Calvin Coolidge Comments: On why power should be concentrated as much as possible within the several States rather than the Federal Government.

• Without doubt, the reason for increasing demands on the Federal Government is that the States have not discharged their full duties.
• So demand has grown up for a greater concentration of powers in the Federal Government. If we will fairly consider it, we must conclude that the remedy would be worse than the disease. What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government. 
• From every position of consistency with our system, more centralization ought to be avoided.
• Once the evasion of local responsibilities becomes a habit, there is no knowing how far the consequences may reach. Every step in such a progression will be unfortunate alike for States and Nation.
• Whenever by...plan we take from one group of States and give it to another group, there is grave danger that we do economic injustice on one side and political injury on the other. We impose unfairly on the strength of the strong, and we indulge the weak to indulge their weaknesses.

From "Foundations of the Republic" by Calvin Coolidge
Quotation marks have been omitted due to its length.

To summarize Coolidge's comments in my own words, what I believe Coolidge is saying is that we have to guard against allowing the Federal Government to be used as a slush fund penalizing the strong to the benefit of the weak and allowing the weak to indulge their weaknesses. 

At this time of economic and financial adversity, I think it is well past the time to eliminate the overly intrusive and controlling Federal Department of Education. We should rely on the states, state boards of education and the cities and towns to educate our children and young adults.While we are making these constructive changes, we should eliminate the Department of Energy as well. This will allow the Federal Government to allocate more money toward paying out Social Security checks and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements.