I come in here posting a positive message and now I gotta deconstruct this shit, dammit Nick, one of these days!
Alright, time to unravel some of this shit.
"FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress;"
I approve of this and am not surprised that the Senate majority leader says they have no interest in working on it with Trump.
"THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated;"
That's nonsensical, just playing a numbers game.
"THIRD, I will direct my Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator"
... yeah, that'll go well.
"FOURTH, I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately"
You've been elected for the next four years, not the next four decades. You can't dictate what these companies do.
"* FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars' worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.
* SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward
* SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America's water and environmental infrastructure"
The first two seem to be working against the last one.
" FIRST, cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama"
WELP it was nice knowing you guys; looks like I'll be pulling 60 hour weeks again by spring.
"FOURTH, begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won't take them back"
First part, fine, second part ... um. What? That's not the fault of any of those other people.
"End The Offshoring Act. Establishes tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the U.S. tax-free."
YOU CANNOT CONTROL THESE COMPANIES. Believe me, I wish it could be done, but all that will happen is the price hikes will hit the consumers. You can't dictate their locations, you can't dictate the balance of profit to living wage. The most you could do is grease the wheels for new American-based companies to compete against them, with terms that require them to keep their operations within the U.S.
"School Choice And Education Opportunity Act. Redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice. Ends common core, brings education supervision to local communities. It expands vocational and technical education, and make 2 and 4-year college more affordable."
... Trump?
"Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act. Fully repeals Obamacare and replaces it with Health Savings Accounts, the ability to purchase health insurance across state lines, and lets states manage Medicaid funds. Reforms will also include cutting the red tape at the FDA: there are over 4,000 drugs awaiting approval, and we especially want to speed the approval of life-saving medications."
HSAs work for some people, not others, and for people who already have nothing, it'll mean nothing. I take it with the "speed up" he means the generic cheaper versions of many drugs? That's the only positive I could look at it.
"End Illegal Immigration Act Fully-funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5-year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first."
Ah, there he is. Trump. This is ridiculous. After all the numbers have been crunched and the ludicrous reimbursement plan, he still intends to go ahead with this. It's not going to work out. This alone could tank the economy. DROP IT.
"Clean up Corruption in Washington Act. Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics."
In this town? Good fucking luck.
