I don’t recall Morris being particularly accurate in the past, unfortunately.
Romney ads are saying what he’ll do on his first day, including reversing some Obama Executive Orders like Keystone. I just double checked on the EPA, NLRB, and Department of Energy. They were all created by Executive Order. It would be a kick if Romney issued Executive Orders on Jan 20, 2013 to eliminate them (and all their regulations) and set up a “commission to study what should replace them”.
I would not limit myself to just undoing Obama’s Executive Orders, but ALL Executive Orders, with commissions to keep Congress busy “studying” whether the Federal Government has any legitimate role in those areas, and force them to propose and debate new regulations from a clean slate “appropriate to the 21st century and America’s best interest in a Global Economy”. The easiest way to reduce spending is not to reduce budget line items, but to eliminate them completely so there is nobody to argue for a budget amount.
Eliminate Departments and Agencies and consolidate other functions into new smaller agencies with new offices located on the other side of the country like Alaska or Guam, offer Federal employees transfers to the new offices if they want to keep their jobs. Offer pro-rated early retirement to those who decline to transfer.
Propose a new special tax rate on “excessive” public employee retirement benefits. “Excessive” defined as anything more than two or three times the minimum wage.
Make working for the government less desirable.
Cutting the Federal workforce can be done without violating their union contracts. Eliminating regulations can be done by eliminating the agencies that enforced them. You just have to be creative about it.
In this case....follow the lead of the EEC....
where the department of Parmesan cheese is located in Finland or somewhere in Scandinavia.