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One Man's Thoughts on "Why everything is so screwed up!"
By: Publius, 2-10-17, Michael Hutton, Politics and Current Events,
RE: http://www.patriotinstitute.org/why-...ng-screwed-up/

Let me explain something about why our government is so screwed up. The founders of our country intended for each of the States to manage its own affairs, to regulate its own commerce, and to do all that the citizens of it demanded of it. They intended for government to remain as local as possible because that’s how the local people get what they want. They did not intend for all of America to suffer with ‘one size fits all’ solutions.

But over many generations the Federal Government gradually gathered power to itself, first through giving itself the ability to tax us (before 1919 there was no IRS, no Federal Income Tax). And after that the Federal Reserve was created and the Federal Government then began creating all sorts of agencies to manage affairs on a national level. The EPA, the BLM, and more than 260 agencies have now been created to manage business that was given to the States by our Constitution. (This is all being done under the Constitution’s provision for the Federal Government to regulate commerce between the States but this was a manipulation of that clause to give power to the Fed Gov that the founders certainly did not intend for it.)

As power in the Fed Gov grew so did the budget and so the Fed Gov then began creating all sorts of other excuses to be involved in American’s affairs through creating things like the National Endowment for the Arts, and providing funds for ridiculous science projects and all sorts of crazy things that many Americans do not support. The Federal Government became Big Brother through our permission… because some wanted all the stuff it could provide through taxpayer money.

And through all those payouts the Government kept becoming more and more powerful until now everyone thinks the Federal Government is doing exactly what the Founders intended.
Now what’s happening in the war between Republicans and Democrats is a war for control of the purse. They fight to be in power… not to represent.. not to ensure the American People get what they want (which is not even their job to provide in the first place about all that matters in our daily lives, that is for the States) but to make sure that the purse gets divided among all those they want to provide for.. those that helped them with their campaigns, etc. We are not represented in our government because we have permitted power to be centralized in the Federal Government.

"The purpose of the federal government is to protect is to protect our constitution and natural rights, not to restrict or inhibit them."

The political theater that’s going on.. this fight over Trump and what he’s doing.. it’s all about power. Permitting the Federal Government to be the Big Daddy means all attention is focused on it. All the players are ‘big stars’ and the American News Media has become a stage where those theatrics are directed. Trump is fighting the Status Quo from within. And that means he’s at a disadvantage. WE elected Trump because WE want massive reform in our governments. But what is the reform we want?

Many say ‘immigration reform’ and some say ‘reform in the news media’ and some say reform in our schools, etc. Really, reforming all these things means more than just reforming them… but reforming the whole picture of our government. As long as the Federal Government is in the position its in now being the central authority for everything American there will be no end to the corruption. It’s a gigantic bureaucracy trying to do an impossible job… one that was never intended for it. And that is why everything is so screwed up.

By Michael Hutton