Month: February 2025

How To End Congressional Corruption

In the past several congressional elites have been caught with their hands in the pockets of the wealthy and it has been rumored to go all the way to the Supreme Court.

This has been a problem for many years but how can we end this cycle of corruption?

Clueless leader of Doge, Elmo, has the perfect plan…..

Elon Musk, the billionaire appointed by President Donald Trump to slash the size of the US government, suggested Thursday that members of Congress should get salary increases as a way to discourage corruption.

Although the tech billionaire is officially only an advisor, Trump has bestowed him with enormous power to cut federal spending and bureaucracy, as part of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

“It might make sense to increase compensation for Congress and senior government employees to reduce the forcing function for corruption, as the latter might be as much as 1000 times more expensive to the public,” Musk posted on his social media platform X.

Lawmakers in both parties are typically wary of the optics of large pay rises but acknowledge that competitive salaries are the best way of ensuring that the less well-off can serve.

The first draft of a short-term government funding bill that Musk helped defeat in December would have allowed for a modest salary increase by reenacting an automatic cost-of-living adjustment for lawmakers.

Congress has been blocking the adjustments every year since 2009.

(tag24.com)

This is a dumb idea.

Congress people get free travel, free healthcare, free postage, free security and access to insider information that makes them millions and somehow a pay raise will change their propensity to take bribes.

Sorry do not see it.

Greed will prevail no matter the paycheck.

The American people do not see the Congress as a non-corrupt entity…

There’s no doubt that Congress has an ethics problem. Its members have undermined public confidence with stock trades and other activities that create the appearance of abusing their positions for private gain. The Justice Department prosecuted former Representative Chris Collins (R-NY) for insider trading he committed at the White House, and last year a court sentenced him to 26 months in prison before President Donald Trump pardoned him.

Stock trades by other members of Congress and their spouses drew public ire in recent years, though the Justice Department found no grounds for charges. The spouse of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) bought stock worth millions in Google’s parent company, Alphabet, shortly before the House of Representatives announced milder-than-expected action against big tech companies. Before the public knew the extent of the threat COVID-19 posed, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) and former Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) collectively dumped millions of dollars’ worth of stock in companies likely to be affected by the pandemic. More recent reporting has raised questions as to whether Senator Burr shared nonpublic information with his brother-in-law, and whether his brother-in-law made trades based on that information. In one Senate term, former Senator David Perdue (R-GA) engaged in 2,596 trades, some involving companies potentially affected by the activities of committees on which he served. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) did not disclose his spouse’s February 26, 2020, purchase of drug manufacturer stock for over a year. Insider reported last month that, this year alone, 43 members of Congress — including Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Representative Susie Lee (D-NV), among others — failed to comply with disclosure requirements for stock trades.

These are only a few examples of a broader pattern of conduct that has undermined public confidence in Congress. Transformative change is overdue.

https://www.pogo.org/analysis/american-voters-say-corruption-is-a-concern-congress-should-heed-the-message

No doubt POGO will be targeted by the GOP, DOGE and Trump…..silence the critics of corruption….and soon.

This corruption is not a new phenom…..no it has been with us for a long time…..a history lesson those interested….

https://www.cato.org/blog/long-history-corruption-congress

Why give them a raise for they barely work to earn their paycheck at all.

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The Fox Guarding The Hen House

Everyone by now has an opinion about the DOGE fiasco playing out in the first month of the Trump Administration…..but did know the head of the agency is a parasite on the government money?

Elmo has made billions thanx to lucrative contracts with the government….

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, owes much of his wealth to government funding, even as he pledges to slash billions with his Department of Government Efficiency initiative.

A new Washington Post report found that the tech mogul/fascism enthusiast built his fortune from $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits going back more than 20 years. Musk’s companies received at least $6.3 billion in commitments from state and local governments in 2024 alone, and this is likely an undercount.

The total amount of government funding that Musk has received is likely much higher, given that federal funding related to defense and intelligence projects is often classified. For example, Musk’s company SpaceX has a contract to build spy satellites from the National Reconnaissance Office, an intelligence agency tasked with building satellites for national defense. That contract is reportedly worth $1.8 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.

