HappySqurriel on 06 January 2013
A quick and easy way to determine whether the government should have a power is the following test:
Take the president that you dislike the most because of his willingness to abuse his power (for Democrats this may be George W. Bush and for Republicans this may be Barack Obama) and imagine that the voters you think are dumb and incompetent elect someone who is far worse than this president. Would you want them to have this power?
I could be wrong but I suspect the average Obama supporter would flip out if George W. Bush had these same powers, and the thought of someone worse holding them would keep them awake at night; and this is the reason why the government shouldn't have that power.
