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[Iclubbabyseals]

Works for me. The free market determines wages and the ultimate winners and losers in the great economic struggle. The President and Congress are limited by the Constitution to act only within the enumerated powers granted to them by the people. Regulating interstate and foreign commerce is a far cry from telling employers and employees how they must conduct their private business decisions. Be it "Big Business", "Big Labor" or just two people seeking a mutually beneficial arrangement, the Feds have no authority to act or treat one person or group differently than it treats everyone else. The level of Constitutional illiteracy in Washington is quite staggering from just about everyone who steps inside the halls of Congress, the White House or the Supreme Court. Getting away with violating the Constitution for 200 years doesn't make it right.

What a simple minded view of a "free market".

What about "free market" for corporations, too? You, apparently, have no idea how the Federal Government helps whenever a corporation crosses state/country boundaries. You are proposing no federal help for corporations when they want to outsource or do any business "overseas"? If you are locked into a self-sufficent municipality sandbox then I would get used to locally made "conveniences" like potholes, stupid school kids and no help from other states in the event of a local catastrophe. Oh, no patent protections or much of anything else. Think that will help businesses?

When Russia invaded Georgia, all the gun supply stores in Alabama were cleaned out. <sigh> You did not live in Alabama at the time, did you?

 

[CallawayGolf]

What a simple minded view of a "free market".

What about "free market" for corporations, too? You, apparently, have no idea how the Federal Government helps whenever a corporation crosses state/country boundaries. You are proposing no federal help for corporations when they want to outsource or do any business "overseas"? If you are locked into a self-sufficent municipality sandbox then I would get used to locally made "conveniences" like potholes, stupid school kids and no help from other states in the event of a local catastrophe. Oh, no patent protections or much of anything else. Think that will help businesses?

When Russia invaded Georgia, all the gun supply stores in Alabama were cleaned out. <sigh> You did not live in Alabama at the time, did you?

The Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states as well as with Indian tribes. The scope here is for Congress to act in the best interest of all citizens of the United States and to prevent one state, such as New York, from engaging in unfair trade practices, say with Pennsylvania. If these two states get into an economic battle and NY decides to charge Pennsylvania a 500% import tariff as a result of their interstate squabbles, this would certainly require Congress to regulate their trade practices. The same would hold true for trade with foreign nations. NY cannot setup trade agreements, duties and imports independently from the federal government. This is a power delegated to Congress for the good of all citizens.

That, however, is the limit on Congress' enumerated power over commerce. The Constitution does not give Congress or the President any additional authority to tell states how to conduct their own affairs and certainly not to tell businesses how to conduct their own affairs either. Every one of the programs I listed, and there are thousands of additional examples, are unconstitutional. Congress is restrained from enacting legislation that exceeds the enumerated powers. The only way for something like the DOL or the like to be considered within the power of Congress would be to propose a constitutional amendment with 2/3 consent of both Houses that then requires ratification by 3/4 of the states. Absent that very high and intentionally difficult standard, Congress cannot act.

No, the federal government has no power to help corporations (bankruptcy notwithstanding)
They have no power to fix potholes on non-federal highways
They have no power over the states regarding education
They have no power to offer federal assistance in a natural catastrophe

Congress does have the power to protect the progress of science (patents) and authors (copy-write) because these are enumerated powers (Article I, Section 8).

Congress and the President as Commander in Chief have the power and the responsibility to provide for the common defense. If one state is attacked, it becomes a federal responsibility to use the armed forces and the various state militias to defend the country. However, we cannot deploy our military to foreign soil absent a congressional declaration of war. That is something we haven't done since WWII which makes most of what we have seen in our lifetimes unconstitutional. Congress needs to declare war and state a specific objective that the Commander in Chief and his military brass can achieve or we need to put all boots back on US soil.

Its all in the Constitution. You can read it while eating lunch. It's not like its the Magna Carta or the Code of Hammurabi or something. Every American can and should know what it says and then realize for themselves just how far off the rails our nation is today.

 

[Dog Wonder]

Back to being a scholar on the Constitution?

 

[SparrowHawk]

What a simple minded view of a "free market".

What about "free market" for corporations, too? You, apparently, have no idea how the Federal Government helps whenever a corporation crosses state/country boundaries. You are proposing no federal help for corporations when they want to outsource or do any business "overseas"? If you are locked into a self-sufficent municipality sandbox then I would get used to locally made "conveniences" like potholes, stupid school kids and no help from other states in the event of a local catastrophe. Oh, no patent protections or much of anything else. Think that will help businesses?

When Russia invaded Georgia, all the gun supply stores in Alabama were cleaned out. <sigh> You did not live in Alabama at the time, did you?

Not to burst your bubble but spend less time over on the pilot threads and more educating yourself in how your elected officials aid and abet the transfer of wealth overseas in the form of Jobs and profits. It is already well documented how our tax code restricts the repatriation of wealth to the US for investment here. Now then how many have heard of OPIC? NOT OPEC, but OPIC The Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Click the link to see how your government throws the US worker under the economic bus. A few snippets if I may:

OPIC Financing provides medium- to long-term funding through direct loans and loan guaranties to eligible investment projects in developing countries and emerging markets. By complementing the private sector, OPIC can provide financing in countries where conventional financial institutions often are reluctant or unable to lend on such a basis.

Wave buh bye to your job courtesy of the Republicrats.

