(March 22, 2012 at 6:38 pm)paintpooper Wrote: States rights are what we need. Too many people think that states rights = slavery and forced creationism learning. That's hogwash.
Like Alaska, we can't drill in many places cause of federal laws. We also must export our oil because of federal laws, we can not keep the oil in Alaska to benefit Alaskans. We need our states rights back so we can do what we want with our resources, and not what the federal government wants us to do with them. And no it wouldn't just end up as mad drilling with no environmental foresight. I work for the Alaska environmental protection agency, we would then take over what the EPA does, as most states have all the federal agency counterparts.
Whoah there. What you're proposing is essentially anti-Union (as in The Union, not the labor groups) by allowing the States to arbitrarily set up conflicting laws.
Last I checked, the Articles of Confederation didn't produce a governing body viable to stand on it's own two feet. And yet you're proposing we model our country more like it.
However, one advantage of the AoC was that states could set up different laws. Very states-right-ish.
Do you really want to smoke pot and keep your fucking oil that much that you're willing to let the South get away with enacting lunatic laws?
We've already seen the ridiculous attempts at legislation in the South already, and you'd effectively give them a legal backing. Good grief Charlie Brown!
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