[marron]

While we are talking about getting back to the fundamentals, I want to suggest that an important reform will be the return of federal land to the states, along with the agencies that administer the land.

BLM, Forestry, Wildlife, and others should become state agencies, so that their employees answer to the people directly affected by their policies.

Every federal agency should have to underego examination to determine why it should remain federal, rather than be divided into 50 separate state agencies. Some should obviously be eliminated altogether, and some should legitimatedly remain federal.

But the constitution provides that the "default" is state control. Time to get back to that. I realize that if we don't have the muscle to shut down the National Endowment for the Arts, or the National Education Association, breaking up the Forestry Service is going to be tough.

[Jim Robinson]

Every federal agency should have to underego examination to determine if they are authorized by the Constitution. If not, they should be disbanded and any assets sold off and the proceeds returned to the treasury. If the individual states wish to continue the function, and the state constitutions allow it, and the state legislatures vote it in, so be it.