Sweet, sweet, SWEET!!!
I’ve been howling about this ever since I first read the Constitution. If ALL powers of Congress are expressed in writing, then how the hell do they delegate so much authority without permission?
Congress (Big Bro, in other words) controls every little aspect of our lives, from the toothpaste we use in the morning to the fire-retardant qualities of the pajamas we wear to bed at night. In between are gas mileage, light bulbs, online gambling, all drug laws, transportation laws, tax laws, and I’ll stop here so I don’t take up all of Free Republic’s bandwidth listing the rest of the crap that IS NOT enumerated in the Constitution.
The opposite of freedom is laws. You can do whatever you want, anything, unless there is a law that stops you from doing so. There are so many laws now that anything might land you in jail. I want my freedom back.
Huzzah!
To get an idea of how over-governed we are,
the annual growth in the Federal Register
is measured in pounds, not pages.
One of the great things about Texas is the
Legislature is kept out of session so long,
the need to ‘do something, anything’ is
throttled down.
Ask "Honest Abe."
ML/NJ