Posted on 03/27/2009 4:37:37 PM PDT by EBH
COLB
from enemies foreign and domestic ....
There are indeed more than just 0bama have sworn to ...
(albeit somewhat understated../sarc)
That day at the Island when he earned his Eagle, Globe and Anchor...took this oath he may have been on the parade field saying, but I was too. He may not know it, he may never know my efforts. Not just those of support to him, but my willingness to face congress, face down the ‘niks,’ and all those who would destroy the Republic of the United States from within.
The federal government takes money from the citizens of each state, then demands each state bow to their commands in order to get a percentage of those taxes back. The income tax was the tool by which government grew to such bounds.
If we took the same number of dollars from every citizen and paid them into the state and let the state legislators solve the problems of the state, there would more solutions to problems. Were I governor I would decree that all business pay their federal taxes into the state and then I would pay the feds what they need to live up to their obligation under the constitution - 1/50th of the defense and state budgets (or the percentage based on my population). The other dollars would only be sent in if the people of my state (by a majority vote in the legislator) thought the feds could do something that we could not do ourselves.
Instead of nation-wide problems, we would have 50 states each with their own problems - but those tasked with solving the problem would be a few hundred miles away at most and within the grasp of the people on election day.
This is what the founders wanted - local people solving local problems. When you nationalize a problem, you make it bigger than it is and you make the solution 100x more expensive - because you have to fix it for 50 uniquely different states - even in states where it’s not a problem. And that takes money away from the real problems in those states.
Dry up the federal dollars and give the same amount to the states and we’d have way more success in solving problems.
This is great. I have bookmarked it. While reading it, I was thinking we need to start a class action law suit about this. I keep trying to think of a way to stop this out of control congress, possibly through something like this.
Would give a whole new meaning to “localism.”
This is an excellent piece. But hardcore socialists see the Founders as men who couldn't possibly understand the modern world. They believe that we have grown beyond them. I was also told that the Founders believed in survival of the fittest and were not charitable. So speaks the entitlement class.
Thank you for posting this.
Yes, I know, the only Constitutional remedy is impeachment, to be implemented by Congress....but is there no mechanism where the Military could do this? By declaring that the Congress, by not implementing Articles of Impeachment, is derelict in duty?
No.
Down that path lies ruin for our country. I was born into, and grew up under, a Latin American military dictatorship. Once the military is loosed from its bounds, it can no longer be controlled. Once the military sets its (rightful) civilian masters aside, there is no recourse should the institution decide that it knows best what is good for the country.
Don’t wish it; don’t advocate for it. If it should happen despite all my hopes and prayers, do not support it. Believe me.
If revolution it must be, then a full-fledged revolt by the People, as a body, is the only avenue worthy of the (small “r”) republicans we claim to be. All else de-evolves to tyranny.
Congress critters don’t even read the legislation they sign. I very much doubt they will read the Constitution.
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Being independent is not easy. It means you do not depend on the social structure and yet the social structure depends on the ones who choose to be independent. Being independent requires thought, effort, and skill. Maybe even a little luck.
I would say to your socialist acquaintance...if every person to on their own independent responsibility we would not be in this mess.
The Constitution belongs to US.
We must never forget that, even if those elected choose too.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson
"The way to have safe government is not to trust it all to the one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent....To let the National Government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and it's foreign and federal relations..... The State Governments with the Civil Rights, Laws, Police and administration of what concerns the State generally. The Counties with the local concerns, and each ward direct the interests within itself. It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all it's subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman's farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best." Thomas Jefferson
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people.. must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live.. We have not time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers. Our landholders, too...retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must...be contented with penury, obscurity and exile.. private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance.
This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it's train wretchedness and oppression." Thomas Jefferson
Well stated, thank you.
A great thread, thank you.
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