Why the US Consitution limited the federal government.

Let me see if I can give you a good analogy why these bail-outs are NOT working. Forget that its the government and they can't propose themselves out of a wet paper bag, and should have stuck to the delineated authorities the US Constitution said was their only authority. Do you remember what they are? Here's a civic lesson before we go on.

 

The US Constitution in Article 1, Section 8, details 3 primary functional operations that the federal government was suppose to limit itself towards accomplishing, everything else was to fall into the states' rights as provided in the Bill of Rights, specifically the 10th amendment.

 

Those 3 functional areas are:

1. A national defense: raise & fund a proper military, call up states militia, punish crimes on high seas, declare war
2. Commerce: bankruptcy laws, establish and regulate a money system, weights & measures, postal system, prevent counterfeiting, establish copyright and patent laws
3. Administer seat of government: establish federal courts, administer federal lands

 

The 10th amendment is very clear that everything else is to be adjudicated by the states, not the federal government; however, we the citizens of the USA have let our federal government become what the founding fathers feared:

 

"not a single tyrant 3000 thousand miles away, but 3000 tyrants 1 mile away..."

We have to reign in the federal government with its exploding over $3 Trillion USD budget, or we will go the way of the Roman Republic and the Greek optimum. We will simply implode and either be reduced to an impotent 3rd-world entity or reformed into an authoritarian form of socialism or fascism.

 

Unfortunately with BHO and his now almost certain SMDC, it will probably be the former impotency with the UN as the world's sole superpower.

 

All hail the UN! Break-out the UN blue and accept its mandates. You laugh, but its on its way, folks. I will help you see that as it happens. Remember, American CAN'T BE FIXED! It's simply too late, but you all have ringside seats to its slow demise.

 

Ah, the analogy is in the next post.