THE CITIZEN IN ME ASKS WHAT HAPPENED?
The tenth amendment in the bill of rights states “The powers
not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to
the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The
constitution divides the power to govern between the State and Federal
government with these words. The citizen in me asks what happened?
Progressive politicians since Woodrow Wilson have been
working nonstop to erode the effect of the tenth amendment. The constitution as
ratified including the bill of rights had protection for individuals from
overreach by their government in the form of the judiciary system. In addition
to this the people were granted the sole right to elect representatives to the
federal house of representatives for a term of two years. The framers of the
constitution sought to protect the rights of the individual states within the
articles but also by giving control of the senate to the state legislatures.
Senators were not originally elected to the U.S. senate by a vote of the
people. The two senators from each state served at the pleasure of the state
legislatures and were tasked with representing them. The constitution limited
the power of the federal government in another way by limiting it’s ability to
collect money from citizens by taxation. The first imposition of an income tax
by the legislature during the Wilson administration was struck down by the supreme
court as unconstitutional. Proponents of an all powerful central government
refused to be limited by this and worked successfully to pass the sixteenth
amendment allowing for the collection of a federal income tax of up to 7%.
Noting that income tax rates have varied ever since to levels as high as 90%
the citizen in me asks what happened to our constitutional protections?
The framers had lived under the tyranny of the British
monarchy and feared centralized power which is why the U.S. Constitution is
primarily written to limit federal government power. Critics of this structure
point to the countries founding document as outdated and in need of
modernization. The commerce clause and the wording about providing for the
common good have been so extended in meaning over the years that the original
limitations on the power of the federal government are all but lost. For example;
The department of education, the department of environmental protection, the
department of the interior and the department of energy are unconstitutional at
the federal level and all such authority is reserved to the states. Generation
after generation of citizens have gone about their lives confident in their
inalienable rights without realizing the slow and constant erosion of those
rights by the progressive movement. People so self important and confident in
their own ability to see the proper course for our lives that they draw more
and more power to themselves. The progressive movement spearheaded by Woodrow
Wilson created the federal reserve. Its charter states that it’s primary
function is to provide a currency and maintain a stable value of that currency.
The federal reserve is not a federal agency, it is made up of private banks
without congressional oversight. I submit that the federal reserve is an utter
failure at maintaining the value of our currency as a dollar today has been
deflated in value to such an extent that it will only purchase 6% of what it
would when the fed was formed. Printing money and pushing it into the economy
devalues all of the money in circulation just as the policy of economic easing
is doing today. The citizen in me asks how can this happen?
My opinion on this is simple to explain. We allow our
politicians to spend more money than the internal revenue service collects and
we further allow them to spend this borrowed money extravagantly in their home
districts. This practice all but insures their reelection and also insures that
the country spirals into debt. Self centered politicians won’t quit using the
treasury to buy votes so the only way to maintain the graft is by devaluing the
currency so that tax payers constantly pay larger and larger sums to pay off
the debt. The appetite of politician’s for ever increasing budgets has exceeded
even this vast resource and plunged the country into enormous debt.
In light of the disastrous federal takeover of the
healthcare system the citizen in me asks how can this happen when we are
supposed to be protected by our constitution? Is it possible that the poison pill
built into our constitution by the framers in the form of an article 5
convention is needed to force the centralized government progressives in
congress to live by the constitution they swore in their oath to uphold?
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