Congress Sends $800 Billion Debt Limit Increase To Bush

American Constitutional Research Service | 11-19-04 | John William Kurowski

[JOHN W K]

Congress Sends $800 Billion Debt Limit Increase To Bush

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November 19, 2004

CAPITOL HILL -- A bill raising the federal borrowing limit by $800 billion is on its way to President George W. Bush's desk . . . the debt limit bill will pump up the federal borrowing cap to $8.18 trillion. That is 70 percent the size of the entire U.S. economy, and more than $2.4 trillion higher than the debt Bush inherited upon taking office in 2001.

To get a handle on the size of the real national debt, see: Measuring the Federal Government's Unfunded Liability

Our folks in Washington have created a national debt so staggering it is impossible for the ordinary person to relate to such numbers, but which our nation’s younger generation [those just entering the job market] will be taxed to extinguish, or, those who hold securities of the United States [ Notes, Bills and Bonds] will be flatly defrauded of their investment in Congress’ profligate borrowing and spending habits.

It is beyond belief that a hard working American would support the leaders of either of the two political parties during election time because the leaders of both are responsible for enslaving our nation’s children with their votes in Congress Assembled___ votes which have created a national debt of about $50 trillion!

Why is it so difficult for the people of American to not see why there is such fighting between Republican and Democrat leaders during election time? Is it not so obvious that one thing remains constant after each election? Those who win elections get to be in charge of who will be hired and fired from the countless political plum jobs created by our folks in Washington whose job it is to redistribute wealth taxed away from the American people.

For example, how much money is pilfered from the budget of the Department of Education, into the pockets of those appointed and hired to run the operation? And, how many political plum jobs with six figure salaries have been created domestically over the past 40 years to redistribute money taxed away from hard working Americans?

To get a perspective on the countless political plum jobs created by our folks in Washington which drain the paychecks of hard working Americans, take a look at a 1956 telephone directory under federal government and you will find two pages of federal government offices. Look today and that two pages has exploded into a telephone directory that challenges the telephone directory size of many of America’s cities. But what is most astonishing when one realizes how large the federal government has become, and how it now manages to meddle into and control almost every aspect of the people’s private lives, is to read the words of James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 45 and then compare his words to the endless federal government listings in your telephone directory.

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State."

Fact is, our federal government personifies a living creature, a predator: it grows, it protects itself, it feeds on those it can defeat, and does everything to expand and flourish, even at the expense of enslaving a nation’s entire population with a national debt which exceeds $50 Trillion. Indeed, the servant has become the master over those who have created a servant, and the new servant pays tribute to a gangster government which ignores our most basic law…our constitutions, state and federal.

John William Kurowski, Founder,

American Constitutional Research Service

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness."___Supreme Court Justice William Douglas

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