According to the Post, Musk’s companies have close to a dozen other local grants, tax credits, and reimbursements whose costs are not publicly known. Musk also has 52 ongoing contracts with seven government agencies—including the Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, and NASA—that could pay his companies $11.8 billion in the next few years.

Tesla has been a major beneficiary of federal and state government funding, receiving $11.4 billion in regulatory credits meant to boost electric cars. Tesla sales have been helped by a $7,500 tax credit for buyers of electric vehicles too.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192001/elon-musk-government-funding-wealth

I would wager that none of his very lucrative contracts are on the chopping block.

How about you?

This is how you make sure your business interests are protected.

Word is the the contracts that have been terminated by DOGE may not be the cash cow they are said to be….

News accounts continue to challenge Elon Musk’s claims of major savings thanks to the Department of Government Efficiency he runs. On Monday, DOGE published an updated “wall of receipts” list of about 2,300 contracts that have been terminated across the federal government. The problem? The AP reports that nearly 800 of those cancellations won’t yield any savings whatsoever because the money already has been committed.

  • “It’s like confiscating used ammunition after it’s been shot when there’s nothing left in it. It doesn’t accomplish any policy objective,” says Charles Tiefer, an expert on government contracting law. “Their terminating so many contracts pointlessly obviously doesn’t accomplish anything for saving money.”
  • As a story at Axios explains, the only way to get truly meaningful savings would be to cut defense, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, which collectively make up 86% of the budget. President Trump, however, has promised not to touch any of them.
  • “When you consider where federal money really goes, most DOGE oddities and outrages amount to rounding errors in a sea of government obligations,” write Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei.
  • A defense: The AP quotes an anonymous administration official who says the canceled contracts are still important for the message they send about efficiency. And the Axios piece cites a Harris Poll survey showing that 72% of registered voters back the idea of an agency focused on the issue. “So Trump and his aides correctly calculate that both the cuts and the tales of government insanity are popular with the vast majority of Americans,” the outlet notes.

I think that this agency will be no more effective than the last Trump administration.

But that is just me.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

 

Finally An Answer To Rising Egg Prices!

Most everyone has been hit by the high cost of eggs in the past year and the question has been…..when will something be done about the high prices?

This is the Trump Administration’s answer to solving the ever rising egg prices here in the US….

President Trump’s agriculture secretary announced Wednesday that her department is working with the Department of Government Efficiency “to cut hundreds of millions of dollars of wasteful spending” that will be used to help bring down the retail price of eggs. “We will repurpose some of those dollars by investing in long-term solutions to avian flu,” a major driver of the egg shortage, Brooke Rollins wrote in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. In January, the average price for large, Grade A eggs in American cities hit a record $4.95 per dozen.

Agriculture Department will spend as much as $1 billion on the campaign, Rollins said in laying out the plan’s five steps. The first $500 million is allocated to help with biosecurity measures at poultry farms—steps to stop the flu’s spread. In addition, $400 million is set aside for relief to farmers whose flocks have been hit the flu, the Washington Post reports. Another $100 million will go toward developing vaccines and therapeutics for laying chickens. “This should help reduce the need to ‘depopulate’ flocks, which means killing chickens on a farm where there’s an outbreak,” Rollins wrote.

The fourth step, she said, is reducing the regulation of producers, including facilitating the raising of backyard chickens. The last move Rollins listed is temporarily increasing the number of imported eggs, possibly raising purchases from Turkey from the current 70 million a year to as many as 420 million this year, per the Post. A farmers group, United Egg Producers, welcomed Rollins’ plan. The secretary wrote that while the shortage won’t disappear overnight, “we’re confident that it will restore stability to the egg market.”

Just how will this bring down prices?

Trump is considering a 25% tariff on products from the EU so where will we import eggs from that is not effected by these tariffs?

To remind everyone tariffs are paid by the importer and passed onto the consumer in price increases….so again how will this idea bring down prices?

So just how will this lower the price for we will be dealing with the same middlemen that are raping huge profits on the backs of consumers

How can we as consumers be guaranteed that the eggs we import will be safe for they may come from countries with little to no oversight?

And another question why has bird flu hit the US the hardest?….I have not seen a report that it is crisis level elsewhere in the world.

