Seriously the number of people willing to burn down the whole government over grievances that often haven’t even impacted them is incredibly scary.
You do not throw out the baby with the bath water.
Everyone in the United States is impacted by government insolvency and the economic collapse it will inevitably lead to if unchecked.
Everyone is impacted by the fact that money-printer-fueled government spending crowds out private spending / investment / growth.
Re:Grok3 Launch
by JackYoustra on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @03:21PM
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and your solution is empowering a dictator and... hoping it goes well?
Article 2 says “the executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” That means the power to “enforce laws, manage national affairs, and oversee government agencies.”
It’s Congress’s role to allocate funds to certain purposes, and the President’s to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” including overseeing the bureaucracy that implements them.
The President already has dictatorial power over the bureaucracy, as per the Constitution.
Re:Grok3 Launch
by JackYoustra on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @03:22PM
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Not over spending, which Elon's seizure of payments infrastructure has made.
Unless you extend it to that, in which case why have courts? Its not like they have enforcement power and the president can stretch discretion to the limit.
I mean, we could also do your plan and just hand off essentially dictatorial power over spending to the richest man in the country.