It was so many years ago that I sat thru Civics Class… I took the class in summer school at the local public high school. My parents sent me to 12 yrs of parochial school and because there was a religion class every day.. if I did not go to summer school.. I would not have a study hall .. because I was on the academic path to go to college. I went to the local high school several summers in a row and found the local high school much easier than my parochial school. It was the summer before my SENIOR YEAR in high school.. I had just got my first car a few months before and it was SUMMER.. My focus on the details of Civics class was more about getting a passing grade than really what was going on about/within our government.. I had just turned 17… it was SUMMER and come Sept .. I was going to be a SENIOR… Of course, back then… the government – both local,state, Federal.. was much less intrusive in our lives… The state I lived in had just imposed a TWO percent sales tax – today it is SEVEN PERCENT.
Over the last several years, I kept wondering why many “big wigs” in particularly Washington… would seemingly break laws …”spit” in Congress’ face and walk away without any consequences… names like the head of IRS Lois Lerner, Attorney General Eric Holder and most recently Hillary Clinton.
Congress just seem to be impotent.. how can one of three branches of our government have no authority, they have hearings … AG Holder left office being held in contempt of Congress.
I struggle to understand why discrimination against chronic pain pts by those in healthcare goes unchallenged as violation of the ADA. It is well documented that the war on pts/doc was dramatically ramp up started during the 2009-2011 period and I wonder why.
So I started a little research on the three branches of our government… and found the following… the most interesting is A crucial function of the executive branch is to ensure that laws are carried out. So it would seem that our President is at the top of the heap of ensuring that laws are enforced.I have made two other posts today that pointed out that both the FDA and OCR are failing their mission statements and we know that the DEA is failing their mission statement. Congress passes our annual budget and while the House has passed a annual budget the Senate has failed to do so for 6-7 yrs in a row. IMO.. this election could be a watershed moment in our 240 yr history… leaving “the establishment” in charge of Congress and putting in a new President that is part of “the establishment”… will just be more of the same. All you have to do is ask yourself… AM I BETTER OFF TODAY THAN I WAS EIGHT YEARS AGO and do I want to better off in another four years ?
The Executive Branch
The executive branch consists of the president, vice president and 15 Cabinet-level departments such as State, Defense, Interior, Transportation and Education. The primary power of the executive branch rests with the president, who chooses his vice president, and his Cabinet members who head the respective departments. A crucial function of the executive branch is to ensure that laws are carried out and enforced to facilitate such day-to-day responsibilities of the federal government as collecting taxes, safeguarding the homeland and representing the United States’ political and economic interests around the world.
The Legislative Branch
The legislative branch consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives, collectively known as the Congress. The legislative branch, as a whole, is charged with passing the nation’s laws and allocating funds for the running of the federal government and providing assistance to the 50 U.S. states.
The Judicial Branch
The judicial branch consists of the United States Supreme Court and lower federal courts. The Supreme Court’s primary function is to hear cases that challenge the constitutionality of legislation or require interpretation of that legislation. The U.S. Supreme Court has nine Justices, who are chosen by the President, confirmed by the Senate. Once appointed, Supreme Court justices serve until they retire, resign, die or are impeached.
The lower federal courts also decide cases dealing with the constitutionality of laws, as well as cases involving the laws and treaties of the U.S. ambassadors and public ministers, disputes between two or more states, admiralty law, also known as maritime law, and bankruptcy cases. Decisions of the lower federal courts can be and often are appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Filed under: General Problems
Leave a Reply