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What was the original mandate for the US Fed Gov? Focus on international affairs and waging war, and let states handle the rest?

• honkycat 4y ago
  You realize that was almost 250 years ago at this point. Constitutionaliam is a grift run by conservatives to smoke screen their agendas. Nobody argues it in good faith.
  • mdcds 4y ago
    idk, never heard of Constitutionaliam. So what the mandate of Fed Gov should be and how long TTL?
  • justinzollars 4y ago
    > Constitutionaliam is a grift run by conservatives to smoke screen their agendas. Nobody argues it in good faith. I argue it in good faith. I want government to shrink. The constitution should be used as a tool to constrain the size and scope of Government. And with the New Supreme Court it's chipping away at the concept the State can rule by edict. It's an exciting restoration of Democracy. Today Government spending is 44% of GDP - which is colossal by most measures. In fact It's much larger than the CCP. Government size will shrink either through inflation or default because its debt burden is 130% of GDP. In research done by Hirschmann capital, 51 out of 52 times a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio reached 130%, the country eventually defaulted. The one exception is Japan - whose trajectory doesn't look great today. Like it or not, you are either fighting constitutionalism or the mathematical force of Gravity. But there is no way Government will continue to expand.