If this doesn’t define the phrase then it has no meaning.

“That government is best which governs least.”

“It is the duty of the Patriot to protect his country from its government.”

Thomas Paine

These guys are going to reach too far and find themselves to be the object of contempt of the American people, and the American people are in favor of disproportionate response, rightly so.

These guys truly mean to do harm to us and our country, whether they realize it or not.

and made us kiss the ring to get some of it back – the way things worked from the Great Society onward. Now, as Francis so notably pointed out, in the short run they don’t even need our money. They don’t have to ask for tax increases to hold the states hostage, they just print and borrow money. This is what truly makes Washington the Imperial City; there’s nothing we can do to stop them and the effects of the inflation and borrowing are so abstract and the effect so diffuse that the dumbed down electorate simply cannot be made to understand it.

Isn’t it widely held that John of Patmos had Nero in mind as the anti-Christ?

I’m noy saying, I’m just saying….

This is obscene. First of all, Obama signs this grotesque “stimulus” bill, and sets his promise to “reduce the taxes for 95% of Americans ” in place, and the very next week, he claims to want to reduce the deficit by raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations. OMG! Let’s just get rid of the whole stupid thing! There is no “stimulus” in this bill, to speak of. It is only a vehicle to ram through the left’s socialist agenda. I wish EVERY SINGLE STATE would reject these funds! It is only going to hurt the states in the long run. This country has gone freaking MAD!

It does not MATTER what he says, what he wants, what he claims.

He can just go suck it.

If he wants to make an issue of it, he will find out what is what. Only the federal courts can force the states to do that (and I’d say the states can mount a formidable case to stop it).

Schumer may not want this fight given there is clear law on that the fed’s can’t impose new laws onto or infringe on the states rights. I would expect the Supreme Court would bitch slap Schumer so fast his head would spin.

All of this legislation and stimulus appears to be a move by highly urbanized blue states which are having trouble competing in the “market place” of jobs, lifestyle, and desirability; forcing others states and parts of the country to accept thimgs they don’t like to “equalize’ competiveness. You see it with the unions, car companies, auto standards, welfare, banking regulation…… This administration and congress are only making the divide bigger.

NOTE: Obama’s comment about those “clingers” says it all.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30807

When the Constitution was being ratified during the 1780s, the 10th Amendment was understood to be the linchpin that held the entire Bill of Rights together. The amendment states: “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.”

Could Sanford and Jindal and other governors sue the US Congress for violation of the 10th Amendment?

if unemployment insurance ‘provides an economic return of as high as $1.73 for every dollar invested.’ really is true, why do any of us work?

Democrats are so cute when they try to play with numbers.

it provides an economic return of as high as $1.73 for every dollar invested.

This sounds like one terrific investment! I wonder if there is a way to securitize all these unemployed people into some sort of investment vehicle. We could sell them to banks and hedge funds and all their problems would be solved. Just to make sure nobody got stuck holding securities where to many people actually managed to find jobs, we could cut them up into risk pools which tried to distinguish between the temporarily unemployed, the chronically unemployed and the flat-out unemployable.

I can’t image why we would want anybody to work when we can just invest in everybody being on unemployment and we all get rich. If 7% unemployment yields these kinds of high double digit returns just think how much better off we would be if we had 14% unemployment. The economy would be rocking and rolling and the deficit problem would be solved.

I don’t believe it that people can’t find work. I have always been able to find work! Even in a new city without a car, with a toddler by my side. I was able to find work within a week of moving there.
I just wonder how hard peple are trying? I’m sure there are some elderly it can be hard for due to discrimination but I don’t believe it for people under 60 that they can’t find work. I have seen it through the years,where a friend’s husband who has has his wife to watch their child supposedly can’t find work for months but I have always been able to find a job very quickly. There are always places like call centers, janitorial and food service that are hiring.

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Interesting post. I actually did a term paper on this subject. The parallels of the rise and fall of our civilizations are pretty eerie.

Cluckie and obama are twins ,the gloves fits. God Bless America in this time of need.

Can he acutally do it?

…in 300 years, Scientology will be our state religion?

If only we could have a war over states rights (that some would later claim was really about economics and the practitioners thereof).

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson

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we should not let the implementation of the package be dictated by political considerations.

Isn’t the whole package made up of political considerations including all this tiny minute earmarks you claim the American People don’t care about.

I think it’s high time every single Governor and legislature across this country stop taking any money from the federal government and accepting the Federal Regulatory strings that come with it.

Each state should collect it’s own taxes and ay a small percent to Washington to maintain itself with limiting it’s functions to those enumerated in the Constitution in the order of priority presented in the Constitution and nothing more. Return us to a federalists form of government and drain the swamp that is foggy bottom!

I know, I know…it’ll never happen without a bloody revelution so it will never happen…But I can dream can’t I?

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson