Should we move to strengthen states powers and reduce Federal powers since the nation seems so divided?

Question

Truth seeker- You left out Moveon.org, the ACLU, Media Matters, and many members of the Democrat Party. Namely Hillary Clinton who's positon changes as the winds do.

Answer 1

we be better off getting rid of the cancer that is causing the division in this country. We all know it is Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Levin, and any other clone that preaches the hate, misinformation, half-truths, and full lies that they preach.

If these guys were Liberals, the Patriot Act police would have arrested them and threw them in GITMO a long time ago.

** by all means, include the organizations you mention. However, I truly feel that the ones I have listed have caused far more divisiveness than the ones you listed. In fact , if the ones I listed weren't so divisive, the ones you have listed probably wouldn't even exist.

Answer 2

I don't think those enterainers mentioned by truth seeker nor the organizations you mention are causing divide in America. Nor do I think that America is all that divided in the first place.
Americans are frustrated, not divided. There is a leadership on Capital Hill, this includes both sides of the aisle, that is not offering the solution the Americans want for the troubles we are facing.
This is the center of the debate, which way do we go. We need a leadership that will give us a vision, a path we can undertake together.
The problem I see is that the majority of Americans do not want the extreme left nor the extreme right approach to government anymore. But neither party is offering moderate leadership.
Conservative Republicans need to admit to themselves that George W Bush has not done a good job for the country. It doesn't matter that he may be a fine example of any ideology that Republicans believe in. He has left the country in one heck of a mess. The mess is not the fault of the Republican party. It is the fault of GWB.
The country is so dissatisfied with the job done by Bush that we are now in the danger of electing the first truly socialistic president to set foot in the White House, Hillary Clinton.
It's a sad day.

Answer 3

I think we should go back to the Constitution as it was written.

1) Senator appointed by state governments, not elected by the people.

2) Presidential electors chosen by popular vote, not a direct vote for President.

3) The Federal government only having authority over those things that the States agreed to: the enumerated powers mentioned in the Constitution.

4) Requiring a Constitutional Amendment, not a Constitutional 5/4 decision, to allow the Federal gvt to take control of anything not already in the Constitution.

And that's just at the high level.

Answer 4

Same old bickering going back and forth... and nobody ever changes their positions or looks honestly at the stupidity of all these groups mentioned both on the left and the right (I guess Rush is big enough to be a group!).

We are such a transitional society now, mainly because of our loss of family and the way corporations are able to treat people, if more powers were given to the states, you would have trouble keeping up with the laws in each state you move to.

If I can have my own state, I'm for it.

Answer 5

Since I live in Louisiana, I certainly don't want my state government running anything!

But the federal government needs to be reduced. The problem is how. Well, start with the social programs and the pork barrel projects. Eliminate the judicial system from writing laws from the bench.


NOTE for Truth Seeker, the ones who create the division in this country are those who promote socialism, namely the liberal democrats. It clearly seems that when the truth is actually presented to you, you are looking the other way or have your head in the sand so you can claim you didn't hear or know. Typical liberal with no clue.

Answer 6

Absolutely yes! And I am most strongly in favor of repealing and replacing the 14th Amendment, Section 1. That provision ("No state shall make or enforce any law which abridges the privileges or immunities of the citizens of the United States, nor deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.") is definately in need of revision. It needs to be more carefully and narrowly written.

And doing so will return to the states a whole lot of the power that has been usurped from them by the U.S. Sup. Ct.

I've been talking about this here for a long time.
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Answer 7

I've always thought that the states should have more powers to do things differently and then the other states could watch and see what works best.

This would work with education, welfare, health insurance, illegal immigration and lots of other things.

The federal government can't design one program that would work for every state so they should stop trying.

Answer 8

YES! Secession talks are already underway. That's not the solution at all but I don't think anyone is against reducing the federal govt.

Answer 9

Initially that is how it all was supposed to be set up but along the way....