President-Elect Giant Middle Finger posted some time ago his plan for his first 100 days. As the saying goes no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy, so even if he really wants to do all this he almost certainly won’t be able to. And of course it’s an open question whether he really wants to… and how much was lip service to conservatives. We shall see, I guess. Anyway, his plan is HERE. While it was posted somewhere around October 22, it seems to be only getting much press in the last day or so. Unsurprising… the plans of a guy you expect to lose aren’t worth a whole lot of effort to examine. But once he actually won, it suddenly became kinda important to look at what he wants to do.
So, what we got? The bolding is mine… some stuff I think is worthy of discussion.
Therefore, on the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC:
* FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress; (Comment: A *great* idea. it’ll never pass.)
* SECOND, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health); (Comment: A good idea overall, but realistically problematical.)
* THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated; (Comment: Another great idea.)
* FOURTH, a 5 year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service;
* FIFTH, a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government;
* SIXTH, a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
On the same day, I will begin taking the following 7 actions to protect American workers:
* FIRST, I will announce my intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205
* SECOND, I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
* THIRD, I will direct my Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator
* 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
* 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. (Comment: Hey! What about the nukes??!?!)
* 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 (Comment: heh.)
Additionally, on the first day, I will take the following five actions to restore security and the constitutional rule of law:
* FIRST, cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama (Comment: Good.)
* SECOND, begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States (Comment: Good. His list has been out there for a while, but it was unclear whether he’d actually pick from the list)
* THIRD, cancel all federal funding to Sanctuary Cities (Comment: Great idea, but I’m uncertain that that is within the Presidents power)
* 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 (Comment: Good luck with that.)
* FIFTH, suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting. (Comment: WTF is “Extreme vetting?”)
Next, I will work with Congress to introduce the following broader legislative measures and fight for their passage within the first 100 days of my Administration:
Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification Act. An economic plan designed to grow the economy 4% per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification, in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy. The largest tax reductions are for the middle class. A middle-class family with 2 children will get a 35% tax cut. The current number of brackets will be reduced from 7 to 3, and tax forms will likewise be greatly simplified. The business rate will be lowered from 35 to 15 percent, and the trillions of dollars of American corporate money overseas can now be brought back at a 10 percent rate. (Comment: About friggen’ time.)
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. (Comment: When do tariffs ever wind up being a good idea?)
American Energy & Infrastructure Act. Leverages public-private partnerships, and private investments through tax incentives, to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. It is revenue neutral.
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.
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. (Comment: yay, chaos! Though insurance crossing state lines is mind-bogglingly obvious.)
Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act. Allows Americans to deduct childcare and elder care from their taxes, incentivizes employers to provide on-side childcare services, and creates tax-free Dependent Care Savings Accounts for both young and elderly dependents, with matching contributions for low-income families.
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. (Comment: Yeah, Sure. That’ll happen.)
Restoring Community Safety Act. Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars. (Comment: “Surging crime?” Crime has been declining for twenty years.)
Restoring National Security Act. Rebuilds our military by eliminating the defense sequester and expanding military investment; provides Veterans with the ability to receive public VA treatment or attend the private doctor of their choice; protects our vital infrastructure from cyber-attack; establishes new screening procedures for immigration to ensure those who are admitted to our country support our people and our values
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.
To get much of this passed, he’ll have to have all the Republicans in the House and Senate on board. Some of these stand approximately zero chance of that happening, such as getting them to agree to being term limited.
On the whole it *seems* pretty good, but there are some things that are definitely missing. Such as:
- Refurbish the existing nuclear arsenal and restore the infrastructure to design and manufacture *entirely* new nuclear warheads
- Install four terawatts of electrical power via breeder reactors, thorium reactors, advanced new generation American nuclear reactors within ten years.
- Fully fund development of systems such as thermal depolymerization to turn biowaste into petroleum
Some other things that would be nice to see:
- Make military bases on the moon, and military scouting outposts on Mars, a priority within 8 years. To be supplied via American launch and transport systems.
- Make “Mock Political Correctness Day” a Federal Holiday.
- Declare Manhattan, San Francisco and other major urban areas National Parks. No further development, construction or demolishing allowed without the prior approval of the states of Utah and Nevada.
- Replace Common Core with Basic Firearms Safety and Marksmanship Training.