06-08-2015, 08:00 PM
(06-08-2015, 07:56 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Yea if you believe we need a heavy handed federal government then it's fine. Problem is that governors think they need to run the fed gov like they ran a state.
President should be funneling decisions down to the governors. Not making them for them.
No, the POTUS should not funnel. The jobs are the same in that they head the branch of government that executes the laws of their level of government. It is up to the legislature to make the laws that the executive is to execute. It's the same on the state level as it is on the federal.
Now, if you'd like to discuss the overstepping of the executive and legislative branches between each other in an effort to continually expand the federal government, then that's fine. But the actual role of the federal executive is the same as the state level, just on a larger scale.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
