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Why the Government Shutdown Is a Welcome Development

Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by poncho, Oct 6, 2013.

  1. poncho

    poncho Well-Known Member

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    With the partial government shutdown now in its fifth day, the rhetoric among Democrats and among the pro-Beltway mainstream media has reached a fever pitch, with the leaders of the Republican opposition being likened to jihadists and terrorists, and pilloried for their alleged callous and irresponsible behavior. The federal government, as a Reuters story observed on October 1 — without a trace of irony — has had to divide its functions and employees between “essential” and “non-essential,” and furlough or idle the latter. Thus, we now have the federal government reduced to discharging only “essential” functions — which, it turns out, is still roughly 85 percent of what it was doing prior to October 1.


    Forgotten or ignored in all the jockeying for political advantage is the fact that the Founders limited the federal government in the Constitution to those functions that they deemed “essential” — that is, those things which only the Federal government could properly do, like negotiate treaties with foreign powers, declare and conduct war, run a postal system, and deal with disputes between the states. And, lest there be any doubt among their posterity of the limits imposed on their federal creation, the Founders then clarifies in the final amendment of the Bill of Rights — the Tenth — that powers not expressly delegated by the Constitution to the federal government were reserved to the states or to the people. The federal government, in other words, may exercise only those powers enumerated in the Constitution.


    http://thenewamerican.com/economy/c...-government-shutdown-is-a-welcome-development
     
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    Poncho, who cares what the John Birch Society says?
     
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    poncho Well-Known Member

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    Okay I'll play along with your silly game CMG.

    People that don't spend their "informative time" time watching Faux Snews? :smilewinkgrin:
     
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    What the John Birch Society misses is that this mess is Bush's fault:

    "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

    ~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
     
  5. poncho

    poncho Well-Known Member

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    Wonder how they could have missed something repeated so many times by so many democrats? No doubt Bush spent money like a drunken sailor but gee golly wow man Obama spends as much as a whole fleet of drunken sailors.

    No offense meant towards any drunken sailors reading this.
     
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