The 10th Amendment

The 10th Amendment to the constitution states:

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.
 
I've always been one to say that the government of the United States should not do anything the Constitution does not give it authority to do.  As I read the 10th Amendment, that's what I see the writers of the Constitution had in mind.  On the other hand I can also see where the States could give certain powers to the centralized Government.  I wonder what powers the States have given the Federal Government.  There seems to be all sorts of things the government does that are not delegated to it by the constitution.  It must be those powers must have been given to it by the states.  Now the sticky question comes to mind, how do you take BACK those powers to decrease the size of the government?  I think it's extremely difficult to do if not impossible.  Like the saying about the camel and the tent.  Maybe that's not the right analogy.
 
What do you all think?

I wonder...

I watch a television show called "Last Man Standing", it's to Tim Allen in it and it's a funny show.  Tim's character runs the marketing department at a sportsman's store (well I guess he runs it for the entire company, not just one store).  Anyway, he has a video blog and I've thought, gee that might be an interesting way of doing blogs.  Then I think, with my huge number of regular viewers (2 maybe 3 counting me) I would lose viewers, heck I'd probably stop looking at my blog if I had to look at my face and hear nails on a blackboard.  Plus I have no idea where I would go to set it up and do it. 

So, among all you who are reading this, how many of you would even consider doing one yourself and would you frequent one where I do it (video blog).

Yeah it's a survey thing, kinda, a view without a comment is viewed as a view without a comment.