Beyond circumcision: Andrew Yang's seven wildest campaign proposals

washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 3/22/2019 | john cage

[rktman]

Andrew Yang, the 44-year-old tech entrepreneur from New York running for president, may have the most extensive and wildest platform in the Democratic field.

1. A domestic infrastructure force called the " Legion of Builders and Destroyers."

Under his proposal to modernize military spending, Yang has a scheme to divert 10 percent of military funding toward an infrastructure task force he calls “The Legion of Builders and Destroyers.” The head of this task force would be called “The Commander,” and he would be given the power to overrule local zoning laws and city regulations to make sure the building and destroying of infrastructure could be completed quickly and effectively.

[rktman]

Well, there you go. But, at least andy has a policy platform and beto is still trying to figure out the question. "Platform? That's where my band used to perform from."

[Impala64ssa]

Who's this clown's running mate gonna be, Deez Nuts?!?

[Responsibility2nd]

1. A domestic infrastructure force called the “ Legion of Builders and Destroyers.”

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Someone needs to tell this kid that being the president is not a LARP game.

[KarlInOhio]

1. A domestic infrastructure force called the " Legion of Builders and Destroyers."
2. Making taxes fun.
3. Requiring airlines to auction overbooked seats.
4. Encouraging parents not to circumcise their kids.
5. Paying people who move for work.
6. Going after robocall companies.
7. Reinstating earmarks.

[L,TOWM]

At least his brand of psychosis has some new and interesting manifestations. The other occupants of the Dem 2020 Clown Car From Hell have the standard issue dem crazy; an unappetizing hash of minority grievance leftovers and way past their expiration date of euro-welfare state “ideas” for our economy and governmental direct action in it.

[Fresh Wind]

6. Going after robocall companies.

Throw Rachel in jail? He's got my vote!

[nathanbedford]

Andrew Yang does a brilliant job in his book of describing the dystopia caused by the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs and, by extension, on the whole economy and ultimately to the disintegration of society.

It is when he moves on to solutions, virtually all of which are crackpot, that he betrays what liberals always do in conjuring up the next mortal crisis: the crisis is used as a Reichstag fire to convince us to yield all power to them. We see this in Alexandria Occasional Cortex who is childish compared to Andrew Yang and artless in her solemn declarations that we will be forced to give up hamburgers. But the pattern is the same.

Of course we see the same tactic in climate change. Add the race card and Democrats win their share of elections moving ever closer to the authoritarian model they so aspire to.

Our problem as conservatives is to sort out what is real and what is exaggerated in Andrew Yang's analysis of artificial intelligence, automation, robots and drones. To the extent that it is real, that is, to the extent that these new technologies generate social dislocation, Democrats will exploit the human misery at the ballot box and, quite possibly, at the point of the bayonet later.

Conservatives, of whom I count myself one, are labeled "climate deniers" and thus we are made vulnerable by Democrats who convince the unwary of their pseudoscience. We are more vulnerable because we have no solutions because we say it will not happen and too many we appear to be flat-earthers.

Conservatives really must deal with the oncoming wave of artificial intelligence and provide solutions just as Donald Trump provided solutions to a wave of job loss created by globalization and thereby won an election.

[pepsionice]

I think on the first one, this relates more to Detroit, and the need to just take down city-block by city-block. Face it, at least 10,000 houses in the city need to be wiped out. If you go around region, just about everyone is agreed that it’s a good idea but the money isn’t there to do some massive project. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a waste...but you’d need to have someone in charge who isn’t going to make this a corrupted mess, or mandate 200 pages of regulation in the process.

[rktman]

“....Of course we see the same tactic in climate change. Add the race card and Democrats...” Well, I did hear someplace that minorities and the poor will bear the brunt of climate catastrophe. ? Okee dokee!

[ifinnegan]

He is way more sane than any of the other candidates for the Dems.

[ifinnegan]

#5 is a tax refund.

From no. 2 “he wants to allow each citizen to direct 1 percent of their tax dollars to fund any government project they wish.”

Not workable or perhaps irrelevant, but in spirit it’s pro-taxpayer.

[rktman]

Scary ain’t it?

[ifinnegan]

It is scary because it reflects a lot of the populace.

[morphing libertarian]

parents should encourage boys to clean themselves and show the young ones how to do it. When they are 18 they can mutilate themselves as they wish

Everyone rails about clitorectomy and then they encourage the mutilation of boys.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Someone needs to tell this kid that being the president is not a LARP game.

Yeah, well, he apparently racks-up record scores playing Sim City, so in the Democrat world he's well-qualified.

[FlingWingFlyer]

His first name was Ying before he “Americanized” it to Andy.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Don’t underestimate how many votes can be gained by throwing the book at robocallers.

[aquila48]

“Conservatives, of whom I count myself one, are labeled “climate deniers” and thus we are made vulnerable by Democrats who convince the unwary of their pseudoscience. We are more vulnerable because we have no solutions because we say it will not happen and too many we appear to be flat-earthers.”

You have it backwards. Coming up with “solutions” to made up problems is playing right into your opponent’s hand. What you’re doing is accepting their false premises, simply because they propandize better than you!

You’re afraid of being labeled a denier. I on the other hand am a proud “denier”. Embrace the insult.

[Deplorable American1776]

Making Taxes fun? Sorry, but being robbed, either by a Criminal or by Government, is not fun. Never will be...

[nathanbedford]

I am not afraid of being called a "denier" I am afraid of losing the next election. I'm sorry if I was not articulate enough, I don't say that we should suggest solutions to global warming, we are committed to "denying" it altogether, and that is as it should be. The point I was attempting to make was to be applied to this wave of technology, this artificial intelligence and automation which will undoubtedly cause some degree of dislocation in the job market.

Our problem is to find solutions both to the threat and to the reality. Donald Trump did that very successfully with respect to globalization.

Consider our Social Security, our health insurance, our pensions, our 401(k)s, our mortgage payments our car payments, college tuitions, ultimately are all dependent on our salaries but to the degree robots replace people there will be no salaries so no Social Security, no health insurance, etc.

Our whole economy is a wage based economy.

This poses a real conundrum for conservatives. Do we tax robots? Do we accede to nutty left-wing demands for guaranteed income even for those who choose not to work? Do we just let the undereducated and the over -aged flounder in misery because they cannot adapt? What do we as conservatives offer as a solution which wins elections and yet preserves capitalism and our liberties?