Liberty and Government: An American Tipping Point
by Thomas Del BeccaroThomas Paine said that “It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.” He did so amidst the long shadow of a centralized government which regarded individual rights as secondary to its own. Today, “56% of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey . . . say they think the federal government’s become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.” They do so in the shadow of a government seeking to take control of nearly 17% of the US economy, if not that portion of our lives, in the name of caring for our health.
For any that have cared to listen to the debates over multi-trillion dollar spending programs, tax hikes, cap and trade or health care, at issue is not simply whether those huge government programs would provide lasting solutions – they will not – at issue is our basic right to Liberty. Quite frankly, it was never the assumption of the Founding Fathers that it was the role of government to provide a moving target standard of living for Americans. It was their sincere hope that the government of limited powers they set up would allow people to pursue their lives, Liberty and happiness. To do so they, wanted to hamstring government’s ability to act – not ours.
Since then, of course, the scale has tipped in favor of government power over our pursuits. Each step along the way, those concerned with our Liberty have heard the echoes of Senator Daniel Webster when he said:
“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.”
As you consider his words, it may worthy to also consider the lives of Americans, at the dawn of these United States, and the lives of Americans today.
We can start by noting that the freedom of the early American settlers’ was curtailed perhaps only in relation to their ability to remain safe. The bravest among them ventured westward and put stakes in the ground to claim their unbridled Manifest Destiny and ours. Today, by contrast, property owners’ use of land, already their own, is vastly curtailed by government restrictions, setbacks, and zoning limitations – not to mention often unwarranted and often uncompensated takings.
We should also note that, at the birth of our Nation, a loose confederation of unruly states, fresh from their Revolutionary War victory had to be coaxed into ratifying the Articles of Confederation – Articles that proved so unfastened that a more “perfect union” was advocated less than a decade later. Today, the Federal Government promulgates hundreds of thousands of pages of superseding laws and regulations that ties the hands of those States whose powers were once thought to be “numerous and indefinite.”
Beyond those considerations, even the Founding Fathers of our Country did not see fit to impose an income tax on Americans. Indeed, no less than Chief Justice John Marshall said that “in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.” Today, that is not even a distant memory for Congressional leaders who regularly advocate income tax increases and who, along with state governments, have taxed America with a myriad of taxes and fees simply unimaginable in Marshall’s time.
If you are as yet unpersuaded by those examples, consider that Presidents Jefferson and Madison did not believe that our Constitution permitted the government to levy taxes to pay for roads yet, today, our government does just that to not only pay for the roads but subsidize the purchase of the cars driven on those roads.
So what happened between now and then? Did our rights become worth less overnight? Did those numerous and indefinite powers our Founders thought they were reserving to the States become lost without our knowing it? Or did we simply fail to safeguard ourselves despite Jefferson’s warning that the “natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield.”
It is, of course, the sum of those things and more – all of which brings us to today. With so many people against the direction of our government, let alone this latest government takeover, only the arrogance of a central planner could deem their actions as listening to the American people let alone responsive to them. In truth, as so many Americans now do, we must understand that their good intentions are only pleaded in pursuit of their assumption of authority. It is up to the Thomas Paine in the rest of us to guard our country against the dangers of their good intentions lest the American experiment with Liberty reach beyond this tipping point.
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It looks like this administration thinks our constitution is "shovel ready".
and we Americans think the administration is shovel ready as is most of Congress….
The more I read of the Founders the more I fear of what we are allowing the Govt. to do. Term limits are the only error I see in our founding documents. The founders where honorable men who had just fought a war against oppression so they assumed (ERROR) that all Americans would guard against it. They must not have seen "THE CHOSEN ONE", Harry and Nancy comming!
therw is a nascent revolution taking place as we speak…
Not just the Tea Parties, either- although it's catching; the UK is ahving it's first 'tea party' this week. Fancy that.
We colonials finally have rubbed off on the Royals. That should be interesting.
Here is the US it is a palpable feeling; one can sense the undercurrents of resentment focused on an uncaring, unfeeling 'my way or the highway' government colossus out of control.
