(03-15-2017, 10:41 AM)beechnut79 Wrote:(03-14-2017, 06:13 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Sorry dude, Odin is worse than tragically misguided. Unfortunately he hasn't demonstrated himself to be stupid yet either. Impervious to facts that don't conform to his world view? Certainly but that just means he's more or less normal. I don't often agree with Mr. Bob but he's right in that people don't change their values unless they are harshly shown that they are not working.
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Back on topic.
I would say that to make Government great again you have to make the federal government smaller again. The federal government has a really difficult time being all things to all people--so it should concentrate on the enumerated powers and humans rights as well as defense and turn other issues over to the states.
Welfare should be a state issue. Minimum wage should be a state issue. Healthcare should be a state issue. What the states don't want to do or can't do well should be left to cities and counties to handle.
Like it or not the petrodollar will eventually end and the largess of the federal government will implode in on itself.
This is why there are many who believe that the US as we know it may sooner if not later come to an end. Whether it will break up in the way the old Soviet Union did is uncertain, but there are those who feel that the time has come when the idea of 50 states under one central government no longer makes sense. What will replace it is unclear, but who knows if the day may come when a resident of Illinois would need a passport to visit Wisconsin. Not hoping it will come to that, but probably not totally out of the question.
There is a range of possibilities going from say Great Britain to the way Rome went out. Given the fiscal, military situation and the fact western governments are determined to import people from the third world makes the Roman scenario look very likely. It really depends on the decisions that society makes so it is not destined. Judging from history their governments get bloated and rigid and refuse to live within their means.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises