent in the way 60-year-olds try to conduct themselves like teenagers.***

Is the author talking about Congress or more generally? I realize he mentions Congress in his next sentence, but other than in Congress, I’m not sure I see many 60-year-olds acting like teenagers.

When he mentioned infantilization of our adult class, I thought he would be referring to 25-40 year olds who would rather play video games than hold down a job. So he lost me when he brought up 60 year olds.

[TTFlyer]

The Government Dole precludes any of those proposals from ever succeeding. The Welfare State is well on the way to destroying itself.

[jroehl]

We should have dropped the third atomic bomb on Moscow.

[Leaning Right]

Interesting list. But if the federal debt can’t be brought under control, nothing much else will matter.

[KarlInOhio]

Under the Marshall Plan, if a railroad was going to be built it got built. In the US now you get billions skimmed off by California for a high speed train that will likely never carry a passenger.

[Carry_Okie]

I seem to remember an Interstate Highway System built after the War, not to mention the gas and oil pipeline system we have today. There was tons of housing built in the burbs. Then there’s there are the communications networks that have been built.

I’ve heard this pitch, “We need another Marshall Plan” several times over the years and all it really means is “We need more pork.” Earth to Mr. Andrews: We’re spending a trillion a year on interest. Fix that and we’ll have plenty to spend on infrastructure. Dump the illegals and we won’t need as much of it.

[Theoria]

We've spent and lost trillions and trillions of dollars in the middle east for foreigners. Parties and politicians have cast aside America for foreigners and the world.

That blood and treasure isn't coming back and we are far worse for that sacrifice. Everyday, Americans have more debt on each individual and less to show for it here because of those actions.

[stanne]

Why do 80% of people I talk to for service, in shops, not Americans?

[T-Bird45]

The author makes good points & has ideas that are worth implementing. I do have a small niggle with calling the way the European War ended with division between East & West the fault of FDR policy. FDR was a sick and weak man who was being manipulated by Soviet moles in the White House & State Department. It is most certainly an FDR legacy but there were plenty of malevolent cooks in that kitchen.

[yuleeyahoo]

Wasn’t this already addressed with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009? Shovel ready jobs, the New Deal for the new millennium.

[Ezekiel]

Now America needs a Marshall Plan of its own.
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It is time for another Marshall Plan, but the country that needs rebuilding is our own.

Genesis 49

1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

At the point of transmitting the essence, there is a curtain that blocks the audience’s view. It is not a matter of finding the right words, because the right words simply do not exist.

Consider, for example, the Maaseh Merkavah, Ezekiel’s vision of the workings of the divine chariot. We take for granted that the angels, the ofanim, and the holy chayot are spiritual entities, or, as Maimonides put it, “separate intellects.”3 But when we read Ezekiel’s account, he seems to be describing physical forms, as if these are creatures that one might see at some kind of bizarre zoo.

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No eye has seen

The ability to relate to the end of days is limited not only by short­comings of human nature, but also by something more basic: ­limitations in the nature of reality. Reality allows us to relate only to things that belong to the plane of being, experience, and action in which we exist. Just as we cannot fit a large object into a small receptacle, we cannot fit anything into a vessel – a concept, a description, or a figment of our imagination – that cannot receive or contain it.

The Concealed 'End of Times'

(That was then and this is now.)

Coming in the clouds:

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Now God seen some sinning and it gave Him pain
And He says, "Stand back! I'm going to make it rain."
He says, "Hey Brother Noah, I'll tell ya what to do -- build me a floating zoo!"

~ The Irish Rovers

[Honorary Serb]

....The next Marshall Plan requires rebuilding Detroit, Cleveland, Fresno, Youngstown, and a thousand places that no one remembers or sees on social media. We can defeat communism. But we do so by helping create a society in which all Americans have a piece of the capitalist system, and that system works well for everyone. We can demonstrate why capitalism is better than communism, as we did in Europe. And we should have enough confidence in our principles to give it another shot here at home.....

The “communism” we need to defeat is “Noo” Socialism!

[sauropod]

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Although the plan was devised within the State Department, it was determined that George Marshall was the man to sell the idea of continued aid to Europe to the American people.

Marshall was Secretary of State then, so it wasn't an "although."

[x]

CREATE ADULTS: The new Marshall Plan should not be about prolonging adolescence but about creating adults. The infantilization of our adult class is apparent in the way 60-year-olds try to conduct themselves like teenagers. Adulthood should be the goal—something our own congressional candidates hardly display in their incredible inability to work together or behave like grownups.

Well, yes. Congress is a good example of why government isn't going to "create adults."

[central_va]

If a new Marshal plan doesn’t start with tariffs then it’s a joke. Don’t bother reading.