Posted on 08/12/2024 9:18:12 AM PDT by blueunicorn6
The government of The United States exists to serve ALL the citizens of The United States.
The government of The United States DOES NOT exist to serve the following:
1. Leaders and nations hostile to The United States such as China and Iran and Venezuela. 2. Government employees. 3. The Democrat party. 4. Nations that compete with us such as Russia and Britain and Saudi Arabia. 5. Single issue groups such as homosexuals and environmentalists and feminists. 6. Criminal organizations. 7. A specific religion. 8. People of one skin color. 9. Descendants of ancestors from a different nation. 10. People from another country. 11. Large economic entities specifically for the financial gain of the owners. 12. Unions. 13. Wealthy individuals to merely increase their wealth. 14. Nations too cheap to pay for their own defense. 15. Other nations in conflict. 16. Nations foisting their troubles on us such as Canada and Mexico. 17. Providing cheap labor from other countries to benefit the wealth of a few individuals. 18. Lawyers. 19. Hollywood and Madison Avenue. 20. The press.
There are more.
Our government serving these groups detracts from the real purpose of our government, chews up our finite resources and invites criminal behavior.
Excellent, thank you.
We just enforced our will in South America last week. WE don’t accept the results of the election. Well who the EFF are we?
PWD
"The government of The United States exists to serve ALL the citizens of The United States."
Respectfully blueunicorn6, arguably the main service of the constitutionally limited power federal government is to deliver the mail.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In other words, most federal domestic social spending services that many citizen voters are now depending on are actually based on state powers, and uniquely associated state revenues (citizen's wallets) that the unconstitutional big federal government steals from the states by means of unconstitutional taxes facilitated by its abuse of repealable (hint) 16th Amendment powers (direct taxes).
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Illegals are indeed getting immediate Social Security, contrary to Democrat claims (7.11.24)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
The constitutionally reality is that, since worthless career federal lawmakers and renegade states have repeatedly proven that they are enemies of the people imo, it is now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" ALL (exceptions?) state and federal lawmakers and executives in November.
In other words, it's now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, new state lawmakers too, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp.
Finally, let's not allow the anti-Trump media try to fade our memories of what we witnessed on July 13.
Down the Memory Hole: Google Hides Autocomplete Suggestions Related to Trump Assassination Attempt (7.28.24)
If you’ve given up, move to Iceland.
Aaaaaaaaand you pick nits and gloss over the point.
I don’t believe I tried to lay out the jobs of the federal government.
I laid out the purpose of the federal government.
I then contrasted this with the purposes that are in use these days.
The federal government is way out of alignment.
It needs to be brought back to the real purpose.
Was it a snarky backhanded compliment?
-PJ
There is a strong attempt to break our nation up into tribes.
My Dad made a point of telling me that I was an American.
I was in an organization where competency didn’t matter.
What mattered is if you were of Irish descent.
It’s nice to be proud of your heritage, but discrimination based on where your ancestors are from is wrong.
No.
You should have posted that as its own thread.
I posted that fragment of another post several times in several forms. I get the sense from your post and your replies to others that you have a slightly misguided understanding of the role of the "government of the United States" as intended by the Framers.
If I restated your opening sentence to:
TheWould you say that was an equivalent sentiment to what you wrote?governmentPresident of The United States exists to serve ALL the citizens of The United States.
If I restated your second sentence to:
TheWould that sentiment still fit your 20 enumerated items?governmentPresident of The United States DOES NOT exist to serve the following:
If you thought my first post was too long, then you will hate this post, which is the most recent one of mine where I lifted that content. It was my conclusion to a much larger post on the role of the Senate in the federal government, and how the Senate was intended to be the voice of the states to keep the role of the federal government true to its purpose.
Much of what "the government of United States" does today goes against what many of the states want, and the federal government has been suing the states that are trying to rein it in. But the federal government was intended to be small, and to use the states themselves to watch out for each other on behalf of the entire United States.
If you have the stomach for it, I suggest that you read my linked post and then we can have a discussion on it, either here or over there.
FReegards,
-PJ
I don’t hate your posts.
I wrote about the purpose of American government.
This is the mission of the American government.
It is the overarching purpose of the American government.
This mission statement should be etched in the hearts of all American politicians and American government employees.
Everything that American politicians and government employees do should flow from this mission.
It should be the most important consideration for them.
You have progressed beyond the mission.
We are not discussing the same thing.
I don’t hate your posts.
I wrote about the purpose of American government.
This is the mission of the American government.
It is the overarching purpose of the American government.
This mission statement should be etched in the hearts of all American politicians and American government employees.
Everything that American politicians and government employees do should flow from this mission.
It should be the most important consideration for them.
You have progressed beyond the mission.
We are not discussing the same thing.
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