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I am bothered by people who think the Bill of Rights is given, and can be taken away, by the government.
We have those rights and any government that attempts to take them away is illegitimate.
The Rothchilds are more than just bankers. They spent a lot of time setting up networks early on in Europe that have allowed them to sell to both sides of a conflict, conflicts they often have a hand in starting.
I am bothered by people who think the Bill of Rights is given, and can be taken away, by the government.
We have those rights and any government that attempts to take them away is illegitimate.
Social security, Medicare, ObamaCare, DoE, HHS, etc should all be converted into Interstate Compacts
Patrick saysDr. Malone thinks one possible answer is to re-focus on states' rights:
Yeah. Considering that 90% of what the feds spend money on is supposed to be done at the state/local/person level, that's a no shit Sherlock no Brainer.
States need to take back their power via an Article V convention. Social security, Medicare, ObamaCare, DoE, HHS, etc should all be converted into Interstate Compacts that individual states can then choose to opt out of.
Only medical/housing/education/welfare/etc shit Feds should do is for their own employees/veterans.
That means no federal $$$ spent in scientific research too, except in regards to making better weapons and a more efficient postal service, basically..
Patrick saysMore citizens are getting interested in those rights and the Constitution
Same here - it is just that there is a dreadful lack of even the most basic knowledge of those rights let alone the constitution for the vast majority of the population but I also suspect that applies equally as well to most countries.
People take an interest in anything after a certain amount of pain has been applied
The constitution was designed to be paradoxical with checks and balances. It's worked more than it hasn't over the past two hundred plus years.
Keep in mind the precursor (the articles of confederation) needed to be scrapped because it rendered the federal government ineffectual. Or at least that's what I've been taught.
States don't need to form an article 5 convention, they just need to assert rightful dominance over a tyrannical federal behemoth that has gone outside it's bounds. Nothing in the Constitution needs to be changed, but many federal government entities need ELIMINATED!
Like hell. 17th Amendment needs to be repealed. It was after that went into effect DC started to get powerful.
ForcedTQ saysNothing in the Constitution needs to be changed, but many federal government entities need ELIMINATED!
Like hell. 17th Amendment needs to be repealed. It was after that went into effect DC started to get powerful.
Senators got/kept/lost their jobs before that at the behest of the state governments. Afterwards, they cared more about what they got from their donors, like House members.
The Senate under the control of the States was meant as a check on Congress by the States.
The biggest area where the States gave up their "rights" pertains to finance. 49 states have balanced budget amendments This forces them to raise taxes when they spend more money. Recessions are particularly harsh on the States as they are unable to counter reduced demand by counter cyclical spending.
This would lead to a deflationary spiral.
The Federal government has no constraints on spending (they can borrow massive amounts). By going into debt they are not beholden to raising taxes.
The States get about a third of their budgets from transfers from the Federal government. Since the States don't have a credit card, they simply use the Federal credit card, but don't really talk about it. An enormous percentage of the Federal deficit can be explained as transfers to the States.
This thread is for discussing the US Constitution.
True, one surprising thing is that we do not have a democracy, at least not a direct one where the people vote on the laws.