Posted on 07/14/2017 6:09:44 PM PDT by mdittmar
No kidding...even for Chuckie Schumer, a chronic underachiever if ever there was one, a paltry $88K in pork represents a pretty weeny effort.
“New York has gone to hell nd $88k is a big deal now”
It didn’t help when that fool Cuomo said Conservatives weren’t welcome or needed; he’s been trying to un-say that for months now.
Senator Schumer has once again shown himself to be a great example why the ill-conceived 17th Amendment should never have been ratified, state lawmakers foolishly giving up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress when they ratified that amendment, effectively repealing the whole Constitution by doing so imo.
In fact, here's a previous example of Schumer buying votes by winning unconstitutonal federal funding for a NY library.
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More Than $490,000 In Federal Funding For Brooklyn Public Library
What constitutionally low-information Sen. Schumer is wrongly ignoring by winning federal funding for his projects is that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to tax and spend for such things.
Consider that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court Justices had clarified that Congress cannot appropriate taxes for anything that it cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, grants for businesses and INTRAstate libraries not listed among those powers.
“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.
”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.
Also, note that by having non-elected bureaucrats, those running the USDA in this case, provide funding on his behalf, Schumer is protecting his voting record. And protecting his voting record will make it easier for Schumer to fool low-information voters, voters who probably do not understand the fed’s limited power to tax and spend, to reelect Schumer.
But it remains that such “federal” funding is arguably state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Pres. Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
How much of this will wind up in Schumer’s Foundation?
And they won't rest until Remington leaves IIion. Here you go Schmuckie: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2017-03-09/remington-arms-lays-off-122-workers-at-upstate-ny-plant
No one should be fooled, the rats have killed manufacturing in NYS and it only exists on a pay to play basis. The federal funds are used in desperation to hold the roof up that they are sitting on. The political competition? there is none! The feckless GOP follow like little hungry children waiting for crumbs
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