Archive for February 24th, 2009
81R5789 MMS-F
By: Creighton H.C.R. No. 50
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows: “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”; and
WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and
WHEREAS, The scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and
WHEREAS, Today, in 2009, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government; and
WHEREAS, Many federal laws are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and
WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of the United States of America and each sovereign state in the Union of States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal government may not usurp; and
WHEREAS, Section 4, Article IV, of the Constitution says, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,” and the Ninth Amendment states that “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people”; and
WHEREAS, The United States Supreme Court has ruled in New York v. United States, 112 S. Ct. 2408 (1992), that congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the states; and
WHEREAS, A number of proposals from previous administrations and some now pending from the present administration and from congress may further violate the Constitution of the United States; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the 81st Legislature of the State of Texas hereby claim sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That this serve as notice and demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That all compulsory federal legislation that directs states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties or sanctions or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate of the United States Congress, and to all the members of the Texas delegation to the congress with the request that this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.
I hope that everyone is having a terrific Mardi Gras!
It seems like 2008 might have been the most painful Ash Wednesday for our country. To many people, 2008 was the joyous year of ascension for the current President of the United States. If you were really attune to the economic crisis and it’s causes (phony mortgage backed securities, mounting debt, creation of fiat currency, China buying up our debt), you would have been experiencing a very painful hangover from some boom years. The Republicans did let corporations run roughshod over markets and made no real regulatory changes. I am inclined to agree with this philosophy. However, the US Treasury continued to pour manufactured currency into fiscal markets. The only problem is that the dollar has no intrinsic value. One dollar is literally worth as much because the US Treasury and Federal Reserve say it is. Our money is backed by China buying our debt.
Focus. It’s not a Gold-Standard anymore. It’s China-is-floating-us-a-huge-loan Standard. This is a loan that the United States Government has absolutely no ability to pay down or pay at. We’re still borrowing to “stimulate” our economy. It’s an absolute disaster. The reason that we are in such a mess is because President Bush could not get Social Security privatized. The Socialist programs that are so lauded by the Left (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) are absolutely bankrupting us. Not only are they bankrupting us, they are bankrupting my grandchildren. With interest, we will not be able to pay down these loans. Here’s a quaint little movie to illustrate the point.
What has basically happened through the guise of social justice programs is selling my children and their labors into bondage to a Communist country by America’s Left. Kudos. They’ll get me and mine in the end.
I think I touched on this subject a few posts ago. The Communist conspiracy could not follow the same path in the United States as it did in Russia. We had to be conditioned in the long term to believe that being ruled instead of governed was what being an American was all about. Well, I will not be ruled. I will use this medium like Rick Santelli used CNBC and tell the current Administration, the previous Administration, and Congress that there is no reason for these ineffective Socialist programs. Cut them. If they don’t work, cut them and try again. Nobody can retire off of their Social Security checks anymore and Government run health care is going to be about as efficient as well, Government run anything.
It may sound insensitive, that I’m not thinking about the lives of the poor. That’s horse-shit. I give my personal money, at my direction, to those that I see as being in need, and having the promise to elevate themselves through whichever program I am donating to. I do not need the US Government creating a nanny-state with my tax dollars.
So, what’s my cure for our current hangover? Cut the big entitlement programs. President Obama is going to cut military spending. I think that that will prove to be a mistake in the long-run. I don’t know if Liberals actually have the stomach to fight any war anymore. If a situation like World War II were to happen now, I doubt that President Obama would be leading the charge to stop Hitler. We would “engage in aggressive diplomacy”.
Markets are crashing because they see an end to the Free Market Era. Other changes may be in the wind very soon. I hope that we realize who we are as a people again and we focus on what documents that define the United States of America state. My suggestion to those Liberals (i.e. Communists) who do not like the governing structure, you have five years to attempt to amend it. If it’s not changed to your liking then and you want to live in that Socialist Utopia, no one says that you have to stay. Leave, and try to find that ideal Socialist Utopia. You may be looking for a long time though, and that’s evidence enough for me to come to the conclusion that it doesn’t exist. I also think that by nature of humanity’s self-preservation instincts, it will never exist.
…But thanks for placing my future children and grandchildren into slavery to a Communist Regime. Looks like all that plotting might just pay off.
