According to the 2010 census of the 15 richest counties in America, ten are in the Washington DC area.  The money is flowing toward where favors can be bought.  Ten years ago only five of the richest fifteen were in the DC area.  This data point is further evidence that we are suffering from the mercantilism that Hernando De Soto warned about in his 1989 book The Other Path.  If you have to have permission to do things, creativity will be stymied and bureaucracy will grow.   The first objective of any bureaucracy is to feed itself, well.

The Tenth Amendment was written to keep this from happening.  It was gutted, by misapplication of the commerce clause, during the depression and the federal government has been growing exponentially ever since.  It’s time to right size the federal government.  Send education, healthcare and welfare back to the states where they belong.  Stop all federal grants of money for mandates.

The second paragraph above was just a rant.  My advise to young people: move to the DC area.  It is where the money is and I can’t see it changing very fast.  Remember you don’t make the weather.  Adapt and be happy.

The text of the tenth amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.