Getting Rid of "Big Government."

[rstevens62]

Originally Posted by andywire

I would like to see the DEA eliminated, or cut massively. Big waste of money and resources trying to tell people what they can't put in their bodies, and it simply doesn't work. Our society is full of drugs, despite the government's best efforts, and all the money we have thrown at the problem.

The welfare class created by the government is counterproductive and entirely unnecessary. There should be social safety nets in place for the truly needy, not the lazy and entitled who choose to be burden.

Overall, the government today is too large for our own good. We are going into debt as a nation because we cannot afford the government at today's present size.

I feel the same about the DEA and other narco law enforcement. Ultimately everything they do benefits the drug cartels and ensures they continue to have the perfect climate to distribute and sell their drugs through out the nation. DEA had a big part in cracking down on the pharma industry with their opioids, again, this just pushed more cash and customers to the cartels, basically the DEA is the cartels lobbying and enforcement arm in the US, they get rid of any competition thru laws and regulations and they fight very hard to keep drugs as illegal as possible.

DEA is scum of the earth, lowest of the low, they deserve NO respect, they are nothing more than an arm of a terrorist organization.

[No_Recess]

We need the FDA. Who else will protect you from fresh milk?


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[ohio_peasant]

Originally Posted by rbohm

interesting idea, but NO. in fact not just no but HELL NO!!!! we want to make the federal government SMALLER, not bigger. the problem with your idea is that having a centralized location to run everything out of means that government becomes way over bloated, way too expensive to run, and hurts everybody. you think the federal government is inefficient now, make them the central power over everything and you will find that todays feds are efficient as heck compared to your idea.


the problem is that one size fits all approach does work in a country as large as the US.

Federal inefficiency and bloat are self-evident. But on what basis do we surmise, that at the state or local level, efficiency is better, or service more responsive? Why would there be a reverse-economy of scale?

I find instead a gross inefficiency in having an overlapping, multifaceted patchwork of governments.

As for one size fits all, well, superficially it does sound quite daft to impose the same lockstep doctrine on absolutely everybody, doesn't it? But let's look deeper. Why should educational standards or car registrations or licensing of architects be any different in California, Texas or Vermont? Is it that the kids in one state, need to learn more history, while in another, more math? If a medical doctor moves from Alabama to Minnesota, why should he have to apply for a new license? Is the physiology of patients somehow different between North and South?

Local control works for local natives, who have spent n-generations in the same county. But for people who move around the country to chase jobs, or maybe relationships, or maybe just a better climate, nationwide uniformity is better.

Government is never particularly good. But at least if we had a one-size-fits-all government, at least we'd have less peculiarities to which to adapt. This BTW is the same reason for why Brexit is a bad idea, why it is better to have a strong EU and UN and so forth.

[ottomobeale]

Originally Posted by cttransplant85

I want everything outside of national defense, international trade and interstate infrastructure to be handled at the state and local level where it is more intimate with the public, where the tax payers will see where and how their money is being used, where it's on a smaller more manageable scale. I don't necessarily want less government I just want my government handled at a more local level where I can walk in an talk to my representative if I have a problem and not deal with bureaucrats in DC. This is a very popular and common sense sentiment and the numbers reflect this, local governments are more popular than state governments and state governments are more popular than the federal government.

People will live in TX for low taxes until they have hard times then move to CA or NJ for the benefits.