Posted on 11/15/2009 11:12:49 AM PST by Bokababe
Good post, thank you for taking the time to write it.
You are welcome, gogogodzilla!
I agree with DNME, many of excellent comments on this thread.
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Why you ask? You really think this is working? Both candidates in 2008 tried to out Santa each other. Incumbent congressman have a huge advantage at getting re-elected and at bringing back the $$$. Congress hasnt polled over 40% in decades.
I agree with you 100% on civics test, everyone should have to know how Washington passes laws. I have believed that for a while. But two problems , 1) the history of election tests in South will label it white racism, 2) those in power will write the test to get opposing voters excluded.,just like McCain's campaign finance laws.
Term limits are a key step. They should have to put their kids in public schools while in congress, and white house. I know those will never happen,
Obama’s STIMULUS is working, he’s stimulated the whole country into tea parties, anti-health care rallies and all kinds of citizen revolts. He’s even got Napolitano giving lectures on the Constitution.
The Stimulus is working!
Who knows what he’ll stimulate next?
Completely agree, Bob!
One thing that you have to give to Obama -- he's made our life far more stimulating than it would have been with McCain in charge!
I recommend a Class Action suit against this administration for violating the Constitution. If it's possible, why wait until 2010 to hope some of these scoundrels are thrown out? There's no guarantee and we're still stuck with many more of these scumbags.
I have to admit that I hadn't given a thought to taxpayers footing the bill for their apparently outstanding health care deal. Unmitigated gall!!!
Until this gov't health plan was concocted by Obama, who even thought about the administration's "above the rest of us" health care?
It's drawn our attention now and still they intend to saddle us with a stupid, gov't controlled take-over of our rights.
2010 is too long to wait to take action.
Thank you for your very thoughtful response.
I had been figting what I believe to be the ‘good fight’ ever since this whole financial meltdown and what it has meant to me personally really opened my eyes about the conseqences of tyranny. To my dismay, I’ve been labeled not a ‘true’ conservative, a Libertoon, and other such things by those who are only interested in blue steel and have felt like a complete outcast. It does not seem to matter to anyone what the framers actually said, or thought, or how much or often I post Thomas Jefferson’s argument against the establishment of a national bank, which applies to just about everything the government is doing today, or the Federalist papers that describe the purpose of the Federal government, and what it is not. They just don’t get why it was limited or do not care.
To me, that big government sword cuts both ways, and I’d prefer that it cuts not at all. This problem we have of being in fear of the government running amuck, and being promised that by the party in power, is a problem that I do not wish my children to have and it all comes from the constant over-stepping of bounds, with each step being even more bold and more brash than the last; left or right, it doesn’t matter.
If you ever have a chance to study the Buchanan era, you might notice some similarities to the political and economic envrionment today. Some like to think that FDR wrote the book on big government, but it probably started as early as Jackson, coming to a head during Buchanan. I agree with you that the post-war Fed was indeed a kinder, gentler Fed, but it did nothing to prevent future economic and societal meddling that I believe was at the root of the conflict.
In the debate about the 17th amendment I was told that it would have some negative impact on the subsidy southern states get because they lost their 3/5th exemtion after the war, and they still need it because they aren’t as economically advanced as the northern states. I was boggled that a subsidy for that still exists 150 years later.
Why is that place STILL a shambles? Why am I paying taxes for this?
It wasn’t until then that I realized that this problem is far bigger than logic, rational thought, or any amount of education about what the constitution really means. All people can see is what they get from the abuse. It is a monumental task, and a lonely one at that.
Amen. Congress is out of control. And people keep reelecting these same criminals. And no way to stop it until it explodes.
Seriously, who is going to run on a campaign of cutting expenses such as Medicare? That is a political death sentence? Or cutting funding for education?
As long as people put their self interest above the country’s (which is over 50% of people), we will eventually blow up.
Sorry. There is NO SOLUTION. Even Reagan barely cut expenditures.
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