Racism and States Rights

The constitution could not be any more simple to understand than the way it was put in the 10th amendment. The biggest blunder ever made was Lincoln's effort to keep the union together.The power grab by President Obama is the only thing close to the amount of legislatve branch power transferred to the executive branch.Not even FDR could touch the destruction of state sovereinty that is about to occur.With Lincoln,it was the all inclusive commerce clause that has been used as a catch 22 by the feds since 1864.All of the laws then and now that are used as a critical problem fix should have an expiration date on them,but that would be as likely as a temporary tax.We have been asleep at the wheel,spoiled rotten for four generations and played the fiddle as state rights one after another disappeared.I challenge anyone in the blogoshere to find anything a person ,or his/her pets,plants, food,drink,breath,see or hear that is not regulated by the Federal government.Most of them pre-empt State laws already on the books for the same offense.And the bad news is-they can't find their butt with both hands in their back pockets.example A--the amount of water you can legally have in your toilet bowl.As always,driven by the special interest groups,laws were made with no rational thought or trials before enacting expensive changes for business.Good intentioned names for all of them.The save water act made us use two thirds as much water per flush as the old models.Any physics major could have told them the outcome,but don't let facts get in the way of compassion! We now have to flush two times to empty your "movement",thus ending up using a third more water than if we just stuck to the good old ones.Millions of dollars went into the hands of the plumbers union boys as they had to change every public building commode to meet code.This is the least intrusive example I could come up with to expound my frustration on future government mandates that not only bankrupt businesses,but make things worse at the same time.It is always one size fits all laws as well. The people of Maine do not need poisonous snake control laws,but we are forced to be equiped to handle the problem in each community.There are forklifts full of examples,each one costly and useless to most areas.The closer to home you keep tax dollars,the easier it is to hold politicians accountable,and a clue to where the money is going.That is my bottom line and best arguement.

No doubt, the War Between the States has a lot to do with why federalism is in the shape it's in today.

Interesting article, the media has a way of making race an issue out of almost anything. States rights are one of the most important things about our republic,had the states remained sovereign we wouldn't have this out of control federal welfare mess. We should all thank good old dishonest Abe (he was from Kentucky not Illinois) for his invasion of the South.