Donald Trump is a liberal and that doesn’t have a damn thing to do with the fact that congress is a mess and won’t do anything to fix it.
George Washington is reputed to have said “God grant that our principal men be men of principle.”
Alex de Toqueville (sp?) opined that democracies (and representative republics, apparently) die when the populace realizes they can vote themselves money from the treasury.
They were both right.
Donald Trump has no coherent thoughts about the role of government in human affairs. He’s not a conservative in any sense of the word, and he’s not even a Republican. His position on any given issue will be different next month than it is today.
Since the President is not a king, he doesn’t get to run the country like a CEO. (Which is what Obama is trying to do, and it’s a monstrosity.) Trump, if elected, would find himself constrained by the same congressional forces that ought to be constraining the Presidency. In fact, my guess is that Trump in office would kow-tow even more to the DC-NY cocktail party circuit than Bush or Obama.
He’s energizing you all because he doesn’t talk like a politician, and that’s refreshing. I get it. But he won’t be elected, if elected he’d be an average RINO president at best, and the most likely outcome of his efforts is to put the Democrat nominee in the White House. (see Perot, Ross.)
But frustrated conservatives will have “sent a message” and will feel better.
George Washington, tight lipped and disciplined Virginia aristocrat, Free Mason and Judeophile, would not have a chance of being elected president by today’s American electorate. Our system of government, as John Adams so correctly pointed out, was designed for an honest, industrious, educated, and God fearing people. Some of us are still all those things. But this republic can’t properly function populated by a dishonest, proudly ignorant and faithless, pleasure obsessed rabble. What populates the government (they cannot seriously be called leaders), at all levels, is a reflection not a cause.
“More important, they wonder why the House isn’t using the power of the purse, which the Constitution gave it precisely in order to check a tyrannical government.”
Constitution? CONgre$$?
Go figure.
Politicians from both sides of the aisle should be locked up in prison for financial crimes against the citizens of the republic.
THEY DID build this…enslaving us, our children and grandchildren…
All assets should be seized.
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. - The Law; Bastiat
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game…
Rules for Changing a Limited Republican Government into an Unlimited Hereditary One…
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks…
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
Debates in the House of Representatives on the First Report on Public Credit 9–18 February 1790
James Jackson (Ga.)
But it is doubted with me whether a permanent funded debt is beneficial or not to any country.
The same effect must be produced that has taken place in other nations; it must either bring on a national bankruptcy or annihilate her existence as an independent empire. Hence I contend, sir, that a funding system, in this country, will be highly dangerous to the welfare of the republic; it may, for a moment, raise our credit and increase the circulation, by multiplying a new species of currency; but it must, in times afterward, settle upon our posterity a burthen which they can neither bear nor relieve themselves from. It will establish a precedent in America that may, and in all probability will, be pursued by the sovereign authority until it brings upon us that ruin which it has never failed to bring, or is inevitably bringing, upon all the nations of the earth who have had the temerity to make the experiment.
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/875
Trump is the ONLY one that is not owned by big daddy donors and lobbyists . Amazing so many people even here still brainwashed by politicians.
What politician doesn't take donations or not talk to lobbyists and doesn't want to advance his political career?
Only Trump as he has 10 billion dollars.
Almost all the politicians voted for the worst thing ever this obama trade bs that increases 3rd world immigration to the nth power (”trade in services”)
The hard part about governing the Executive Branch is that you have to be a great politician to get there.
Ideally, I think the best leader of the Executive Branch would be someone who has similar experience. A Governor is probably the closest we can come to this.
I also believe that business executive experience is critical. There’s nothing like the eye-opening experience of having to make a payroll.
That doesn’t mean that someone who wasn’t a Governor or business executive couldn’t be a good President. But, that person would have to prepare for the job.
Obama didn’t, and look at the miserable job he’s done.
I think the next President has to straighten out the Executive Branch. I think that would be a good job for a fully-empowered Vice President.
Both.