It was enough to turn ones stomach to hear that pack of dogs cheering and whistling in celebration of having passed a bill which will in the end , if it becomes law, cost us, our children, our grandchildren (and in my case great grand children) over a TRILLION dollars which we don’t have.

“We the People” have two very strong protections which not too many people are paying any attention to.

The 10th Amendment to the constitution and the 2nd Amendment.

The 10th Amendment and law underscores the purpose of the Constitution to limit government and forbids the federal government from becoming more powerful than the “creator,” the States were the creator.

Article 1, Sec. 8 details what duties the federal government will be responsible for under our system of “balanced power.” Anything not mentioned in Article 1, Sec. 8, is “reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” (10th Amendment protection)

The federal government does not have carte blanche to expand or assume power wherever or whenever it pleases them. The feds have only discrete and enumerated and very limited powers.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Mack/Printz v U.S. that “States are not subject to federal direction.” Some politicians argue that the “supremacy clause” of the U.S. Constitution says that the federal government is supreme and thus trumps the States in all matters.”

Further the Supreme Court spoke to the issue of the supremacy clause in Mack/Printz, in which the Supreme Court stated the only thing “supreme” is the constitution itself.

Mr. Justice Scalia speaking for the majority in Mack/Printz wrote that “Our citizens would have two political capacities, one state and one federal, each protected from incursion by the other.”

Justice Scalia said quoting James Madison “The local or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the Supremacy, no more subject within their respective spheres, to the general authority than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere,” and where do we find the definition of the “Sphere” of the federal government? Article 1, Sec 8 of the Constitution and anything not found there belongs to the States or to the People.

In the final order pursuant to the Mack/Printz ruling Scalia warned, “The federal government may neither, issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program. Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.”

Need I point out that nationalized healthcare is a federal regulatory program?

The system of political parties, no longer serves the people, but clearly serves only themselves.

In the Federalist Papers, James Madison warned of the dangers of powerful political parties or factions being destructive to representative government.

General George Washington’s farewell address to the American people sums it up quite well.

“Political parties serve to organize factions, to give government an artificial and extraordinary force; to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of the party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and according to the alternate triumphs of different parties to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of the faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.
    These parties are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to Usurp For Themselves The Reins of Government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
    The common and continual mischief’s of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.”

It has been said that all politics is local, so if that be the case and we have state and local officials who have the intestinal fortitude and/or the Cajones to do so, using the 10th Amendment as ammunition the states can tell that pack of cur-dogs in Washington to take a long walk off a short pier.

The Last resort is the 2nd Amendment.

Thomas Jefferson said; “when the people fear the government, we have tyranny, but when the government fears the people, we have liberty.”

Politicians don’t like armed citizens, it scares the daylight out of them

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
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