How would you fix America?

#51
#51
Make appropriations bills stand-alone that cannot be inserted into unrelated legislation.

Conversely, legislation unrelated to a spending proposal cannot be added.

Executive Orders expire at the end of the issuer’s term(s). They can be extended by the next President on an individual basis but blanket extension is forbidden.
 
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distrovol said:
The purpose of the original intent of electing senators is well known. Evidently it wasn't working since there was an attempt to reform it for almost 100 years prior. How would you solve the problems I mentioned that caused the nation to amend the constitution to electing by popular vote? Amending the constitution isn't easy. The senators elected by the state legislatures voted to send the amendment to the states for ratification. They gave up the power voluntarily.
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They gave up power under duress. Read the history of the amendment.
 
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MG1968 said:
Make appropriations bills stand-alone that cannot be inserted into unrelated legislation.

Conversely, legislation unrelated to a spending proposal cannot be added.

Executive Orders expire at the end of the issuer’s term(s). They can be extended by the next President on an individual basis but blanket extension is forbidden.
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I would think each new president would have to sit down and re-EO the existing ones. if he doesn't they go away.
 
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hog88 said:
They gave up power under duress. Read the history of the amendment.
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I did, and I listed some of the problems with the original method of electing senators that led to the movement to change the constitution to popular vote. Care to propose some solutions to those problems?
 
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distrovol said:
I did, and I listed some of the problems with the original method of electing senators that led to the movement to change the constitution to popular vote. Care to propose some solutions to those problems?
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I did, page 1.

hog88 said:
Eliminate:
Dept of Education
Homeland Security
OSHA (Actually the entire Dept of Labor)
EPA
EEOC
Access Board
Agency for Global Media
ATF
Housing and Urban Development
FMCS
ARC
NCPC
Seriously reform the entire Dept of Justice.

Repeal the 16th, 17th and replace the 14th amendment with birthright citizenship requiring 1 parent be a citizen. (I'd ideally do away with birthright citizenship all together but) Amend article III, limit federal judges to 12 year terms with an up or out clause.

Pass an amendment limiting congress to no more than 100 calendar days in session per year (outside of a declared national emergency), reduce pay accordingly and end all pension and HC benefits for them.

I gots more but have to go to a meeting.
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Fixing this country comes down to one thing. Reducing the size of the federal government to its original level, return it to the point where it’s mostly irrelevant to the average citizen.

Until that is done there is no “fixing” this country.
 
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hog88 said:
I did, page 1.
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I don't think you are understanding my question. How does listing a bunch of modern government agencies have anything to do with the negative issues that arose from state legislative bodies electing senators and set in motion the events that led to amending the constitution? I will list them again:

- corrupt process in state legislative bodies (corruption isn't confine to the federal level)
- deadlocked legislatures that resulted in senators not being elected thus depriving representation of said state
- state legislatures' time becoming more consumed with the senator process that normal governing affairs were negatively impacted

I agree with the theoretical reasons for the original method, but it appears it didn't work as intended so it was changed. Obviously, popular vote has its problems, too. Is your position the problems with legislature's picking senators are preferable to the problems from popular vote?
 
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#58
A constitutional amendment specifiing that all laws and programs enacted by Congress automatically expire after 10 years and must be explicitly reauthorized.
 
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#59
Of course the best way to „fix“ America would be to grant me total unrestricted executive, legislative, and judicial authority for life 😉
 
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#63
Get rid of straight party voting. Get rid of the party on the ballot next to the candidate's name. Go to a tax system where there isn't a refundable tax credit. Go back to a gold standard.
 
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#64
Veteran PTSD needs to be taken way more serious than it is.

The VA hospitals, CHAMPva insurance, SSDI, and veteran PTSD help are severely lacking for otherwise able bodied veterans.



Matter of fact, I would even say that the SS idiots should just automatically follow what the VA Dr's have said about Veterans disability status. At least those are Drs who have talked to the veterans. If the VA says you are 100% disabled, SS should too. As of now, they are wildly different in the way they look at PTSD. How is this helpful to a veteran?

Hopefully this administration works some of this out


Edit - guess thats just my small part of America, but still
 
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volinsd said:
Veteran PTSD needs to be taken way more serious than it is.

The VA hospitals, CHAMPva insurance, SSDI, and veteran PTSD help are severely lacking for otherwise able bodied veterans.



Matter of fact, I would even say that the SS idiots should just automatically follow what the VA Dr's have said about Veterans disability status. At least those are Drs who have talked to the veterans. If the VA says you are 100% disabled, SS should too. As of now, they are wildly different in the way they look at PTSD. How is this helpful to a veteran?

Hopefully this administration works some of this out


Edit - guess thats just my small part of America, but still
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This wouldn't fix all of America's problems but it is definitely something that should be followed.
 
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