Asking for help from my Gulcher friends
Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 1 month ago to Government
Our congressional district is going to be "up for grabs" this year, as the incumbent has decided not to run again. I fear that the debate will center on irrelevancies instead of substance. To counter this, I propose 5 questions to determine what sort of perspective the slew of candidates has regarding government.
What do you think? Did I get a good set? What did I miss, or what would you recommend as being more important?
Here's my proposal.
The five important questions for our next Republican congressional candidate.
With the VA mess, the Benghazi debacle, failure of Obamacare, etc., it will be easy for the Republicans of the 6th Congressional District to lose perspective when selecting our next candidate for congress. I'd like to propose five important questions that we should be asking our slate of candidates to gain an understanding of their philosophy of governing.
Number 1: Will you support an audit of the Fed, to include an inventory of the gold reserves in Ft. Knox and all other precious metals reserves?
Number 2: Will you support and actively push for a constitutional amendment to repeal the 17th Amendment?
Number 3: What should be done regarding the alphabet soup of federal agencies (EPA, USDA, FDA, Dept of Ed, VA, etc.)?
Number 4: Should there be a constitutional amendment to invalidate Marbury v. Madison? Should the Congress have an ability to override Supreme Court decisions?
Number 5: Should the Commerce Clause of the Constitution be refined by amendment to more clearly identify that it only applies to actual commerce - that of sales of goods and services between suppliers and customers in different states, and nothing more?
Discussion:
1) The Federal Reserve has manipulated our currency and affected the economy profoundly. The American people need to know if the assets "owned" by the Fed in trust for the American people are real, or whether the money supply has been inflated to a point of unsustainability. The people deserve to know just how badly the money supply has been inflated.
2) The 17th Amendment changed the way that US Senators are selected, changing it from a selection by the state governments to a direct election by the citizens of the states. This process reduced the influence of the individual states on the working of the federal government, effectively making the states totally subservient to the federal government. Repealing this amendment would return the balance of power between individual states and the federal government.
3) The alphabet soup of agencies have usurped law making authority from the congress. They are unaccountable to the people as unelected, irrepealable bureaucrats whose actions have the force of law without the accountability of lawmakers. This power must be returned to lawmakers accountable to the electorate.
4) In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the US gave itself the authority to be the last authority of the land. This is a power that the framers never envisioned in the court. In fact, the SCOTUS was envisioned as the least powerful branch, not the final authority. The framers always envisioned that the court members would not be affected by political concerns in their decisions of fact, but did not expect them to be the final word - that was always meant to reside in the two branches that are accountable to the people, the House of Representatives and the President.
5) The Commerce Clause has been bent in so many directions to mean and provide justification for the intrusion of government into nearly all aspects of our lives. This was never meant to be the case. The Commerce Clause was merely supposed to ensure that trade between members of different states was honestly conducted and if there were disputes, that they would not be handled by state courts, which could be biased, but rather be handled by the Supreme Court, which was envisioned as being "impartial" to matters between the states.
What do you think? Did I get a good set? What did I miss, or what would you recommend as being more important?
Here's my proposal.
The five important questions for our next Republican congressional candidate.
With the VA mess, the Benghazi debacle, failure of Obamacare, etc., it will be easy for the Republicans of the 6th Congressional District to lose perspective when selecting our next candidate for congress. I'd like to propose five important questions that we should be asking our slate of candidates to gain an understanding of their philosophy of governing.
Number 1: Will you support an audit of the Fed, to include an inventory of the gold reserves in Ft. Knox and all other precious metals reserves?
Number 2: Will you support and actively push for a constitutional amendment to repeal the 17th Amendment?
Number 3: What should be done regarding the alphabet soup of federal agencies (EPA, USDA, FDA, Dept of Ed, VA, etc.)?
Number 4: Should there be a constitutional amendment to invalidate Marbury v. Madison? Should the Congress have an ability to override Supreme Court decisions?
Number 5: Should the Commerce Clause of the Constitution be refined by amendment to more clearly identify that it only applies to actual commerce - that of sales of goods and services between suppliers and customers in different states, and nothing more?
Discussion:
1) The Federal Reserve has manipulated our currency and affected the economy profoundly. The American people need to know if the assets "owned" by the Fed in trust for the American people are real, or whether the money supply has been inflated to a point of unsustainability. The people deserve to know just how badly the money supply has been inflated.
2) The 17th Amendment changed the way that US Senators are selected, changing it from a selection by the state governments to a direct election by the citizens of the states. This process reduced the influence of the individual states on the working of the federal government, effectively making the states totally subservient to the federal government. Repealing this amendment would return the balance of power between individual states and the federal government.
3) The alphabet soup of agencies have usurped law making authority from the congress. They are unaccountable to the people as unelected, irrepealable bureaucrats whose actions have the force of law without the accountability of lawmakers. This power must be returned to lawmakers accountable to the electorate.
4) In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the US gave itself the authority to be the last authority of the land. This is a power that the framers never envisioned in the court. In fact, the SCOTUS was envisioned as the least powerful branch, not the final authority. The framers always envisioned that the court members would not be affected by political concerns in their decisions of fact, but did not expect them to be the final word - that was always meant to reside in the two branches that are accountable to the people, the House of Representatives and the President.
5) The Commerce Clause has been bent in so many directions to mean and provide justification for the intrusion of government into nearly all aspects of our lives. This was never meant to be the case. The Commerce Clause was merely supposed to ensure that trade between members of different states was honestly conducted and if there were disputes, that they would not be handled by state courts, which could be biased, but rather be handled by the Supreme Court, which was envisioned as being "impartial" to matters between the states.
