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To: P-Marlowe

My suggestion is to read more detailed books on presidents.

All of that fluffy stuff you talk about is the stuff little kids read about.

People like Andrew Jackson or Truman, and many others were not like those robot presidents at Disney World.

“Make America Great again? How exactly? It is a nice sentiment, but can he do it?”

“Has he proposed any concrete ideas on how to “Make America Great Again”? “

Well put it to you this way, has Cruz given us a detailed plan as to how he is going to “restore the constitution”? O sire haven’t heard any, bit his supporters are telling me it’s as good as done....because reasons.


59 posted on 01/29/2016 3:27:13 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik
Since you asked....

Ted Cruz: 5 For Freedom Plan

If elected, I will abolish the IRS. But I won’t stop there. We will abolish four cabinet agencies as well. And we will sharply reduce the alphabet soup of government entities, beginning with the ABCs that should not exist in the first place: The Agencies, Bureaus, Commissions, and other programs that are constitutionally illegitimate and harmful to American households and businesses – including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It’s time to return to a federal government that abides by our constitutional framework and strips power from unelected bureaucrats.

We must break apart the federal leviathan that has ruled Washington and crept into our lives. Once we dramatically reduce the size of government – paired with fundamental tax reform and regulatory reform – we will reignite the promise that has made this the freest and most prosperous nation in the world.

To start the process of reducing the scope and cost of government, I will institute the following five reforms, which are estimated to save more than $500 billion over 10 years:

  1. Five for Freedom - abolish 4 unnecessary cabinet agencies and the IRS.

    During my first year, I will fight to abolish the IRS, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. To do that, I will press Congress relentlessly. And I will appoint heads of each of those agencies whose central charge will be to lead the effort to wind them down and determine whether any programs need to be preserved elsewhere because they fall within the proper purview of the federal government. I do not anticipate lists to be long.

  2. 25 Federal "ABCs" - eliminate 25 Agencies, Bureaus, Commissions, and other programs.

    Eliminate the following Agencies, Bureaus, Commissions, and programs:

    1. Appalachian Regional Commission
    2. Climate Ready Water Utilities Initiative
    3. Climate Research Funding for the Office of Research and Development
    4. Climate Resilience Evaluation Awareness Tool
    5. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
    6. Corporation for Public Broadcasting (privatize)
    7. Corporation for Travel Promotion
    8. Global Methane Initiative
    9. Green Infrastructure Program
    10. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
    11. Legal Services Corporation
    12. National Endowment for the Arts
    13. National Endowment for the Humanities
    14. New Starts Transit Program
    15. Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund
    16. Presidential Election Campaign Fund
    17. Regulation of CO2 Emissions from Power Plants and all Sources
    18. Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Vehicles
    19. Renewable Fuel Standard Federal Mandates
    20. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
    21. Sugar Subsidies
    22. Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery
    23. UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    24. UN Population Fund
    25. USDA Catfish Inspection Program
  3. Grace Commission 2.0 - reinstitute President Reagan's Panel on Cost Control ("The Grace Commission") to identify waste and inefficiency.

    A strong balanced budget amendment is necessary to get back to fiscal responsibility, stop bankrupting our kids and grandkids, and keep Congress accountable to the American people. As President, I will fight to finally pass a strong Balanced Budget Amendment, which limits federal spending to a percentage of GDP and requires a congressional supermajority to ever raise taxes. In the private sector, quality companies do not spend money without first budgeting for expenses, and at the bare minimum, the government should do the same – it’s necessary for our posterity, and to be good stewards of Americans’ time and dollars.

  4. Congressional accountability - amend the Constitution to require Congress and the President to balance the budget, and enact the REINS Act.
  5. Federal hiring freeze and reform- institute a freeze on the hiring of federal civilian employees across the executive branch, and reform automatic worker raises.

    A Cruz Administration will institute a freeze on the hiring of new federal civilian employees across the executive branch; no vacant positions at this point may be automatically back-filled; no new positions may be created; and no circumvention will be allowed through the hiring of contractors.

Estimated Savings of Over $500,000,000,000 in 10 years

76 posted on 01/29/2016 3:44:10 PM PST by Lucky9teen (God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning, and I believe God isn't done yet. TCruz)
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