Executive Orders Should Be Abolished

Are you familiar with the presidential use of executive orders? In order to smooth the management and operation of the federal government, American presidents, since Franklin Roosevelt, have resorted to the signing of presidential executive orders.  

Executive orders carry the full force of the law and give the president a certain degree of discretionary power believed to be granted to them directly from the
constitution.

Unfortunately, these powers that are perceived by American presidents as justified legal powers and, at times, exceed the executive authority of a president to the point that at various times throughout our history, challenges to the legal validity of an executive order has resulted in legal proceedings.

Therefore, I ask: why do we have them? Why do we allow past presidents and our current President Obama to flaunt the authority of their office by allowing them to sign one executive order after another without question?

In past years, many of these early executive orders were not recorded but in recent times, the state department of the United States began a system of numbering executive orders beginning with Abraham Lincoln when he signed the first executive order, “Establishing a Provisional Court if Louisiana” issued in 1862.

Since then, democratic and republican presidents have used executive orders carefully because they understood the legality of such action. But, recently, and especially in the last four years of the Obama presidency, presidential executive orders have taken a new meaning. Under President Obama, executive orders have become a daily occurrence.

Among President Obama's executive orders are the following:

1. Establishing a White House Council on Women and Girls
2. Establishment of the White House Office of Health Reform
3. Establishing a White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers
4. Federal Leadership on Reducing Text Messaging While Driving
5. Increasing Participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Federal Programs
6. Establishing the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
7. Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
8. Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
9. Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
10. Promoting Excellence, Innovation, and Sustainability at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
11. Ensuring Enforcement and Implementation of Abortion Restrictions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
12. Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council
13. President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition
14. White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
15.  Controlled Unclassified Information
16. Fundamental Principles and Policymaking Criteria for Partnerships With Faith-Based and Other Neighborhood Organizations
17. White House Council for Community Solutions
18. Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review
19. Establishment of The President's Council on Job and Competitiveness
20. Establishment of the Intellectual Property
21. Enforcement Advisory Committees
22. Streamlining Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service
23. Establishment of the White House Rural Council
24. Establishment of the Selec t USA Initiative
25. Coordinating Policies on Automotive Communities and Workers

These are just 25 out of more than 140 executive orders signed by this president who is intent on restricting our everyday life.  Is it any wonder that the business environment of this country continues to lag without creating the necessary jobs to get this economy moving?  

President Obama wants to control every aspect of our lives. He resembles more of a dictator than the president of a democratic country. The man we elected to serve all the people and just his cronies who continue to rape Americans of their hard-earned dollars by the way of taxation.

Executive orders should not be used by any president (democrat or republican) to change the American way of life as Mr. Obama has done in the last four years.  This country, under President Obama, has become the embodiment of George Orwell’s 1984’s "big brother" society, a place where our freedom is restricted and our rights eroded with high taxation and chocking regulations.

Welcome to the new America, the country I no longer recognize.