Oh so this is a states rights issue, like you are ok with the state government regulating as opposed to the federal?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
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Oh so this is a states rights issue, like you are ok with the state government regulating as opposed to the federal?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Correct. Washington needs to get knocked down several pegs to get back within the powers they are supposed to have.
As little as absolutely necessary always means "just a little less than we have now" when you're concerned tho'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Constitution gave Washington quite a few powers you seem to dislike them having. True story brah.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Go on and explain which ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bojack
No, it's a lot less than they have now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bojack
That is true, but they are also exercising ones it didn't give them.Quote:
Constitution gave Washington quite a few powers you seem to dislike them having. True story brah.
Keep in mind the Constitution was designed to protect us from them, not the other way around.
That's one way to look at parts of it, I guess. But not the only one.
We tried the super-tiny federal government with almost no power. It was a massive failure.
Everything the federal government does is a massive failure, so limiting the scope almost by definition can't be a bad thing.
Obamacare is such a glorious example of the federal government. A bunch of idiots wrote a bill about stuff they didn't understand, more idiots signed it without reading or understanding it, a whole new set of idiots are getting to make up the rules as they go along, and it's missed over half it's committed dates, some intentionally due to the idiots who voted for the damn thing not wanting to be held accountable for its outcome in 2014.
The October 1st deadline is going to be missed.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;Quote:
Originally Posted by Advocate
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
This is just a starter bit. All I've ever really heard Yoshi ever say is that Washington should build bombs and roads and basically nothing else and everything else should be left to the states because he seems to think that somehow that would make government less corrupt or intrusive so basically Yoshi is seemingly still nursing a hard on for the Confederacy in 2013.
The Confederacy was pretty intrusive.
And there is no way to know what their stance would have been on modern issues. Shit, they might have loved abortion, or not had a problem with it, if you go back to when men thought women and their children were property. We're talking about a government defending rich white men who thought it was ok to work a man to death or beat him to death IF he 'owned' him.