A Modest Start
April 9, 2010 – 10:16 pmI suggest that our fellow lovers of American Freedom and Tea Party participants everywhere adopt the following platform as a modest start towards reform of U.S. Government.
a 25-percent reduction in government spending, a return to the States and local communities autonomy that had been confiscated by the Federal Government, a reduction and elimination of useless boards and bureaus and departments in government. (Ronald Reagan, 1984)
Might drive the collectivists crazy when they find out the origin of the idea (not the quoted source).
One Response to “A Modest Start”
Too modest, sadly. A 25% reduction would n ot get us back to the pre-Obama era, let alone the pre-Bush period of relative fiscal sanity under Clinton, Gingrich and Dole. I’d say that a 50% reduction would be a starting point, and that 50% includes the military – no more troops in Germany, Korea, or any other place that can defend itself. I’d leave VA, the Border Partol and Coast Guard alone, but most everybody else would get cut, some more than others.
As far as ‘useless’ boards abd commissions are concerned, I think that they all perform their mission well – they were all designed to make us obey. I’d go a step farther and say that we must reaffirm that only Congress legislates. That means not only curbing judicial activism but also Executive Branch abuse – signing statements, administrative law, agency rule-making, grant-baiting, and the like.
By ssgconway on Apr 24, 2010