The powers that be should take heed. As the proverbial iceberg, there is MUCH more here than meets the eye…
I was once a proponent of term limits.. and not in the too distant past. However, if we are as informed, engaged, involved and vigilant as we should be, there would be no need for term limits. The citizens of this country need to be active watch dogs, keeping a careful eye on the politicians who are supposed to be the People's representatives.
Well said. And by "shovel ready", they no doubt mean, "ready" to be dead and buried!
Yeah. That is the understatement of the year. And what American could ever imagine that the thug
leader of SEIYOU would be running our country…
Well we have a lot of work to do, 100+ years of government take over to undue.. The first Item should be Fed run Welfare, cut it 100 percent and let the states or private monies foot the bill.. We will soon find it impossible to vote with our feet and as of now its pretty hard to make a big change due to Fed Governments hand in all 50 states pulling the strings.. The billions to trillion of dollars lost due to so many never seeking their own way will never be realized untill we force them to work and make their own way, After all its only FAIR that they put forth an effort as the rest of non-welfare class does.. From there dump ever Fed agency that seeks to control our lives, so many agencies so little time..
"They do so in the shadow of a government seeking to take control of nearly 17% of the US economy, if not that portion of our lives, in the name of caring for our health."
Further and beyond that, there is indeed a formal "Shadow Government". In its current form and fashion, the Federal Government is indeed a threat to every American citizen, and all things American. It is a behemoth, hydra that is out of control and will ultimately destroy America if left unchecked.
Good article, because it elucidates the real risk — to that of our freedom.
I've been ready a great deal of late about progressive philosophy, mostly from progressives themselves. Their philosophies are not compatible with the U.S. Constitution. They are also incompatible with Christianity. They are seeking its destruction. They also don't believe in individual rights or natural rights; they only believe that the individual has value as a "seven of nine" in the collective, and that their rights are only those granted by the state, and their value is also determined by the state. Heaven forbid if they don't think you have enough value. The defective, infirm, unborn, and elderly are not considered to be of "value" in the collective because they are incapable of contributing sufficiently for them to have value.
If history serves as any reminder for what may come, recall that the Tea Act of 1773 raised the tax on ONE ITEM from 10% to 25%. This was not an income tax or sales tax or even a value-added tax – it was a tax on one item – tea.
The Boston Tea Party was more about Parliament's legal right to tax us than the tax itself. However, it is important to note that the reason behind the tax being raised was that the East India Company was approaching insolvency and needed to be bailed out by the government (sound familiar?).
The government refused to lower taxes (thus providing the colonies with an "I told you so" moment), and lacked any other intelligent options. Their actions led directly to the formation of this wonderful country of ours – designed to protect the people from the government.
While I don't argue the right of the government to tax us, I do question it's right to tax us in so many ways, for so much money, and for so little actual benefit. The government has become a burden to the people, the same as 1773. This situation can not continue and we will not rest until it is resolved.
Keep it up Washington. Just keep it up. You've got more problems than you realize, and we'll be kicking your sorry butts to the curb come November.
I just pray they don't cause too much irreversible damage between now and 2013.
If Obama, Reid and Pelosi all believe that the nuclear option is the best path forward, then they better be prepared for a nuclear reaction that will follow.
Everyone ought to stop and ask themselves two simple questions.
1. Do I REALLY think my Representative (or Senator) gives a damn about me?
2. Do I REALLY trust they will do the right thing?
If the answer to either question is no, then kick the bum out!
Unfortunately, the left has been "educated" (by which I mean brainwashed) into not thinking for themselves and marching in lockstep. Which dooms us to practically eternal retreads of Obey, Pelosi, Schumer, Rangel, and Dodd.
The Obama, Pelosi, Reid battle plan for the nuclear option?
Ready?
Fire!
Aim………
Thomas Paine said that “It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.”
So, let the games begin…There are seven months left before the 'first pitch'…
Wasn't it Franklin who said something like "those who sacrifice a little liberty for temporary safety deserve neither?"
