Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks during the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference in Washington on June 23, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times)
Posted on 07/25/2023 9:17:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy detailed his vision for the administrative state at a New Hampshire town hall on July 20.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks during the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference in Washington on June 23, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times)
Mr. Ramaswamy appeared on stage at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics to the strains of Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town.”
The music video for Mr. Aldean’s song was pulled from the air by Country Music Television over accusations of racism. The country singer has strenuously denied those allegations. Former President Donald J. Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are among the politicians who have come to his defense.
Mr. Ramaswamy began by explaining why he chose the song.
“You want to understand the best measure of America’s health? Here’s what it is: it is the percentage of people who feel free to say what they actually think in public,” the biotech entrepreneur told the crowd.
“I respect—whether it’s a musical artist, whether it’s a parent, whether it’s a corporate executive who will say in public the things that you are otherwise supposed to keep to yourself.”
The candidate reiterated some of his past promises with respect to the administrative state—for example, instituting eight-year term limits for bureaucrats.
Yet, he went beyond that over the course of an in-depth speech that made ample use of org charts. He explained in specific terms how he intends to “shut down the administrative state and the bureaucracy that sucks the lifeblood out of our constitutional Republic.”
The Founders, he said, “fought a revolution to say that ‘We the People’ decide how to settle our political differences, for better or for worse.”
Mr. Ramaswamy argued that the sprawling administrative state has betrayed that revolutionary promise.
“I stand not on the side of reform. I stand on the side of American revolution,” he said, his fiery rhetoric recalling the title of a famous pamphlet by revolutionary Marxist Rosa Luxemburg, albeit from the opposite end of small-l liberalism.
Mr. Ramaswamy argued that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is structurally anomalous, which enables it to “[escape] cabinet-level accountability.”
He pointed out that there’s no FBI-like independent investigative body between local prosecutors and local police, as there is between the Department of Justice and the U.S. Marshals.
“That is a formula for corruption,” the 2024 hopeful stated, arguing that the agency is vexed by waste, redundancy, and mission creep. Its mission creep only worsened after 9/11, he said.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building in Washington on June 28, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times)
Presenting a diagram outlining the dismantling of the FBI during his first year in office, Mr. Ramaswamy said he’d shift some of its employees to the U.S. Marshals, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and other agencies less “politicized” than the brainchild of J. Edgar Hoover.
“The corruption investigations will move to the Secret Service. The counterintelligence investigations—which is a tiny portion of their employees, but important, I acknowledge—will move to the Defense Intelligence Agency under the DOD [Department of Defense],” Mr. Ramaswamy continued.
He then explained how he would take apart the Department of Education (DOE), which he said “should have never existed in the first place.”
“This is the head of the snake when it comes to the spread of woke-ism, transgenderism, [and] indoctrination of our kids,” the anti-woke investor told his audience, adding that the radicalism at some local schools was often downstream of incentives created by the federal agency.
Mr. Ramaswamy said districts seeking money from the DOE must toe the line on those hot-button issues. He said former President Donald J. Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, couldn’t bring her charges to heel.
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And yeah, we already know that he was a Soros College Scholar also.
Can we talk about his plan now?
He is pressing a lot of good buttons.
You beat me to it, Indian anchor baby is what he is, a high school debater with no authenticity or life experience. What a joke.
Won’t touch the FDA or the CDC because those are his gravy train.
Look behind the curtain, people. He’s armpit deep in the Big Pharmscam industry.
Here it comes, the new shiny thing.
I am sorry...BUT
I see a guy with a fold up table and three walnut shells on a corner in New York City looking for a Gomer.
Maybe he is sincere, BUT I DON’T SEE IT.
And you forgot WEF, his love of H1B, desire to disenfranchise youth under 25, etc. a real winner here.
Remind me, when was the last time we got rid of one?
He’ll be fortunate if the eff.bee.ai only laughs at him.
Teddy Bear, Is that what he is saying now...he’ll get rid of Departments...
Please, this man is desperate to become our President. Anyone who is that determined, is a little scary to me.
He’s a nice guy...BUT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATE OF AMERICA?????
His parents weren’t naturalized citizens when he was born. Therefore he’s not an Article 2 Section 1 natural born Citizen. He’s Constitutionally not eligible for the presidency.
Sorry, I am no more willing to put the name of Vivek Ramaswami into the permanent historical record of U.S. Presidents than I was to put the name of Barack Hussein Obama into that historical record. We are being dumber than a bag of rocks to even consider it.
I think he’s rehearsing for next time around. Getting his name out there, making some excellent points. I know several people from India, extremely high IQs.
Can we talk about his plan to have the government get and use access to everyone’s medical records to track them during Covid?
This guy is a non starter
I know them also.
They arrived with an excellent recommendation and for a while they were good workers and contributors, but after a few years, for some reason they became lazy and not very good employees.
From experience, I say this.
RE: Can we talk about his plan to have the government get and use access to everyone’s medical records to track them during Covid?
Yes of course. In the first instance, please provide us with the link for the above information. Thanks.
Ramaswamy company pitched governments on effort to install universal covid patient records surveillance database
Datavant sought to create a universal database for governments that displays “every patient who has been tested for Covid-19.”
https://www.dossier.today/p/ramaswamy-company-pitched-governments
He has accomplished 10 times more than you ever will.
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
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