Courtesy of Mish.
Major news agencies are now commenting on Trump’s first 100 days. In traditional fashion, the news outlets just copy (generally inaccurately or incompletely) without ever linking to the source.
I prefer a link straight to the horse’s mouth. Let’s review Donald Trump’s Contract With the American Voter.
What follows is my 100-day action plan to Make America Great Again. It is a contract between myself and the American voter — and begins with restoring honesty and accountability, and bringing change to Washington. On the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following:
Six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC:
★ FIRST, propose a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.
★ SECOND, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce the federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health).
★ THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated.
★ FOURTH, a five-year ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service.
★ FIFTH, a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.
★ SIXTH, a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
Corruption Agenda Analysis
The first item is just a proposal. The proposal is doable. Whether or not such a proposal would ever win is debatable and would take years at a minimum. the rest of the points are doable by decree or likely passable legislation.
Seven actions to protect American workers:
★ FIRST, I will announce my intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205.
★ SECOND, I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
★ THIRD, I will direct the Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator.
★ FOURTH, I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately.
★ FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.
★ SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward.
★ SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure.
First, TPP is dead. That’s a good thing. However, I oppose TPP because it isn’t really about free trade. Trump opposes TPP on the grounds it is about free trade.
Second, I strongly disagree with labeling China a currency manipulator. Nothing good can possibly come from it. A global trade war may result. The same result was likely under Hillary.
Third, NAFTA was an agreement, not a treaty. Article 2205 is only 34 words and simply says that a party may withdraw from the agreement six months after it provides written notice.
I agree Trump can and will kill NAFTA. I disagree that he should. I am a huge free-trade advocate. But I also said Trump would win the Republican nomination because he wasn’t.
