Posted on 10/22/2015 7:22:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
Then you haven't been paying attention. He has said repeatedly that he wants to cut waste and bloated agencies, eliminate cumbersome regulation (logically, that would cut the employees and costs that go with it), and has said the Federals have no business running schools from DC, among other departments that would be under his knife.
His campaign is a good example of how he works -- he's an outsider on top, yet has spent less than every other candidate. That's because he is on point in the "marketplace of ideas" and over the target. He's efficient; and has made his efficiency through smart decisions and quality in the right places and elimination of waste. How many of us have sat through business meetings that have wasted thousands of dollars while the boss's unqualified nephew or a affrimative action/feminist hire has to have everything explained to her/him? He would have hired the best in the first place, and gotten rid of the dead wood in the decision suite.
He rails against political correctness, and you can bet his justice department would be tough on wasteful lawsuits over identity-politics extortion like at present. His fortune has been made one cost-cutting decision at a time. That's not likely to change.
I had no doubts about Reagan in 1980.
Trump in 2016, their are legitimate doubts.
Reformers need a lot of power; it's how they use it that matters. And you are correct; Ike was a reformer and used power to try to recover a sense of peace and quiet for the common man after seeing what he saw up close and personal in WWII.
Trump is also a reformer, and he is a redeveloper. One of the positives about his candidacy is that he has nothing to prove in terms of material success. He can retire anywhere in the world and live in luxury, but he clearly is distressed by the destruction of our once glorious free market system that netted huge postives for "most of the people, most of the time." With all its flaws, there is no better system. Trump can be a great re-popularizer and teacher of why free — and fair — markets are a better way, just as Reagan was a great popularizer of the positives of our legal, moral and financial systems.
“I have not seen one indicator where Trump is for limited government or limiting his office’s powers”
Gov’t grew under Reagan...
LALALALA IM NOT LISTENING IM NOT LISTENING!!!
;)
Seriously though... it is important, in my opinion, that the President following Obama should be one who espouses the ideals of limited government.
in a mirror very darkly..perhaps
I’m pretty sure he’ll own the bully pulpit
Dept of Ed. was a payoff by Jimmy Carter to the unions...a more useless depart. was n ever set up. Lots of others also are useless as that one.
That just might be the single best thing anyone could do now.
The department of education is actually the department of indoctrination for the prevention of real education. We are churning out college graduates who lack even a real eighth grade education. I never could have imagined when I was in eighth grade that I would live to see college graduates who don’t know how many feet are in a mile.
How about his plan to put reins on the EPA and totally kill the Department of Education?
Destroying the DOE would go a long way toward returning our nation towards a Constitutional Republic. The hand the rocks the cradle rules the world. State-run educational systems instead of Federal brainwashing would be nice.
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