Look at this website:
Building now for a conservative victory through policy, personnel, and training.
It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on Day One of the next conservative Administration.
This is the goal of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. The project will build on four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative Administration.
I wonder what “radical Left” they could possibly be talking about. The only radical Leftist movements in America I know about are socialist or communist in nature and those have never been popular here. The Democrats currently in power under President Biden are moderate or centrist in nature; only a minority can be called leftist and they don’t have much influence now. I do wish they did, though.
https://www.project2025.org/about/about-project-2025/
The actions of liberal politicians in Washington have created a desperate need and unique opportunity for conservatives to start undoing the damage the Left has wrought and build a better country for all Americans in 2025.
What damage are they talking about? And how will their polices benefit Americans that are not benefiting now under the present policies of government?
The project is the effort of a broad coalition of conservative organizations that have come together to ensure a successful administration begins in January 2025. With the right conservative policy recommendations and properly vetted and trained personnel to implement them, we will take back our government.
The 2025 Presidential Transition Project is being organized by The Heritage Foundation and builds off Heritage’s longstanding “Mandate for Leadership,” which has been highly influential for presidential administrations since the Reagan era. Most recently, the Trump administration relied heavily on Heritage’s “Mandate” for policy guidance, embracing nearly two-thirds of Heritage’s proposals within just one year in office.
Paul Dans, former chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) during the Trump administration, serves as the director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. Spencer Chretien, former special assistant to the president and associate director of Presidential Personnel, serves as associate director of the project.
So what do they want to do, exactly?
Policy Agenda
This book is an invitation for you the reader—Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and Ms. Smith—to come to Washington or support those who can. Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State.
This book is the product of more than 400 scholars and policy experts from across the conservative movement and around the country. Contributors include former elected officials, world-renowned economists, and veterans from four presidential Administrations. This is an agenda prepared by and for conservatives who will be ready on Day One of the next Administration to save our country. The Heritage Foundation is once again facilitating this work, but as our dozens of partners and hundreds of authors will attest, this book is the work of the entire conservative movement.
The next conservative President will enter office on January 20, 2025, with a simple choice: greatness or failure. It will be a daunting test, but no more so than every other generation of Americans has faced and passed. The Conservative Promise represents the best effort of the conservative movement in 2023—and the next conservative President’s last opportunity to save our republic.
Save our country and republic from WHAT? And why should I have to buy and read a BOOK to understand what their plans are? Moving on….
On page 19 of their book, we read the following:
America’s Bicentennial, which culminated on July 4, 1976, was a spirited and unifying celebration of our country, its Founding, and its ideals. As we approach our nation’s 250th anniversary, which will take place during the next presidency, America is now divided between two opposing forces: woke revolutionaries and those who believe in the ideals of the American revolution. The former believe that America is—and always has been—“systemically racist” and that it is not worth celebrating and must be fundamentally transformed, largely through a centralized administrative state. The latter believe in America’s history and heroes, its principles and promise, and in everyday Americans and the American way of life. They believe in the Constitution and republican government. Conservatives—the Americanists in this battle—must fight for the soul of America, which is very much at stake.
More false buzzwords. At the time of the American Revolution, race based slavery was an institution in the southern states. It took a civil war and the passage of the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery. Additional Constitutional Amendments (the 14th and 15th) enabled the federal government to stop states from passing laws to discriminate against newly freed slaves. You know who favored slavery and also championed the concept of “states rights” in opposition to federal authorities banning racist policies in southern states? CONSERVATIVES! And after the Reconstruction period, they won control of the southern states and were able to force racist policies and laws anyway, and it wasn’t until the mid-20th Century that the Supreme Court and the Congress began to change things in accordance to the 14th and 15th Amendments.
Many of America’s “heros” were slaveowners, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Are these promoters of Project 2025 saying we should accept slavery again because some of our Founding Fathers owned slaves? Moving on to page 283…..
When our Founders wrote in the Constitution that the federal government would “promote the general Welfare,” they could not have fathomed a massive bureaucracy that would someday spend $3 trillion in a single year—roughly the sum, combined, spent by the departments covered in this section in 2022. Approximately half of that colossal sum was spent by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) alone—the belly of the massive behemoth that is the modern administrative state. HHS is home to Medicare and Medicaid, the principal drivers of our $31 trillion national debt. When Congress passed and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law these programs, they were set on autopilot with no plan for how to pay for them. The first year that Medicare spending was visible on the books was 1967. From that point on through 2020—according to the American Main Street Initiative’s analysis of o cial federal tallies—Medicare and Medicaid combined cost $17.8 trillion, while our combined federal deficits over that same span were $17.9 trillion. In essence, our deficit problem is a Medicare and Medicaid problem.
So….what was the amount of our Defense spending in 2022?
https://www.google.com/search?q=u.s.+defense+budget+2022
The United States’ defense budget for fiscal year (FY) 2022 was $782 billion, as agreed upon by a bipartisan group in March 2022. This was part of a $1.5 trillion budget for the year, which helped avoid a government shutdown. However, actual military spending in 2022 was closer to $1.537 trillion, which is more than double the officially acknowledged amount. This increase was largely due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, after which the U.S. provided over 40 billion euros in military aid to the country.
So where the hell did the Project 2025 people get that 3 trillion dollar amount regarding welfare spending from? If they want to cut that, why not cut military spending as well? Oh, wait, Republicans have always favored MORE Defense spending, not less. As often do Democrats.
The real problem with our deficits is Republicans cutting taxes to the rich instead of making them pay their fair share of the responsibility for maintaining our way of life. Those that have more should naturally pay more.
Speaking of Defense issues, we read this on page 87:
“Ever since our Founding,” former acting secretary of defense Christopher Miller writes in Chapter 4, “Americans have understood that the surest way to avoid war is to be prepared for it in peace.” Yet the Department of Defense “is a deeply troubled institution.” It has emphasized leftist politics over military readiness, “Recruiting was the worst in 2022 that it has been in two generations,” and “the Biden Administration’s profoundly unserious equity agenda and vaccine mandates have taken a serious toll.” Additionally, Miller writes that “the atrophy of our defense industrial base, the impact of sequestration, and effective disarmament by many U.S. allies have exacted a high toll on America’s military.” Moreover, our military has adopted a risk-averse culture—think of masked soldiers, sailors, and airmen—rather than instilling and rewarding courage in thought and action.
You know this is all in code, right? The “profoundly unserious equity agenda” must refer to allowing LGBT people to join the military. “Vaccine mandates” refer to efforts to stop the spread of covid 19 and other diseases, which would naturally weaken our troops and therefore our defense abilities. What idiots!
Then on page 657 of the book:
The next Administration must prioritize the economic prosperity of ordinary Americans. For several decades, establishment “elites” have failed the citizenry by refusing to secure the border, outsourcing manufacturing to China and elsewhere, spending recklessly, regulating constantly, and generally controlling the country from the top down rather than letting it flourish from the bottom up.
Lies. Most of the outsourcing to China and elsewhere is a direct result of the globalization of capitalism, which is not the fault of governments, but of private corporations obsessed, quite naturally, with making their profit margins as large as possible. It would take government action to BAN such outsourcing. As for securing the border, I think that is code for keeping more non-English speaking people of color from coming here to seek a better life, which is racist by nature.
I have read enough of this shit. We must oppose this SCAM with all our might. We must save America from THEM!
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