Ignorance is not an Option: Weak President, Strong Government: What Would the Founding Fathers Think?
To answer the title of the post: yes. I feel that the Framers of our
Constitution would be amazed to see the amount of informal powers that
have been given to the president.
However, I disagree with the
amount of scrutiny that is being placed on our current president. Our
country is over 200 years old so it is without doubt that he, like other
presidents, have inherited a slew of problems when entering office. In
class we had discussed how legislation can continue to have an impact on
events up to 30 years after and I feel that faulty legislation is why
our veterans' programs are so ineffective. A broken health care system
is also to blame as to why veterans aren't able to gain access to their
supposed guaranteed benefits. Yet, the proponents of the Affordable
Health Care Act fail to see that the Obama Administration was trying to
solve a more widespread issue and hopefully veterans wouldn't have to
see a 'broker', the V.A., to have healthcare because it would be one's
right as a citizen and not just a veteran.
The redistribution of
wealth is a completely different issue and his main stance was on
changing tax brackets and definitely not giving 'hand outs'. Even if he
were to provide more funding to social services there would be no giving
'entitlement' because anyone and everyone deserves to have food,
education and a safe place to live regardless of the situation they are
in. These are basic human rights that unfortunately aren't met without
the help of our government, plain and simple. In fact, these programs
desperately need to be expanded because the disproportional distribution
of wealth in this country has most of its population in the clutches of
poverty or right on the edge of poverty.
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