Understanding the choice: http://news.investors.com/article/616497/201206281813/roberts-ducks-another-bush-gore-with-court-ruling.htm
Well told by Mr. Krautthammer.
The government was so unbounded previously that this was a fait accompli anyway. As I wrote to a friend yesterday, the sin of slavery baked in the Constitution's weakness. It got to the point that one half of the nation could go to war to compel the citizenship of the other half, and kill a half a million or more people in the process, and feel good about it. After that, what would restrain the governmet from doing whatever people would feel good about?
Curse the fact that slavery was baked into the founding of this nation. Curse the fact that it took the destruction of the limiting force of the Constitution and the death of federalism and the death of 500,000 people to end the legal practice of human ownership of other humans, and to begin to undo the wrongs that were done via that practice. Curse the Fed and the resulting economic swings of the 20's, which made the US government's subsequent interventions seem like necessary evils. Curse the Presidents of the time that made the US appear so weak - via the economic meddling they directed that did in fact make the US military weak - that the Japanese believed they could defeat us.
A few not so brilliant predictions. The thing called Obamacare is going to have some monumental negative unintended consequences. These NUCs will become the basis for even more intrusive legislation. The government will be mired in fiscal paralysis trying to pay for what it has promised - although frankly, it already is, no great insight there. The young will increasingly resent the inefficiency in the way the costs of the old are coercively extracted from the young. The power of the US military will diminish annually - certainly not all bad but most likely what the average US citizen would like were they asked.
I dream of a new amendment which spells out something along the lines of this: "The purpose of the commerce clause is not different than the the purpose of the other components of the Constitution - it is to defend the rights of the People to cooperatively trade with each other across state lines, without coercive intervention by the States."
Another amendment would direct the government to practice social security only if it can be done on a voluntary basis, and pay what is owed to those still alive who want out.
Another amendment would require that medicare and medicaid be voluntary or end.
Whenever we get serious and have ourselves a Constitutional Convention, I'll be there.
Well told by Mr. Krautthammer.
The government was so unbounded previously that this was a fait accompli anyway. As I wrote to a friend yesterday, the sin of slavery baked in the Constitution's weakness. It got to the point that one half of the nation could go to war to compel the citizenship of the other half, and kill a half a million or more people in the process, and feel good about it. After that, what would restrain the governmet from doing whatever people would feel good about?
Curse the fact that slavery was baked into the founding of this nation. Curse the fact that it took the destruction of the limiting force of the Constitution and the death of federalism and the death of 500,000 people to end the legal practice of human ownership of other humans, and to begin to undo the wrongs that were done via that practice. Curse the Fed and the resulting economic swings of the 20's, which made the US government's subsequent interventions seem like necessary evils. Curse the Presidents of the time that made the US appear so weak - via the economic meddling they directed that did in fact make the US military weak - that the Japanese believed they could defeat us.
A few not so brilliant predictions. The thing called Obamacare is going to have some monumental negative unintended consequences. These NUCs will become the basis for even more intrusive legislation. The government will be mired in fiscal paralysis trying to pay for what it has promised - although frankly, it already is, no great insight there. The young will increasingly resent the inefficiency in the way the costs of the old are coercively extracted from the young. The power of the US military will diminish annually - certainly not all bad but most likely what the average US citizen would like were they asked.
I dream of a new amendment which spells out something along the lines of this: "The purpose of the commerce clause is not different than the the purpose of the other components of the Constitution - it is to defend the rights of the People to cooperatively trade with each other across state lines, without coercive intervention by the States."
Another amendment would direct the government to practice social security only if it can be done on a voluntary basis, and pay what is owed to those still alive who want out.
Another amendment would require that medicare and medicaid be voluntary or end.
Whenever we get serious and have ourselves a Constitutional Convention, I'll be there.
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