Let me say here that while I do not like this proposal to end high egg prices it is a damn sight better than what the Dems have offered…..an investigation into egg producers….the investigation is needed but it will take a year or better to complete and what will happen to prices in that lag time?

Please share your thoughts on this hair brain idea.

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“lego ergo scribo”

Waiting On A ‘Gold Card’

This is not the same thing as your Visa gold card….this is in reference to the US visa that the Trump Administration is selling….you are surely heard the term ‘green card’…..well this is a visa that rich people can pay to enter the US.

President Trump teased a new visa program Tuesday with something “like a green card,” but his favorite color: gold. Trump said the gold card, with “a higher level of sophistication,” would offer “very high-level people” a new “route to citizenship”—for the cost of $5 million, per the New York Times. “Wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card” and receiving “green card privileges,” said Trump, who spoke to reporters while signing various executive orders, per CNN.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said “the Trump gold card” would replace the EB-5 visa program, under which investors and their families can receive permanent residence if they make a significant investment in a US business that creates or preserves 10 permanent full-time jobs for US workers. Trump said the wealthy foreigners buying gold cards would be “people that create jobs,” without giving details, per the Times.

“They’ll have to go through vetting, of course,” Lutnick said, per CNN, “to make sure they’re wonderful world-class global citizens.” Asked if a Russian oligarch would be eligible, Trump replied, “Yeah, possibly. I know some Russian oligarchs that are nice people.” “I think they can afford $5 million,” he continued. He predicted the government would be able to sell a million or more gold cards starting in about two weeks. “If you add up the numbers, they’re pretty good,” he said.

A new way for the rich to come here and become a parasite on the American system.

The precedes would go to pay off the national debt….

President Donald Trump believes he can pay off America’s $36 trillion national debt by charging rich immigrants $5 million for a gold card—which has green card privileges “plus a route to citizenship.”

President Trump made the impromptu announcement in the Oval Office yesterday, telling reporters: “Remember the words gold card.”

The president said he had planned to make the announcement next week but seized the opportunity to share the news while signing executive orders on Tuesday.

As a result, details of what the gold card will entail are still sparse, but the Republican politician said: “Wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card. They’ll be wealthy and they’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people.

They will come and pay lots of taxes……who believes that fairy tale?

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First Meeting Of The ‘Minds’

Yesterday was the very first cabinet meeting for the new administration….and this is how it went…

President Trump held his first Cabinet meeting of his second term on Tuesday—and a lot of the talking was done by somebody who wasn’t seated at the table. Trump asked Elon Musk, who is not an official Cabinet member, to discuss his work with DOGE. “Is anyone unhappy with Elon? If you are, we’ll throw them out of here,” Trump joked, per the Wall Street Journal. More:

  • DOGE. Trump praised Musk’s email asking federal workers to justify their jobs, which some agency chiefs have resisted. Musk described it as a “pulse check,” not a performance review, and said the email was sent with the president’s approval, the New York Times reports. Musk praised Trump for putting together the “best Cabinet ever.” The Times reports that Musk, who said he was confident he could cut $1 trillion from the federal budget, dominated the first part of the meeting. Trump later discussed a wide range of subjects.
  • Ukraine. Trump opened the meeting by confirming that Volodymyr Zelensky will visit the White House on Friday to sign a deal involving Ukrainian minerals and other resources. He later said that the deal would not include security guarantees, the Guardian reports. He said Vladimir Putin would have to make some concessions, but Ukraine should “forget about” joining NATO. “I think that’s probably the reason the whole thing started,” he said.
  • Tariffs. Trump said he plans to hit the European Union with 25% tariffs on the import of cars, among other goods, the Times reports. “The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States,” he said. Trump also criticized Canada, saying, “Without us, Canada can’t make it. I say Canada should be our 51st state.”
  • Measles. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, was asked about the death of a child in the Texas measles outbreak. He described the outbreak as “not unusual” and said his agency is “watching” the outbreak, without providing specifics, the AP reports.
  • Afghanistan. Trump said all the generals involved in the US withdrawal from Afghanistan should be fired, the Hill reports. “I’m not going to tell this man what to do, but I will say that if I had his place, I’d fire every single one of them,” he said, gesturing to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Hegseth said the Pentagon is conducting a “complete review.”

Now after reading this short summary you can see why I enclosed the word minds thusly…..