That one was very popular with the left when the Patriot Act was proposed. Now that their government is coming to take over their health care, they seem to have forgotten.
o consider the founders intent is to assume they knew that no one really wanted to be a career politician. It was a giving notion that once they were finished with a term in government however long, they would have to go back to their communities and live under the laws they created. They wouldn’t have even considered a what is good for them but not for me mentality as so many today. Charlie Rangle would have been taken to the square stockade for some public admonition.
Can someone please explain to me why we can NOT undo all the things that this administration has or will implement.
I view the will of the people as:
2010—-slow everything down to a grinding halt
2012—-eradicate all things that are in place and against the will of the people
Why are we at this crossroads in history?
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."
~ Thomas Jefferson ~
We are here because we grew complacent. We took our eyes off the prize. The prize of freedom and liberty. We were content with our gizmo's and gadgets, content with our McMansions and SUV's and golf course memberships.
Whose fault is it? Mine, and yours, and our friends and neighbors. We ALLOWED this to occur. NO MORE!
Unfortunately, we have lost untold liberty already. We have lost the 'right to travel' without having to prove who we are, we have lost the 'right to the fruits of our labor' without government taking up to half of what we earn, we have lost the 'right to property' since the 2005 Kelo decision by SCOTUS and we are going to lose our 'right to life' when the government takes over the entire health care industry. There are countless other examples of what government has taken from We the People. To claim we are a free people is becoming nothing more than an illusion.
Humorously enough, when it comes to the nuclear option, the attack will come on many fronts. Remember last summer when Madame Pelosi decred the Tea Party as "astroturfers" and made a fool out of herself? Now she is trying to play the divide and conquer card with the Tea Party and the GOP:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9E573H00...
When it comes to transparency, Ol' San Fran Nan is sure diaphanous……
Ditto that Cowboy…!
I feel an excellent first step would be to abolish the retirement packages and perks the politicians receive today.
There would be no need for term limits and the only reason one would wish for political office would be to serve, not enrich theirselves beyond belief of the average American Citizen.
We're supposed to be Soveirgn Citizens, not to live half of our working lives to pay for the taxes instituted by these very same career politicians who take it upon themselves to enslave us even further to the Federal Government on an every day basis.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Hanzo
I agree with you. The way I see it is that we already have term limits built in. We just don't seem to want to use the power we already have. To enact term limits takes away the individual's power that the Founders intended for we the people to have. It also takes away liberty from the good actors on account of the bad ones.
No, let's not put safety devices on all the cabinet doors, but let's take the authority we've been given and reward right behavior while punishing wrong behavior.
The article and comments are correct, we have lost many of our individual rights to big government. The question then becomes, how do we get them back?? I fill the IRS is stealing my money, but if I took the initiative and paid only, for example, 10 percent of my income (which I could see as fair). I would be arrested. If I decided to build a house on my land, I again would be cracked down on by law enforcement. If I defend myself against a personal assault, I am arrested. If Federal authorities come to my house, and I refuse to answer questions, that is a crime in of itself. If the government wants my land they will take it. So again, I pose the question, what can be done, short of full insurection?
This is funny.
We all knew the MSM was DOA. It was only a matter of time. ABC is shutting down.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnews...
They are halving all correspondents, and shuttering their brick and mortar operations. The death knell has begun,
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Not only sovereign citizens, but free men.
Many people are unfamiliar with this, but America was based upon English Common Law. There is a term included therein, "free men". It gives citizens extraordinary rights.
I am a free man. I have not given my rights away to any government.
The Code of Terra Libra
(1) Free Sovereign Citizens own their own lives, minds, bodies, and labor, and may do with them anything that doesn't violate the equal rights of others. This principle of individual sovereignty or self-ownership is the foundation for all legitimate property.
(2) Free Sovereign Citizens have the right to own property, which consists of all possessions acquired without coercing others. They respect the equal right of others to own property, which forms the basis for productive and cooperative human relationships.
(3) No individual, group, or majority has the right to initiate or threaten force, fraud, violence, or theft against Free Sovereign Citizens or their property.
