Posted on 01/05/2016 6:54:39 AM PST by econjack
In 1778, after Alexander Hamilton had spent one year on the personal staff of George Washington, and less than two years after the forming of the First Continental Congress, he wrote a letter to Washington lamenting the character of the American Congress. Hamilton was an advocate for a strong central government. Here read the beginnings of his federalist argument:
Only a leftist thinks the Congress is ill-performing in terms of not sending more new laws to the President’s desk. We sent this Congress and now this Senate to stop all the non-sense.
Now, they are ill-performing in terms of allowing the executive branch to ride roughshod over them and fund laws he created out of thin air, but that’s never what the media means when they say congress is broken.
“In 1778, after Alexander Hamilton had spent one year on the personal staff of George Washington, and less than two years after the forming of the First Continental Congress, he wrote a letter to Washington lamenting the character of the American Congress. Hamilton was an advocate for a strong central government. Here read the beginnings of his federalist argument:”
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Hamilton was many things unfit to print!
Jefferson, Hamilton’s opposite, was the model of a true conservative-libertarian...later, Reagan, Taft, Goldwater, and few others came somewhat close!
Dick.G: AMERICAN!
aka: GyG
Semper FIDELIS
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The only “performance” I want to see out of any Congress — is the systematic dismantling of the Federal Nanny state.
Agreed.
Now, that’s funny right there.
Expecting those that has usurped powers, are supported/enabled by lobbyists and personally enriched by the taxpayers (using greed/envy to pit one group of Citizen vs. another...aka ‘tax the rich’).
our original constitution lasted only a few years, but it prevailed in our revolution against the mightiest military power in the world of that time...and we did so with 13 republics and no usurpers...same could be today w/50, not 57, republics and no potus,scotus congress, plus none of those countless alphabet-soup federal agencies, etc.
My opinion.
DickG
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The Whiskey Rebellion didn’t come too long after to show that’s the truth ;)
If a single country of cave/sand dwellers, the size of Texas, can hold off 40+ yrs. against TWO of the greatest military powers on the planet; what would millions across the continent be able to accomplish?!
I only hope D.C. is fully in-session, as that would be a focal point in any skirmish/battle/war. Best to get as many cockroaches as possible before they can scurry off to their serf-provided bunkers.
Back to the regularlly scheduled thread...
Hamilton/Washington rightly blamed an ineffective government for the material deficiencies and horrible sufferings of the Continental Army.
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