'America First 2.0': Vivek Ramaswamy Continues to Impress, Rolls out Bold 25-Point Plan; Bottom Line-- His Policies Make Too Much Sense for Republicans to Overlook

Red State ^ | 04/14/2023 | Mike Miller

[tired&retired]

List per his website:

AMERICA FIRST 2.0
Vivek’s 25 Policy Commitments to Take America First further than Trump

01 REVIVE AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY
• Use the military, including drones, to secure our southern border
• End affirmative action: repeal Lyndon Johnson’s executive order 11246
• Protect American children: ban addictive social media under age 16 & gender confusion “care” for minors
• Make political expression a civil right & end unlawful DEI indoctrination
• Withhold federal funding for cities that refuse to protect Americans from violent crime

02 UNLEASH THE AMERICAN ECONOMY: ACHIEVE >5% GDP GROWTH
• Drill, frack & burn coal: abandon the climate cult & unshackle nuclear energy
• Put Americans back to work: dismantle Lyndon Johnson’s failed “Great Society”
• Incentivize trade schools over hollow college degrees (sorry, gender studies majors)
• Launch deregulatory “Reagan 2.0” revolution: cut >75% headcount amongst U.S. regulators
• Limit the U.S. Fed’s scope: stabilize the dollar & nothing more

03 DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM COMMUNIST CHINA
• Hold the CCP accountable for Covid-19: use all financial levers
• Achieve semiconductor independence: secure our modern way of life
• Stop CCP affiliates from buying American land
• Use our military to annihilate Mexican drug cartels: defend against the CCP’s opium war
• Ban U.S. businesses from expanding in China until the CCP stops cheating

04 DISMANTLE MANAGERIAL BUREAUCRACY
• Shut down toxic government agencies: Dept of Education, FBI, IRS, and more (and rebuild from scratch when required)
• End civil service protections for bureaucrats: 8-year term limits instead
• Eliminate federal employee unions: repeal JFK’s executive order 10988
• Move >75% of federal employees out of Washington D.C. & end pro-lazy “remote work” option
• Cut wasteful expenditures: White House, not individual agencies, will submit budget requests to Congress

05 END WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT & FINANCIAL MARKETS
• Pardon defendants of politicized prosecutions: Trump, Mackey, and peaceful Jan 6 protesters
• Hold Congress accountable for “hush money” fund: taxpayers should not subsidize sexual misconduct
• Publish the Jeffrey Epstein client list: government should not use police power to shield select elites
• Rescind Biden’s ESG rule for retirement funds: get politics out of corporate America and capital markets
• Oppose CBDCs: fight all plans for digital currency, a dangerous scheme for government control over our bank accounts

[escapefromboston]

I wouldn’t have voted for either one of them.

[Wallace T.]

All but three Presidents (John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and William Howard Taft) have been members of some Christian denomination. Adams and Taft were Unitarians, and Jefferson was a deist. Lincoln, raised a Baptist, was an atheist as a young man but reportedly became a Christian as President. Obama was a Muslim as a youngster but became a member of Rev. Wright's leftist "church" and professed to be a Christian.

As for sincerity of the Christian faith of the Presidents, that is a matter of conjecture.

[HollyB]

I like him a lot.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: is he a US citizen born of US citizens?

We know that he was born a U.S. Citizen by our laws. I’m still trying to find out if his parents were citizens when he was born. I know that they immigrated LEGALLY.

I think the election of Obama has made this a non-issue.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: it is the right of every citizen to cast his vote as he sees fit -

That wasn’t my question.

[iontheball]

I read something a while back about the guy that gave me pause. The article stated he was selected to join Schwab’s young global leadership club. I don’t know the details or whether the report was accurate. What I see now is that he is very articulate, impressively smart, and appears to have good conservative instincts.

[maddog55]

Not liking the America First 2.0.... sounds to much like my pillow 2.0 that I’m sick of hearing.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

—> That wasn’t my question.

I tried not to embarrass you for asking the wrong question!

[Jim Noble]

The main controversial question is — is he a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN?

This was not controversial in 1968 when George Romney (Mexico) was running for the GOP nomination. It was not controversial in my 1966 Civics class when I was taught that it meant "born in America". It was not an issue when John McCain (Panama) ran for President.

But more to the point, when my USA born grandfathers registered for the draft in 1917, one in Connecticut and one in New York, their US government-approved draft cards had three boxes: 1) Natural born; 2) Naturalized; 3) Alien.

The reason that this is important is that when they were born in 1893 and 1895, 3 of their parents were subjects of the Emperor of Germany and the fourth was a subject of Her Britannic Majesty Victoria Alexandrina.

Now, I know for a fact that none of my grandparents were ever naturalized. One grandmother was granted a teaching license by NYC in 1911 (citizenship required). Both grandfathers served in the military during WW I.

Both grandfathers checked the "natural born" box on their draft cards.

So, if they were not that (because born in the US to aliens), and they were not naturalized, then they were aliens when my parents were born in 1923 and 1924 in New York City, and, using the same argument, since my parents never naturalized, then when I was born in Brooklyn in 1950, I am an alien also.

This has never been discussed, not once, until Barack Hussein Obama became President. It was a nice try but it is 100% nonsense.

[arthurus]

I hoped that would be the case wupon reading his ideas when he announced.

[arthurus]

By the classical definition if his parents were both citizens at the time of his birth he was Naral Born. That quaint concept is now passé and discarded as the Constitution is eviscerated. Look at President Hussein, Camel Harris.

[PIF]

Nothing, nothing at all about ending the 50 year war on natural resource harvesters, property rights, and protecting America’s food supply.

[The Sons of Liberty]

He’ll be Trump’s running mate in 24.

Having seen several of his interviews, he is highly intelligent and articulate and I think he would be an excellent choice, but it usually comes down to what portion of the electorate he can attract to the ticket.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I tried not to embarrass you for asking the wrong question!

You can rest assured that I am NOT embarrassed. My question is the RELEVANT ONE.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Not liking the America First 2.0

Can you share with us which one of his proposed policies you dislike?

[Maris Crane]

Vivek sounds great, but, ya know, it might just be wise of him to run for, oh, say congress before President.

He lessens his credibility by assuming so much power in one big jump. Just my own thoughts.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

My question is the RELEVANT ONE.

Nah. My answer was the relevant one - in fact, the only one that counts.

[Reily]

I’d support that!

[usconservative]

If he was touting policies favorable to India and mass immigration from there, I'd be with you. Honestly, my knee-jerk reaction was just a "hell no."

After listening to him though? He's more AMERICAN than the progressive liberal idiots and his ideas are sound. He's touting the most pro American liberty loving platform that I've seen in a while, save for Legit President Trump.

Can this guy win? No. And yet, his ideas must be heard and considered as part of the party's platform. He makes A LOT of sense and seems to be a PROUD AMERICAN to me.