Do we NEED Congress?

[LibertyWeeps]

The big question.........do we NEED Congress?

The answer is NO.

Congress is what a Democracy government needs in order to create it's havoc and instability in a country.

This is NOT supposed to be a Democracy, this is supposed to be a Republic.
A Republic is where the PEOPLE make the decisions by voting on everything, or having laws created by the most people popular ideas......NOT by greedy, lazy, and anti-people criminals who create laws based on THEIR personal wants and agendas.

 

[DGS49]

The will of Congress is, by definition, the will of the American people. That is where "we" get our say in how the Federal government operates.

The problem is that being a Congressman has its own incentives, and those incentives are not aligned with the best governance. Mainly, Congressmen are incentivized to spend public funds (and borrowed public funds) to essentially buy votes with government handouts. Further, "Job #1" in Congress is to remain in office for as long as possible, which again works against optimizing government.

In my personal opinion, the greatest problem in Congress is the total disregard for the constraints built in to the Constitution, to wit, the specific powers delegated to Congress (see Article I, Section 8), and the Tenth Amendment, which makes those powers exclusive. Virtually all discretionary spending is technically and actually unconstitutional. Congress has no "power" to spend our money on food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation, or saving the planet. But half the country is reliant on these unconstitutional expenditures, and nobody in Congress has the courage to point out the vast difference between what Congress is empowered to do versus what Congress actually does.

The solution is a combination of term limits and scaling back the "job" of being a congressperson. It should be a part-time job, and paid for as such. A PENSION for a Congressperson is an abomination; those elected positions were never intended to be CAREERS, merely a period of public service for those who were willing and able to take them.

Then we come to the "swamp" - the army of paid, job-protected bureaucrats who come to Washington to run the government, regardless of who is in office - mainly Leftists who have never had a job, run a company, or supported themselves in the Real World. Getting rid of them would be impossible, but DOGE was, as the saying goes, a good start. Trump has trimmed the Federal civilian employee payroll by about 300,000 souls. Just a start.

 

[Blaster]

Congress has become a roadblock and does nothing for American citizens.

 

[Anomalism]

You're describing direct democracy. The problem with that is policy positions should be more than just vibes based.

Most people are ignorant.

 

[sparky]

we've the best Congress $$$ can buy! ~S~

 

[task0778]

If you have no Congress then you have a dictatorship, a person that can do whatever he/she pleases and that usually never ends well for that society. Granted that today's Congress is pretty much an embarrassment of fraud, waste, and abuse + corruption that needs to be fixed, but IMHO even that total mess is better than an unfettered president with no restraints. Separation of powers is a good thing and we should not depart from that concept.

 

[1srelluc]

Well just who would name the walking trails in National Parks.....When the dems are not shutting down the .gov and closing them that is.

 

[Votto]

If you have no Congress then you have a dictatorship, a person that can do whatever he/she pleases and that usually never ends well for that society. Granted that today's Congress is pretty much an embarrassment of fraud, waste, and abuse + corruption that needs to be fixed, but IMHO even that total mess is better than an unfettered president with no restraints. Separation of powers is a good thing and we should not depart from that concept.

Thanks to Congress, Trump was the most vetted Presidential candidate in US history.

If there was any dirt on him, they would have found it.

The problem is, the vetting is only one sided as the GOP never does this.

I would like to see the GOP treat every Democrat President like they treated Trump, aside from their assassination attempts, something only democrats believe is Ok.

 

[task0778]

Thanks to Congress, Trump was the most vetted Presidential candidate in US history.

If there was any dirt on him, they would have found it.

The problem is, the vetting is only one sided as the GOP never does this.

I would like to see the GOP treat every Democrat President like they treated Trump, aside from their assassination attempts, something only democrats believe is Ok.

??? You realize that unfettered does not mean unvetted, right? Unfettered means unrestrained or unlimited, so I'm having trouble understanding your point.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Most people are ignorant.

And kept that way by the people they elect.

 

[Votto]

??? You realize that unfettered does not mean unvetted, right? Unfettered means unrestrained or unlimited, so I'm having trouble understanding your point.

My point was, they tried to dig up as much dirt as possible on the man, and fell well short of their goal.

This should be done with every political candidate.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

The big question.........do we NEED Congress?

The answer is NO.

Congress is what a Democracy government needs in order to create it's havoc and instability in a country.

This is NOT supposed to be a Democracy, this is supposed to be a Republic.
A Republic is where the PEOPLE make the decisions by voting on everything, or having laws created by the most people popular ideas......NOT by greedy, lazy, and anti-people criminals who create laws based on THEIR personal wants and agendas.

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You described pure democracy. We have (theoretically) a representative republic.
Our reps need term limits so they can become the part-time civil servants they were intended to be.

 

[Votto]

The big question.........do we NEED Congress?

The answer is NO.

Congress is what a Democracy government needs in order to create it's havoc and instability in a country.

