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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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To which similar documents are you comparing it?

That's exactly the point. No one has ever offered such a document, so say what you want about Trump, he's taking a step towards transparency and accountability.

Have you never heard of the Contract With America?

This isn't really breaking new ground. Probably, you're just more engaged in this election and this is better covered.

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

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> 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 honestly don't believe there's any chance of that passing. However, if Donald Trump actually can make that happen, I will forgive everything I hold against him, because it would clear out most of our government rot within the next two elections.

My biggest fear of term limits would be the deep state respecting legislative oversight even less than it already does. A 2 term congressman can be waited out, but a 5-10 term congressman can really dig in.

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

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> 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.

The look on the Secret Service personnel last night was palatable.

I have seen the look of vigilance before, but will never forget the looks on those guys faces last night.

I have to hand it to the Secret Service. I didn't think they could protect Obama, but they did.

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

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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 cli…

Well, there are many truly crazy and stupid regulations already on the books, plus you could do this by simply empowering the Federal Oversight Committee (which does this anyway) to just do more removals. So that one actually has a relatively simple path to achieve it.

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

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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 will light our capital city on fire" is even more clear and concise. Perhaps you're optimizing for the wrong metric.

Oh, You!

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hand-wavy? It has explicit action steps.

lets just take his first step- what kind of term limits? he could propose a term limit of 50 years, have achieved what he said he'd do, but make no meaningful change.

The answer is he's said 6 years(3 terms) in the House and 12 years(2 terms) in the Senate. The document is supposed to be an overview.

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

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And this post has been censored from HN's liberal agenda! edit: right after people started calling "them" out, it was unflagged.

Why is this flagged? Someone please provide a reason. Thanks.

You know why. There are a lot of people that are still angry and in shock.
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