Most people walking the streets and living their lives don’t realize how our federal government works. They can get mad about things the government does, but the average citizen still doesn’t understand why this is so or how it all happens. First, there is the U.S. President; he was designed to be this country’s leader. If we don’t like him, we can send him home at national elections every four years. He can veto laws passed by congress or sign them.
For example by presidential order all spent military ammo casings must be ground-up and sold for scrap. Formerly, gun owners reloaded them and used the refurbished ammo for target practice. No longer can they get the used casings. I am certain that order was made to make ammo higher priced and more scarce, out of pressure from the anti-gun folks. Another was to stop all oil drilling for seven years when we’re already buying foreign oil even though there is oil under the earth right here.
Congress makes the law. Then the bureaucrats write the law. Not congress. So if congress passes a law on the use of candles as home lighting, bureaucrats in the energy department get the bill. Then some government employees begin writing the law. Like the candles may not be used in rooms with Christmas trees in them. Then these same employees set the fine and punishment. The law congress passed, now has 200 pages of regulations.
Some poor guy who has no electricity sues the government claiming he has no light in the room where his Christmas tree is and needs a candle in there to see his presents. Government employees at the attorney general’s office must fight for this case all the way to the Supreme Court. In the end, the justices decide in some cases that candles must be safely allowed in the case where there is no other source of light. The regulators go back, write a new law and add 200 pages to the old law.
And so we have more candle users wanting congress to consider repealing the law, but now the Supreme Court has issued a decree that the candle law regulation is necessary. However, in this new department a bureaucrat decides since the flame contains CO2, candles cannot be lit in rooms where babies are. So a church sues them, and the government defends the law to the Supreme Court and the court decides the flames consumed oxygen, which babies need, so no babies should be carried into a church or place where candles were being used.
The bureaucrats go back to their offices, which are being expanded, and write a new 10,000 page law on candles and babies and form a whole new administration involving candles and their use. Approved by the Supreme Court, Congress does nothing.
Congressmen or senators do not write your new laws. They are written, then defended right or wrong by your own government lawyers and qualified by the Supreme Court. So if you don’t like something hire your own lawyer and get it declared unconstitutional.
God bless America and all of you. Till next time.
Western novelist Dusty Richards and his wife Pat live on Beaver Lake in northwest Arkansas. For more information about his books you can email Dusty by visiting ozarksfn.com and clicking on ‘Contact Us’ or call 1-866-532-1960.
