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Posted on 02/01/2010 9:54:10 AM PST by neverdem
The Zombie menace is everywhere.
We are at the tipping point..but not too late, I don’t think...
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America -- a great idea, didn't last.
It didn't start in the 20th century - it started with the passage of the 14th Amendment, and the subsequent Supreme Court rulings which refused to throw it out for contradiction and vagueness, but rather used it to invoke the presumption of administrative jurisdiction. Even the usefulness of the expansion of the application of the Commerce Clause is based on this 14A presumptive mechanism.
“We are not at a tipping point. The government will continue to expand no matter which party is in power...until it collapses.”
We disagree!
Good read ping!
Very interesting article, and one of the best explanations I have seen of the "progressive" mentality and its impact on institutions. Obviously, it is very easy for progressivism to take that next step and morph into communism or fascism, the total, overtly state-controlled world; but even in its vision of the administrative state model, it is profoundly anti-American (in the sense of the America that the Founders envisioned).
My feeling is the only thing that can right the ship at this point is state sovereignty re-exerting itself. Fast and powerfully.
Every State Attorney General should have multiple constitutional boundary cases against the Federal government going right now instead of silently watching the system collapse. We have a SCOTUS make-up right now that I think would lean heavily to the states and strip power away from the Federal government.
State vs Federal is as much a “balance of powers” as is the separation between Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches.
“My feeling is the only thing that can right the ship at this point is state sovereignty re-exerting itself. Fast and powerfully.”
I think you are right, but I think that the Fed mandates will force the States to do it to avoid bankruptcy. The only way the Federal programs can continue to grow is with the acquiescence of the states. They can no longer sustain. I think that is why there is now some significant pushback within the Dim party. I also think that was a huge part of what happened in MassiveTwoShits...they are bankrupt and saw another impossible pile coming their way and simply couldn’t afford Coakley..well, that and she was a dimwit.
Looser.
Personal attacks are more effective when you spell correctly.
LOL..... true dat!
Another good sign was Justice Roberts commenting recently that he is willing to go back & re-decide old cases - he doesn’t intend to be bound by previous rulings.
I get tired of these articles that lump Teddy Roosevelt in with all of these early 20th century progressives. The only thing this article attributes to TR is the passage of the food and drug act.
This act gave powers to an already existing government agency (FDA) to inspect food processing plants to ensure that they were not throwing garbage into things and calling it sausage, or beef. That when they said something was beef, it was actually beef. The act also required the labels that are put on food packages. In other words, a truth in advertising. I think that act protects consumers against unscrupulous businessmen. Perhaps some people out there think that truth in advertising was a bad idea. I don’t. People were dying from garbage that companies were putting in food packaging.
This BS about Teddy Roosevelt supporting nationalized healthcare comes from the platform of the Progressive party which he ran for as President in 1912. Let’s remember, Teddy wanted to be President again and thought he got a raw deal in the Republican primary (which he did). He got more votes than Taft in the primarys that were held but through parlimentary manuevering at the convention, Taft got the nod. Mostly because Republican party bosses disliked Teddy. Teddy went to a party that would nominate him. For proof of this, all of this reporting about Teddy Roosevelt campaigning on National Health care, has anyone seen one quote from Teddy about it? I haven’t and I don’t think there is one. If it was so important to him, wouldn’t we have at least one quote from a campaign stump speech about nationalized health care?
Here’s the plank from the Progressive party platform: “The protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use.” This isn’t exactly a call to universal health care.
Let me give you something Teddy did actually say:
“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”
Doesn’t sound like someone who liked lazy people on the dole to me.
“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
Not a big fan of illegal immigration either I imagine...
This is just one more way that the left is trying to re-write history about a great American.
B4L8r
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