Posted on 02/27/2017 10:23:38 AM PST by ForYourChildren
Promising to focus the federal government on the security of Americans, the economy and infrastructure, President Trump told the nation’s governor’s Monday at the White House they will have more authority under his administration.
Trump said the federal government will do “whatever we can to restore authority to the states, when that is the appropriate thing to do,” aiming to “give you back a lot of the powers that have been taken away.”
“We have to let the states compete and see who has the best solutions,” Trump said. “States are different. People are different.”
But he said that, going forward, “governors are going to have a lot more decision making ability than they have now.”
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This is good.
It will be interesting to see how this gets played out.
Federalism works.
It’s okay in principle except for single-payer healthcare and recreational pot. We have to have federal guidelines on certain things.
But Trump’s not a Conservative.
/neocon RINO whine
Good to be a “United States” again, or at least go in that direction.
Instead of the “United States of America” ould have been better in 1789 to have named the country the “Republic of the United States of America” or similar. The left today would have less of a leg to stand on constantly referring to “the democracy”.
“We have to have federal guidelines on certain things.”
Really? Since when?
And are those “federal guidelines” legal (constitutional)?
If those “federal guidelines” aren’t specifically listed in the constitution, then they are illegal. If those “federal guidelines” are such a good idea and a necessity, then pass an amendment making them legal. Until they are specifically listed in the constitution, then they are illegal.
The act of a dictator? lol
Why can't the solution be clinic-style medicine for first aid solutions only? Just that much competition would keep prices in line.
Yes, this is the right thing to do.
And who knows? The states might like calling the shots and being the master of their own destiny, as per the Constitution..
Bravo, President Trump.
I believe that was sarcasm
The states never legitimately lost their constitutional sovereignty, only in perception and practice. The states’ capitulation of their constitutional sovereignty to the feds has been in direct proportion to their addiction to federal funds. It’s all about the money and the feds have been the Master Extortionists.
But it’s all a ruse. The states could and should exercise their constitutional, financial and political independence and sovereignty in nullifying and rejecting unconstitutional federal acts. The problem has been the weak-kneed governors and politicians who are much more concerned about their own political careers than the future and freedom of their state and citizens.
Please, my village idiot aka “Governor Malloy” can’t handle the authority he already has, he sure doesn’t need anymore.
Exactly so. Whenever you hear them use the phrase “our democracy”, just delete whatever came before and after it because it is BS, every time.
Now maybe there is an opportunity here: what if WE were to always and only refer to the USA as “our republic”?
Of course the cocoa-sipping PJ-boys would get their noses out of joint because even the word would be considered a microaggression, but who cares?
It’s our republic, after all!
“I believe that was sarcasm”
ok, too straight faced for me to pick up on.. Sorry.
Giving power back to the Malloys and Cuomos of the world will hasten the demise of liberal blue states.
Let each of the states oversee their own education system, and make the Fed Dept of Ed disappear.
I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the Republic for which it stands... C'mon, there are a thousand ways to prove the United States was created as, and has always incontrovertibly been considered a Republic until the 1980s. The left just covers it ears and screams, "The Mob Rules!!"
More winning - the blue states think this is great until the bills come due and no Fed to bail them out.
No, things like that is exactly why federalism (strong states, weak central government) works.
Colorado and Washington should be free to legalize pot. The other states though should shut up, hop off the bandwagon and study the results. If there is no negative effect after 5-10 years, get back on the bandwagon. If drug abuse, deaths, other drug use and unemployment rises, stay away.
Same with single payer and almost every other thing. If one state wants to be cradle to grave nanny state and another wants to eliminate welfare, have at it.
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