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What happens when Congress is asleep at the wheel or in on the take?
by Empact 2y ago
What happens when Congress is asleep at the wheel or in on the take?
- JackYoustra 2y agoYou campaign for other congresspeople and try and get them thrown out. Congressional representatives are very receptive to constituent calls. I mean, we could also do your plan and just hand off essentially dictatorial power over spending to the richest man in the country.
- tmpz22 2y agoSeriously the number of people willing to burn down the whole government over grievances that often haven’t even impacted them is incredibly scary. You do not throw out the baby with the bath water.
- Empact 2y agoEveryone in the United States is impacted by government insolvency and the economic collapse it will inevitably lead to if unchecked. Everyone is impacted by the fact that money-printer-fueled government spending crowds out private spending / investment / growth.
- JackYoustra 2y agoand your solution is empowering a dictator and... hoping it goes well?
- Empact 2y agoArticle 2 says “the executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” That means the power to “enforce laws, manage national affairs, and oversee government agencies.” It’s Congress’s role to allocate funds to certain purposes, and the President’s to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” including overseeing the bureaucracy that implements them. The President already has dictatorial power over the bureaucracy, as per the Constitution.
- JackYoustra 2y agoNot over spending, which Elon's seizure of payments infrastructure has made. Unless you extend it to that, in which case why have courts? Its not like they have enforcement power and the president can stretch discretion to the limit.