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Report: Boehner 'Hellbent' on Passing Amnesty This Year
breitbart.com ^ | 4/18/14 | Tony Lee

Posted on 04/18/2014 6:28:35 AM PDT by cotton1706

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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

#4 accords with the doctrine of “subsidiarism:” that the smallest effective unit of organization should retain control. In government, it also provide for an internally logically consistent, naturally delimiting theory for limited government, whereas libertarianism has no natural delimit to anarchy*: all power should be retained by the individual, unless the nature a given task makes it inherently impossible to be achieved by individuals, in which case a village can act as a unit of cooperation of individuals.

But all such political power must be retained by the village, unless the nature a given task makes it inherently impossible to be achieved by such a local entity, in which case, a county can act as a unit of cooperation of villages.

And likewise, all such political power must be retained by the county, unless ... a state must act as a unit of cooperation among counties.

And likewise, all such political power must be retained by the state, unless ... a nation must act as a unit of cooperation among states.

(*I am NOT calling libertarians anarchists! I am only saying that the principle of libertarianism does not, in itself, define when government becomes allowable, or even necessary; and, therefore, there is no natural breaking point between libertarianism and anarchy except a pragmatism which is contrary to such idealism. The constitutional delimits of government authority — using the spirit of the constitution, rather than using the commerce clause as a loophole — would be an EXTERNAL, but highly reasonable guidance for the limits libertarianism, but Ron Paul and many other libertarians choose not to take advantage.)


21 posted on 04/18/2014 9:07:09 AM PDT by dangus
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The GOP never wanted to govern.

Oh, as statists and progressives, the Boehner types get exactly what they want. They may not get to govern but it does help keep the statist big government dream alive in Washington DC which way too many are a part of these days, regardless of political party.

Boehner and his cronies being hellbent on passing amnesty this year, tells me the statists are in trouble come November and they need all the votes they can get to counter us peons, LOL. FWIW, legal Hispanic Americans don't support amnesty, 2 to 1.

CGato

22 posted on 04/18/2014 9:13:43 AM PDT by Conservative Gato
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