Posted on 09/21/2023 7:13:26 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
And I think next year will be their (and probably our) day of reckoning. Sort of a “fall of Rome” thingee. History repeats, but never exactly the same...
O.K., He does not like the funding for Ukraine, and he’s maybe willing to help cause a government shutdown if there is any funding for Ukraine in a stopgap funding bill. I have reached out to him and asked him how much of the extra $2 trillion in government spending Biden created is Mr Hawley willing to go to the mat against to the point of helping to cause a government shutdown unless THAT spending is massively reduced. No answer so far.
Why is it so many so called “Conservatives” have so greatly attached themselves to the populist “no funding for Ukraine” meme but cannot muster the same level of committment for defunding Joe Biden’s domestic spending (which is MASSIVELY MORE THAN THE FUNDS FOR UKRAINE)?? I believe the answer is that many so called “Conservatives” today are not really Conservatives, just populists who get elected by Conservatives and then they take off their Conservative jacket and on put on their populist jacket.
“Ukraine” has become an excuse. The government should be shut down without massive cuts in Biden’s domestic spending and that was true yesterday, is true today, and wlll be true tomorrow, without any war in Ukriane.
So the “Freedom Caucus” will keep funding for Ukraine out of any stop gap spending bill, call that “success” and vote for a bill that does not do diddly squat to reign in Biden’s domestic spending. THAT will not be a “great” victory.
Nice! When it comes time for our retirement we’re going to have to get the heck out of Illinois. Only reason I’m still here is settled family and job :(
"Hawley: They Want Us ‘Writing Checks to Ukraine’ Forever"
Respectfully to post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification Sen. Hawley, please consider the following.
I don't know what they're teaching students in the post-FDR era law schools, but it's evidently not the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the drafters of the Constitution had intended for those powers to be understood. (I wouldn't be surprised if probably many patriot freepers know (respect?) fed's limited powers better than Hawley and Ingraham seemingly do.)
Otherwise, attorneys Hawley and Ingraham could at least be condemning federal government lame excuses as to why the very corrupt, peacetime Congress is using taxpayer dollars to unconstitutionally (imo) fund Ukraine war.
This unconstitutional funding is evidenced by the following excerpt from the writings of Justice Joseph Story.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
Patriots need to primary our warmongering Congress in 2024, except for MTG, Gaetz, Hawley (and others?), replacing incumbent crook lawmakers with constitutionally limited power federal government patriots who will fully support hopeful Trump 47 to finish draining the swamp, including supporting the states to repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments (16&17A).
Consider the repealing of 16&17A as part of reparations for taxpayer victims of the federal government for having to pay a lifetime of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Democrats Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
The definition of insanity is reelecting your beloved career state and federal lawmakers and executives over and over again, expecting those same politicians to find remedies for unconstitutional government policies every time.
Exclusive: Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Dumbfounded’ GOP Colleagues Will Not Call for Biden’s Impeachment! (6.10.23)
Patriots, let's not allow ourselves to be fooled for third time in 2024 by the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments.
As a side note to this post, consider that probably the main reason that we hear media complaints about electoral college is that the corrupt political parties that control Congress want a puppet president that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
Hate being stuck in Illinois and we’ve always talked about moving to Tennessee or Florida. My daughter now has a family and they would wish to leave the state as well but now they’ve got good jobs and the grandkids are putting down roots here so... If hubs and I decide we just can’t take it anymore at least Kentucky or Indiana are viable not so distant alternatives :)
“They want us writing checks to Ukraine forever”
…because it’s the same as writing checks off someone else’s account to themselves.
The United States government is the most corrupt government on Earth.
And it isn’t even close.
We drive up to West Chicago several times a year to visit my wife’s family and our grandkids. We pretty much just stay put while there, though we do go to one of the Cooper’s Hawk restaurants for some good food, and I spend some time at “Kiss the Sky records, rifling through their inventory and talking with the owner, who’s about my age.
There are some pretty places in Illinois and Indiana, but, IMO, Kentucky has them both seriously beat both on beauty and personal freedom.
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