Stand up to federal government
Gotta admire his sentiments though.Lately I've heard a great many people wondering what we can do beyond calling our elected representatives in Washington, D.C., to save our nation from a slide into socialism and to restore common sense. I've been thinking, though, that maybe we've been calling the wrong people. Maybe we should be calling and meeting with people a little closer to home.
In all 50 states, our elected state representatives have abdicated their responsibilities to us, and have stood by silently while letting the federal government bully them and bribe them with our federal tax dollars.
The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution reads, "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."
The powers and responsibilities of Congress are laid out in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, and they are limited. Similarly, Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution spells out the limited powers of the president.
Congress and the president need a very firm reminder of these limitations. They've shown themselves to be far too disconnected from the public and from reality, and too addicted to the powers they have given themselves. That's why we need to press our state officials into standing up for us, and standing up to the federal government.
Now contact them and tell them to start doing their jobs.
Posted on Monday, March 02, 2009 4:14:26 PM by SierraWasp
For small-government die-hards, the $787 billion economic stimulus bill recently passed by Congress isn't a life saver. It's the last straw.
Lawmakers across the country are sponsoring resolutions — most of them only symbolic — asserting state sovereignty, in effect the right to ignore any federal law or policies they deem unconstitutional, including the stimulus bill, the No Child Left Behind Act and any new assault rifle ban. (snip) "This has been a progression from (the New Deal) days to today, with the only break being Ronald Reagan," South Carolina state Rep. Michael Pitts said by e-mail. Pitts, a Republican, has a resolution pending in the South Carolina House. "The stimulus bill is simply propellant for the resistance."