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1 posted on 03/27/2009 4:37:37 PM PDT by EBH
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COLB


2 posted on 03/27/2009 4:40:24 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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from enemies foreign and domestic ....


3 posted on 03/27/2009 4:41:29 PM PDT by Tarpon (It's a common fact, one can't be liberal and rational at the same time.)
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Brilliant!

(albeit somewhat understated../sarc)

5 posted on 03/27/2009 4:47:54 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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7 posted on 03/27/2009 4:52:54 PM PDT by TheZMan ("I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.")
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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.


8 posted on 03/27/2009 5:03:44 PM PDT by dannyboy72a (The President of the United States should not be selling me insurance)
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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.


9 posted on 03/27/2009 5:03:52 PM PDT by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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I had a conversation similar to this last weekend. The person didn't care what the intent of the Constitution was. They said the only form of government that works in today's complicated world is socialism. They then had the gall to tell me that I was "uneducated". I believe that they could have used a history lesson.

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.

11 posted on 03/27/2009 5:24:47 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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I am wondering if the Military, sworn to uphold the Constitution, if it perceives that the President is acting contrary to the Constitution, can simply enact a Military Coup....and remove him.

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?

12 posted on 03/27/2009 5:27:29 PM PDT by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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Congress critters don’t even read the legislation they sign. I very much doubt they will read the Constitution.


14 posted on 03/27/2009 6:22:39 PM PDT by Know et al (Everything I know I read in the newspaper and that's the reason for my ignorance: Will Rogers)
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bump


15 posted on 03/27/2009 6:24:18 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (Washington couldnt tell a lie. Clinton couldnt tell truth. Barney Frank cant tell the difference.)
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