Text 18193, 51 rader
Skriven 2011-05-04 06:30:54 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 18030 av Gary Perkins (1711.fido_news)
Ärende: Names will never hurt me.
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Replying to a message of Gary Perkins to Björn Felten:


 GP> I agree.  I support my military only insofaras it's our citizen's
 GP> asses behind the guns.  I rarely agree with the orders that have
 GP> been given of late.  Recently I stated that I was happy Osama was
 GP> killed.  I am, only so that that chapter is behind us.  Maybe the
 GP> nation can start focusing domestically again.  If I had my way,
 GP> the Libertarian party might finally get enough elected officials
 GP> in to start tearing down most of these social and defense
 GP> programs.  The individual states can handle most of the social
 GP> programs themselves.

The states used to do exactly that - back around 1960 the feds moved in. 
That's
about the time that the word "welfare" was replaced with "entitlement."

Problem was that people were moving to states that had benerous welfare
bernefits,
my parents were complaining in the late 1950s that people were moving to
California
to get on that state's gravy train.  Complaints from state taxpayers caused
states and
localities to try to implement some sorts of residency requirements before
anyone would
become eligible to receive those benefits - that sort of thing was ruled
unConstitutional
by the federal courts.

 GP>  I never saw the sense in taxing the entire
 GP> country, and then handing the money back to the states.  Nuts.

There's nothing in the Constitution that enables the national government to
collect taxes
for subordinate jursidictions, it just does it.  All federal aid to states,
cities and localities
is not supported by the Constitution, it just happens.  Note that probably 85%
of the
national government's activities have no support in the US Constitution.

 GP> I'd like to see more money go into the Coast Guard and National
 GP> Guard, and less into these ultra-high tech machines.  Sure, we can
 GP> use a few, never know when another world war may come around and
 GP> they'd be useful. But why do we need to capability to take a small
 GP> country in a few days or a week?

I'd like to see the Coast Guard confine its activities to US territorial
waters.

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