Posted on 11/26/2011 7:09:07 PM PST by rabscuttle385
You falsley assume that our current Pentagon, world policing, budget has much of anything to do with defense. It doesn't. The founders, who hated entangling alliances, grand diplomacy, and world empires, would be disgusted at how current defenders of the military-industrial are perverting the Constitutional language about defense to rationalize the U.S. role of global Cop.
No sacred cows. We're broke.
You falsely assume that our current Pentagon, world policing, budget has much of anything to do with defense. It doesn't. The founders, who hated entangling alliances, grand diplomacy, and world empires, would be disgusted at how current defenders of the military-industrial complex are perverting the Constitutional language about defense to rationalize the U.S. role of global Cop.
No sacred cows. We're broke.
As I said, that’s what you do first. Then you start devolving them. But at least that way they save money over the duplicative programs.
Ah, OK, missed that part. Sorry.
“The first step is to eliminate the duplicative agencies and block-grant the programs. We change the standards to favor the intact family rather than support its breakup. And we begin restoring the power to the states adn communities.”
I can’t help but think the Fair Tax, with its emphasis on making Americans see their taxes instead of believing they are getting ‘refunds,’ is a better way to go. The do-nothings benefiting under the current law would at least temporarily approve getting fed service cuts if they could see the impact. That would make it more politically feasible in the long haul. In the short haul, block grants would be less visible but wouldn’t really reduce the scope and reach of the federal government.
Their feelings get in the way of rational thought!
The Supremes count is wrong. First off, they aren’t conservatives except for Thomas. Alito, Roberts, and Scalia are only conservatives when it fits the agenda of the big government GOP wing. Second, Kennedy isn’t even that kind of conservative. He’s just a waste of space that makes government by the SCOTUS laughable and makes its decisions incredibly worthless as precedent. In that sense, I guess he has SOME value for conservatives—but there is no conservative governance by that Court.
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