Nope.
So at the moment all of the things you applaud Trump for regarding immigration and “saving the GoP” are at best, a stall tactic, right?
We shall see. that’s the big question. Is it too late?
We can only hope!
We need a breeding program to promote a resurgence in the population.
Instead of calling it eugenics, we can create a modern buzzword that is more appealing, and implement 5S practices to manufacture more white people.
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The US is already two nations within one border. Maybe secession in a few decades? I dunno
WHOOOOOOT!!! JUST THRILLED!! Guys, I’m really hopeful that we’re going to get the 10,000 Pound EPA GORILLA out of the steroid forum.
Trump’s Clean Watershed - WSJ today
Some fantastic comments in the comment section if it isn’t locked.
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Speaking of deregulation, President Trump on Tuesday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider an Obama Administration rule that seized control over tens of millions of acres of private land under the pretext of protecting the nation’s waterways. EPA chief Scott Pruitt will now follow due process to rescind one of his predecessor’s lawless rule-makings.
In 2015 the Obama EPA reinterpreted the Clean Water Act with a rule extending its extraterritorial claims to any creek, muddy farm field, ditch or prairie pothole located within a “significant nexus” of a navigable waterway. EPA defined significance broadly to include any land within the 100-year floodplain and 4,000 feet of land already under its jurisdiction, among other arbitrary delimitations.
Mr. Trump summed it up well, if not eloquently, when he said “it’s a horrible, horrible rule” and “massive power grab” that has “sort of a nice name, but everything else is bad.”
The rule would force farmers, contractors and manufacturers to obtain federal permits to put their property to productive use. After recent flooding in California, millions of more acres could come under EPA’s jurisdiction. Green groups could use the rule to block pipelines, housing projects or any development they don’t like. Farmers might be prohibited from using fertilizers that could flow downstream.
The Clean Water Act applies only to navigable waterways, but the EPA seized on the opening created by Justice Anthony Kennedy in the unfortunate 2006 Supreme Court case Rapanos v. U.S. that split 4-1-4. His controlling opinion invented the “significant nexus” standard that is a classic in judicial ambiguity and which the EPA used to expand government control over private property development.
Thirty-one states sued the EPA, and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals enjoined the rule nationwide in 2015 after finding that appellants were likely to win on the merits and that the rule-making was “facially suspect.” EPA even acknowledged that the “science available today” doesn’t support the regulation. Mr. Pruitt will be doing a national public service if he advises the Justice Department to withdraw the rule as an abuse of administrative power.
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What is this in reference to?
My question: Since Trump is not a fiscal conservative, why would he care? Or is it simply an unintended consequence that his immigration policy would aid fiscal conservatism?
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Tyler, President Obama used rule by FIAT, power of the presidential pen, to expand the power and size of the EPA until it’s now unrecognizable. This came up in the Paris thread, but he moved enormous policy “rules” through the EPA , like the CPP that effectively gave the EPA control over our entire energy sector, without ever bothering with that pesky thing called CONGRESS. In fact, that particular little EPA power grab took power away from the states, and actually stepped all over previous legislation. This is beauracratic agencies as the fourth branch, and I don’t want them to be SO INCREDIBLY POWERFUL.
The EPA is now all three branches rolled into one, with the power to effectively pass write huge legislation, fine you into bankruptcy, or put you in prison for EPA violations.
BUT don’t take my word for it. Here’s one of Obama’s mentors from Harvard, talking about Obama’s rule by fiat on the Clean Power Plan (CPP).
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Heh…sorry, should have been more specific. I was asking about the reference to the steroid forum.
That’s an interesting question I don’t know.
We should also keep in mind the in current political climate, could a fiscal conservative even win an election in 2017?
President Trump did a great job in his speech last night. Most of what he said I agreed with. I am not in favor of rebuilding any inner city areas for multiple reasons. I am also not in favor of paid family leave this will harm small business. Hopefully the tax cuts will more than balance this out.
The part I enjoyed the most was watching the idiots dressed in white not applauding much of anything. Especially the parts that they would have normally applauded if Obama had said the same thing, like rebuilding the inner cities.
But I still don’t like Trump because he was once orange, he tweets a lot, said he wanted to grab women by the puxxy 12 years ago…and um…he’s sexist and racist. The last two were obvious when he put forth a small business plan for women who want to enter the business world. Also, when he highlighted a black man who lost his son to terrorism.
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Fiscal conservatives could win the shit out of a public election. Where they run into problems is they tend to bring social conservative aspects along with it, and a ton of people ultimately vote for the social reasons.
Fiscal conservative with social liberalism would probably crush anyone that was dumb enough to run against it.
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That was my attempt at a TN joke. I want the EPA to be natty, Tyler. Smaller. Weaker. With natural T levels. Maybe with the T levels of me. LOL!
Speaking of TN references, this is a pretty good article about why we need to fix the Senate so we actually have a more functional congress. I didn’t know about some of the basic civics of it.
Notice the TN references to muscle below. If we want a less powerful executive branch, less power and less ROIDZ in our bureaucratic agencies, we’ll have to address this somehow.
First, the legislative branch cannot function if one house proves unable to act on major legislation, and the ATROPHY of the legislative branch drives a corresponding HYPERTROPHY of the executive branch. It is perhaps the single greatest reason for the rise of the imperial executive in recent decades. President Obama’s constant refrain, “If Congress fails to act I will,” is poisonous to a constitutional republic—but it is inevitable if the legislature wastes away. Nature abhors a vacuum, and the modern Senate filibuster has created one at the heart of our Constitution.
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I would really love to see this. America could really use a dose of small l libertarianism, IMO. I keep hoping for an emergence of a middle/ moderate block that is more like this. Republicans pay lip service to fiscal responsibility, actually caring about the national debt, but actions speak louder.
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Trump did not/cannot do away with the Clean Water Act. Rather, he did away with the Clean Water Rule, the purpose of which was to clarify which bodies of water are subject to regulation by the CWA. In other words, the Clean Water Rule was intended to streamline (if you’ll pardon the expression) the process of clearing regulatory hurdles by doing away with the slow ‘case by case’ approval basis that was the norm.
"For over a decade, EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers have received requests for a rulemaking to provide clarity on protections under the Clean Water Act from members of Congress, state and local officials, industry, agriculture, environmental groups, scientists, and the public. In developing the rule, the Agencies held hundreds of meetings with stakeholders across the country, reviewed over one million public comments, and listened carefully to perspectives from all sides.
EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers also utilized the latest science, including a report summarizing more than 1,200 peer-reviewed, published scientific studies which showed that small streams and wetlands play an integral role in the health of larger downstream water bodies." [emphasis mine]
So by undoing the Clean Water Rule, Trump has essentially thrown the process of regulatory approval back into the inefficient bureaucratic swamp (ditto) it was in before.
This implies that minorities can equal the achievement of whites using education . Billions have been spent on attempting to close the gap in achievement to no avail. see after school programs.
First find a provable way of doing it