In Order to Form a More Perfect Union...

The Problem: The Federal Government has become Too Oppressive in its Size and Scope.
The original intent of the formation of the federal government was not to be even a fraction of the size it is today. Powers of the federal government were to be limited to those enumerated in the Constitution, and as is laid out in the 10th Amendment anything else is left up to the states. Nobody can honestly deny that the federal government has grown well beyond what is laid out in the Constitution. Welfare, education, social security, the FDA, IRS, FCC, USPS, etc, are just a few examples. One form of oppression is when the citizens of one state are threatened with incarceration in order to extort funds for programs in another state. On top of that, the federal government is now, through a so-called “stimulus package,” is attempting to further regulate and control the states by offering funds (funds spent, but not yet collected, yet another debt heaped onto the next generation) to help with economic troubles if they will submit to further restrictions on states’ rights. Furthermore, no programs in one state should be funded by the citizens of any other state. The design of the United States of America was to bond sovereign states in a union, not put the several states in bondage to said union.

The Solution: Systematically Dismantle the Federal Government as it exists today.
Granted, we as a people have become dependent on many of these programs and administrations that the government overstepped its bounds to create, so eliminating them would be burdensome to the people. Since there is no option of a referendum at the national level, it follows that such programs should be turned over to the states for the people to decide at that level whether such programs should continue exist. In doing so, all programs and entities that are not constitutionally enumerated should not be funded by tax dollars on the national level. Ultimately, if all the national programs are moved into the realm of the states, it may be more expensive at first because of the transition. However, when these programs are put into state hands, they will be at the mercy of the people to a much greater degree than they are today. It will be a long process, but the ultimate result will be a union of strong sovereign states, as intended by the constitution, run by the citizens of those states.

Today we are not the economic superpower we once were. A nation is only as strong as it's components, and the oppression of the federal government has made those components of the United States (the states themselves) weak, and thus our nation is weakened.