Creeping Socialism – Looming Debt

Having the government solve the problem is never a good idea. The collective mind-set started with the unconstitutional act by the US Congress to have the federal government seize land for conservation and create national parks. They promoted this like crazy and didn’t ask taxpayers for more money, so it happened. But it happened illegally. The Constitution didn’t permit the federal government to “own” land beyond what it needed to function. The US Congress failed to write an Amendment allowing the federal government to own land and submit it to the States for ratification.  Congress didn’t do that, because they knew it would fail.  So, they told voters that the Constitution was a “living document” that had to change with the times. Every violation of the Constitution since then has been based on the lie that you didn’t need an Amendment or State ratification.

The next noticeable violation was Social Security.  It was a Ponzi scheme where citizens and their employers each paid half of a percentage of the employee’s earnings to the government to get a defined pension benefit from the government at age 65. If this had been a private account and the funds been invested, citizens would have tripled their money and owned the account to pass on to their families after their death.  We need to reform Social Security at some point to do that.  Providing a retirement pension plan for citizens was not in the enumerated powers of the federal government, but, again they didn’t bother to write an Amendment.

In the 1960s, Congress passed Medicare, Medicaid and Welfare legislation that transferred liabilities to the taxpayers. Again, this was not in the enumerated powers and Congress didn’t bother to write an Amendment.

Over the decades since 1913, Congress has continued to empower the federal government to do many things they are not authorized to do. Most of these things would fall to the States and the People according to the 10^th Amendment, but Congress never considered the 10^th Amendment and continued to usurp power from the people and the states without writing an Amendment to authorize the federal government to become involved.

Looming Debt

We now have a $20 trillion debt and are overspending by almost $1 trillion a year.  The US federal government has liabilities far beyond what they will ever be able to pay off. We will need to begin to make the federal government compliant with the US Constitution by writing Amendments for powers the federal government wants and see if the States will ratify these.  For functions the federal government can give back to the States and the People, they are free to write Bills to make these transfers happen.

There are lots of federal government expenses that are not critical and should be reduced and eliminated. These are things that might be nice, but they aren’t critical.  Some of these expenses are harmful and are the source of corruption. Foreign aid is bribery Campaign finance is totally corrupt.  Junk science gets funded.  Non-critical studies get funded. The federal government ought to be able to cut 25% or $1 trillion of their budget by eliminating the non-critical expenses, departments, agencies and programs.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader