[cripplecreek]

I just want to be left alone to make my own way in life without every cent sucked out of me.

Its a scary thing to be middle aged and getting poorer by the second and have no family to rely on as I get older. Its even scarier to know that neither political party has any intent of releasing us from the prison they’ve built.

I’m finished with listening to promises of the great GOP saving me in 4 more years.

[Libloather]

That might mean freeloaders don’t get free stuff.

[humblegunner]

I’m still wondering where my chicks are at.

[KC_Lion]

It's a never ending list and rapidly expanding as fast as our now virtually UNLIMITED unconstitutional BIG government is rapidly expanding, regardless of party in power

A Large Government and a Free People cannot peacefully Coexist.

Much like Big Government Republicans and The Tea Party cannot Peacefully coexist within the same party, one MUST be forced out.

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”

-- John Quincy Adams

[gorush]

Article 1, Section 8 enumerates those items for which the federal government may tax, spend and oversee. It is my view that the vast majority of what our federal government does is unconstitutional...

I, personally may have been happier to retain the Articles of Confederation, but it, too, had inherent flaws...a malady common to all human governance.

We use General Welfare, the Commerce clause and Stare Decisis to reach the inevitable decline that all republics must suffer.

per James Madison:

"With respect to the two words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. If the words obtained so readily a place in the "Articles of Confederation," and received so little notice in their admission into the present Constitution, and retained for so long a time a silent place in both, the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything, had the former meaning taken for granted."

[veracious]

Per my reply on another thread...:
1) DC illegally takes most of the state's money and then bribes or buys them into submission. States need to reestablish direct taxes as theirs alone. DC must apportion tax money raised by states via direct or other taxes per USC.

2) States no longer have a seat in congress: the House is people and Senate is states. Similar to English parliament: Lords(states) Common(people). This problem is related to #1, also.

3) Interstate Commerce and General Welfare did not provide a magic way out of enumerated powers; not lawful. To change USC fundamentally requires a USC amendment. USC is USG contract w/ states/people and it may be changed this way, only.

4) Fiat currency is tied to the Corporate Excise Tax of 1909, which unlawfully because individualized. USG has the power to _coin_ money, specie, all the Fathers knew exactly what this meant. USC means what it meant when it was created. Not what it means after wicked people change the meanings of words to bend USC to their illegal purposes.

5) Judges are not allowed to legislate from the bench, laws are created by the legislature and judged by courts: judges and the people in the jury!

[mnehring]

Marriage can be covered under the clause of fixing values of weights and measures as it is generally accepted that standardized legal definitions are an accepted form of measure. Preserving the legal definitions within contracts assures equal legal protection for all individuals across varying jurisdictions. Federalist 42 expands on the weights and measures clause to describe it as:..to prescribe the manner in which the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of each State shall be proved..

In other words, congress can and should preserve the legal definition of marriage in the same way they are charged with insuring that all legal standards are clearly defined and uniform.

[Lazamataz]

Personally, when I say 'small government', I mean government staffed entirely by midgets.

Preferably, midgets in clown outfits.

[Jacquerie]

An FR post from 2009:

Common Defense & General Welfare. The Meaning is Clear

[LibLieSlayer]

We may never see all of it turned back in our lifetimes but I would bet that we see Consitutional reforms take hold in our lifetimes... one way or the other... it will happen... and I pray for it daily.

LLS

[GraceG]

How about tossing out any law that has used the so called “commerce clause” to justify it’s constiutionality?

[Carry_Okie]

Here is what it means to me: Leave me alone. I have work to do, a family to raise, and a G_d to worship. I manage my affairs with justice and forbearance. I don’t need a blasted government except to execute real criminals and control our borders. Go away.

[Responsibility2nd]

What do we mean when we say small government, ie, constitutionally limited government?

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Ronald Reagan understood the need for small government. Here are but a few of my favorite quotes from America's greatest president....

 

 

 

 

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”

 

“If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.”

 

“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”

 

“The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.”

“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!”

 

“Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.”

[DJ MacWoW]

“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.” Edmund Burke

“It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. (October 27, 1964)” Ronald Reagan

[Political Junkie Too]

More wisdom from Thomas Paine...

In The Rights Of Man, Paine begins his discussion on the creation of the United States Constitution by examining the process that Pennsylvania followed for creating their state constitution.

Paine concludes his review with this description of the behaviors that followed.

From Chapter 4 — Of Constitutions:

Here we see a regular process — a government issuing out of a constitution, formed by the people in their original character; and that constitution serving, not only as an authority, but as a law of control to the government. It was the political bible of the state. Scarcely a family was without it. Every member of the government had a copy; and nothing was more common, when any debate arose on the principle of a bill, or on the extent of any species of authority, than for the members to take the printed constitution out of their pocket, and read the chapter with which such matter in debate was connected.

That was in 1791. In 2010, we have Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi incredulously questioning "Are you serious? Are you serious?"

-PJ

[know-the-law]

The first step of correcting this mess is to understand how we got in the mess and became debt slaves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6b4YrXayzE

http://www.dirtyunclesam.com/

[Dead Corpse]

Amen.

[Monorprise]

Nice list, we do indeed have a very long chain of abuses & usurpation.

Perhaps the only real question of consequences is what will these evils invariably accomplish regardless of the intentions of its implemented?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Just think how cheap a government that only did what was laid out in the Constitution would be.

The government would be 10% of the size that it is now.

Not to mention that I am frankly sick of having the feds poke their noses into my business.

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Free course on the Constitution. I highly recommend!

http://constitution.hillsdale.edu/