Maybe the problem isn’t with Republicans and Democrats.  You see, I’ve been operating under the active assumption that political parties were destroying America.  There’s a factional aspect apparent in party politics like baboons lining up to fight.  Groups of people are paid enormous sums to vote together against their own reason.  A power investment for American people to provide shelter from a future always looming uncertainly in front of us. 

We elect and pay people who then demand of us recognition of their elected authority!

They scold America like children.  They rationalize irrational decisions.  They’re hard to get hold of and I’m slowly changing my mind about the root issue in American politics today.  It was Ron Paul that helped me see it.  We need to divest the federal government of dollars and move that money directly to the state governments.  The federal government can still fulfill its constitutional role, but no longer play the aggressor.  Let’s downplay the role of D.C. pit bulls.

There’s nothing in the constitution which says the federal government should, or has the right, to extract so much money from THE PEOPLE.  The federal government could domestically function as a report creating entity regarding issues of safety and general welfare.  Many of these federal reports are already being created anyway, but now we have someone else in a federal position executing based upon that order.

The action must take place in the states, but federal employees are filling a layer of government to ensure the states comply.

Compliance should be the responsibility of the state government and if they won’t act then the people in that state need to do something.  The federal government is spending way too much money.  Congress needs to be reigned in.  We’ve got fifty legislative bodies virtually being ignored due to the dominance of federal issues in the media.  There’s an obsequious pandering at the microphones of Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, John (don’t call boner) Boehner and Eric Cantor.

And for what?

State legislators cutting education budgets largely goes ignored as the interested nation obsesses over federal shutdowns.  We should defund the federal government and beef up our state governments.  State governments are more adaptable to our immediate needs.  Georgia’s constitution has been changed ten times.  Florida has had at least 6 constitutions.  Michigan’s had four.

State constitutions are designed to be flexible in most cases.  It is where we should be focusing our attention in America.  Wouldn’t one way to pay off our national debt be to defund the federal government; redirect those funds to paying down the debt; and then investing more tax revenue in local state governments?  If we gave the federal government the bare minimum for what they need to function and get people in Washington committed to reversing the focus of monetary flow out of the states where people live into local communities; then we might also be able to dig ourselves out of the massive national debt we’ve amassed at the same time.

When “conservatives” talk about smaller government these are the thoughts that have been missing.  If we conserve power at a local level and use central authority for protection and mediation, then we’re saving money.  That means if programs like Social Security must be gutted, then American workers stop paying into it at some point.  To do any other kind of reform amounts to a tax increase on the working stiff. 

If I charge you the same amount (or more) for lesser services, I’ve either robbed you or defrauded you.  Lesser services should mean less investment on the consumer’s part (forced consumer on the part of Social Security.)  And this is what I don’t hear Republicans talking about when they discuss smaller government and Social Security reform.  I don’t hear a cry to refund money to everyone.  I don’t hear about ways to make the federal government smaller.  Just government in general.  W created No Child Left Behind which resulted in a massive federal intrusion into state education facilities (i.e. schools.) 

W liked to call his-self a conservative too!

Republican policies seldom seem to result in smaller government lately.  It’s generally just a redirect of funds from social programs to the military- industrial complex (or whatever assumes that role these days.)  Money still pours out of the federal government and I believe it is high time we began considering ways of living without an All-Mighty Fed, because Democrats have no intent of stopping their spending spree either.