OPIC’s political risk insurance enables U.S. banks and other financial institutions to play an active role in financing projects in developing countries while managing the incremental cross-border exposure associated with these investments. A wide range of banking activities can be insured by OPIC, including:

loans made or arranged by banks;
debt-for-equity investments;
commodity price or interest rate swaps; and gold loans.

For institutional lenders, currency inconvertibility insurance coverage pays compensation for defaults on scheduled payments that result from deterioration in the ability to convert these payments from local currency to dollars, or to transfer dollars outside the host country. In the case of expropriation or political violence, compensation generally is payable if the borrower defaults on a scheduled payment as a direct result of an expropriatory event, and the default lasts three months (or one month in the event of subsequent defaults caused by the same event).

It gets worse folks, read and be educated. We are all being played for fools by Washington. here is the 10th Amendment in case your confused

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.

Pretty clear verbiage unless you're a corrupt judge or Politician. Show me based on the above exactly where the authorization is for the Dept of Labor, Education, HUD, HHS, Energy and Interior?

 

[Iclubbabyseals]

Not to burst your bubble but spend less time over on the pilot threads and more educating yourself in how your elected officials aid and abet the transfer of wealth overseas in the form of Jobs and profits. It is already well documented how our tax code restricts the repatriation of wealth to the US for investment here. Now then how many have heard of OPIC? NOT OPEC, but OPIC The Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Click the link to see how your government throws the US worker under the economic bus. A few snippets if I may:


Wave buh bye to your job courtesy of the Republicrats.



It gets worse folks, read and be educated. We are all being played for fools by Washington. here is the 10th Amendment in case your confused



Pretty clear verbiage unless you're a corrupt judge or Politician. Show me based on the above exactly where the authorization is for the Dept of Labor, Education, HUD, HHS, Energy and Interior?

Believe me, I hate the Republicats. As well as the blue-dog democrats who try to justify such.

As well as the ill-informed tea-partiers who have not idea but to follow whatever bright and shiny object informs their cranium.

The fact that you have a question about "authorization" concerns me, in that you have, apparently never researched how those agencies were formed, repukes all.

 

[SparrowHawk]

Believe me, I hate the Republicats. As well as the blue-dog democrats who try to justify such.

As well as the ill-informed tea-partiers who have not idea but to follow whatever bright and shiny object informs their cranium.

The fact that you have a question about "authorization" concerns me, in that you have, apparently never researched how those agencies were formed, repukes all.

Well you may find this amusing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chT2yLFON8s&feature=related

 

[Iclubbabyseals]

Well you may find this amusing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehCAbHFc8Uw

Why? Can you explain why this is "amusing"? It makes no sense, much less any references to right wing fantasies.

I mean, why would you think any cogent thinker would even consider you offering, um, intellectual, much less single digit IQ intellectually worthy of consideration?

 

[SparrowHawk]

I changed the video, I posted the wrong one.

 

[Iclubbabyseals]

I changed the video, I posted the wrong one.

I have no doubt. That you are incompetent. Mr. Glass.

 

[SparrowHawk]

I have no doubt. That you are incompetent. Mr. Glass.

That's laughable! I just could never understand why absolute Freedom and Liberty seems to scare so many. Well I guess I'll go cling to my guns and religion now. After all the Empty Suit promised Hope and Change so who am I?

 

[Falcon]

Please get back on topic or it will be closed.

 

[Iclubbabyseals]

That's laughable! I just could never understand why absolute Freedom and Liberty seems to scare so many. Well I guess I'll go cling to my guns and religion now. After all the Empty Suit promised Hope and Change so who am I?

Your postings have little to do with "freedom and liberty", things. Items apparently, you do not understand.

Try going to war, feet on the ground, before pontificating about things you will likely never understand. Freedom is something you will never understand. Too bad. Many tea baggers are just like you, pontificating with no experience. Morons, all.

 

[SparrowHawk]

Your postings have little to do with "freedom and liberty", things. Items apparently, you do not understand.

Try going to war, feet on the ground, before pontificating about things you will likely never understand. Freedom is something you will never understand. Too bad. Many tea baggers are just like you, pontificating with no experience. Morons, all.

Tea Bagger? Must be a pilot who knows all and sees all. How dare I confront such a learned person?

You served as a dupe in a war sponsored my the Military Industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about? How nice for you! I was a war resister and never went to Canada or jail thanks to Viet Nam ending. Viet Nam was an undeclared war and I will not fight for a corporation or multiple corporations. I know it's just a little thing called the CONSTITUTION!

 

[700UW]

If they have no power on education then why is there a law called "No Child Left Behind"?

Why is there a Federal Level Department of Education?

Why are Federal Tax Dollars given to States for Education?

Why is there a Secretary of Education at the Federal Level?

Once again, Callaway, dont let the facts get in your way!

 

[SparrowHawk]

If they have no power on education then why is there a law called "No Child Left Behind"?

Why is there a Federal Level Department of Education?

Why are Federal Tax Dollars given to States for Education?

Why is there a Secretary of Education at the Federal Level?

Once again, Callaway, dont let the facts get in your way!

WHY? it's rather simple in that there is at best little or no Constitutional authority for such agencies. Funny thing about the Dept of Education. Follow the nationwide test scores and as the Dept of Ed grew in scope the test scores declined.

No child left behind has created a system where in bad schools the teachers spend one hour per day teaching the test! How then do our children learn a thing? like critical thinking for example