It is abundantly clear from the transcripts of the Constitutional Convention and the transcripts of the Ratification Debates, the framers of the Constitution would never have dreamed that the federal government would become the primary solver of all the problems facing the people of the United States. In fact most would be horrified, saddened, and confused to learn how it is now.
The framers of the Constitution would be horrified to learn that most problems are now solved on the federal government level because they knew the end result of this would be an extremely large and powerful federal government. They knew that such a large and powerful federal government would be an extreme threat to the rights and liberty of the American people. They took great care to write a Constitution that would prevent the federal government from growing so large and powerful.
The framers of the Constitution would be saddened to hear that the American people chose to abandon the constitution that they so expertly crafted for us. Only by abandoning the Constitution could we allow the federal government to become the solver of all of our problems.
The framers of the Constitution would be confused that the federal government is now the primary solver of most of our problems because of all the provisions they worked into the Constitution to make sure the federal government would not have power and authority to carry out this role. The federal government created by the Constitution was only meant to carry specific roles namely, to defend the United States as a whole, to represent the United States as one nation diplomatically to other nations, and to prevent the individual states from squabbling with each other. The Constitution created a federal government with a very limited number of powers, all of them clearly spelled out. None of those powers grant the federal government the power and authority to solve problems such as healthcare, poverty, education, and so much more.
The framers of the Constitution knew that the individual States, local governments, and individuals were the proper places to solve the problems of this nation, That is exactly the blueprint they used when they wrote the Constitution.
Here is my solution to the healthcare crisis that would fit into the Constitution, and has a remarkable probability of working: let each state come up with their own unique solution to the problem for the residents of that state. The government of each state could communicate with each other to find out which solutions worked the best and perhaps copy it.
The federal government has tried to fix education and has only made the problem far greater. The same holds true for poverty.
To increase the prosperity of individuals the federal government needs to get out of the way. For far too many decades the federal government has smothered private businesses with too many regulations. President Trump has begun to dial this back, however, there is so much more that needs to be done. Greatly slashing tax rates would be a tremendous help also, the first Trump tax were only a small step in that direction.
The war on poverty has only resulted in more poverty and way too much dependence on government handouts. Private charity would do far more good along with the greatly increased standard of living that would be generated for everyone with slashed regulations and taxes.
So many other problems we are looking to the federal government to solve would actually be solved at the state and local level if we let that happen.
