Use emergency powers to dismantle the deep state we're fighting against. The federal government should be one of the smallest employers, not the largest. Throw out all of Congress - we don't have time or patience for a "means test."
Every Deoartment needs to cease to exist.
Policy and legislation should only come from Congress. Repeal the popular election of senators. The Senate should return to the Constitutional rule that "all legislation must originate in the house" and stop striking entire bills as a loophole.
If Congress wants to prove it works for the people and not themselves and monied interests they would pass legislation mandating that the entirety of a bill must be contextually related to the rest of the bill - self enforced pre-emptive "line item veto"
Our government is out of control. It is oversized. It is not representative. It is not sustainable. It is asking to be replaced. It is begging to be reminded how new nation's are born.
Kill the ATF too and repeal the NFA and down with the fed and income tax
Thanks - I figured if I included everything it would get a little long. I reason if we're teasing another depression, can we just roll back to 1912?
Merge the ATF, DEA, US Marshals, and the FBI into one agency. Limit that agency to the law enforcement powers granted to the federal government by the Constitution.
Agree. Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms are already legal.
How the F do we keep spending more and more on education? Then a study came out recently that kids know nothing about geography and history.
I'm a high school teacher, and I've got some speculation on this. The fact of the matter is the for the better part of 30 years, the education system has been emphasizing Math and English, and has been been adopting a more holistic approach to teaching. So we are not just expected to teach our subject, we are expected to fill in for the parents, giving life advice, teaching how to act in public, feeding them breakfast and lunch. All while potentially having to fight with some Karen who thinks that her special snowflake should get an A in the class even though he didn't do anything all semester.
I'm not complaining, I love what I do, and I'm thrilled I can get paid to do it, I just want to give some context for what life is like for rank and file educators out there.
Schools themselves do more for kids than they did in the past. Free lunches and breakfasts are common, afterschool programs are common, many schools have nurses and psychologists, Federal regulations and fear of lawsuits mire even simple tasks in layers of red tape, Special Education laws make dealing with low functioning kids messy, and complicated. The administration demands are such that even medium sized high schools will commonly have multiple vice principles and multiple dean's each in charge of some different administrative service,and they are all busy.
The simple fact of the matter is that like all things, Federal regulations have been passed to make schools act like they care about the kids and their employees. This has increased the money, effort and time required to educate kids. For schools and staff that actually do care, these regulations get in the way and overcomplicate what should be a fairly simple interaction .
On top of all this there has been a lot of research into how kids learn that's been done in the last 50 years, much of the research done in the US, that schools have been very slow to adopt, because there is now pressure to. Our schools are in a weird place of being semiautonomous, being less centralized than those of other countries, but being more centralized than private schools. As long as they get most of their funding from outside the local community, and people don't care about school boards, there won't be a strong reason to update teaching practices.
Anyways, I hope you can see there's an entire world here, and, like most things there aren't easy answers. It took 60 years for the education system to get as gummed up as it is, it will take a lot of time and effort to get it working properly again, just like everything else government has corrupted in that time period.
It’s all about teachers lining their pockets. They continue to insist they’re underpaid and that test scores would improve if they were only paid more. So we listen to them and pay them more but scores don’t improve and the teachers point to their low pay as the reason. And round and round it goes.
Re: legislation & congress
also, wait... so you want senators to be picked, how? like by a committee of collegiate experts, or out of a hat?
that's gonna be a hard pass from me dog
Sorry - I had over expanded the origination clause in my head, which clearly only applies to revenue bills. (first clause of section 7)
Senators were originally appointed by the state legislators, not elected, as they represent the interest of the states. (Section 3 of Constitution), but was changed to popular election by the 17th amendment.
Sounds good.Never happen.
You couldn't let me pretend for more than 4 minutes? 🥺
Sorry.
Yeah, any of that will happen.
Start with term limits.
There should be a department of State, Treasury, War, Justice, and Interior. Everything else is either folded into those departments or eliminated. If you're keeping count, that's ten federal executive departments eliminated.
Abolish congress. No more middlemen. We have the technology now that makes them superfluous. Without a few hundred congress reps always getting in our way and selling us out to special interests we would be so much better off as a country.
I don't believe they need to dissolve all these entities, they certainly are not governing bodies, but they certainly are not the branches of government either. They problem, just as the government, they are too big. They need to be downsized extremely and reformed with honest thinking people within their respective fields. They should be paid very minimal, not millions nor billions.