The cure for the evils of
democracy is more democracy!
H. L. Mencken, Notes on
Democracy, 1926
In
the current state of idiocy that is the debate on budgets and debt limits, the
founding fathers gave us the clear path to resolving the issues, answers found
within our founding government document, the United States Constitution.
Consider
this piece contained within Article 1 Section 8, relative to the authority
bestowed upon the legislature:
To raise and support Armies, but
no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two
Years;
The
founders and framers had reason to be wary of the practice of having standing
armies, so their reasonable and sensible response was to mandate that funding
for such national needs were to have them judiciously reviewed every two years.
It
is sad to believe that we have gotten to the point where lazy and
intellectually challenged politicians have become so enamored of
‘comprehensive’ packages of legislation, with no though given to future review.
It
is this insistence of such ‘comprehensive’ legislation that has led us to the
current state of fiduciary foolishness.
There
should be no gamesmanship played over the fair faith and credit of the nation,
but no one seems to be questioning why we continue to face such a continual
state of financial firestorms.
It
is thus disillusioning to hear the President and Senate Leader Reid professing
that their stance on no negotiations on such issues as the debt limit is
somehow based upon their ‘principles’.
It
would seem a reminder to both men is in order.
To
wit:
Harry Reid, March 2006
“If my Republican friends believe
that increasing our debt by almost $800 billion today and more than $3 trillion
over the last five years is the right thing to do, they should be upfront about
it. They should explain why they think more debt is good for the economy.
How can the Republican majority
in this Congress explain to their constituents that trillions of dollars in new
debt is good for our economy? How can they explain that they think it’s fair to
force our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren to finance this
debt through higher taxes. That’s what it will have to be. Why is it right to
increase our nation’s dependence on foreign creditors?
They should explain this. Maybe
they can convince the public they’re right. I doubt it. Because most Americans
know that increasing debt is the last thing we should be doing. After all, I
repeat, the Baby Boomers are about to retire. Under the circumstances, any
credible economist would tell you we should be reducing debt, not increasing
it.Democrats won’t be making argument to supper this legalization, which will
weaken our country. Weaken our county.”
Well
put, Senator. Yet, it is now acceptable to you to take the opposite opinion
while railing about the ‘anarchists’ on the other side.
And
speaking of hypocrisy, sadly:
“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 we now depend on ongoing financial
assistance from foreign countries to finance our government’s reckless fiscal
policies.”
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaking on the
Senate floor in 2006 just before he voted against raising the debt ceiling.
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