Idiots in the government

Sometimes I look at the world and go huh? one of those times was just a few days ago. i was reading the AP news (cause i like to see what's not making the headlines) and that lead me to reading a few political blogs. both sides of the isle. Good god the folks are total idiots!
A few points off the top of my head.

1. it is not the federal governments job to handle states problems! did you folks in the big shiny halls never bloody read the section on state rights? if those guys would stop expecting the feds to bail them out all the time the fed would not have its fingers in all the pies. New Orleans is a fine example. its not the federal governments job to rebuild the place or to provide the money to do so. that responsibility rests firmly on the state. why then is federal money going into the effort? the same goes with the rest of the gulf states. what do the populations in the states pay state taxes for?

2.  The federal taxes are to be used for things that benefit the entire country. what part of the entire country is hard to understand? some little town in rural oregon should not even be mentioned in any debate on where the money goes cause unless it is producing a thing that is shared out to every person in every state it is not benefitting the whole. the decision to close a forest service office is not a national problem. Its is Oregon's problem. federal budgets should not be blocked because 10 people are going to lose jobs.

3. state taxes are to be used for state programs. and the companies in that state can bloody well pay a fair share. this is my personal number one gripe companies get tax breaks to set up in a state. fine and dandy but the state needs to be able to make that money up someplace other than folks making min wage.  those folks that have money need to be taxed by the state accordingly not as is done today let off by loop holes. when my taxes take a third of my pay i expect the guy bringing in 500.000 a year to be paying a the equivalent. I am sure that a person can be damn comfy on 200.000 a year.
I dont make a big deal of it but i tell you taxing 10 cents on every dollar without exception would bloody well bring in some money and the feds could stay in fed land.

4. the population of the country has given the feds our freedoms. This is something the states should be guarding against but as usual have failed to see. it seems that as soon as a senator or congressmen gets to the big shiny halls they are willing to give the state population up for a pat on the back or a scrap of power.

IMO it is time the states do the job mandated instead of letting uncle sam and some seat warmer in the oval office make the decisions. we should not even be talking federal budget and pork, federal program cuts for poor folks (myself included), yadda yadda. We should be looking at the state to make these things happen. why the heck is there a federal program to help the homeless in Iowa? that is not the feds job its Iowa's and for damn sure its time Iowa dealt with it on its own dime.

This is not to say every person for them selves its to say that if it doesn't affect the whole country (Iowa's homeless) then it is not a federal problem. not to mention if the states dealt with the homeless problem there would not be a homeless problem in the first place.
programs like single payer health care, interstate highways, emergency services, clean water, multinational business, the power grid Etc. are the Provence of the feds not taking care of individuals with a couple of exceptions.

social security (we all paid in and if it was not touched it would be our retirements. the Fed has never paid back the money it took out of the SS accounts. this was skimming money that does not belong to the fed and those that did it/are doing it should be in court being sued and jailed.
 military vets  have been promised things as is traditional for risking life and limb to protect the commonwealth this is a service that has value long past the active duty part of the commitment. folks seem to think that you stop being in the military when you get discharged. however i dont recall ever being relived of my oath. I'll bet no vet can remember being relived of that oath. this makes it pretty hard to be out of the military. We vets are the line of defense that would form if we where attacked. its our role and we cant ever put it down. the paltry reward for this is our medical care, schooling, and a couple of paltry loans we can get (sometimes). used to be a DD214 was as good as a degree because you where trusted with lives,  equipment and training way beyond that of most civilian jobs. these days an honorable discharge is a piece of toilet paper. it means nothing in the job market and in some cases hurts your chances.

both parties pay face to these two things but they sure as heck aint going to do anything good about them. the folks up in the big shiny halls think of them as money being spent badly. this of course is due to most of them being silver spoon fed on the sweat of those old folks and vets.

again if the fed and state governments did the job they should be doing we would not be in the mess we are in. bank regulations are a federal job, the stock market should be a federal job, those things that affect us all are the fed jobs. those things that affect a state are the states jobs this includes the people in the state.  the state needs to get off the nut and resume doing the job it was created to do. currently what we seem to have is one huge state instead of a republic composed self governing states.

guess this is what you get when the idiots are in charge; and the idiots that vote are content to let all the decisions  be made in their name by power hungry idiots. Make your states take back the power its the only way to get the country back to its former promise.  get out into the streets think what's best for all, make rational decisions based on your own research, question the pork spending by asking if it benefits the whole of the country, make your state tax its population fairly, make the state take care of its population instead of handing that responsibility off to the feds. Read what Eisenhower said and take it to heart because his words have come true; maybe just maybe we can turn things around if we try.