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Details Aside, Warren Supporters Just Want Plans
Wall Street Journal ^ | November 9, 2019 | Joshua Jamerson

Posted on 11/09/2019 7:15:04 AM PST by karpov

Aria Neukam says she loves that Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has lots of plans. She knows the senator has an education plan, a Medicare for All plan, an environmental plan.

Ms. Neukam says she doesn’t know exactly what is in those documents, but that isn’t the point. She says she thinks President Trump’s governing style is ad hoc and unorthodox, and she prefers a leader who has spelled out what they are going to do and how to do it.

“In truth, when she says ‘I have a plan,’ I trust that there is some well-researched plan out there,” said Ms. Neukam, 68 years old, a Warren supporter who attended the Massachusetts Democrat’s recent town hall at the University of New Hampshire’s main campus in Durham, N.H.

“It’s just the idea that she’s thought all these things through. I think that just to have a plan is amazing,” Ms. Neukam said.

Interviews with roughly two dozen of Ms. Warren’s backers reveal a theme: Ms. Warren has earned support from some Democrats who aren’t immersed in the meat of her policy proposals but are instead drawn to the idea that she has a vision for governing in Washington.

Ms. Warren’s primary rivals have pounced on her plans as she has risen in Democratic polls. For months, Ms. Warren had declined to outline how she would pay for Medicare for All, which would eliminate private insurance and switch all Americans to a health system paid for by the government. “Your signature, senator, is to have a plan for everything except this,” South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg said during an October debate.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: 5yearplan; fiveyearplan; stalinist; warren
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To: karpov

I recall from 2004 that John “I have a plan for that” Kerry had a plan ... a plan for this ... a plan for that ... all kinds of plans.

Never any details, but all kinds of plans.


21 posted on 11/09/2019 8:23:06 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Texas Eagle; karpov

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We know what the details are. Tax the crap out of hard-working Americans and funnel the money to demonicRATS, their families and their constituent groups.
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You forgot: illegally grow govt & trample\abuse our Rights.

(Little higher on the ‘s* I should be worrying about*. Though, IMO, we lost the war many moons ago...)


22 posted on 11/09/2019 8:53:21 AM PST by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: fatez

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The Soviets had plans. In fact they had plans every 5 years.

They all failed miserably...
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No wonder Ryan always went 25yrs. That’s where the ‘magic’ happens, don’t ya know


23 posted on 11/09/2019 8:54:12 AM PST by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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Yeah Stalin and Hitler had plans too.


24 posted on 11/09/2019 9:45:12 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: i_robot73

“The Soviets had plans. In fact they had plans every 5 years.”

True

“They all failed miserably...”

Industrial production and living standards improved a lot over the decades, but Soviet Communism was never able to catch up to American capitalism or American standards of living.

The Soviets built an atomic bomb in just four years, about as long as it took the USA.


25 posted on 11/09/2019 10:36:03 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: karpov

She has one plan - get elected.

She has many proposals - not one that I know of that is practical.


26 posted on 11/09/2019 10:38:15 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Chewbarkah

“Weak, lazy, dependent people strongly desire to believe someone else has done the work and has things under control”

Ja, Sie denken richtig!


27 posted on 11/09/2019 10:40:24 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: karpov
well researched plan

omg

AH's plan for the six million was "well researched"....
28 posted on 11/09/2019 11:35:26 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: karpov

68 years old and you haven’t figured this out yet, Neukam. Here’s a bottle of Evian water for you.


29 posted on 11/09/2019 11:40:09 AM PST by PGalt
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Post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. Warren’s so-called “plans” are probably nothing more than a campaign crutch, same mentality as Hillary’s cackle imo.

In other words, Warren’s so-called “plans” are probably best regarded as unconstitutional federal social spending bills, bills that Congress’s cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, bills that “President” Warren will rubber stamp to exploit low-information voters to keep career Democrats and RINOs in power.

Bleeding heart liberal politicians like Warren actually need to get out of the constitutionally limited power federal government and try to get themselves elected to a state government. If she manages to get elected to a state government, Warren will be able to use 10th Amendment-protected state powers to experiment with her socialistic utopian ideas as the Founding States had intended, at least to prove once again that such ideas don’t work.

Justice Brandeis had put it this way about unique state powers to serve the people.

"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” —Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.

(Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.)

Democratic Party + 17th Amendment = judicial tyranny

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)


30 posted on 11/09/2019 11:56:14 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: KC_Lion

Is she going to offer buffalo in every pot?


31 posted on 11/09/2019 5:57:05 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: karpov

Yep - “It’s free stuff - what more do I need to know?”


32 posted on 11/10/2019 3:28:27 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: gibsonguy
They sure did and even had posters!


33 posted on 11/10/2019 3:35:43 AM PST by xp38
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