This is NOT supposed to be a Democracy, this is supposed to be a Republic.
A Republic is where the PEOPLE make the decisions by voting on everything, or having laws created by the most people popular ideas......NOT by greedy, lazy, and anti-people criminals who create laws based on THEIR personal wants and agendas.

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The issue with Congress is twofold

1. The States originally picked those in the Senate, but after Progressives changed the Constitution at the turn of the 20th century, now they are elected directly like those in the House, making their existence nonsensical. It may as well be just one large House and no Senate. Now the states have a reduced power in the Federal beast as a result.

2. Congress has given much of their power to the Deep State, or the Bureaucratic state, where laws are now made via regulations by a small group of unelected people you have never heard of and will never hear of. It is completely antidemocratic and subverts the very tenants of democracy.

Just kidding, there are a lot more problems with Congress, but we will start with those two.

 

[Votto]

Congress has become a roadblock and does nothing for American citizens.

It is what they have become, which is why their approval rating is always under 20% since as long as I can remember.

 

[task0778]

My point was, they tried to dig up as much dirt as possible on the man, and fell well short of their goal.

This should be done with every political candidate.

And if the democrats can't find anything then they'll make shit up like they did to Trump. At least we can vote the bad guys out of office, in theory anyway. But once Congress is discarded then we ain't a democratic gov't anymore and elections mean nothing. What we have now ain't good, but we can change that for the better if we have the balls and the smarts to do it.

1. The States originally picked those in the Senate, but after Progressives changed the Constitution at the turn of the 20th century, now they are elected directly like those in the House, making their existence nonsensical. It may as well be just one large House and no Senate. Now the states have a reduced power in the Federal beast as a result.

As long as the filibuster exists the requirement to pass new legislation requires 60 votes. Which can be misused to obstruct progress as we have seen. But it also can prevent passage of some really destructive changes; what would have happened if Manchin and Sinema had not voted against abolishing the filibuster? Among other things the dems would've changed our elections to allow every swingin' dick to vote without id or any proof of citizenship.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The big question.........do we NEED Congress?

The answer is NO.

Congress is what a Democracy government needs in order to create it's havoc and instability in a country.

This is NOT supposed to be a Democracy, this is supposed to be a Republic.
A Republic is where the PEOPLE make the decisions by voting on everything, or having laws created by the most people popular ideas......NOT by greedy, lazy, and anti-people criminals who create laws based on THEIR personal wants and agendas.

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Are you still in middle school because you have your definitions all wrong if this is what you believe. Take another look at the definitions of democracy and a republic because you have them bass ackwards.

 

[Vrenn]

The will of Congress is, by definition, the will of the American people. That is where "we" get our say in how the Federal government operates.

The problem is that being a Congressman has its own incentives, and those incentives are not aligned with the best governance. Mainly, Congressmen are incentivized to spend public funds (and borrowed public funds) to essentially buy votes with government handouts. Further, "Job #1" in Congress is to remain in office for as long as possible, which again works against optimizing government.

In my personal opinion, the greatest problem in Congress is the total disregard for the constraints built in to the Constitution, to wit, the specific powers delegated to Congress (see Article I, Section 8), and the Tenth Amendment, which makes those powers exclusive. Virtually all discretionary spending is technically and actually unconstitutional. Congress has no "power" to spend our money on food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation, or saving the planet. But half the country is reliant on these unconstitutional expenditures, and nobody in Congress has the courage to point out the vast difference between what Congress is empowered to do versus what Congress actually does.

The solution is a combination of term limits and scaling back the "job" of being a congressperson. It should be a part-time job, and paid for as such. A PENSION for a Congressperson is an abomination; those elected positions were never intended to be CAREERS, merely a period of public service for those who were willing and able to take them.

Then we come to the "swamp" - the army of paid, job-protected bureaucrats who come to Washington to run the government, regardless of who is in office - mainly Leftists who have never had a job, run a company, or supported themselves in the Real World. Getting rid of them would be impossible, but DOGE was, as the saying goes, a good start. Trump has trimmed the Federal civilian employee payroll by about 300,000 souls. Just a start.

Originally, the House was voted by the people of a specific state and was limited to a 6 month position. The Senate was appointed by the Governors and was year round.

I don't know when that changed but what it created was the lifetime congress positions when it changed to what we see today.

 

[JWBooth]

The big question.........do we NEED Congress?

The answer is NO.

Congress is what a Democracy government needs in order to create it's havoc and instability in a country.

This is NOT supposed to be a Democracy, this is supposed to be a Republic.
A Republic is where the PEOPLE make the decisions by voting on everything, or having laws created by the most people popular ideas......NOT by greedy, lazy, and anti-people criminals who create laws based on THEIR personal wants and agendas.

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Not as long we have a god king for an emperor.

 

[Mr Natural]

Who needs Congress when we have Trump?

 

[Deadstick]

Congress has become a roadblock and does nothing for American citizens.

You just made the argument for a Dictatorship.