Trump's Cabinet Nominees
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I might be the best thing. When people have to work together they have to compromise, listen to each other's view as opposed to just talking up their own agendas.
Who knows? The nominees who have been successful in the business world must know something about negotiating and compromise. And maybe the politicians will learn something. Although that would be a stretch!
President-elect Donald Trump is weighing naming as Food and Drug Administration commissioner a staunch libertarian who has called for eliminating the agency’s mandate to determine whether new medicines are effective before approving them for sale.
“Let people start using them, at their own risk,” the candidate, Jim O’Neill, said in a 2014 speech to a biotech group.
O’Neill, has also called for paying organ donors and setting up libertarian societies at sea—and has said he was surprised to discover that FDA regulators actually enjoy science and like working to fight disease.
...Peter Thiel, the billionaire Trump donor who is helping shape the new administration, is pushing for the FDA appointment for O’Neill, his managing director at Mithril Capital Management.
Trump’s focus on O’Neill was first reported Wednesday morning by Bloomberg.
O’Neill would be an unusual choice. He is not a physician, and lacks the strong science background that nearly all former commissioners have had in recent years.
...O’Neill has proposed that the FDA only require companies to prove drugs are safe before they are sold – not that they actually work.
O’Neill has also said that organ donors should be allowed to be paid. “There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused,” he said in a speech at a 2009 Seasteading conference.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/...their-own-risk-rdquo/?WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20161214
“Let people start using them, at their own risk,” the candidate, Jim O’Neill, said in a 2014 speech to a biotech group.
O’Neill, has also called for paying organ donors and setting up libertarian societies at sea—and has said he was surprised to discover that FDA regulators actually enjoy science and like working to fight disease.
...Peter Thiel, the billionaire Trump donor who is helping shape the new administration, is pushing for the FDA appointment for O’Neill, his managing director at Mithril Capital Management.
Trump’s focus on O’Neill was first reported Wednesday morning by Bloomberg.
O’Neill would be an unusual choice. He is not a physician, and lacks the strong science background that nearly all former commissioners have had in recent years.
...O’Neill has proposed that the FDA only require companies to prove drugs are safe before they are sold – not that they actually work.
O’Neill has also said that organ donors should be allowed to be paid. “There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused,” he said in a speech at a 2009 Seasteading conference.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/...their-own-risk-rdquo/?WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20161214
Ryan Zinke, 55, a Representative from Montana will be nominated as Secretary of the Interior. That is one of the last major Cabinet level appointments.
Zinke is a graduate of U. Oregon in Geology where he was a star football player. He was a member of the elite Seal Team 6 of U.S. Navy Special Forces in Iraq and Middle East with the rank of Commander. He is a hunter and outdoorsman. He's a 'muchos hombre' and vocal skeptic of AGW.
His opinions on protecting Federal Land and Wilderness Reserves, and the National Park System, for which he will be responsible makes him and REAL conservationist, as opposed the phoney urban environmentalism that propels much of the enviro movement.
The main difference is the former sees humans as constructively engaged in an ecological balance, the latter sees humans as usurper and pestilence on an ecological utopia. The first holds the environment as a concrete resource, the second as an abstract meditation.
Zinke is much in the image of Teddy Roosevelt, another 'he man' who extolled the virtues outdoor life and created the National Park Service. Imho, Zinke's view is far healthier and more sustainable for the long term prospects for the planet. He is a supporter of fracking and responsible extraction of mineral resources, including those on federal lands, which he wants to retain as federal assets.
Zinke is a graduate of U. Oregon in Geology where he was a star football player. He was a member of the elite Seal Team 6 of U.S. Navy Special Forces in Iraq and Middle East with the rank of Commander. He is a hunter and outdoorsman. He's a 'muchos hombre' and vocal skeptic of AGW.
His opinions on protecting Federal Land and Wilderness Reserves, and the National Park System, for which he will be responsible makes him and REAL conservationist, as opposed the phoney urban environmentalism that propels much of the enviro movement.
The main difference is the former sees humans as constructively engaged in an ecological balance, the latter sees humans as usurper and pestilence on an ecological utopia. The first holds the environment as a concrete resource, the second as an abstract meditation.
Zinke is much in the image of Teddy Roosevelt, another 'he man' who extolled the virtues outdoor life and created the National Park Service. Imho, Zinke's view is far healthier and more sustainable for the long term prospects for the planet. He is a supporter of fracking and responsible extraction of mineral resources, including those on federal lands, which he wants to retain as federal assets.
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My only dispute with your comments is his Zinke's support of fracking, Coldstream which has not proven to be a very viable method of extraction, IMHO. Other than that, Zinke sounds like just the ticket for this office.
Depressed about what? Are you retarded or what? I don't care about who's president moron. I don't support any side idiot..
Eaglecrack, your attempts at come backs are laughable. Get back to your Messiah and try to not hold the woody in public.
Dummy
The Office of Management and Budget will be be run by SC Congressman Mick Mulvaney, 49, a lawyer with degrees from Georgetown and UNC. He's a member the Freedom Caucus, which is dedicated to libertarian, Free Market economics.. classic NeoCon stuff. They are really opposed to government in general, and federal government in particular.. using the 'balanced budget' argument as a lever for an ideological agenda.
The OMB is largely a role of authoring and regulating the budget. It can be influential. Trump's cabinet and senior operatives have a spectrum of views on social and economic issues, almost all can be defined as conservative, but there is a wide array of competing opinions within that. I'm curious to see just what identity Trump will stamp on it.
The OMB is largely a role of authoring and regulating the budget. It can be influential. Trump's cabinet and senior operatives have a spectrum of views on social and economic issues, almost all can be defined as conservative, but there is a wide array of competing opinions within that. I'm curious to see just what identity Trump will stamp on it.
Trump's Cabinet selections signal a bold shift after Obama
News from The Associated Press
#thankgawd
News from The Associated Press
#thankgawd
The new Secretary of Army will be Vincent Viola, a West Point graduate from humble roots, who started a high velocity trading business (read that as a powerful computer algorithm based high volume trading company) on the New York Mercantile Exchange. He's worth about $1.8 billion. Oh.. he owns the Florida Panthers as well.
Sounds like a Trump Tower knock off, welcome to the Mara-La-Go Club.
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Here's what the sh1t holes Trump is loading his cabinet believe.
Guess you righties are celebrating the return of the 1950's.
Guess you righties are celebrating the return of the 1950's.
