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Originally Posted by kochman
BF, you're not being realistic here.
Then we have to get rid of public schools, etc...
Let's work within the reasonable/likely or even potential.
There are enumerated powers and implied powers.
If we limit it only to enumerated powers, then the COTUS actually rather sucks.
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I'm sorry, sir, but you either don't understand or accept the purpose and limits of the COTUS.
The national government is supposed to be specifically and completely limited by the powers enumerated in the Constitution.
It is not supposed to be the limitless, monstrosity that it has become today. The average person going about the average day should have little or no interaction with the national level government.
It exists for the purpose of defending/protecting the nation as a whole, not the man on the street individually, the nation as a whole and negotiating on behalf of the nation as a whole, in other words, treaties and international commerce and regulating direct commerce between the states.
That's it.
The national government is not here to protect you on the streets of your home town or to stop you from buying milk from the farmer up the street or to keep you from cutting down trees in your back yard, or any of the other things that aren't ENUMERATED in the COTUS.
We have OTHER governments for those purposes. State, county, town, village governments. They ALSO have enumerated powers. Their jobs are not to negotiate international treaties. Their jobs are state and local.
The national government is not for state and local concerns. It's job is to protect the states so that THEY can be concerned with state and local things.