Thank you. Very well said. But you're a real radical, aren't you? I thought that I was bad because I want to eliminate about 90%. (Between you and me, for now I'd settle to clean up the waste, fraud, duplication, and mismanagement. That should take care of the 'need' for an income tax. I'll wait until next year for the unconstitutional stuff to go away.)
I'm looked at as a radical because I want the Constitution followed. How amazing! It IS the Supreme Law of the Land and no one has shown me a statute that has repealed it or an amendment that has repealed the Bill of Rights. Yet the Constitution is ignored by our Rulers and scoffed at by the posters. One said that we can't go back to 1776. Well, we don't have to. The Constitution has never been repealed.
The Constitution is the standard that should be looked to for answers. Otherwise, where do we find them? What some politician thinks? What some poster thinks? What 51% of the voters think? The people that are flippant about the Constitution -- those who do not treat the Supreme Law of the Land with the respect it deserves, are threatening our very freedom, albeit unwittingly in most cases.
It is just so amazing how the folks who want the Constitution followed are labelled as the radicals. What a country we've become. I have no hope for us. Really.