Our founders intended for the federal government to have limited and divided powers, while most governmental powers would be dispersed among the states and the people. Instead, government power is now concentrated at the federal level.
As predicted, the concentration of power at the federal level has led to waste, fraud, corruption, poor quality and high-cost services, inefficiency, debt, division, and political paralysis. Yet federal politicians, specifically politicians in the Democrat Party, are totally opposed to giving power back to the states and the people. Even though the statistics confirm that the federal government is incapable of providing services efficiently, cost-effectively, and without high levels of waste and fraud, Democrats obstruct efforts to move decision-making to the states and the people. The reason for this obstruction is obvious: Democrats benefit politically by controlling money and services and using this leverage to manipulate voters on a national scale.
Except for national defense, trade, immigration, and border control, there are very few issues that states, private businesses and organizations, or individual Americans could not handle better. The fact that Democrats will not even consider decentralizing power on any issue should tell you everything you need to know. Voters need to wake up and start asking “why.” And Republicans need to be ready with better answers.
