In plain sight

So our beneficent federal government has suggested 2 more ways they can offer us little people relief from the big-scary-meanies who roam about our free world..

First, it seems that one senator wants legislation to prevent airlines from making us pay for checked baggage. This is in response to an airline who wants to lower all ticket prices and then let those who need overhead space to pay extra for it. OK. Who cares? Don't go on that airline if it gets you in a lather. How is this the business of the US Legislature?

Second, the President suggested that the federal government can make it so that people won't die in mining accidents anymore. Where has he been all our lives? All we need is a federal law that makes it illegal to die in a mine! Wow. How'd we miss that? Lets see...thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people have been mining since ancient history, and, odds are, NONE of them wanted to die doing so. Same odds are that most of them thought of EVERY possible way to avoid dying, and tried to implement that. And all it took all along was for our federal government to tell us how to do it. Wow.

Where in the US Constitution is it written that either one of these things are what we are paying these people to worry about? I suggest they take a look and focus on what we can do for ourselves (most) and what we need from them (least).