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originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: DBCowboy
What is this Spain in the 15th Century?
The Government does function though, if it didn't we would be complaining even more. The problem with the Government is not a function of it working or not, but rather of the local government communicating with the state and national levels of Government. Then we have those people who know about this lack of communication and have been exploiting it for their own means.
So maybe the concern isn't that the Government doesn't work, but rather how the people in it allow it to work.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: CIAGypsy
Everyone agrees that the US government is corrupt.
The sick, M Night Shyamalan twist is, some actually (while acknowleging the corruption) want to make the corrupt government bigger and more authoritarian.
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: carewemust
" Today, the man who was the (elected) head of the U.S. Government for 8 years, used a BULL HORN to address a crowd of 7, standing within 10 feet of him.
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ALL of them were Hard of Hearing.................
Is the US government even functional anymore?
This is, at the end of the day, our fault.
Section 8
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; — And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Xtrozero
The problem is that everyone apparently likes their personal Congress Critter and thinks all the rest are the problem.
I guess when we look at find specimens like Nancy Pelosi and Sheila Jackson Lee, they happen to be what their constituents want. Cumulatively, it all adds up.