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Posted on 11/15/2011 8:04:19 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
BETTENDORF, Iowa - An early copy of Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry's government reform speech shared with the Des Moines Register shows the Texas governor is planning to propose widespread changes for the federal government, including term limits on federal judges and Supreme Court justices, a part-time Congress, and laws criminalizing insider trading.
The governor first previewed the reforms in a speech Monday evening at an event by the Scott County Republican Party, where he said, "Washington doesn't need a new coat of paint, it needs a complete overhaul." Today, he will deliver the details of his plan in a speech at the Schebler Manufacturing facility.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Where is Perry compared to Cain in the Polls????
Perry is anywhere between 5 and 7% at best.
Hahahahahahaha
Sounds more like Perry's next Top Ten for Letterman.
Trying to turn the US govt around is like steering a battleship with a canoe paddle. Nobody but nobody can make those kind of changes----especially a nobody like Perry.
Oh wait----Perry will probably have help to bring down the US govt....... from Mexico, the Third World, China and Islam. Foreigners that "helped" Perry bring about the Texas Miracle.
ROTFL.
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This is nothing but an intensive focus-grouped list to divert attention from Perry's flops, fits and starts.
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I just can't wait to see Perry's million dollar Fox ad buy----the more he smirks at voters, the faster his numbers fall.
And so??? Perry is still only polling at 4 to 5%. He is not going anywhwere
And why does Perry want to get rid the National Weather Service anyway?
...”Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, meanwhile, would be privatized and congressional salaries sliced in half — or more, if lawmakers don’t answer his demand for a balanced budget this decade.”...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/15/perry-calls-part-time-congress-term-limits-judges/
Thank you for all the links. Like you I bounced around from the CNN link to the tv and didn’t see much. I see the name callers are still around.
Wow just WOW - Perry’s copy machine must be overloaded today.
Just remember his support of Illegal Immigration College Tuition!
Heartless (sigh)
HUH?
.............."When the Department of Commerce was first created by Congress in 1903, it was actually called the Department of Commerce and Labor; the Department of Labor was spun off as a standalone agency 10 years later.46 Since 1903, numerous programs and smaller departments have regularly moved in and out of Commerce. The Patent Office was transferred from the Department of Interior to Commerce in 1925. In 1940, the Weather Bureau was moved from the Department of Agriculture to Commerce. The Bureau of Air Commerce, which assumed the responsibility for air traffic control in 1936, became the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1938 and in 1958 was transitioned to what is now known as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); FAA is now part of the Department of Transportation.47"
Consolidation and reorganization are nothing new to the Department of Commerce, as evidenced by its history over the past 100 years. Just as private companies must adapt with the times, so too must government agencies be willing to change when necessary.
Although the Department of Commerce states that its current mission is to promote “job creation, economic growth, sustainable, development and improved standards of living for all Americans,” its primary activities include statistical analysis, weather monitoring, fisheries oversight, and patent enforcement.48 Those may all be worthy activities, but they do not represent a coherent, focused agenda. To allow the federal government to focus on the activities enumerated in the Department of Commerce’s mission statement, the Department of Commerce should be eliminated, and any vital programs should be transitioned to other agencies with more expertise and better alignment with a specific program’s core mission.
For example, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be pared down and moved out of Commerce and into to the Department of Interior, which has extensive experience overseeing natural resource management. The U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office should be converted into standalone agencies, reflecting their unique Constitutional mandates, while other statistical organizations should be transferred to the Departments of Treasury and Labor. The numerous trade-related organizations within Commerce, including the International Trade Administration, should be transitioned to and placed under the authority of the Department of Treasury. Programs targeting small businesses should be transitioned into the Small Business Administration. The Economic Development Administration should be phased out entirely, as proposed by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980’s.
The Department of Commerce maintained an over $9 billion budget in 2010, but the largest portions of the budget are directed at regulating oceans, managing fishing industries, and monitoring weather patterns – functions that do not mandate and independent department..................
Department of Education......More
Such Jr Hi attitudes and behavior.
Golly, Perry would have to limp along on $200,000 a year? Oh the humanity!
It's a joke. He talks about wanting to balance the budget and cut spending to 18% of GDP and offers not a single, concrete suggestion on how he's going to do it. Cut his salary in half? To bring current spending to 18% of GDP would require upwards of $2 trillion in spending cuts in the current year, and all he's offering is kill off the Weather Service and dump the Education department. When is he going to get serious?
Texas has a part time legislature and a week governor. It’s the way Sam Houston wanted it. And it’s worked pretty well so far. A person gets elected to the legislature and doesn’t get paid squat. BUT, he gets to sit on boards and gets paid to do that. And after he retires he gets to be a lobbyist and makes even more money.
Folks, they’re all crooks and they always will be as long as “we the people” sit back and watch.
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For those who care to understand Rick Perry's ideas for the country:
The Perry Plan: Energizing American Jobs and Security
Where is that a savings? Where is that cutting government spending?
Yes, I took a bit of a break for a week because it was such an irritant, but have decided the way to handle it is to either ignore the posts, respond to them in one syllable words or kill them with kindness. It’s the same way you deal with children.
Gov. Perry means it when he says he wants to make Washington D.C. as inconsequential as possible in our lives!
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