What's going on is that the constitutionally clueless MSM has wrongly glorified the constitutional powers of the Oval Office and Congress as much as it has made Obama bigger than life in the last several years. The fact is that the states have more government power than the feds. This is evidenced by the following constitutional statutes.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution (emphasis added) in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.Given that the Founders intended for the federal Constitution to limit (cripple) the powers of the federal government, the 10th A. actually reserves to the states the lion's share difference of government powers. So where issues like health care, retirement benefits, public schools and abortion, as examples, are concerned, given that the federal Constitution is silent about these issues, it is the states who have the power to regulate these issues.10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution (emphasis added), nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
In fact, consider Thomas Jefferson's words about the Founder's division of federal and state government powers.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons, our property, our reputation and religious freedom (emphasis added)." --Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801. ME 10:262 http://tinyurl.com/onx4jSo Governors Palin, Jindal and the other governors actually "own" the constitutional powers that the Oval Office and Congress want to have to regulate these issues and have wrongly stolen from the state governments with the help of corrupt, pro-big federal government majority justices.
Yes, it would have been a mistake to send Sarah to DC, in my opinion. This is because Governors Palin, Jindal, and all the other governors, can begin YESTERDAY to use their greater constitutional powers to restore constitutional limits on federal government powers; no need to wait until 2012 if you know about the Founder's division of federal and state government powers as evidenced by the statutes above.
We have the big federal government mess that we do today because constitutionally clueless FDR politically nuked 10th A. protected state powers in the 1930s so that he could establish his constitutionally unauthorized New Deal Federal spending programs.
The truth of the matter is that Governors Palin and Jindal, having more powers to serve the people than President Palin or President Jindal would, or president-elect Obama will have, need to brush up on the Constitution and its history and then lead the other states to do the following. They need to lead the states to reclaim state powers from the state-power usurping federal gorilla (government) and put this gorilla back into its constitutional cage.
No wonder God kept Governor Palin in Alaska.
The truth of the matter is that Governors Palin and Jindal...need to lead the states to reclaim state powers from the state-power usurping federal gorilla (government) and put this gorilla back into its constitutional cage.
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That I agree with completely-—reform has to come from the bottom up- Can’t expect to change the culture from DC to the states, has to be vice versa. Whether it’s Palin, Jindal or whoever- I would hope they would carry the message of the primacy of the states.
Here’s the problem: Provided you reigned the fed back to the constitutional limits as you see them (which I’m not saying are 100% accurate), what’s to keep a subsequent amendment from granting the fed powers you took back, if the demand was there? Sorry, but I think if you cut off the gravy train, it would find it’s way back via an amendment.