Posted on 11/10/2015 9:24:15 PM PST by Isara
I. FIVE FOR FREEDOM
Abolish the IRS, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. A Cruz Administration will appoint heads of each of those agencies whose sole charge will be to wind them down and determine whether any programs need to be preserved.
II. TWENTY-FIVE FEDERAL "ABCs"
Empower the people by reducing the alphabet soup of Agencies, Bureaus, Commissions, and other programs that prop up special interests, at the taxpayer's expense. A Cruz Administration will identify all unnecessary programs - these 25 are merely a start:
Eliminate the following Agencies, Bureaus, Commissions, and programs:
III. GRACE COMMISSION 2.0
Re-institute President Reagan's Grace Commission to assess federal spending levels and evaluate areas of waste and fraud.
IV. CONGRESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY
Hold Congress accountable by enacting a strong Balanced Budget Amendment and requiring that a majority of members approve any major, cost-inducing regulation.
V. HIRING FREEZE AND REDUCTION
Reduce costs by instituting a hiring freeze and federal pay reforms.
Bump
Bad move there.
Well, with Cruz’s plan we would be able to stop the financial hemorrhaging even if he was only able to do half of his list.
Huh.
Good start.
I’d sure like to see the EPA, BLM, BIA, and BATFE make the list. Phase II, perhaps?
Had to bookmark that for reference.
Both of those agencies have some legitimate things that they do..and have done for decades, but in recent years they have become militant. They look like swat officers and this needs to be rolled back and their charters rewritten.
Cruz has not addressed this yet, but I know he would do so.
Since Obama was elected, he has at times referred to some sort of civilian armed force and this I believe is why he has militarized numerous agencies, including of all things the IRS, BLM, Forrest sevices and others..
It’s my view that the liberals are afraid that the populace might just reject what they are doing. It’s come close....It may well happen before he exits..
Tyrants always fear the people more that the people fear them.
Thanks for the posting of Cruz’ page! I hadn’t seen before.
Yeah - and nothing about darter snails either.......................................Like, was your comment for real????
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Ted is setting the agenda for smaller government, like Trump did for immigration.
So if three of President Cruz's Secret Service agents leave he will authorize only one replacement? Three air traffic controllers leave then only one is replaced? Three Border Guards leave then only one will be hired?
Ditto !
Equine feces. They are completely unconstitutional. The USFS was set up in a conference committee and is illegal. It exists primarily to manage inventory for Weyerhaeuser.
Considering that I've written three books on environmental policy, habitat restoration, and regulatory racketeering, you have a lot of cheek "instructing" me about the supposed worth of these agencies.
There is no form of regulation more disastrous to the US economy than environmental regulation, of which Federal land use control is the epitome. Environmental "protection" is the raison d'etre of global socialism. Heck it even underlies the rationale for the destruction of public education (it's in writing)!
For Cruz not to be sufficiently aware of this to make a point as a high priority in his program it is concerning to me. For him to succeed at it requires an education I am willing to offer, owning the first patent in a free-market environmental management business method, having written three books and many articles dealing with the topic of regulatory corruption, and having personally conducted the most detailed, successful, and enduring native plant restoration in North America. Finally, G-d's first commandment to humans was to care for His creation and his apocalyptic punishments arise out of failing to follow His explicit commands as to how to conduct ourselves toward that end.
Got it now?
So, yes, the comment was more for real than you could reasonably have imagined.
I totally understand your feeling on this, as I am aware of the long history, especially with the BLM..
What I tried to convey is that because of the large amount of federal acreage, still growing, someone has to manage it. Someone has to patrol it for lease rights and hunting and recreational activity.
I am not at all trying to say that there is any good in these agencies or that the agencies should continue to exist as is.
It’s only that if closed, the required departments would likely need to be transferred to a different agency so that they can continue to do some very simple tasks and that is the management of federal land, just as we have people who manage federal buildings. They are tax payer assets and will need to have some sort of monitoring.
Either that or we sell them back into the private sector, but I doubt you can do that with all of it, and it may in fact become necessary, perhaps sooner then later.
Correct. It is and should be a business run by those who are good at it.
Itâs only that if closed, the required departments would likely need to be transferred to a different agency so that they can continue to do some very simple tasks and that is the management of federal land, just as we have people who manage federal buildings. They are tax payer assets and will need to have some sort of monitoring.
The land should be turned over to the States and auctioned off. Better, the various management functions should be privatized and the land gradually possessed by contract. If the contracts require subsidy in the short term, it would be cheaper than paying lawyers like we do now. Ultimately, I believe the system can price services against what are currently unaccounted socialized risks, for which I have a patent on the business method as a way to prevent somebody else from doing it first. I don't have the cash to enforce it.
I don’t have any issues with that.
I believe that there is a lot of federal land that we have no business owning. But getting it back into State hands or private hand will likely require a land grant of sorts..in other words just give it back.
I own a small amount of acreage,,all wooded.
It takes me quite a bit of effort to keep it in good condition, ie: blocked access roads by fallen trees, washouts, fencing repair.
This is all I am taking about, I was not justifying their actions, past or present.
I don't think the Feds have legitimate title to it in the first place. The Constitution lists: "forts, dock yards, arsenals, magazines, and other needful buildings." It states that the standard for Federal acquisition requires the approval of the State legislatures. Admitting States with reservations is a complete violation of the equal footing doctrine. They should just quitclaim it, all of it, even intertidal zones.
Now the Feds do have a mandate for dealing with the movement of interstate resources, particularly water, as a matter of regulating commerce, but that was primarily to preclude protectionist behaviors destructive to asset value. Once ALL of the assets are accounted, including intangible environmental risks, even those issues then resolve to commerce.
What a mess...
But we let it happen. I suppose the real culprit is a populace who has abdicated it's roll as a plank holder. (best word I could come up with)
It's our responsibility to either remove people through elections or file grievances (supreme court) over bad governance.
While we have done some of this at times, we apparently have not done enough. It is our country to lose, and I think we may have lost it.
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