“Teachers used to tell schools kids that anyone can be president. This is like saying anyone can go to Hell. It’s not an inspiration; it’s a threat.”
-Lew Rockwell
In the first month of 2017, to properly kick off a new year of bread and circuses, taxpayers shelled out (involuntarily, of course) $100 million for a massive party for the new president.
That’s right. This year’s inauguration cost roughly $200 million, half of which came from private donations. The other half? “Federal, state and local governments,” said the press.
AKA the taxpayer. AKA the productive individuals of the private sector. 99.999999% of those taxpayers who footed the bill for such an extravagant event didn’t even get to sniff the wine — they weren’t in attendance.
Waste, waste and more waste
Having a president goes beyond just government waste, it creates a cascade of pettiness (and thus private waste) all the way down to the lowest common denominator. In other words, it turns otherwise reasonably reasonable people into nutcases.
Take, for starters, the mainstream media sock puppets. Rather than reporting on an Amber Alert, a product recall or, you know, something useful, the press all too often wastes resources on an endless barrage of meaningless coverage surrounding one person — the president.
Why We Should Abolish the Presidency
We don’t need a President of the United States. In fact, he (or she) is useless.
First off, the Constitution doesn’t even address the powers of the Presidency until Article II. The Founders clearly thought the legislative branch was more important, i.e. the actual branch that creates laws, declares wars, etc.
Wars
Lately the Presidents have been declaring wars. We’re in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and probably three or four other places I don’t even know about. The only problem is, according to the Constitution, the President is not allowed to declare wars.
Commander and Chief of the Military
A couple of points: He’s not really commander in chief.
I’m not going to make fun of the last few Presidents. But if you do the slightest bit of googling on Clinton, Bush, and Obama, you can see that none of them are qualified to be Commander in Chief of a Girl Scout unit, let alone the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, etc.
Supreme Court
He can recommend judges to the Supreme Court that the House has to then ratify.
Again, I propose a digg-like system where judges present their credentials and the 150mm non-children in the United States vote them up or down and when we need a new Supreme Court Justice we decide which, of the top 10 should be that justice. And we do it through voting.
You can argue, judges should be outside the voting system. But they aren’t anyway – since we elect a President based on hand size who then picks the judges.
https://lfb.org/impeach-trump-no-abolish-presidency/
