[K-oneTexas]

I would agree.

Repeal the 13th and 17th Amendments. Tax Reform and Spending reform are mandatory.

Steps needed at the Cabinet level, giving them a specific purpose and a clear mission:

1) Abolish the FED. Totally and completely.

2) Abolish the Department of Education. Belongs with the States, and the Dep’t of Ed truthfully educates no one.

3) Smaller Dep’t of the Interior - by release all federal lands back to the States with the exception of National Parks.

4) Dep’t of Health should have Medicare, Medicaid (if we actually can keep them and sustain them) and the Surgeon General, public health & medical research (CDC and such) at the federal level.

5) Put ALL welfare programs under Dep’t of Welfare to downgrade duplication and multiple funds being disbursed to numerous agencies.

6) Create a Sunset Commission to backstop Congress and review ALL laws and force repeal of outmoded, outdated and duplicative statutes.

7) Close Import/Export Bank, Overseas private Investment Corp to name a few independent agencies (including funding).

8) Shut down US participation in the UN, World Court, WTO and other international treaty organizations (including funding).

We should end up with (roughly): Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce & Labor (incl Nat’l Labor relations Board), Natural Resources, Justice, VA, Treasury and Interior.

If we need to oversee the financial markets that may best be done with a small commission and it could take ALL financial matters. Including those of the Securities & Exchange Commission, Commodities Futures Trading Commission and the like.

Just an idea or two to start. No additional commissions or agencies are needed. Already too much duplication of effort and excessive spending.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

(I know it was a typo, but we should not abolish the 13th Amendment, the Abolition of Slavery.) Also, there currently is no enumerated federal authority for any kind of welfare.

Other issues for consideration, likely in a constitutional convention, as there are too many for individual consideration:

Flat Income Tax Amendment;

Balanced Budget Amendment;

Presidential Line Item Veto Amendment;

National Census Enumeration Only Amendment;

Personal Information and Records Limitation Amendment;

Corporate Civil Rights Distinct From The Civil Rights Of Living Persons Amendment;

Oligopoly Antitrust Amendment;

Presidential War Powers and Posse Comitatus Amendments;

Limitations on Presidential Authority To Declare Martial Law Amendment;

Presidential Authority Only Through Cabinet Officers, Appointment and Impeachment of Cabinet Officers Amendment; Term Limits for Recess Appointments;

Congressional Approval of Bureaucratic Regulatory Authority Amendment;

Creation of a State Appointed Constitutional Review Court Amendment (50 State Judges To Sit As a Federal Nullification Court);

Reorganization of Federal Judiciary Amendment;

Amendment for the Reduction of the Size and Authority of the Federal Government and Enabling Acts;

Writ of Mandamus Amendment;

Congressional and Judicial Term Limits Amendment;

Restoration of State Lands from Federal Land Takings and Limitations of Eminent Domain Amendment;

Delineation of a National Tribal Congress for Indigenous Peoples Amendment (renegotiation of treaties and integration of tribal and commercial law).

Limitations of Federal Intelligence and Police Authority, Surveillance and Records Retention Amendment;

Renunciation of the National Debt Amendment;

Abolition of the FED Amendment;

Prohibition of Federal Largess to Individuals Amendment;

Restrictions on Earmarks, Single Subject Congressional Act Amendment;

Abolition of Government Employee Unions Amendment;