http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2010/12/giving-states-veto-is-bad-idea.html
Monday, December 20, 2010
Giving states the veto is a bad idea
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I would dismiss this as a joke, but given the looniness we’ve seen grow on the issue of federal power it obviously is not a joke.
The this, in this case, is an amendment that would grant state legislatures the power to repeal federal law — two-thirds of all state legislatures would need to vote for repeal. It has the backing of folks in 12 states (the story says legislatures, including New Jersey, when it needs to be made clear that full legislatures are not on board in most cases) and some in Congress — which leaves me wondering if anyone is thinking clearly out there.
The amendment is being pushed as a way to trim federal sails and force national lawmakers to consider the impact of their actions on the states, which sounds logical in theory but would create chaos in practice and do little more than further empower small states and, more ominously, make progressive reform impossible.
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So how do YOU prevent “unfunded mandates”?
The Dead Old White Guys HATE democracy as “mob rule”. And, we are PROVING them correct.
The Seventeenth Amendment killed the feedback loop from Trenton to DC.
Will the Trenton crooks pick better crooks that the bosses do for “We, The Sheeple” in Nu Jerzee to rubber stamp?
I bet yes. For only one reason, Trenton Crook wpuld pick someone to go to DC and make sure that (1) they were no unfunded mandates; (2) they “get” as much as they “give”; and (3) conduct that causes “We, The Sheeple” to get upset (more) with Trenton is not tolerated.
Sorry, but you “Secular Progressive Socialists” have to remember the words of the Iron Lady! “The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” –Margaret Thatcher
The States’ “veto” is just trying to de facto repeal the Seventeenth.
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