Why did the US House of Representatives vote for Cap & Trade (tax) now? It seems the rest of the world is getting rid of their cap and trade legislation because they are finding out that it does not work and they are beginning to rethink global warming as a whole lot of junk science.
Australia, New Zealand, and Japan bring to mind a few countries in the news lately that have begun to remove this nonsense from their laws. So why is the US just now getting into it? Could it be a larger agenda behind all the smoke and mirrors of global warming? I mean, this legislation is the largest tax increase in American history. This would give government control over another 17% of the US economy. This is just another bit of socialist creep that democrats seem to want. Is this what our founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the US Constitution?? Me doesn’t think so. Well what about health care?
I’ve recently talked to a nice but sorely misguided lady on Twitter concerning the upcoming legislation on health care. I tried to use reason with her while she clung to her emotional arguments. I tried telling her that the US Constitution does not allow congress to do what it wants to do…get the government into health care or private industry. She agreed that government getting into private industry was a bad idea but then she stated that it was ok for them to get into health care because of Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution. Well, let’s look into her argument and what was meant by that Article and Section.
Article I, Section 8 states –
Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;–And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
Ok, she took the “and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States” as it’s ok for Congress to do health care. I’m sorry but that is a vague argument to begin with but…let’s give her the benefit for a few moments while we consider what James Madison said about this very Article and Section. I mean, after all, James Madison is the FATHER of the US Constitution isn’t he? He should be given some weight as to what was meant by that Article and Section. Here is what Mr. Madison had to say…
“With respect to the 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.”
Well now…it seems that Mr. Madison connected the “general welfare” with the SPECIFIC list of powers that followed those words. Nowhere does it say in those SPECIFIC powers does congress have the power to institute national health care courtesy of the US government!!
So, you may ask why are they doing it? Again, it goes back to the socialist history of our current leaders. Pelosi, Obama et al are nothing but brought up in the 60’s and 70’s socialists. They believe that Conservatives are evil and the sole mission of the US government is to take from those who have and give to those who have not. Doesn’t matter how hard those who have, have worked to get it. Doesn’t matter that those who have not don’t care to work for anything…it’s only fair. Emotions over logic. Symbolism over substance.
I asked this nice lady how many more billions do we have to spend to fight poverty? Since LBJ started the war on poverty, we’ve spent, in the neighborhood, of $5 TRILLION dollars!! But ya know what? We have more people in poverty today than we did then!! Why? We have created a class of people who are dependent on government handouts. We have created a generation of people who think that they are deserving of other people’s money. A permanent beggar class if you will. And the scary thing is, these people vote. Now who are they going to vote for? The person who says to get out and work for your own or the person who says that I’m going to keep the gravy train coming to your house?
Now I’m going to start yet another tangent here. One of the first steps to stop the federal government is to repeal the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution. What you say? Why that one? It’s easy. Let me explain it to you.
Our founding fathers were brilliant men…men who were far ahead of their own time. They set up the perfect government. Congress was made up of two bodies. The House of Representatives was the people’s House. These members were elected by the people themselves in their districts. With this House, the people had a say in government. Then came the Senate. Originally the State governments elected the Senators. This way, the States had a say in the Federal government…a check on Federal power. This way, the States were on, more or less, an equal footing with the Federal government. This kept the fed in check. Then came along the 17th Amendment and the direct election of Senators. It’s been a disaster ever since. The States are now subservient to the Federal government. They beg at the table for their highway money, for other fed scraps. This is not how our founders saw things shaping up. They experienced an all powerful central government and purposely set up our government to AVOID a repeat of what they experienced.
We need an immediate grassroots effort to repeal the 17th Amendment. We need to give the States BACK the power that our founders bestowed upon them.