The tariff thing is interesting soon the whole world will be under a Trump tariff and things will get expensive and out of reach for most Americans….but maybe that is the plan all along.

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“lego ergo scribo”

Another Brick in The Wall

I could be offering up my review of a tune the I enjoy from Pink Floyd or I could be writing about the ‘wall’ of exclusion on the Southern border…..but I am not at this time…..I am talking about the wall the Trump is building around himself w2hich is also a ‘wall’ of exclusion…..if you are not on-board with the whole MAGA BS then you will be excluded.

He is slowly trying to exclude anyone from government that could possibly stand in his ascension to deity.

The newest attack is on the press….

The White House said Tuesday that its officials “will decide” which news outlets can regularly cover President Trump up close—a sharp break from a century of tradition in which a pool of independently chosen news organizations go where the chief executive does and hold him accountable on behalf of regular Americans. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the changes would rotate traditional outlets from the group and include some streaming services, the AP reports. She cast the change as a modernization of the press pool, saying the move would be more inclusive and restore “access back to the American people” who elected Trump.

  • “Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team,” Leavitt said at a daily briefing. “A select group of DC-based journalists should no longer have a monopoly of press access at the White House.”
  • Critics of the move included Peter Baker, the New York Times‘ chief White House correspondent, the Hill reports. “Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin’s reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access,” Baker said in a post on X.
  • Leavitt spoke a day after a federal judge refused to immediately order the White House to restore the APs’ access to many presidential events. The news outlet, citing the First Amendment, sued Leavitt and two other White House officials for barring the AP from some presidential events over its refusal to call the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” as Trump ordered.

He has already banned some so-called ‘liberal’ press but not called so by me) as PBS, AP, Reuters, etc.  And now the rest of the story….

This is just another page from the authoritarian handbook…..control what is reported and eliminate any opposition press, if possible.

Whatcha wanna bet that OAN, FOX, and other right wing echo chambers will have full access?

What do you see in this move?

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“lego ergo scribo”

New Budget In Waiting

The Senate awaits!

The Trump people in the House have voted and approve the budget deal and one GOPer voted against it….

With a push from President Trump, House Republicans sent a GOP budget blueprint to passage Tuesday, a step toward delivering his “big, beautiful bill” with $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $2 trillion in spending cuts despite a wall of opposition from Democrats and discomfort among Republicans.

  • House Speaker Mike Johnson had almost no votes to spare in his bare-bones GOP majority and fought on all fronts—against Democrats, uneasy rank-and-file Republicans, and skeptical GOP senators—to advance the party’s signature legislative package, the AP reports. Trump made calls to wayward GOP lawmakers and invited Republicans to the White House.
  • The vote was 217-215, with a single Republican—Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky—and all Democrats present opposed, and the outcome was in jeopardy until the gavel. “On a vote like this, you’re always going to have people you’re talking to all the way through the close of the vote,” Majority Leader Steve Scalise said before the roll call. “We got it done,” Johnson said afterward. Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva did not vote, the Washington Post reports.
  • Next steps are long and cumbersome before anything can become law—weeks of committee hearings to draft the details and send the House version to the Senate, where Republicans passed their own scaled-back version. And more big votes are ahead, including an unrelated deal to prevent a government shutdown when federal funding expires March 14. Those talks are also underway.
  • Democrats during an afternoon debate decried the package as a “betrayal” of Americans, a “blueprint for American decline,” and simply a “Republican rip-off.” “Our very way of life as a country is under assault,” House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said on the steps of the Capitol.
  • The Republican majority in the House is so tight that confirmation hearings for Rep. Elise Stefanik as US ambassador to the United Nations have not been scheduled, the New York Times reports. “I had 220 Republicans and 215 Democrats, and then President Trump began to cull the herd,” Johnson said Monday. “We have a one-vote margin now—smallest in history, right?”

How nice that the GOP has a budget offer….but does anyone see this helping our deficit problem.

Two simple solutions that NO one in Congress wants to grapple with….raise taxes and cut spending…..but Congress is not paid to use their commonsense they are paid to take orders….but not from the voter.

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From The Mouth Of Zelensky

Now that Trump is in office Zelensky has lots to say about the war and the end of it….

