Posted on 07/13/2012 9:00:22 PM PDT by techno
There was NO Taliban ~ we sided with the Mujahadeen. When we went back in after 9/11 we allied ourselves with the former Mujahadeen called The Northern Alliance.
The Democrats are currently attempting to ally themselves with the Taliban but they are finding that difficult since the Taliban don't like friends.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.The existence of the words "general welfare" doesn't mean the federal government can do whatever it wants, whenever, and however to secure what a few people in Congress happen to consider at any one time or another is their idea of "general welfare." Besides, that is only 5th of the six reasons for establishing the Constitution in order to:
>form a more perfect Union,It looks to me like the liberals (and statist Republicans) and their use of "general welfare" have been seriously eroding every one of the other main purposes of establishing the Constitution.
>establish Justice,
>insure domestic Tranquility,
>provide for the common defence,
>promote the general Welfare, and
>secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.
The Mittbots played to win the game by hook or crook and didn't have any gameplan for what happens next.
Along the way they lost the voters in Virginia, and thousands of Conservatives elsewhere in America.
Virgil Goode has a plan to win and we are all here to help him ~ placed here by the perfidy and shortsightedness of Virginia's GOP-e.
With the election tossed in the House the DC vote won’t count anymore.
They are paid out of the general revenues.
Se are smarter than they are. That’s why they haven’t won the battle.
Oh?
You must be getting your numbers from anti-war sites or something.
Here's a decent chart from last year:
Fact is, the vast bulk of spending is going either on "entitlement" programs, unconstitutional agencies and programs of some sort or another, and the interest we've incurred from spending wildly outside the enumerated powers.
BTW, another 5% of the guys on FR are also partially or totally color blind. They have no idea what you said with that exhibit.
Nevertheless, my point still stands - anyone who doesn't want to touch 18.74% of the budget, especially when much of that amounts to spending on wars we shouldn't even be in and on bases in places we don't need to be anymore, simply is not serious about balancing the budget or reducing spending.
I guess we can start referring to you as Tom "Not a Serious Budget Cutter" Hoefling?
What is Tom Hoefling’s position on ending the unconstitutional Air Force?
SS taxes are collected into and spent from the general revenues too. It's been that way for a very long time.
Both words, "trust" and "fund" have been fictional for years.
The Air Force is constitutional.
The raison d’etre of government is defense.
Not benevolence.
I never said I didn’t “want to touch it.” You’ve invented that.
I said it isn’t the first thing you go after with a meat cleaver, like the Pauls and CPers and apparently Virgil Goode always seem to want.
Deal with the unconstitutional spending and then come talk to me about the most important constitutional things our government does.
It’s a question of priorities.
How do you figure, when I've made it clear that I consider well over half of current spending to be unconstitutional, but your guy, like the other Democrats and Republicans he served with in Congress, has no intention of touching any of that with a ten foot pole?
Hmmm, the term “almost” is key. Almost doesn’t count for squat. Almost is not good enough to beat Obama. As I said, you vote for who you want as that’s your right. But when we get 4 more years of Obama, don’t you bitch once, not once, as you made the bed in which you’re gonna be laying and you will have no one to blame but yourself.
And I agree with James Madison about the constitutionality of such largesse, which robs from one group of Americans, or from posterity, to benefit another more favored group of Americans.
-- James Madison"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
They’re not the same friend. Wouldn’t you like to have SOME chance of saving the America we know and love, rather than NO chance?
The choice is between 8 years of Obama or 4 years of Obama.
That's why any other choice is preferable ~
I went through the five stages of loss decades ago. Our culture has degraded to the point where there is NO chance of saving the America that you refer to. It is good to be old...but never fear, as long as I live I’ll always vote for strict-constructionist conservatives, knowing that their unlikely election will result in anarchy.
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