but if fed congress and senate were forced to be part time that means more things delegated to state (where they should be), and less time needed in fed. Less legislation needing to be passed. Push more lobbyists down to state level.
As far as "knowing how shit works" lol @ any of those jokers knowing how anything in real life works. They know how politics in Washington works, yeah (completely corrupt). But that's part of what needs to be changed. Take the politics out of politics and get down to business.
Nothing's going to change anyway...at least not for the better for the people (politicians yes). Maybe another revolution?
You are definitely on to something unlike the others who posted their alarming, overgeneralized opinions.The social science term that is escaping you is called "federalism."
Federalism:a union of states under a central government distinct from that of the separate states, who retain certain individual powers under the central government (Websters). This what the founders wanted when they framed the constitution. The framers knew they had to replace the
Articles of Confederation because they knew the Articles did not establish a workable governing system in which the state and federal governments could exist with each one with its own discrete purpose. Consequently, you have the Bill of Rights, which confirms what you were trying to say.
The Tenth Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Prior to the Progressive Movement (1890-1920), there was minimal government intervention with states, states were pretty much sovereign bodies. However, the robber barons were engaging in
monopoly-capitalism, which started somewhat of a "revolution." People resorted to anarchism, communism, and numerous labor stikes were occurring. Hence, this brought the government in to implement regulation and a host of other government entities, which took power away from the states and expanded the Federal Government. That was totally contrary to how the founders wanted the Federal Government to function.
In "
Federalist 39," James Madison wrote, in part, "Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution." Now it is a NATIONAL constitution...
Moreover, thanks to presidents like Wilson who, signed the 17th Amendment, with the ratification of the states (which caused the state's demise), changed the method by which senators were chosen. Senators were selected by the "state legislatures - ensuring that the state governments would have a direct voice in the operation of federal government, but the 17th Amendment splintered that in a million pieces, that is why senators are so political nowadays, and operate from self-preservation rather than for the people..
Then you have FDR's New Deal, which expanded governement. LBJ's War on Poverty, which expanded government. Bush and Obama going on spending frenzies to bailout businesses, in return taking them over, and again expanding government...
The federal government is enormous and it is never going to deflate. The federal bureaucracy consists of a workforce of nearly 2 million civilian people, with a budget over $3 trillion a year. There are nearly one thousand federal departments, agencies, and divisions that make laws and enforce them. The official compilation of rules issued by the federal government, the Federal Register, contained 74,937 pages of regulations in 2006. The estimated cost of simply complying with these regulations was $1.14 trillion. The National Taxpayers Union estimated that in 2006, US businesses and individuals spent 6.65 billion hours struggling to comply with the complexities of the tax code, at a cost of $156.5 billion in lost productivity for businesses alone.
It is gone and it is never coming back, government is way to big now, it would take 100 years to cut it in half..
References:
Mark Levin,
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto.
The Federalist Papers,
Hamilton, Madison, Jay.
Lori Montgomery, "Congress Passes $3 Trillion Budget,"
Washington Post, June 6, 2008, A03.
"LSU Libraries Federal Agencies Directory," Louisiana State University, July 23, 2007,
LSU Libraries --
Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr., "Ten Thousand Commandments 2007: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State," Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2000, 2.
David Keating, "A Taxing Trend: The Rise in Complexity, Forms, and Paperwork Burdens," NTU Policy Paper 124, National Taxpayers Union, April 16, 2007, 3.
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