Fixing Federal Corruption

When you have to fix something, you really don’t need a committee to assign it to.  You need to roll up your sleeves and fix it.

Corruption in the Congress resulted from unconstitutional laws and actions.  In 1860, I’m sure that when Lincoln ignored the Confederate States rights to secede from the union, he wanted to preserve what he knew would be a large and prosperous country. When the union won in 1865, it was easier to violate the Constitution again by establishing National Parks and federal lands. Again in 1913, it was easier to violate the Constitution again by establishing the Federal Reserve and imposing the Income Tax. Since then, Congress has thoroughly trashed the Constitution and rendered the federal government insolvent by adding expenses that were never put in the Constitution, because that would end in bankruptcy and the end of national sovereignty. 

The way to fix this is to make the federal government compliant with the Constitution (as written). You can do this by identifying all federal activities that are not granted by the States in the enumerated powers.  For those Congress wants the federal government to retain, they can write an Amendment and send it to the States for ratification.  For those activities that might work better in the States, Congress can use the 10^th Amendment and assign it to the States and the People.

That needs to be done to repair our national foundation. If this is not done, the courts will continue to “make up” what they fancy the Constitution means and we will have fixed nothing.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader