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To: Billthedrill
Interesting comment by you, and I like the anology.

But there is one thing about government cells that our standard cells do not have: government cells do not die. They survive and grow, and multiply. Government cells do not go through stages of life (infancy, adoescence, old age and termination), and they never are lean; they bloat with age.

Their life cycle is the citizens' fault. We should be weeding out the old growth by putting a sunset on every bureau and every office within that bureau. The same with every tax, tax raise, or regulation.

Our distancing ourselves from constitutional principles is this nation's biggest problem; and the reason is obvious: George Mason hit the nail on the head with this section of his "Virginia Declaration of Rights:"

XV That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."

It is time for our citizens to recoginize the importance of that last clause.

11 posted on 09/09/2010 10:46:52 AM PDT by Loud Mime (It's the CONSTITUTION! www.initialpoints.net)
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To: Loud Mime

http://www.house.gov/brady/sunset_overview.html

Primary sponsor: My congressman Kevin Brady.


13 posted on 09/09/2010 11:07:03 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: Loud Mime

We haven’t created a Monarchy in the Office of the President but in the collective offices of the Federal Bureaucracy.


26 posted on 09/09/2010 6:05:37 PM PDT by MontaniSemperLiberi
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