The Governments Job

     So I hear all the time about how the government should do this or do something about that ....  Really??? ok, look, we have a document in the country that outlines what the governments job is, sets up the frame work for various branches to accomplish it's tasks, and direct and limit what it can and can not do.  This document is the United States Constitution.  Problem is, we keep asking the government to do more and more things neither required nor expressly allowed in the constitution.  Things like, protect the environment, educate children, feed the poor, house the homeless, collect income taxes, and even choose what light bulbs we can use .....  None of this is the federal governments job.  Of course, there are a ton of people out there who will tell you that they (the federal government) have to do these things.  The fact is they not only don't have to do them, but there is absolutely NO constitutional authority for them to do them.  As a matter of fact, most of these things could much better be handled separately by the several states,  and by local (county, city, and village) governmental bodies.  We do not need the Department of education.  We do not need the Environmental Protection Agency.  We do not need Federal Housing, or welfare of any kind.  We don't really need a Department of Energy (although I will grant you that a much better argument can be made for it that the others).  We sure as hell don't need the wholly unconstitutional Affordable Care Act.  These things are not the governments job.  They are the states jobs, and the peoples.  You could solve a lot of problems by just reading the Constitution and throwing out every federal law, regulation, program, and agency that is not expressly called for and/or allowed in it, and making the states and local governments start fulfilling their role in the hierarchy of government as out founding fathers envisioned.



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