(March 22, 2012 at 7:04 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote:(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 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.
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!
We will still have/need a federal government, but it does not need to be so redundant and over powering, in the constitution it states what the purpose of the federal government is. Common defense and security, standardization of currency and interstate commerce regulation, seems to be the simple version of it. Not sure why states can then not regulate the rest on their own.
What southern legislation are you referring too? It's up to the people of the states to choose their laws. But IMO we need less laws not more, these politicians feel the need to always create a new law or some new regulation, its crazy. Local politicians are corrupt as well, we need to do a clean sweep of this 2 party system because the 2 party system controls local governments as well.
No one can tell me that things have been getting better over the last 30 years. Dem or Republican, they can't fix shit, cause it is not in their interest to actually fix anything! They are all controlled by monied interests, and in turn the politicians make "laws" to enfranchise these people, then those interestest give money back to keep the politicans in power.
The PEOPLE of the US need more POWER to control their country. We should not delegate our duties as citizens to "representatives" that say they have our best interests at heart. They are mostly lying sociopaths.
IMO we the people have allowed this government to run rampant and take our freedoms away and our ability to live a comfortable life. Dems and R's all the same. Obama has continued most of GWB policies. Even enacted his own like NDAA.