First, he is still trying to force feed NATO to the US in one fashion or another….

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he was “ready” to resign as leader if it meant it would bring peace to his country, suggesting he could swap it for NATO membership – while also pushing back against US demands for Ukraine’s critical minerals and other natural resources as part of negotiations to end the war.

Asked at a press conference Sunday if he was ready to quit if it ensures peace for Ukraine, Zelensky said: “If (it guarantees) peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to resign, I am ready. I can exchange it for NATO.”

Earlier this month, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that Kyiv joining NATO was unrealistic, upending the alliance’s stated policy that Ukraine was on an “irreversible path” to membership.

After the martial law, there will be elections. Perhaps [Trump] will say something good about me,” he said, per NBC. But “it is more important what Ukrainians think about me.” Turning focus to US aid negotiations, Zelensky suggested Ukraine was “ready to share” its rare earth minerals. But he said he would not accept the latest US proposal, which lacked security guarantees yet would’ve required Ukraine to pay $500 billion to the US though natural resource revenues. The sum is “more than twice the value of Ukraine’s economic output in 2021,” per the Times. Zelensky claimed US aid has totaled around $120 billion so far and took issue with a term in the proposed deal that he says “states that for every dollar of [future US] aid, Ukraine must return $2.”

US efforts ought to represent “peace through force, but toward Russia, not in the other direction,” said Zelensky, per the Times. He spoke hours after Russia launched what Ukraine said was its largest single drone attack on the country since war erupted three years ago. Noting representatives of more than 30 countries would meet virtually or in person Monday at a peace summit in Kyiv, Zelensky called for US and European support in brokering “a lasting and just peace.” He said NATO membership for Ukraine would be on the table, but only time would tell how the discussions “finish,” per the BBC. Hopefully there will be a “turning point,”

Not to take sides with Trump but I think Zelensky is wrong…..

The Ukrainian leader also said he was not prepared to pay back the $100 billion because President Biden and Congress agreed to provide the aid as grants, not loans that would be paid back.

“I made agreements with Biden and with the US Congress. I’m grateful to Congress. It was about grant support, and a grant is not a debt. We don’t have to repay a debt. So, it’s not about the figure, it’s about the fact that we do not recognize it as a debt,” Zelensky said.

I guess it depends on how one wants to define ‘debt’….I say he is in debt to the US for its unswerving support….Ukraine has gotten billions in taxpayer money that could have been used here on many projects that need updating.

While writing this post word came out that a deal has been made with Ukraine on the mineral thing….

Ukraine and American officials have apparently reached an agreement on a deal involving Ukraine’s rare earth minerals. Ukrainian officials tell outlets including the AP and the Washington Post that the framework of a deal granting the US access to Ukraine’s minerals, oil, and gas has been worked out. Last week, insiders said an “improved” deal was in the works after Volodymyr Zelensky rejected one that would demanded $500 billion in compensation for earlier US aid to Ukraine, with no future security guarantees.

According to the Post‘s sources, the new framework does not include the $500 billion figure. The real amount of US aid to Ukraine since Russia invaded three years ago is believed to be around $140 billion. The AP’s sources say the deal now involves joint US-Ukrainian ownership of a fund that will include 50% of revenue from state-owned resources, including minerals. The sources say it still doesn’t include security guarantees, but those could be worked out in a meeting between Zelensky and President Trump.

After reporters asked him about a mineral deal on Tuesday, Trump said he had heard that Zelensky is coming to the White House on Friday. “Certainly it’s okay with me if he’d like to, and he would like to sign it together with me,” he said, per the Post. “And I understand that’s a big deal, very big deal.” ” We’re helping the country through a very very big problem,” he said, per the BBC, “but the American taxpayer now is going to get their money back plus.”

We knew a deal could be had…..money is involved and that is always a starting point.

Any deep thoughts on this turn?

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“lego ergo scribo”

Get Your DOGE Stuff Now!

Elmo and his band of thugs has been hitting the government agencies with a sledge hammer and for those people that see this as something to support then there is a way to show your support….buy DOGE stuff!

President Donald Trump’s political operation is selling DOGE membership cards, part of an effort to capitalize on the popularity of the White House DOGE office and Elon Musk‘s role in it.

