Gun Salesman of the Decade by Tim Case

Gun Salesman of the Decade by Tim Case

Reporting for Duty at the Elysian Fields - Bob Howard

Walter Woodliff says:

January 7, 2010 at 1706

Salute. May he rest with all those Soldiers that have embraced a higher calling and duty. He is an inspiration and tribute to the United States of America, and all. It is a shame Our President has overlooked his passing. This President is a neophyte and still far from understanding his place.

This Congress and Government will soon pass and the NWO will be a leaf in the wind and tinder in the fire. For all their power, it is for nought. Who can kindle dust. Like Babylon and the Tower, they will be confused and dispersed. For what end did they work! Their end, which is in flight and comes like the Eagle from above. Swift destruction of which they cannot escape.

Defined and Limited Powers

The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation.

It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law: if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently, the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.

– Chief Justice Marshall, 1803

General Welfare Clause

Thomas Jefferson

"They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless.

It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please...Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect".


Reference: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Memorial Edition), Lipscomb and Bergh, eds., 3:148.

The Year in FY 2010 Spending—in Review
Posted by Jim Harper, December 27, 2009 at 2:57 pm

While you were watching the big health care debate, the fiscal year 2010 spending process was going on underneath your radar. Congress allocated more than $20,000 per U.S. family in spending during the fall. Do you know where it went?

If you don’t, perhaps it’s because the annual spending process once again went off the rails. Here’s the tale of the 2010 fiscal year:
It started back in February, when President Obama failed to submit a budget by the first Monday in February. His focus was more on the “stimulus” bill.

When we checked in on March 11th, the Congressional Budget Office had yet to produce its analysis of the president’s tardy budget. The prospects of a well-run budget process were looking grim, but maybe they could still turn around.

And it seemed like they would when the House produced its budget plan on time! April 1st—no foolin’! The Senate did too, setting the stage for spending plans with sense.

But the dream of a timely process started to fade soon. By early April it was clear that the House and Senate would not produce their final budget plan on time. They completed the budget a couple of weeks late, at the end of the month—but still with plenty of time to introduce and pass bills by the end of the fiscal year September 30th. Hope was riding high that Congress would run the trains on time.

President Obama limped in with his budget at the beginning of May. And that set the tone for the rest of the budget year.

It wasn’t until mid-June that the House moved the first of the twelve spending bills—just two weeks before it was supposed to finish them all. The House started to move bills at a pretty good clip, though. By the end of July, the House had passed all twelve spending bills.

The Senate wasn’t so speedy. It passed a few bills each in July, August, and September, but when it came to combining House and Senate bills for final passage, that just basically never happened.

You should let your representatives know what you think about the obscurity of the process, so you can get a handle on where your money goes.

President Obama’s budget for fiscal year 2011 is due to Congress the first Monday in February.