That is a foolish statement. And about as an Anti-American statement as I have seen here on CC.
If I thought you had the intellect to actually understand how foolish your statement is, I would go through them one by one and show the advantages of each. However, your "blanket condemnation" of them reveals you lack the intellect to even be offering an opinion on them.
There is nothing more American than being able to say any legislation is crap.
Before I begin, I would like to post a list from the United States Constitution:
Article 1, Section 8
1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
13: To provide and maintain a Navy;
14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And
18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
This section is all the authority that our congress has to legislate.
I'm going to pick on a few programs, laws, actions from the list of crap.
Social security.
Where from the list above does congress have authority to create it? You may need it, but some people don't want it. Why is that Anti-American?
If you will allow me, I will tell you why I don't want it, beyond my belief that congress lacked authority to create it.
If I were to sell a financial instrument constructed in the same way as social security retirement, I would be imprisoned for racketeering. Social security at it's core is a pyramid scheme. It relies on many people at the bottom to push money up to a few at the top. The problem is that the bottom is getting narrower as the top gets wider. At some point, hopefully not soon, that pyramid will be upside-down.
Motor voter act
Well, believe it or not, but voting is a state issue. Nothing in the constitution gives the congress the authority to regulate voting. And if you can't find your local registrars office, you have more problems than not voting.
Medicare/medicaid.
It comes at a huge expense to the federal budget and also, nothing in the constitution gives congress authority to create it.
Public education
No authority granted to congress to establish or regulate. It simply is not a federal issue.
I can go on and on. I can find a defect in most large federal programs as being an over reach of federal authority. The list of congressional power is above. Nothing precludes the states from serving these functions though. Check out the 10th ammendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The problem I have is that the federal government is involved in crap that the states are supposed to be doing if they wish.
