Comments on: Is America’s House Divided Again? http://www.ammoland.com/2013/01/is-americas-house-divided-again/ AmmoLand Shooting Sports News Sun, 19 May 2013 07:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kimberwarrior45 http://www.ammoland.com/2013/01/is-americas-house-divided-again/#comment-78791 Kimberwarrior45 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:59:38 +0000 http://www.ammoland.com/?p=106075#comment-78791 Please explain “The American system grants considerable power to the president…”. Exactly what considerable power does the Constitution grant to the President on internal matters? If you read the Constitution it limits the President’s power on internal matters. The “federal government” has taken power by ignoring the Constitution.

]]> By: DaveGinOly http://www.ammoland.com/2013/01/is-americas-house-divided-again/#comment-78749 DaveGinOly Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:23:36 +0000 http://www.ammoland.com/?p=106075#comment-78749 The problem with federalism is that it provides a top-down, one-size-fits-all solution to all problems. Fifty nominally sovereign states, each working on their own problems (no matter whether their systems function under capitalist or socialist ideals) would provide fifty sets of economic and social experiments. Their results could be analyzed and the “best practices” of each state could be applied in those states that wished to adopt those practices to their own situations. This would result in continuous evolution and improvement; a constant cycle of action, analysis, and adoption of best practices over time.

The problem with a federal, top-down solution is that if it’s wrong and doesn’t work, we’re all screwed. Because it can never provide a best solution, tailored for the needs of individual states, the probability of it providing correct solutions is practically nil.

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying all the wrong remedies.”
Groucho Marx

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