Posted on 06/17/2024 12:07:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
A few things that President Trump with a Republican House and Senate can do to immediately stop the downward spiral:
Fire all the Democrat lawyers and activists you possibly can from government perches.
Cut the government, cut the spending, for the first time ever.
Slash the income tax for personal and business. Again. Make it permanent this time.
Drill, baby, drill! Achieve energy independence again. Become a net exporter again.
Secure the border. again. Deport all the illegals that can be deported. Then deport some more.
Reapply the tariffs. Again.
Get us out of foreign wars. Again.
Tell the UN, nafta and other world government bodies to pound sand. Again.
“Cut the government, cut the spending, for the first time ever.”
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The key to saving the republic IMO. It all starts there. The bigger government gets, the smaller the people become.
The Founders tried to warn us about the dangers of government power; they knew what it would lead to but we didn’t heed their advice.
Unfortunately the GOP is unlikely to cut spending or reduce the size of agencies in any meaningful way. So the expansion and spending will probably continue until something breaks.
The 17A pulled the keystone from the Framers’ Constitution.
There is no logic to two popularly elected houses.
There is also no logic to deny the states, upon which the Constitution acts, representation in the Senate.
The MOST important items in his first 100 days are:
1. Immediately deport 60,000,000 MIVs;
2. Undo every single obama-biden E.O.;
3. Flush the military and Pentagon of every single pervert and all DEI rules;
4. Order a 40% reduction of the federal workforce to occur in 2025;
5. Disarm ALL federal agencies not part of the military, CIA, or FBI;
6. Move all agencies back to their 1999-defined agencies...
7. Abolish all agencies associated with environment, DEI, education, and banking;
Worry about the other 1000 important things upon completion of the above...
Jim, you know that Anything that requires Congressional input is not happening.
Remember the Rinos arguing about him using DoD funds to try to build the wall?
No, but Fed EEs can be relocated..to...say...Podunk, Arkansas, or Laramie, Wyoming, etc.
Amen my friend!
It will take more than just Trump to accomplish this. Yes, he can fire all appointees, etc., but it will take both the senate and the house to legislate long-term solutions, cuts in government spending, etc.
Trump can whittle away at this stuff like he did last time. Every little bit helps. I think many of us have been sobered by the last 4 years. I know I’ve lowered my expectations a lot.
At least we will see Trump EOs and replacements of SC justices. Businesses will have a bit more confidence with potential for resumed economic growth. Like with Reagan the people will have a bit more confidence too despite the dogged media.
Not sure Trump will get much of a majority in Congress to do much of anything there but we’ll see.
That is a great summary.
Add to it the elimination of he Department of Education transferring all the responsibilities back to the States.
Require every department, agency and bureaucracy - every entity receiving taxpayer money to justify their existence.
The man hasn’t lost a step. )
“President Trump with a Republican House and Senate...”
ALL THREE of these things have to happen, and still, saving the republic will be quite an uphill climb.
The seventeenth amendment is probably worse than Johnson’s Great Society, and that is saying something.
OTOH without the seventeenth amendment, the great society could have never passed anyway.
<>OTOH without the seventeenth amendment, the great society could have never passed anyway.<>
So true.
Also, there is no way state-appointed senators would have consented to the appointment, since the 1930s, of radical Leftist judges.
The 17A made the US what it is today, an authoritarian democratic republic in decline.
No, there is a 50 mile limit or those same protections kick in.
The only way to address this is to move senior personnel to jobs with zero activity located in the same building. That might generate early retirement, or maybe regular timed retirement.
It can turn clockwise or counterclockwise. But yes, there is still hope.
Words of wisdom Jim, thanks. Vote in Republicans, but then stay on them like white on rice. 🙂👍
Very doable if the base votes like the country's survival is depends on at and Lara Trump can succeed in countering voter fraud.
The National Democratic Congressional Committee
said these congressional districts were in play
as of early June 2024:
AZ-01
AZ-06
CA-03
CA-13
CA-22
CA-27
CA-40
CA-41
CA-45
CA-47
CO-03
FL-13
FL-27
IA-01
IA-03
MI-07
MI-10
MT-01
NE-02
NJ-07
NY-01
NY-03
NY-04
NY-17
NY-19
NY-22
OR-05
PA-01
PA-10
VA-02
WI-01
WI-03
Candidate Party
Total receipts Total disbursements Cash on hand
LAWLER, MICHAEL VINCENT REPUBLICAN PARTY
$4,179,635.87 $1,195,612.77 $3,022,484.75
JONES, MONDAIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
$3,904,490.00 $860,669.98 $3,115,165.39
just substitute for state and district:
https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/house/NY/17/2024/
National Republican Congressional Committee:
https://www.nrcc.org/
We need to cap the ability of Democrats to buy votes by a middle-class income tax cap in the federal constitution.
Fighting for such a middle-class income tax cap now in Congress would add the electors of several deep blue states to Trump’s total and make Congress turn deep red come November.
[perhaps]
Federal income taxation shall be capped as follows, on personal income:
below the average yearly apartment rent in the District of Columbia, 10%,
below the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 22%,
below the average employee compensation of the 100,000 best paid federal full-time civilian employees, 30%,
below the average employee compensation of the 10,000 best paid federal full-time civilian employees, 40%.
[Note: All percentages to include employee FICA. They would not fully include self-employment tax, so people that pay SE tax might choose to voluntarily invest in the SS system or otherwise arrange for their own retirement funding.]
[Anything that the IRS would as of January 1, 2024 legally be able to collect income tax on if provided to any person would be considered compensation.]
I would rather vote for you, Commander.
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