Who broke the USA ?

Quote from Tsing Tao:

Why wouldn't I? It was a genuine compliment. Something rare around here.
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Lots of people like compliments, but you LOVE them. That's what I was getting at.
 
Quote from EvOTraderV2:

You need 2/3 of the states' legislators to amend the constitution. None of the powers to regulate the environment are legal - constitutionally speaking. That's why regulatory bodies don't use the court system. They have their own courts where they are judge, jury and executioner and that is a very dangerous precedent.

We do need environmental protection but you have to ask yourself if the interests of the EPA are at all aligned with the interests of people who want to stop polluting? They generally aren't. The lawyers working there are just doing what's best for themselves personally.

There is also the issue of the EPA's financiers using the agency to combat innovate energy sources. Right now, there is a full-on-war against any type of alternative energy source. Anything that comes out is defiant of federal regulations in one way or another. I would rather live in a world where we have clean energy than have the government control energy. Government will only do what is most profitable for themselves. Markets tend to sway in the way of what is more profitable for the consumer.
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The first sentence was good. The rest of the post is largely nonsense.
 
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Of course not. There are some things the Federal Government is the only entity capable of accomplishing. But these responsibilities are very limited - foreign policy, issuing of debt, military, immigration, etc.
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.....environmental protection, education standards, disaster relief, interstate highways, food safety, drug safety, regulation of the banks Wall St. and corporations, energy policy, social welfare, science research.....


really, there is little that states are more capable of doing except local issues like hunting/fishing regulations and stupid shit like banning the teaching of evolution in the schools.
 
Quote from futurecurrents:

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.....environmental protection, education standards, disaster relief, interstate highways, food safety, drug safety, regulation of the banks Wall St. and corporations, energy policy, social welfare, science research.....


really, there is little that states are more capable of doing except local issues like hunting/fishing regulations and stupid shit like banning the teaching of evolution in the schools.
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Now THAT is stupid.
 
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.....environmental protection, education standards, disaster relief, interstate highways, food safety, drug safety, regulation of the banks Wall St. and corporations, energy policy, social welfare, science research.....


really, there is little that states are more capable of doing except local issues like hunting/fishing regulations and stupid shit like banning the teaching of evolution in the schools.
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Actually states are far more adept at servicing their citizens than the Federal Government trying to force a one size fits all policy.

Education standards - Core, say no more.
Disaster Relief - should be funded at the federal level, administered by the state (with state national guard).
highways - states already handle local roads just fine and could easily handle interstate roads in their boundaries. In fact, they already administer it, have it bid on and just get money from the Feds.
Food safety - agree, best in Federal hands.
Drug safety - Goes with food safety, hence the "Food and Drug" administration.
Regulation of banks - yeah, they've done such a great job on that at the federal level. LOL!
Energy Policy - complete waste of time and money. Dept of energy, originally created to get us off foreign oil decades ago. Recent phenomenal successes in Green Energy companies (Solyndra, etc).
Social welfare - States administer most of that now, they just get a good portion of the money from the Feds.
Science Research - private industry does this best, but grants could (and should) be made available by states through tax incentives, etc. to eliminate corruption at the Federal level.
 
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