Just wait until "Freddie/Fannie" simply "FORECLOSE" on the gigantic tracts of PRIVATE real estate they hold loans on… and turn it directly over to the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. This, along with the 'closed door' declaration by obama of millions upon MILLIONS of square acres of continental ground as "National MONUMENTS" (far tighter restrictions and control mechanisms by the government govern "monuments".
…instant NATIONAL serfdom, in one, swift move.
The theft of liberty has been growing for 100 years. No one will willingly give it back to us. It is up to us to take it back by whatever means necessary. I refuse to live on my knees.
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
~ Voltaire ~
Excellent reply, Cowboy.As usual, I agree with you whole-heartedly.
You're absolutely correct in stating that many people are unfamiliar with this.I'd have to add, MOST people are unfamiliar with their status in regards to our relationship with the government, as it was meant to be.
I lay part of the blame for this directly at the feet of the Educational establishment, which has turned into a melting pot of Progressive/Fascist/Communist/Marxist/Statist ideas, in order to ram these diabolical ideologies down our children's throats.The children of today aren't taught their Rights and Freedoms, or the Powers(limited) that Government is supposed to have.Instead, they are raised in an atmosphere of guilt for being prosperous.They are then taught the only way to make up for these feelings of guilt is to kowtow to the Federal Government and go along with any "feel good" approach of entitlement for the "oppressed".To top it all off, they are taught that Freedom is the freedom to do anything you want, in terms of being "free" from morals or principles, to live in hedonism and debauchery. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Hanzo
When people understand the concept that they are "free men", that opens up a whole new set of paramaters for them. It just in essence changed the playing field, and the score of the game. The greatest threat the government faces, is people becoming aware of this.
Great response! I want to agree with the "little actual benefit" comment… Read an article today about a Pa man who waited 30 hrs for an ambulance to arrive… but he died before it did. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100228/ap_on_re_us/u...
We have no rights to safety or protection from our government. They provide what thay call 'services', but you have no recourse if the service is sub-par. The Fed Gov has taken upon itself to be involved in too many things. All of which it does a poor job at.
We are headed down a perilous path!
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. -Samuel Adams (This qoute keeps coming to mind.)
SOFT TYRANNY!!!!
There will soon be a LAW for everything! Wait and See! This is getting out of hand really fast!
I don't even see the America I used too live in!!!!
That's right, my friend.The government's worst enemy to it's existence as we now know it is an informed populace.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Hanzo
The sad thing is that it IS happening. The GOP is infiltrating the Tea Party. Sarah P has revealed herself to be full of GOP air (saying the Tea Party should get in line with the GOP and taking over the Tea Party movement for herself) and she I heard said she would expand the Patriot act.
http://politics.nashvillepost.com/2010/02/07/the-...
I do NOT want Sarah representing the Tea Party, nor me.
We are FAST approaching the tipping point! What will it be that causes it? Health Care? Patriot Act? Devaluation of the dollar? Hyper-Inflation? Never ending debt? Never ending spending?
It will either be a political revolution, a State reclamation of rights, or violence. I'm not sure how else this will be resolved once 'tipped'. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best!
"…It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions…."
In line with "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" — Johnson (misquote)
Yes, Libtard Proggies scare the hell outta' me with their 'good' intentions.
As it concerns the former big 3…. One down, two to go!
I hope we can defund PBS, too.
………and NPR.
A nuclear option will deliver a lot of fallout…
Oh, HELL yeah!
Knowledge and information are power. What has contributed to the free flow of those commodities? The internet. That is why the government wants to seize control of the internet. If they do, they will shut down instantaneous communication and the exchange of ideas, and the internet will operate with the expediency and profiecency of the US Post Office………
Whether or not term limits would benefit the nation long term is subject to a lot of debate. However, there are a lot of other protections that could have been written into the constitution if the founders had known what their successors would decide to do.
I could write a treatise on the subject, but will not try to do so here.
You are correct.
