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Thomas Jefferson once stated: "In matters of Power, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution" Paul Ryan needs to let us know how his line item veto power granted to the President binds the President into vetoing the billions upon billions of proposed misappropriations of federal revenue which Congress currently includes in its bills.

The fact is, Ryan’s proposal does not bind the President in such a manner, but rather, it arms the president with a despotic blackmailing power which can be used to extort members of Congress into including extra billions in misappropriations which the president may require to not exercise his line item blackmailing power.

If Ryan were sincere in wanting to end the plundering of our national treasury, he would promote legislation requiring every proposed expenditure of federal revenue must be accompanied by the wording in our Constitution which is asserted to authorize such an expenditure, and, must likewise contain documentation from the debates during which time our Constitution was being framed and ratified showing the wording relied upon was intended to cover said expenditure.

As an example, what wording in our Constitution would authorize Congress to appropriate federal revenue to fund the No Child Left Behind Act, and, what wording can be pointed to during the framing and ratification debates of our Constitution to establish our founders intended to have Congress finance public school systems established under state Constitutions within the various united States?

JWK

America we have a problem! We have a group of DOMESTIC ENEMIES who have managed to seize political power and whose mission is in fact to bring “change” to America ___ the dismantling of our military defensive power; the allowance of our borders to be overrun by foreign invaders, the diluting of our election process by allowing ineligible persons to vote; the circumvention of our Republican Form of Government which is now replaced with a 12 member committee vested with power to make law; the destruction of our manufacturing capabilities; the transferring of America’s technology to hostile foreign nations; the strangulation of our agricultural industry and ability to produce food under the guise of environmental necessity; the destruction of our nation’s health care delivery system, the interference with our ability to develop our natural resources, namely oil, to fuel our economy; the looting of both our federal treasury and a mandatory retirement pension fund; the brainwashing of our nation’s children in government operated schools; the trashing of our nation’s traditions and moral values; the creation of an iron fisted control unauthorized by our written Constitution over America’s businesses and industries; the devaluation of our nation’s currency, and, the future enslavement of our children and grand children via unbridled debt and inflation, not to mention an iron fisted government which intends to rule their very lives!