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wkmac
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OK2BC,
I'm more opposed to areas of federalization that quite frankly could be better done at the local level with more oversight by the very people it impacts. At the local level I'm much more open minded to ideas of a community nature and have in fact gone to County Commission meetings supporting ideas that I'm totally opposed to at the federal level such as environmental issues. Believe it or not I am an environmentalist.
IMO we allow our federal gov't to have a cavalier attitude with the Constitution when they fudge here and fudge there with the very document from which they obtain their power to govern. At this point I believe we place ourselves at risk from them to encroach into sacred areas of freedom as these encursions set legal precedent that is later used to further erode personal freedoms. Just as a side note many of the actions of gov't are not as a result the more typical constitutional actions but are rather as a result of international treaty. Treaties supercede our constitution and much of the bureacratic quagmire in Washington is a result of treaty law rather than from any direct constitutional mandates.
FEMA and the various agencies have become micro managing monsters as they want to dictate total control over all aspects. You and I would agree in a major crisis like this something is needed from the gov't level beyond the local and state but what the federal gov't should be doing is to facilitate the private and some public efforts from across the country in getting in and on the ground quickly to start helping these people. This was not done as various efforts were bogged down in bureacratic bullschitt! It's like a person lying on the ground after having a heart attack and the only other person there goes over to start CPR to try and save the person's life. In walks the bureaucrat and demands all the necessary forms and paperwork be filled out first and in the meantime the heart attack victim dies. That is the stupidity of the federal gov't and it's in everything they touch if your willing to be honest about it.
Now some think laws can be made to change this and this is where I differ. Natural human nature is if a person gains any measure of power or control that they will at some point seek out more and more as they achieve levels of comfort with this control. Any threat to that comfort is usually met with force to remove the threat followed by another increase in power to protect from future threats and maintain the comfort zone. I believe we all are like this including me and that is why I'm so against massive concentrated levels of power. Broken down and scattered you may have pockets of it but it's easier to overcome a corrupt local political machine than a large scale national controlling force. At the very least on the local level you can always as a last resort put a bullet in the politicians brain but a national leviathan is literally impossible once out of control. I know the bullet idea in this day and age is not PC but let's face it folks our country was basically started on nearly that type of mentality.
Pure Libertarianism if you want to call it that or better yet it's really classical liberalism is an ideal rarely seen in a pure form throughout the history of man. We always fall prey to gathering in collectives of varying sizes with in the beginning good intentions and good cause. However, over time those seeking easy gain and fortune from life see these seats of power as mechanisms for their own personal gain and they generally achieve those seats of power and in time corrupt the entire process. IMO we are witnessing this corruptive process throughout all politics in this country and depending on your political flavoring you might blame it on corrupt rightwing capitalism or leftwing socialism but neither are the real culprit. The real culprit is the nature of human behavior and if you are willing to place your lives if you will with people all driven by these natural forces then you risk having to deal with the actions of a George Bush or a Bill Clinton or like the Germans you could even elect the next Hitler. You also stand the risk of having events like NO happen where I believe all the signs were there it was just no one was willing to interrupt their own little Mardi Gras and deal with what needed and should have been done.
If not trusting human nature makes me anti gov't then yes I'm anti gov't and I would contend more should be like me. Until we are willing to understand and be at arms ready with the nature of man I contend large scale political collectives are a danger and threat to any free thinking person.
JMHO.
I'm more opposed to areas of federalization that quite frankly could be better done at the local level with more oversight by the very people it impacts. At the local level I'm much more open minded to ideas of a community nature and have in fact gone to County Commission meetings supporting ideas that I'm totally opposed to at the federal level such as environmental issues. Believe it or not I am an environmentalist.
IMO we allow our federal gov't to have a cavalier attitude with the Constitution when they fudge here and fudge there with the very document from which they obtain their power to govern. At this point I believe we place ourselves at risk from them to encroach into sacred areas of freedom as these encursions set legal precedent that is later used to further erode personal freedoms. Just as a side note many of the actions of gov't are not as a result the more typical constitutional actions but are rather as a result of international treaty. Treaties supercede our constitution and much of the bureacratic quagmire in Washington is a result of treaty law rather than from any direct constitutional mandates.
FEMA and the various agencies have become micro managing monsters as they want to dictate total control over all aspects. You and I would agree in a major crisis like this something is needed from the gov't level beyond the local and state but what the federal gov't should be doing is to facilitate the private and some public efforts from across the country in getting in and on the ground quickly to start helping these people. This was not done as various efforts were bogged down in bureacratic bullschitt! It's like a person lying on the ground after having a heart attack and the only other person there goes over to start CPR to try and save the person's life. In walks the bureaucrat and demands all the necessary forms and paperwork be filled out first and in the meantime the heart attack victim dies. That is the stupidity of the federal gov't and it's in everything they touch if your willing to be honest about it.
Now some think laws can be made to change this and this is where I differ. Natural human nature is if a person gains any measure of power or control that they will at some point seek out more and more as they achieve levels of comfort with this control. Any threat to that comfort is usually met with force to remove the threat followed by another increase in power to protect from future threats and maintain the comfort zone. I believe we all are like this including me and that is why I'm so against massive concentrated levels of power. Broken down and scattered you may have pockets of it but it's easier to overcome a corrupt local political machine than a large scale national controlling force. At the very least on the local level you can always as a last resort put a bullet in the politicians brain but a national leviathan is literally impossible once out of control. I know the bullet idea in this day and age is not PC but let's face it folks our country was basically started on nearly that type of mentality.
Pure Libertarianism if you want to call it that or better yet it's really classical liberalism is an ideal rarely seen in a pure form throughout the history of man. We always fall prey to gathering in collectives of varying sizes with in the beginning good intentions and good cause. However, over time those seeking easy gain and fortune from life see these seats of power as mechanisms for their own personal gain and they generally achieve those seats of power and in time corrupt the entire process. IMO we are witnessing this corruptive process throughout all politics in this country and depending on your political flavoring you might blame it on corrupt rightwing capitalism or leftwing socialism but neither are the real culprit. The real culprit is the nature of human behavior and if you are willing to place your lives if you will with people all driven by these natural forces then you risk having to deal with the actions of a George Bush or a Bill Clinton or like the Germans you could even elect the next Hitler. You also stand the risk of having events like NO happen where I believe all the signs were there it was just no one was willing to interrupt their own little Mardi Gras and deal with what needed and should have been done.
If not trusting human nature makes me anti gov't then yes I'm anti gov't and I would contend more should be like me. Until we are willing to understand and be at arms ready with the nature of man I contend large scale political collectives are a danger and threat to any free thinking person.
JMHO.
