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Syrenn notes that the federal government is following the California model and both have us headed straight for the bankruptcy cliff.
So that alone should provide impetus to come up with a whole new way of thinking about government.
Loose Cannon complains of a too intrusive, too over reaching controlling government. But wouldn't elected leaders that could no longer buy votes but would rather be dependent on doing a good job and a positive legacy to make it all worthwhile be more responsive to what the people felt? A whole new way of thinking about government is to restore the public servant to elected positions and get rid of the career politician.
Flopper looks at the same litany of campaign finance reform, a balanced budget, and revisions to the Constitution. But I think these are the OLD way of thinking about government. As are AquaAthena's accurate but predictable views about entitlements.
But what if the federal government was prohibited from dispensing any charity or favors from the public treasury. What if there was nothing they could gain other than contempt if they overspent the budget? What if the law required the federal government to slowly and incrementally begin reversing the entitlements just as they have accrued, and transfer them to the state governments where they have belonged all the time? What if we just focused on original intent of the Founders re the Constitution and our leaders pledged to be faithful to that?
Take the ability to dispense special favors to anybody out of the equation and reinstate original intent, and all the other is taken care of.
In my opinion that is a whole new way of thinking about government.
The whole new way of thinking should flat be that the government is not our mommy and daddy. They are not the teet to suck off of your entire life. At some point everyone must leave the nest and rely on yourself.
So would the age of five be appropriate to your thinking? 18 seems way to late. But if we start at five we wouldn't have to pay for public education or baby sitters.
Your biological mother and father are responsible for you until you are 18. At that age you should be responsible for yourself. That is unless your biological parents are still willing to fend for you.
You know, the way its been done for thousands of years.