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‘Real News’: What Would the Federal Bureaucracy Look Like Under a President Romney?
- Posted on April 16, 2012 at 8:00pm by
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Individualism
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 8:39pmSame as Obama.
Report Post »ronwagn
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:45pmhttp://www.usdebtclock.org/ Send to your contacts.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 2:34pmJust hope he is who he says he is. I do not want him to put a dog carrier on top of Air Force one or the WH limos, though.
Report Post »Naps
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 6:30pmIt would look exactly like the one we have now.
Report Post »Ron Paul 2012.
SeanW
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:16pmOf course it would, but they will lie and the mouthpieces of the fed and the Bilderbergs will parrot these lies trying to convince you that this time someone is being honest. Yeah, right. The architect of Obomneycare is gonna roll back his own signature legislation. If you believe that then you probably believe that this is still the land of the Brave and the home of the Free.
Report Post »Hunter10
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:35pmMitt Romney has spent his entire adult life cutting bloated, inefficient, and overreaching organizations down to size – so your theory is that he will now change his MO to something that is foreign to every fiber of his being? You anti-Romney trolls are getting very old.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 3:03pmMitt who?
Now, here’s a REAL PLAN:
SPENDING:
Cuts $1 trillion in spending during the first year of Ron Paul’s presidency, eliminating five cabinet departments (Energy, HUD, Commerce, Interior, and Education), abolishing the Transportation Security Administration and returning responsibility for security to private property owners, abolishing corporate subsidies, stopping foreign aid, ending foreign wars, and returning most other spending to 2006 levels.
ENTITLEMENTS:
Honors our promise to our seniors and veterans, while allowing young workers to opt out. Block grants Medicaid and other welfare programs to allow States the flexibility and ingenuity they need to solve their own unique problems without harming those currently relying on the programs.
CUTTING GOVERNMENT WASTE:
Makes a 10% reduction in the federal workforce, slashes Congressional pay and perks, and curbs excessive federal travel. To stand with the American People, President Paul will take a salary of $39,336, approximately equal to the median personal income of the American worker.
TAXES:
Lowers the corporate tax rate to 15%, making America competitive in the global market. Allows American companies to repatriate capital without additional taxation, spurring trillions in new investment. Extends all Bush tax cuts. Abolishes the Death Tax. Ends taxes on personal savings, allowing families to build a nest egg.
http://www.ronpaul2012.com/the-issues/ron-paul-plan-to-restore-america/
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 3:36pmWell said. If only the “Republicans” who are voting for the so-called popularity contest would vote on their own beliefs, we could get real change and not Obama-lite.
Report Post »bikerram
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 4:07pmyep its a grand plan but i want you to explain to everyone how a constitutionally limited president as we are to believe Dr. Paul would be is going to make even one of these cuts happen. Hes spent the last 20 or so years in the House when he could have pushed the legislation to bring about such changes but now as the Pres where he wouldn’t have the preview to,its going to happen
Report Post »Pursuing Liberty
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 4:37pmIt doesn’t matter how many people come out to vote for Paul. He’s not going to win the nomination because the powers that be will not let it happen. They have chosen who they want and have forced their hand on the voters. Even when Romney hasn’t won, He has won. The establishment GOP has made sure of it. I’d bet that, if every American wrote in Ron Paul’s name during the presidential election, Romney or Obama would still end up winning the election. After all they have the same bankster campaign contributors. They want guys they can control. Paul doesn’t fit that mold. I’ll still be voting for Ron Paul though.
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 4:42pm.
Report Post »This may be all well and good but by the time this happens the Iranians would have nuked us and it wouldn’t matter.
colt1860
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 5:40pm@qzak491 I think the MSM has purposely distorted his positions.
Paul in the NH debate said he doesn’t want Iran to have a nuke. Senator Rand Paul said of his dad, “[he] doesn’t want (Iran) to have nuclear weapons, he thinks it would be destabilizing for them to have them, but he thinks there needs to be a healthy debate in Congress about what our response should be.” Paul has repeatedly said that if we want war, we should declare it, fight it, win it, and come back home. No nation building.
James Madison said, “The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature … the executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.”
Paul said, “I’d ask for a Declaration of War, and then it would be all out.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATmU
Paul was in Congress when Israel bombed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear plant in 1981 and was among a very few, unlike the United Nations and the Republican administration during that time, that defended its right to do so.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 5:47pm@bikerram It is completely possible. The President has the Power to NOT sign a bill appropriating funds to a certain Executive agency or department. In many cases, no action may be taken without the president’s signed authority. Many of the things Paul’s plan would cut back on would be those things the PRESIDENT has power over, not Congress. For many years Paul did try to push legislation cutting back on spending, or limiting the federal Government, in both Republican and Democrat majorities, but to no avail, the progressives were always in charge, regardless of Party affiliation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legislation_sponsored_by_Ron_Paul
Let me assure you, I will work hard to elect TEA party candidates for our Congress in 2012. We must win the House and Senate.
Report Post »Hunter10
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:39pmRon Paul as president? Give me a break and live in the real world. Mitt will be our candidate and he will beat Obama if we all get behind him. No one thought Reagan was going to be Reagan – and he was once a Democrat and raised taxes significantly in CA. I predict that Romney will be elected and be one of the greatest presidents in history bringing us back from the brink – we had sure better hope so since we may never recover from four more years of the Marxist in Chief.
Report Post »Soul Leister
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 1:34pmObama the candidate in 08 said, “your taxes will not go up a dime.” He lied. The chart shows taxes went up 20% across the board… a retired Marine (making $20,000 saw his federal taxes increase 15% after having gotten a single Cost of Living Adjustment of 3.4% …one COLA increase in three years!!! Gas has doubled… electricity increased 28%… food increased >50%… insurance (car, property, health, etc)ballooned… etc).
Insult to injury, congress moved Jan 01 2012 payday to Dec 30 2011 (that caused him to receive 13 paychecks in 2011 instead of 12… wiping out the 3.4 % COLA for four months (because the Federal Withholding increased and the retired Marine was also in a higher tax bracket for 2011… creative financing from out of touch congress and staffers).
Report Post »ksmike
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 1:00pmI hope he can eliminate a lot of the waste. Unfortunately he has to overcome a lot of the entrenched bureaucrats (especially the ones in Congress) to get around. Carter created the DOE and Reagan came in with full intent of eliminating this new bureaucracy and he wasn’t able to do it. First thing he has to do is get people in to simplify regulations and then privatize what he can, such as the TSA.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:42pmPrivatize the TSA while you’re at it.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:42pmGet rid of HUD and the Dept of Educ. That’s a start.
Report Post »Scotty-UT
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:32pmI laughed when nobody on the panel could say the word Bureaucracy correctly.
Report Post »littlefish
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:01amI’m not that happy with Romney as our candidate ….BUT . . . .
Report Post »If he simply started attacking the duplicative . . .wasteful . . .idiotic . . .
things we currently allocate tax payer’s money on . . .
He would beat Obama on just common sense . . .save Billions (perhaps Trillions)
AND reduce every body’s TAXES . . . .
The bulk of the people in the unemployment lines would be ( useless) burrocrats
Naps
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 6:33pmRomney? Cut Spending? HAHAHA……with what plan?
Report Post »Romney or Obama? What’s the difference?