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To: Huck
"I thought I had explained. We don’t get to fund the government a la carte."

The problem with your way of thinking is Exactly why we are in the financial crisis that we are in now!

MY way of thinking is that Government .. Should Not be allowed a la carte spending on whatever "They Deem" to be worthy!

Your way of thinking allows Government to 'deem' that Everyone deserves a home, deserves a Cadillac, deserves steak every evening for dinner .. on and on and on!

The "Fair Housing" quagmire teach you anything at all?

88 posted on 04/12/2011 3:31:19 PM PDT by freejohn
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To: freejohn

I’m just telling it like it is.


89 posted on 04/12/2011 3:39:08 PM PDT by Huck (This running things, kid. It ain't all gravy.)
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To: freejohn

I’ll try to give you a more detailed reply later. Can’t talk right now.


90 posted on 04/12/2011 3:56:21 PM PDT by Huck (This running things, kid. It ain't all gravy.)
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To: freejohn
The problem with your way of thinking is Exactly why we are in the financial crisis that we are in now!

I guarantee you my way of thinking did not bring on this crisis. You are mistaken about what my way of thinking is. Reagan is a big government liberal next to me. Hell, so is George Washington.

MY way of thinking is that Government .. Should Not be allowed a la carte spending on whatever "They Deem" to be worthy!

That's nice. But then there is what actually occurs.

Your way of thinking allows Government to 'deem' that Everyone deserves a home, deserves a Cadillac, deserves steak every evening for dinner .. on and on and on!

Again, it's just what is. Did I write the commerce clause? Was I serving on the court when "implied powers" first came up? Was I involved with the "Slaughterhouse cases" or Wickard v Fillburn? I was not.

What do you want me to do about it? I gathered with other Tea Parties. I write my congressman. I write the local paper (and sometimes get published.) I vote. I live by example. But that doesn't stop the gubmint from doing what it does.

The way this system works, the Congress can pass damn near any law it wants. If the president will sign it, and if the courts will allow it, it stands. The meaning of the words "regulate commerce" is so expansive, and already has been for so long, there is truly no way back. This system, our Constitution, is the Titanic.

91 posted on 04/12/2011 7:28:22 PM PDT by Huck (This running things, kid. It ain't all gravy.)
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