A leopard does not change it's spots, and even if camoflaged in the bush, a RINO will always make its move.Sarah Palin is demonstrating that her ego is bigger than her brain……..
You've got that right.When mulling the question of government overstepping it's bounds, I feel it's easier to ask~"What area of our lives does the government not want to control"?The abswer is obvious, isn't it? ;^) ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Hanzo
Liberty is a principle drawn from the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution was long ago breached, long since it has been tossed aside by most all that define themselves as "great American's". The people of the USA are for the most part living in an era-long-gone, they live in a state of complete and total denial…a media induced and propagated comatose. The condition of America is diagnosed by way of the numbers, and the numbers clearly indicate the current systems are NOT sustainable. For the first time since the Great Depression, Americans took more aid from the government than they paid in taxes. Legal actions taken in the form of resistance to, and as necessary in revolt of, the current and growing size of the U.S. federal government are required and long overdue.
As long as a measly one-third of the adult legal citizens [100+M out of 300+M] invest 1-2 hours annually in the activity of voting, there is cause for extreme concern. Further, as long as legal tax paying U.S. Citizen's can't find their way to their local county seat, or state capital, or DC, to stand in resistance to what can only be defined as SOCIALISM boarder-lining on "fascist-lite" systems, there is cause for extreme concern.
The last several decades have produced this massive government control over its legal citizens, never before enacted against them. The last year has produced the inevitable evolution of such decades. The U.S. Constitution has been breached continuously. So much so, the predominate majority of American people don't even care that POTUS in his own written word has acknowledged that he was/is NOT eligible under the constitution to hold the office of president.
The local tea parties might want to follow Texas and Nevada's lead, focus on your STATE, it is in the state that you have your power. Bring an end to all incumbents in all state and county elections. Then work at the local level to force massive change within your state legal and political systems. If the tea party forces the STATES to follow the U.S. Constitution, the federal government will have no option but to concede. Above all else, do not believe the daily drip of corruption from the RNC+DNC monopolies, they are the source of all what ails the USA.
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Just for another to do the same thing?
Yes, but the government school system hadn't been taken over by the progressives quite yet, though! Take the government out of public schools is the only answer to saving this present obama progressive loving society! Wake-up, do you really believe that the immigrants coming here since the 1880's even care? The progressives are ahead of your thinking, believe me! If you aren't a progressive thinking immigrant, I guarantee you, you will not be allowed citizenship in America! It's over, if you're thinking it's not!
Most often, deadly!
I agree Cowboy, but I also believe that many of us have been awakened !!! And for we that have been awakened we will not go back to sleep !!!
I'm just a little fearful of what the gov may do from here until Nov.
I'm worried about our ability to be able to vote come Nov.
I agree Cowboy, but I also believe that those of us that allowed this have been woken up !!! I don't think we will go back to sleep !!!
I am worried though about what the gov will try to do between now and Nov.
I"m concerned about our having the ability to vote in the upcoming elections !!!!
The real issue is the politicians don’t want to fix the problem, because let's face it THEY are the problem 9 times out of 10. The elitist love the status quo and won't go quietly but they need to go quickly before things are too far gone.
Then we need to add to the constitution to keep them from ever going down that road again.
I just today found a local Tea Party !! I talked with the "organizer" and that is what we agreed, all our power starts at the local level. So that will be what we will concentrate on !! I was finding it very frustrating to get anything accomplished on a state or national level !!!!
An American Tipping Point?
Quite actually, we are in the midst of a hostage situation,and WE are the hostages.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?20,1154096,11540...
Included in the link, is the article 545 People, by Charlie Reese.
For those unfamiliar with it, it is well worth the read. 545 people; 100 Senators, 435 Congressmen, 9 Supreme Court Justices, and 1 President hold US, a nation of over 300 million hostage.
What are we afraid of? What are we waiting for?
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Hey, Teachers out there (USA) please start teaching US History and make your students learn the USA Constitution and Bill of Rights, if you can't do it at school tell them to do it at home in their own time!
I do not want to be RULED in the USA!!!! I am an American and my Liberties, Freedoms and Bill of Rights will not be INFRINGED UPON!
