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Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by hiou »

jobu wrote: post #6

Whatever you think about Trump or the policies in that document, it's clearer and more concise than anything I've seen from an elected official.

I have a feeling you were not alive for the "Contract with America".

On a side note this is one of the most naive things I have ever seen. I was a bit agnostic before, but wow this is literally handing Russia and China the keys to the global economy while thinking he is doing the opposite. Yikes, I really did not realize he was this under qualified.

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by dloose »

internaut wrote: post #4

> FIRST propose a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress. If he does this alone, then he's made a huge impact. I'm really concerned he might be assassinated.

I'm not sure that Congressional term limits are necessarily a good thing. Lobbyists and other special interests don't have term limits. It seems to me that if we impose term limits on Congress members, then the lobbyists will be the ones with the most experience drafting and passing legislation. I'm all for limiting the influence of money in politics and making more Congress seats "vulnerable" (something like 90% of incumbents get re-elected), but when we find a good legislator I think we should be allowed to keep them.

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by knowaveragejoe »

Some of this sounds great - term limits on congress, a measure to reduce the revolving door effect of government officials going into lobbying.

Some of it sounds ridiculous - for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated. How is that considered feasible by any rational person? It might sound great if you don't think too hard about it.

The scariest things for me are the backing out of climate change accords and the opening up of additional shale/gas/etc resources. We really don't need to be heading in that direction, energy-wise.

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by dkraft »

sremani wrote: post #40

Why is this flagged ? The Outsourcing act itself has repercussions to tech industry. This is not political opinion, its a policy pamphlet. Its fine, you hate the man with all your guts out, but it would be a sign of maturity, to argue for or against them, sharing your insights, rather than flagging the message and flogging the messenger.

2016 - HNN becomes the youtube comments of reddit of digg

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

internaut wrote: post #4

> FIRST propose a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress. If he does this alone, then he's made a huge impact. I'm really concerned he might be assassinated.

It does nothing to stop corruption in government. The same forces that have a 20 year Senator begging for campaign money and being in the pocket of various special interests will continue against the freshman Senator that replaces him. Its feel-good nonsense for the most part. It barely addressed the symptoms of Washington corruption, let alone the cause.

>I'm really concerned he might be assassinated.

Over a toothless regulation that affects only a small percentage of Congress and mostly guys ready to retire anyway?

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