I don't believe that our government is out of control. The Articles of the Confederation did not work. The whole argument of which activities could be accomplished by the Federal Government, which by the State governments, and which by individuals themselves has been debated from the very moment that George Washington became President. When the Federal Government built its first national highway which was called the Cumberland Highway, it was hotly debated whether the Federal Government had the right to build this highway or not. If the Supreme Court would have declared that building this highway was unconstitutional we would not have the Interstate Highway system in our country today. There would be no Federal Highway system.
Without FEMA only the very rich states would be able to rebuild themselves after a massive natural disaster. Without our Federal Government certain states could have cornered all of the wealth in the nation, and we would have a few pockets extreme wealth in our country surrounded by large areas of extreme poverty like we find existing in many third world countries today. Yes, there are many extreme areas of poverty in the United States today which will be found on isolated corners of Native American Reservations, run down areas of our cities, in the Ozarks, the Appalachian Mountains, areas of our commonwealths, and some of our island territories. Their are also many large pockets of wealth scattered throughout the United States.
Ron Paul is extremely mistaken in his attitudes and political views. He favors the right of the rich white males to control the economic and social institutions within our country and for them to set the standards by which the rest of us will live. He is against laws like ENDA because it would provide legal authority protecting the civil rights of the GLBTQ community which as citizens of the United States we already have. The problem is that when GLBTQ rights are infringed upon by bigoted individuals in our communities members of the GLBTQ community have no legal power to protect our rights. The Courts say that they do not have the legal authority to protect our rights. Their hands are tied.
As far as the problem of having an all intrusive federal government that can snoop on us and threaten our freedoms well at least we can elect them and they can only hold office until the next election. Does not Google or AT&T or the Credit bureau system also have the power to snoop on our lives. When we need a loan or apply for a job, are not private company employers able to look us up on Facebook, contact the credit bureaus, run a criminal background check upon us, and use this information to either hire us or give us a loan, or not hire us or deny us a loan. We have no power over the decisions of these private companies except the protection we are given by our local, state, and federal governments' laws and regulations.
Look at West Virginia where they had a chemical spill into one of their rivers that supplied the water for many of the communities on its banks in more than one state. The storage of these chemicals was not regulated sufficiently by any local, state, or federal agency. None of these agencies has any idea of how harmful these chemicals even are because they were not covered as harmful chemicals by any governmental agency. These agencies can not even say that you should or shouldn't drink, cook with, or bath in the contaminated water. Drink at your own risk. The water may or may not safe for use by pregnant women, but using it is probably not a good idea.
Yes the company that stored this chemical had its rights, even the right to go bankrupt, and escape all financial liability. The individual or individuals that owned this company could form a new company and acquire this company for pennies on the dollar out of the bankruptcy courts and not be responsible for the spill. This owners of this company also owned coal mines run by a separate company so they could say that this disaster was not caused by coal mining, even though these chemicals were used in mining and processing the coal.
This is what happens when we don't have an intrusive federal government regulations. The poor people up and down this river and all of the other rivers that this river flows into including one near the Speaker of the House's community have to just suck it up, because the Speaker of the House believes it is not his business to pass new laws which protect our health and rights, its his job to see that all these regulations and laws are to be rescinded.
Point being is that we at least have some say in how our federal government is run, we have no say in how powerful economic institutions are run unless we are wealthy and own a good portion of the controlling stock in that company.
When these powerful wealthy people buy votes of our politicians we have no voice at all. Ron Paul with his Ayn Rand philosophy does not speak for any person but himself, because after all that is her philosophy, the all powerful, 'I.' When the "I" which is singular has control of all of the economic and political wealth of our country, there is nothing left for the rest of us. Thank God that the "Power of I" is splintered up among all of the governmental bodies from the water boards, school boards and the like, to the lowly townships, to the counties, to the three layers of governmental authority in the state and federal government and to all of the governmental agencies which all have a teeny, tiny bit of the authority to regulate the economic interests and "Powerful I"s in our country.
