My fellow Americans,
For reasons of brevity I will dispense with thanking you individually and simply thank all of you present and viewing at home for taking the time to join me in my vision for the future of our great country.
For too long we as a nation have forsaken the whole to allow the small parts of our nation to dictate policy and priority. We have again and again taken from the many to reward the few. We have stifled innovation in the name of “fairness”. We have penalized success and have made mediocrity the gold standard. We, and by “we” I mean Congress, have repeatedly fallen far below the standards we hold our citizens to. We have put our special interests above the common good and replaced justice with never ending law. We have enriched ourselves at the expense of those who have allowed us our freedoms and rights. Real change has now arrived.
As your President my first act will be to lessen the waste of government by stopping the absurd practice of spending every penny allocated in the budget to ensure that the following year’s budget stays the same or increases. This practice, widely used throughout the government, works against finding efficiencies of scale and is largely responsible for the mess we now face. I will reward those employees in the government that find the greatest cost savings, and I will punish those that stand in the way of lowering costs.
To continue shrinking the deficit, all new spending will require members of Congress to pass this spending with a two thirds majority. I will enforce this by vetoing all legislation that passes with less. This policy will stop all partisan spending immediately. The pet projects that each party has embraced will stop immediately. Hopefully the backroom deals will wither as well so our elected representatives will spend their time on more far reaching and inclusive policy, rather than narrowly focused special interest group’s desires.
I will also place an immediate moratorium on Federal employee hiring, except for the military. This means all federal agencies will have to make due with those they currently have employed. This will force our various agencies to be more efficient with their existing workforce. It will also cause a decrease in federal employees as they age out. Their budgets will be adjusted downward for their shrinking payroll.
I will review all non-essential spending and again make it pass the two thirds majority in the House and Senate to remain active. All those feel good programs with no verifiable results will instantly disappear as well as the trail of red ink they’ve left our children.
I will prevent un-funded Congressional mandates from burdening the states with partisan programs by vetoing every single one. This is necessary to stop Congress from putting the burden on states to pay for these programs.
In short, I will make the Federal government stay within a shrinking budget to recreate the land of opportunity that has been spent away in recent decades. No longer will the special interests rule the spending habits and priorities of our elected leaders. As the President and chief executive of the Executive Branch of Government I will use all my powers to further the freedoms of our citizens, including the economic freedom to be free of government interference and reckless taxation.
We as a nation will come through this dark period of government encroachment and again wear the mantle of the world’s innovator. We have always led by our people, rather than our government. Together we will take the best of the present—our tolerance—and our past—our tenacity and belief in the individual—and grow our way out of the hole dug by short-sighted leaders. We are still the wealthiest and freest nation on earth and only we can bind our hands. No longer will our horizon be encroached upon by government. No longer will a ceiling be placed above us by bad policy. No longer will mediocrity be the goal of government gone wrong. Our freedom led to our wealth and it will lead our recovery. We are Americans and we will lead the world in act and deed. We are the dream that the oppressed dream of. We are the bounty that the hungry yearn to taste. We are hope for the hopeless. The strong that protects the weak. We are America and our greatest days are before us. We are America and our greatest pioneers walk among us. We are America and the evil of this world fears us. Most of us were born to the greatness of being an American. Today, I begin to earn it.
Thank you and God Bless America
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And the fact that a GOP Congress AND a GOP president TOGETHER couldn’t do it is beside the fact I guess, even though when Clinton entered office we were in a recession?
Spin it however you like…
The GOP held Congress and White House of 2000-2006 did not make a single round of cuts, even while they were passing tax cuts and spending record amounts on war spending. But they do a better job controlling the purse strings. And when the housing market, which was propping everything up, collapsed, where were we? THAT bubble started well before the Dems gained the majority in Congress. There was no “supermajority” for the Dems when the first round of bank bailouts were passed. Or the stupid $400 check that amounted to nothing more than an advance of tax refund money that people already had paid got passed.
Please…spin it how you want. Doesn’t change what happened and doesn’t change the fact that Red States use more Fed funds than Blue States while paying less per capita taxes to the Feds.
But the GOP knows how to handle money… No, they’re just better at hiding where it goes and the friends it is getting funneled to… They don’t bother to give it to regular folk in big social programs. Instead they give it to Halliburton for “reconstruction efforts” required by unjust wars they started. Or to Red State like Alaska for a Bridge to Nowhere, even though the state has plenty of oil revenue they can get money from. Or to a whole host of other pork projects and tax breaks that line their friend’s pockets at the expense of the 95-99% of the rest of us Americans.
And no comment about how the GOP of today is already starting to pass the buck on proposed spending cuts- “not in MY backyard.”
I guess wasteful spending only occurs in Dem states or on Dem projects. Federally funded GOP pet programs like abstinance only education are worth the money I guess, even though the teen birth rate has started to skyrocket and is one of the largest in the industrial world. But then we do like to be #1, forget what it’s for… But some GOP pol will stand there and defend spending on programs like abstinance-only education, even thought I thought that a proven ineffective program was one that should be cut…
Yes, with a Republican Congress. There was no such thing as a balanced budget until the Republican Revolution of 1994. Had the Democrats retained their seats, GWB would have inherited a deficit, as well.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32429.html
Are you sure that it is a REPUBLICAN that could give this speech without his fingers crossed behind his back? The facts say that the GOP, from both past actions and present words, are not interested in cutting waste or balancing the budget. After all, one man’s pork is another man’s bacon and “not in my backyard” rolls of the GOP’s tongue as quickly as it does anyone else…
Isn’t the last, and only, President in generations to balance the budget a Democrat? Please, correct me if I’m wrong…