03-15-2017, 10:41 AM
(03-14-2017, 06:13 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(03-14-2017, 05:51 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:Quote:I'm assuming that was supposed to be some kind subtle jab insinuating that concerns over Russian influence are a modern day witch hunt...
No, no, that was a not-so-subtle jab over campus hysterics, which we have discussed recently.
I am disappointed in you, Odin. I expect Eric to be stupid, you I just hold to be tragically misguided. You're not helping my case right now.
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.