Restoring American Federalism

[violetGTA1]

Didn't realise fox news was this right wing.

[realveive]

Federalism was a good idea for the times in which it was used. Communication and travel hardships made it necessary to maintain a good deal of local autonomy. Nowadays we have phones, planes, internet, etc. so the "hardships" have been reduced. Let's dump the "old think" and become a real UNITED States of America instead 50 barely connected fiefdoms.

[Cstrife234]

They need to get rid of the 13th and 14th amendments, the 16th and 17th and any of the amendments that go along with any of these. Then, in the place of the 14th, we should write an amendment extending citizenship of the states to all people, regardless of race, creed etc (not as privledge or immunity, but right). Then we need an amendment to make sure that the federal reserve goes bye bye. We don't need it. We never did.

[fluffydanny]

Federalism is not dead enough. Kill it so more.

[Cstrife234]

@fluffydanny eh? Are you kidding?

[fluffydanny]

@Cstrife234 Not at all I am for State Rights.

[jakegoakes]

Sounds like a great idea!

[fomastephanovitch]

Why is Katie Couric used as an example for liberalism more so than, say John Stewart or Bill Maher?

She's clearly left, but I wonder if you can point out soundbites or statements which show her as this anti-constitutionalist she keeps being portrayed as.

Is it fair to cast her in this light?

[truevoice08]

Steps to liberty:

1. Abolish the Fed

2. Abolish the IRS

3. Abolish the Federal Government

4. Abolish the States

5. Install 'coopeting' private Dispute Resolution Organizations

[shamgar001]

That wouldn;t work. PDROs would have financial incentives to decide in favor of whoever is paying for them.

Government is needed to settle disputes because charging everyone for the service of dispute resolution helps ensure objectivity. Government is a nessesary evil.

[Lordgeek4]

@truevoice08 Anarchy Leads to eventual tyranny lead by a few. Anarchy is Wrong

[HiFiSmith]

@Lordgeek4 Anarchy is wrong? Let me ask you: the supposedly freest society in history with "limited" government powers doesn't lead to tyranny? You might be interested in Robert Murphy's article "But Wouldn't Warlords Take Over?"

[Cstrife234]

@HiFiSmith Warlords never took over, through the states, as far as I know...but we have them in the oval office. They're called presidents. :D

[HiFiSmith]

@Cstrife234 Government: The mob that won. That article by Murphy is really good. You can google it or search mises dot org

[Cstrife234]

@HiFiSmith Haha yeah. For sure.

[paulmcoe]

@Lordgeek4 I respect your views, but it appears to me that any form of government leads to eventual tyranny lead by a few.

[jakobeckert]

@paulmcoe Time for more designs, to insure these blessings of liberty are; The blessing of a Peoples Governing each and every single Peoples. We need creatives who can generate better ideas to maintain power-holds on Feds and on States, as well as districts, to ensure localized governmental practice, I believe

[Rico8458]

the bankers did this to us. the cabal banksters ruin this nation. the greedy importers, import corporations, walmart did this to us. and clinton sold us out to the chinese, obama is another bush and clinton. nothing new with obama. he lies.

[Rico8458]

the u.s. treasury is empty. no money in the treasury. so when they want to pay the troops and west point and military adn welfare they have to borrow from the federal reserve bank which is also broke, but issues bonds and notes to red china then they print money to pay the bills. this is horrible, a nightmare, the work of satan, that we do this today.

[Federalist306]

If we simply had elected more elected officials who were willing to think like these guys, and ACT ON PRINCIPLE, we would return to our former greatness...

[return135]

better than what we have now, but i want what murray rothbard wanted... no state.

[HelmutVonSphincter]

If the states don't tow the line... the feds cut off funding. Why is this not mentioned?

[pensword5]

Who funds the fed?.....isnt that a paradox the fed cant win?.....and who funds the states?....there is a solution.

[helltrackrider]

Army as it is today...unconstitutional.

[cowboy1165]

@helltrackrider True, According to the founders there should not be a standing army longer then 2 years after a war.

Most people argue that war has become way more technical and there's more to today's army then just infantry, so we need them active.

But what most don't realize is that, (constitutionally) congress controls and funds the army, only giving over the power to the commander and chief after a "declaration of war by congress" to prevent a rogue executive from abusing power.

[whoo689]

What a lot of folks on the Right who bitched about sodomy laws being repealed forgot is that the 9th and 10th Amendments are what GUARANTEE our full rights from gov't. The 10th says "to the people or the states." I'm pretty sure that includes a right to privacy, more or less. People who argue against a right to privacy, thinking they're only disenfranchising abortion rights, fail to see how dangerous that would be in practice, since they could live in a country FULL of big brother.

[ErikNikolai]

The United States hasn't been the same since you lost the right to sodomize people. In the Founders vision for America, you could choose to sodomize anything you wanted to! The Founders wanted to share the blessings of sodomy with everyone.

[ffrank345]

In fact, the consitution would allow a person to sodomize anything that was their property...... Unless a local law was made against it.

The constitution allows for States and Localities to make, or decide not to make, ANY law... unless it violates the Constitution. And aside from what is in the constitution... the federal goverment has no authority to barr a law from being made.

[pensword5]

Well, maybe WE have lost OUR right to sodomize, but the Fed has retained thier right to sodomize because they do it to us....sometime the pain is unbearable!!

[ErikNikolai]

Just as there should be a separation between church and state, there should be s separation between sodomy and state.

[cowboy1165]

@ErikNikolai

Sodomize coined 1868. In Du. slang, besodemieteren means "to deceive," and evidently is built from the traditional notion of "corruption" in Sodom.

[whoo689]

Kevin Gutzman's book is a good introduction to the REAL Constitution, but he oftentimes focused too much on social issues like sodomy or abortion, which were not even afterthoughts 200 years ago. It's kind of hard to argue that they're unconstitutional. The Constitution was meant to protect INDIVIDUALS' from too much gov't, esp. the Bill of Rights. It was meant to say what the feds' can and cannot do. Having judges say "Individual behavior is unconstitutional" that hurts no one is silly.

[freedominsomalia]

interesting format of statism

[hugolp]

Great video. Thanks.

[kmg501]

Exactly why I have been pushing states rights and recognition of the ability and desires for any given state to secede from the U.S. It is only the threat of this that will keep a tyrannical out of control federal government in check.

Our founders were very, VERY smart men.