Realizing Government's Abuse of Power

If there is anything good to say about Democratic control of the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, it's that their extraordinarily brazen, heavy-handed acts have aroused a level of constitutional interest among the American people that has been dormant.

While Republicans may do well in the fall elections, Americans who want constitutional government should not see Republican control as a solution to what our founders would have called "a long train of abuses and usurpations."

Solutions to our nation's problems require answers to questions like: Why did 2008 presidential and congressional candidates spend over $5 billion campaigning for office? Why did special interests pay Washington lobbyists over $3 billion that same year?

An explanation lies in the government power and control over business, property, employment and other areas of our lives. Having such power, Washington politicians are in the position to grant favors and commit acts that if committed by a private person would land him in jail.

Incandescent light bulbs are far more convenient and less expensive than compact fluorescent bulbs, or CFLs, that General Electric now produces. So how can General Electric sell its costly CFLs? Congress has the power to outlaw incandescent light bulbs. General Electric was the prominent lobbyist for outlawing incandescent light bulbs and in 2008 had a $20 million lobbying budget. Also, it should come as no surprise that General Electric is a contributor to global warmers who help convince Congress that incandescent bulbs were destroying the planet.

The greater Congress' ability to grant favors and take one American's earnings to give to another American, the greater the value of influencing congressional decision-making. There's no better influence than money. The generic favor sought is to get Congress, under one ruse or another, to grant a privilege or right to one group that will be denied to another.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, covering up for a corrupt Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, said that while his behavior "was a violation of the rules of the House, it was not something that jeopardized our country in any way." Pelosi is right in minimizing Rangel's corruption. It pales, in terms of harm to our nation, to the legalized corruption that's a part of Washington's daily dealing.

Hopefully, our nation's constitutional reawakening will begin to deliver us from the precipice.

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[sogairborne]

The Judge is awsome!

[countryboy1949]

@sogairborne yes he is.

[endtyrany]

Thomas jefferson "let us hear no more in the confidence of men but bind him down by the means of the constitution". I guess the forefathers failed in binding them down. maybe they should have put a clause in there like if they fail to do there job they pay with their heads. Our Government Does not work at least not for the people of america. The Government works for those that bribe them! Its not bad enough that GE

pays no taxes but now they going to tell us what bulbs we can use. What a joke!

[bigjohn2810]

It would be nice to have a president that talked like this.