“Today, I’m announcing that YOU can become an OFFICIAL TRUMP DOGE MEMBER!” Trump’s political operation wrote in an email to supporters Sunday night.

For a minimum $47 donation, supporters can get their name on a black metal card that says “Trump DOGE member.” If that is too pricy, there are also Trump DOGE T-shirts. One shirt for $40 depicts Trump and Musk. Another for $28 shows Trump, Musk, and the Shiba Inu dog, which inspired the original doge meme.

The White House’s efficiency initiative is one of the most visible parts of Trump’s second term.

DOGE has been the subject of numerous lawsuits from federal workers, Democratic state attorneys general, and good government groups. Trump initially appointed Musk to co-lead the “Department of Government Efficiency,” though a top White House official recently declared in a legal filing that Musk is not the DOGE administrator. Musk is a senior White House advisor and remains closely linked to DOGE.

Over the weekend, Musk upended federal agencies by claiming that employees would be fired if they did not respond to an email asking, “What did you do last week?” A number of departments have since told federal workers to pause potential responses ahead of the midnight deadline.

Musk spent over $290 million on the 2024 election to elect Trump. Trump and his allies have featured Musk prominently. Trump’s emails to supporters often seize on the latest DOGE headline, including Democratic lawmakers’ calls for Trump to rein in the world’s richest man.

Read the original article on Business Insider

There is so much crap that Trump attaches his name to and so much crap that supporters will clamor to possess…

Me?

I rather flush my money down the toilet.

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“lego ergo scribo”

The Future: Unitary Government

Whenever we talk about the political system in this country it inevitably turns to the debate over democracy or republic…..when seldom is the strict definition implied rather it is general terms to describe the system we have once in awhile someone will inject the whole federalism thing in the debate.

Accuracy in the description is for academic debates for the average person we vote ergo we are a democracy.

The problem is with the group in DC today they are working to what can be called a unitary government.

About here I can imagine there is a whole bunch of huh going on.

Let me help out.

Unitary government is a kind of government system in which a single power, which is known as the central government, controls the whole government. In fact, all powers and administrative divisions authorities lies at the central place. Today most of the government systems in the world are based on unitary system of government. It is slightly different from
federal model of government. In unitary government, central government has the power to increase or curtail the power of subnational units. It can create and abolished the same. UK, Afghanistan, Italy, China, Saudi Arabia, Spain, etc., are the important examples of unitary government. The unitary government system is based on the concept of consistency, unity,
and identity that’s why the centralization of power and authority system remains at the top priority. The decision-making power rests with the central government that are shared by the government with the lower level government when needed. There are not so many
options for change and new innovation as the people have a very limited voice in this government system. There are many merits and demerits of unitary government. It is useful in the term that rules and regulations in this government systems remain consist and equal throughout the country. Moreover, it is less expensive as compared to the federal
government because the number of powerful people remains very low. In a time of emergency, it makes timely decisions as compared to the federal government system. But at the same time, the concept of freedom of speech and expression always remains at a low priority that’s why most of the principles of unitary government are much similar to that of dictatorship system of government.

It appears if the US is moving in this direction under Elmo and Donny.

Donald Trump‘s broad assertions of power appear to be advancing an aggressive version of a legal doctrine called the “unitary executive” theory that envisions vast executive authority for a president, setting up potential U.S. Supreme Court showdowns.
The conservative theory’s advocates argue that Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which delineates presidential powers, gives the president sole authority over the federal government’s executive branch. It envisions robust powers even when Congress has sought to impose certain limits, such as restricting a president’s ability to fire the heads of some independent agencies.
The Supreme Court is expected to be called upon to review at least one key legal dispute over the Republican president’s contentious actions implicating this doctrine, with numerous legal challenges already moving through lower courts.
Trump’s firing of a member of the National Labor Relations Board, an independent executive branch agency created by Congress, may test the willingness of the nation’s top judicial body to embrace the robust view of the theory that Trump’s administration is expected to present. And the nine justices could be asked to overturn a 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent that limits a president’s ability to dismiss certain agency heads.
Now the question arises will the American people condone this power grab and just shrug off the stepping on their rights or will they grow a pair and fight back?
I have my thought but what about you?
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“lego ergo scribo”