Date Posted:03:05:07 03/06/08 Thu Author:Andy Dyer Author Host/IP: host86-155-142-129.range86-155.btcentralplus.com / 86.155.142.129 Subject: Re: FAQ about Canada on join the USA not the other way around In reply to:
Unifier
's message, "FAQ about Canada on join the USA not the other way around" on 19:28:10 03/03/08 Mon
>The US model is preferred because it is believed to be considerably better in terms of its representation,
>and checks and balances. People in the US are represented directly by individual elected
>representatives in Congress and in their state legislatures, not by Parliamentarians, which are ruled
>by strict party discipline. The leader of the nation is elected in a nationwide election, not indirectly
>chosen by the ruling party. The Senate serves to represent the regionalism of the nation as a whole,
>not the legacy of past Prime Ministers. Finally and most importantly, the United States Constitution
>contains all of the values and principles we hold dear in one short, clear and understandable document. The
>US government is certainly not a flawless institution, but it does have a framework that has proven to
>successfully balance powers between federal and regional governments unlike any other in the world.
Poppycock. The US system is astonishingly poor, not least because the founding fathers didn't understand human nature. Otherwise, they'd never have decreed that the Presidential candidate getting the second largest number of votes would be Vice-President - anyone see Kerry as VP to Bush in 2004?
And the system isn't just appallingly poor in it's original form, it's still terrible. The US doesn't separate Head of State from Head of Government. That's why Bush is so arrogant, he's top-dog and nobody can reign him in. It's a terrible system, directly equivalent to a dictatorship.
The list of serious defects goes on and on, and these are not just niggles, they're major, major failings. Imagine the UK in 1940 stuck with Chamberlain as designated Prime Minister for a new 4 year term. A system as rigid as that of the US is extremely dangerous, as must be obvious to anyone.
And I don't need to go on about a system that makes prohibition an article of Constitutional faith or makes black men 3/5ths of a white man, thinking that that is "enlightened"!
