So whomever has the best cards geographically/financially is going to get to decide the fate of the rest of humanity? — Mark Dennis
“This has become the party of Trump and defending him at all costs. It’s sad the Republican party used to be for families and conservative values; that’s something you could disagree with but still discuss and come to an agreement. What they’re doing now has nothing to do with policy and is about empowering one section of society.” — David Smith, The Guardian
Mother's methods are so hard.
By the luck of the dealers card
Mother Nature selects the dead
from White, Yellow, Black, and Red — Mark Dennis
I think starting a new thread on global warming or climate change or some similar term would be interesting. — Bitter Crank
Trump has reduced joblessness. — Reshuffle
Think of it as a test of the American gov't system. If it breaks down, then Trump revealed an underlying flaw. — frank
The average unemployment rate under Obama for minorities, especially women, was %18 at its lowest (best) level. During the bulk of his reign, it averaged in the 20s. No “boon” existed. Regrets. — Reshuffle
Whether these things are seen as underlying flaws or opportunities to be exploited depends on where you stand on the role of government. — Fooloso4
Trump has made clear his intent to dismantle the administrative state. — Fooloso4
Venting my anger on here is constructive to me though and I can reread my own comments when I’m calmer as part of some self reflection. — Mark Dennis
Why do you say it's about role? I was talking about endurance. — frank
He wanted to turn back the clock. He thinks the US of the 60s and 70s can be revived. — frank
Whatever you think of him, there is an actual point of view in there. — frank
The average unemployment rate under Obama for minorities, especially women, was %18 at its lowest (best) level. During the bulk of his reign, it averaged in the 20s. No “boon” existed. Regrets. — Reshuffle
His success isn’t unilateral, to be sure, but that hardly forecloses on its merit. — Reshuffle
“And what specifically has Trump done to improve the unemployment rate for minorities?”
He’s induced businesses to hire them at a significant rate. The instruments behind the inducement range from de-regulation to tax breaks to favorable trade deals. — Reshuffle
The two are related. Those who think that minimal government is optimal then if much of the government as it stands today no longer endured, so much the better because all that should endure is the minimum of government. Rather than seeing this as the end of government they see it as a correction, a return what the government should be. MAGA. — Fooloso4
I think he wants to turn back the clock even further. There are many conservatives who want to return to a time before Roosevelt's New Deal. They see the only legitimate role of government to be to protect the rights of the individual understood in the narrow sense of non-interference. — Fooloso4
The first question is whether there should be any regulation. If the answer is yes, then how much? The solution to regulatory overreach, in my opinion, is not to do away with regulation and regulatory agencies. Which is preferable - allowing coal companies to pollute the streams that are a source of drinking water, causing serious illness and death, or to protect the environment and the people who rely on it? Protect the jobs or the people? I don't think it is quite so simple though. For one, Trump's pro-coal stance benefits the owners of the coal companies in a way that is greatly disproportionate to the relatively few who benefit from having a coal job. Second, jobs and regulation need not be in opposition. There is, for example, far more job opportunity in solar power than coal. — Fooloso4
The core system is still in place. — frank
I think the regulatory bodies we have now came from a liberal wave in the 1970s. — frank
The question is, what is the core system? If he or others had their way and dismantled the administrative state what would be left? Could the government still function? — Fooloso4
Constitution. — frank
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every government ...
I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, ‘that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living’: that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it ...
... no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation ...
Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.
https://jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu/selected-documents/thomas-jefferson-james-madison
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