Regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate INTRAstate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Regulating overtime wages reasonably falls under the umbrella of intrastate commerce imo.
Corrupt Congress is letting lawless Obama Administration interfere with state sovereignty because Obama’s overtime edict probably helps to win votes from low-information citizens for state sovereignty-ignoring lawmakers.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump they also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, including putting a stop to unconstitutional federal interference in state affairs, manupulating intrastate overtime pay in this example.
Also consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
I have a theory.
The Rats realize that the national debt is a problem.
They also realize that cutting spending is political suicide (for them).
The only way to fix the problem (in their minds) is to inflate us out of debt.
Inflation is usually bad because historically prices go up and then - eventually - wages go up. There is much economic pain until the wages eventually catch up.
They have discovered that if they can force wages to increase, they can do inflation without the pain. Wages will go up first and prices will follow. People won’t really be earning more, but most will be too stupid to figure that out.
They get the political benefit of “raising” people’s wages AND can make inroads on the debt.