[DuncanWaring]

You mentioned medicade. There is no authorization in the Constitution for such activity. I'll agree that now it would be difficult to go back, but if past generatins had required that the Government operate INSIDE its Constitutional limitations then you would be able to take care of yourself when you retired on the 45-50% tax extraction that the Government takes.

Vin Suprynowicz put it very eloquently:

...Fast forward 210 years. As a recipe for limited government, this Constitution now matches the creature it's supposed to describe about as well as a Chihuahua's carry-on "Pet Kennel" would fit a loping Irish wolfhound. ...

And what about the 10th Amendment, which specifies, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

This means 90 percent of the laws, agencies, orders and regulators now pouring forth from Washington like a torrent from a broken dam are null and void -- deformed, fatherless creatures, apt to melt away like Goblins if ever tested in the harsh daylight of the Bill of Rights.

[RRWCC]

"...from a broken dam are null and void..."

if only we would make it so.....