Thomas Paine ALSO ushered in the Progressive-think as to socialism and the big government that ensued accordingly. He had his moments when one isolates some of his statements (as here), but, taken in toto, Paine was one of the "forefathers" of the Progressive Left. People should start looking into with far more depth the various past authors that today are quoted and relied on for references: Thomas Paine was one of the earliest Progressives.
Suggest you read, then, more about Thomas Paine: who was one of the fore-runners of today's Progressives.
DITTO.
This is what the Tea Party movement stands for.
This video puts everything into perspective, and why we are doing what we are doing, and why we should keep up the good fight, and not go quietly.
http://www.pjtv.com/v/3168
Also, be sure to pass this around to everybody you know. This will inspire you, I promise.
This is what the Tea Party movement stands for.
This video puts everything into perspective, and why we are doing what we are doing, and why we should keep up the good fight, and not go quietly.
http://www.pjtv.com/v/3168
Also, be sure to pass this around to everybody you know. This will inspire you, I promise.
We have Thomas Friedman who thinks we need to be governed by a Politburo and now David Frum who thinks the government should work in secret. We are moving farther and farther away from liberty and yet "our" side keeps compromising, and moving to the left a little slower. Well now the other side is basically advocating state slavery, I guess another compromise is in order? Viva La Revolucion.
I love my country, it is my government that I fear……….
" “56% of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey . . . say they think the federal government’s become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat …" EVEN the MSM viewer now recognizes the havok being reek by this administration. November elections will be a turning point in American history.
Could not have said any better
Thanks Cowboy
The authors of the Constitution were geniuses. May what they wrote stop the Progressives before they can twist it to their own ends!
The operative word that is missing in our constitution is "pruning". Remember what pruning does, and how? First principle, cut back all the new growth, so that the tree doesn't get completely out of hand…but don't remove it completely because you don't know what direction it's going to go. Second, cut off new branches that are growing in directions that are unacceptable. Finally, do this every year to keep the tree healthy, a manageable and proper size, and the right shape to be beautiful and productive.
Sorry to sound a bit like Chauncey Gardiner in "Being There", but what we need to add to our system is effective and mandatory yearly pruning.
enoughallready – March 1st, 2010 at 4:10 pm
“Well we have a lot of work to do, 100+ years of government take over to undue.. The first Item should be Fed run Welfare, cut it 100 percent and let the states or private monies foot the bill.. ”
Welfare is not the problem and limited to 5 years these days. Gut subsidies to corporate farms, stop funding AGW research it is a scam, get rid of Executive Order 10988 that enables unions in government jobs, get rid of unnecessary Depts like the Dept of Energy which was created to help get us off dependency on foreign oil which at the time was 30% but is now double that etc… Stop policing the world! The Japanese want us out so we should oblige them, let them worry about protecting themselves. Europeon socialism was only possible in the first place because the US tax payer protected the Euros from the Soviets during the cold war and is also why the Euros have no significant armies to speak of.
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yes indeed an insurrection is comming. the National Socialist Media types will need a good tar and feather job when this is all done.
Nothing can be done. The insurrection WILL come and only 25% to 33% will support it. One third will oppose it (progressives/liberals) and the "moderates' will be undecided. The National Socialist Media will need to be dealt with harshly in the opening rounds of the conflict. We need 100,000 Andrew Breitbart's types to take it to the next level when the time comes. The Big MSM'er are not on the side of the patriot–they are the public face of the slavemasters. Dont reply if you agree. Big Brother Janet is watching these blogs for people who agree with me. Lists are being prepared for persons to watch. Organize locally in small cells. use code. don't talk about violence. but be ready.
let's starve the beast!!! return to the 2007 FY budget and freeze it from there. every federal department is a stinking carcass of waste rotting in the sun. this includes the DOD.
start cutting federal departments that duplicate what the states already do: Federal Dept of Education, Federal Department of HHS, etc. If you must have federal influence in these areas then just block grant the money to the states on a per capita basis–with no strings attached.
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