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I was thinking about checks and balances kinda in the context the
the government shutdown checks and balances
were never created as a kind of oversight method
to allow for her to invite blatant obstructionism
that's just not what the checks and balances system was designed for
the point was that no one group no one individual no one area of government
get too much power and by definition when I think about this government
shutdown
if one party on one side of congress the house right
rather than the senate is able to shut down government
and hold the entire country hostage because they don't want to fund
a law that we went through the process up going becoming a bill in becoming a
law
I or do something as common as you know but having a president raise the debt
ceiling if that was the reason they wanted to hold the country hostage
isn't that evidence Louis that the checks and balances system
is not working clearly it's not working
and I think it's possible that perhaps
there were just all sorts of laws act week then changes made to the original
framework
over the years that allow this to happen of course made by people who want things
like this to be able to happen
or it was just assumed in the beginning that
this type of obstructionism would never happen I mean who would do that
I'm a bit presumably these people want to help the country help the country
progress
and I that would just be unheard of right well in the same way that when we
talk about the Second Amendment
and we have to recognize if you are at all a clear thinking and logical
rational individual
you have to realize that we can apply
hvad bit %uh legal text
written hundreds have years ago when firearms met
muskets and you could fire one round per minute
it's very illogical to take that
and assume that it applies broadly to
automatic weapons shoulder mounted RPG's however far you want to take it
I believe that it doesn't make sense to that you can't really draw that line
it would only follow from that that the
checks and balances system from 100 100 years ago
may also not have taken into consideration what some individuals in
congress would try to do the differences Louis
that with the firearms is a very specifically tied
the simply not knowing the technological developments that would allow certain
types of firearms to exist
whereas with this obstructionism could have existed hundred years ago and
certainly did
and there's no technological mechanism that would explain why
the those who the framers who set up the checks and balances system
wouldn't have taken this into consideration that's where I'm
struggling with it right
AP think about this no no successful
modern-day civilization add that is over a few hundred years old has completely
clung to whatever
day originally started with I'm to get things rolling to get their government's
move into
to establish control I'm so I don't see why we're doing that I mean things
change
rules need change we need to update them