What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[Taem]

I look forward to your full thoughts Taem, and I'm wondering if you might be able to explain a potential process through which powers vested in the Federal government might be ceded back to the States. Having worked for the government, I can think of a few things I'd prefer handled at a local level, but I cannot for the life of me see a viable path to making that happen.

Alright, I'm finally getting back to you. I haven't had all the time I've wanted to think about this, but in the time I have had, I must concede that I couldn't find a sustainable way break down every single special interest group, or the special session bills, nor the ear-marks add-ons to every single bill affecting commerce between the feds and states... Just commerce; I didn't even check medical, judicial, education, or the plethora of other interests the feds got it's hands in which the states could take control over. At this point, from what I've read, our infrastructure [the American system] is so convoluted with cross-connecting interests between individual states and the fed that unraveling it would be a real headache. It seems to me the states and fed are now in a symbiotic relationship; one part can't survive without the other.

This is just the impression I got from reading many, many online links; no smoking gun. No sites specifically talking about the states getting their own power back, Nothing anyone here doesn't already know.

When I wrote what I wrote, I was thinking small, but after even just some minor review... this is really a rather daunting request, giving the states back some real power. I don't see it happening in our lifetimes, at least not the way I initially proposed. Still, there has got to be a middle-ground. Sure the feds give out loans for tuition to college, support the FDIC for banks, state how our kids learn and what they learn, tell us when and where to fly, legal drinking and smoking ages, and soon to be a "stream-lined" medical system... Perhaps we really should go the way of Denmark. Then we [Americans] will all be healthy, and even, not rich or poor.