Had a debate with a gentleman yesterday over the founding father, the original intention kick. And I was instructed that I should give up and stop my devotion, stop my promotion of this stupidity called “original intent,” that it doesn’t matter because we’ve made the – we don’t have original intent, and the law of the land is what the Supreme Court says it is. And I said, oh, that’s fantastic, that’s exactly what John Galt did in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.” Soon as the machine came in and said, hey, hey, this is the way it’s going to be, you guys are going to live under what the Council of Goodness and Wellness says you will, you’ll surrender this amount of your wealth, and you will go to work, and you will create this amount of wealth, and then we’ll take it from you. John Galt said, absolutely said that, and did the rest of the Galteans that lived in “Atlas Shrugged.” They all surrendered. We can’t go back to the way we were. This is the law of the land.
And as some of us try and insist on a daily basis, no, the way back through and out of this mess is to get back to the original understanding because it’s simpler, and it removes the ability for the federal tyrant and for the black-robed tyrant and for the tyrannical Congress and for the tyrannical EPA and for the tyrannical FDA and all the rest of them to do the things that they do to you and confiscate your property and redistribute your wealth and impoverish you and enslave your children. This is what is at stake. If you bail on the original intent, and you say it’s a worthless bygone time that we could never go back to, well, then you have sentenced your children to live under this tyranny forevermore. Good luck with that. And I hope you can sleep at night after you’ve made your peace with the Incorporation Doctrine and after you’ve made your peace with Leviathan consuming and crunching out trillions of dollars of manufactured money with your name printed on the debtor note. And all the other tyrannies that they hold over your head and bludgeon you and me, and then they’re going to bludgeon future generations with.
Is that what honorable free men do? We surrender what we know to be right, what we know once worked? This is what we do? That’s the coward’s way out.“Oh, but we’ve got to make our peace with incorporation, Chris, it’s the law of the land.” Well, the law of the land, then, is wrong. And if it was wrong, and it didn’t, and it was not embraced, should I say, when we embarked on this journey, well, then, it’s wrong today. Now, put that in your incorporationista pipe and smoke it. Of course, “But we want little government, Chris. We can get it another way.” Oh, you can? Really.
Walter Williams has a piece out today, “Will Republicans Save Us?” Let me answer that question, Dr. Williams. Uh, no.
By the way, telephone number for all you devotees of the New World Order and the new constitutional interpretation and the Incorporation Doctrine and the doctrine of surrender, please, tell me why you’ve surrendered. I’d love to hear from you. As a matter of fact, why don’t you defend your surrender? How about that?
“The 1994 elections” – wait, wait. “Democrat President Lyndon Johnson’s term of office saw massive increases in federal spending. When Johnson was elected into office in 1964, federal spending was $118 billion.” Oh, Lord, to have that today. 118 billion, man. You talk about federal nirvana. “When he left office in 1968, federal spending was a mere $178 billion, a 66 percent increase. Worse than the massive increase in federal spending, his administration and democratically controlled Congress saddled us with two programs that have helped fuel today’s federal disaster – Medicare and Medicaid.
“The 1994 elections gave Republican control of both the House and Senate. They held a majority for a decade. The 2000 election of George W. Bush as President gave Republicans what the Democrats have now, total control of the legislative and executive branches of government. When Bush came to office, federal spending was $1.788 trillion. When he left office, federal spending was $2.982 trillion. That’s a 60 percent increase in federal spending, closely matching the profligacy of Lyndon Johnson’s presidency.”
Don’t worry, though. When Newtie and Mittie and all the other gang, and Johnnie Boehner and all of them get back in there this time, “You just watch, Chris, they’re going to do it this time. They’re going to hold the line. These Republicans are real conservatives. They’ve seen the light. They’re with the Tea Party now, Chris. You need to get onboard.” [Chuckling]
“During the Republican control,” writes Dr. Walter Williams, “the nation was saddled with massive federal interference in education through No Child [Gets An Education Act]. ...[D]rug handouts became a part of the Republican-controlled Congress’s legacy. And it was during this interval that Congress accelerated its interference, assisted by the Federal Reserve Bank, in the housing market in the name of homeownership that produced much of the financial meltdown that [we] suffered in 2008.
“During the last two years, Democrats have amassed unprecedented growth of federal government power in the forms of bailouts, corporate takeovers, favors to their political allies and nationalization of our healthcare system. My question is how likely is it for Republicans to behave differently if they gain control? Their past behavior doesn’t make one confident that they will behave much differently, but I could be wrong.
“If Republicans win the House of [Representin’], there are measures they should take in their first month of office, and that is to undo most of what the democratically controlled Congress has done. If they don’t win a veto-proof Senate, they can’t undo ObamaCare, but the House alone can refuse to fund any part of it.”
Now, I’ve talked about this for months and months and months, ever since it became a possibility that Republicans could regain control of the House of Representin’. And it’s very simple here. “Well, Chris, they’re not going to have the power to repeal ObamaCare.” You’re right, they’re not going to have the power to repeal ObamaCare. But they hold the power of the purse!
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