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August 18, 2010 / 8 Elul, 5770
Dismantling America, Part II
By Thomas Sowell
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | "We the people" are the central concern
of the Constitution, as well as its opening words, since it is a
Constitution for a self-governing nation. But "we the people" are treated as
an obstacle to circumvent by the current administration in Washington.
One way of circumventing the people is to rush legislation through Congress
so fast that no one knows what is buried in it. Did you know that the
so-called health care reform bill contained a provision creating a tax on
people who buy and sell gold coins?
You might debate whether that tax is a good or a bad idea. But the whole
point of burying it in legislation about medical insurance is to make sure
"we the people" don't even know about it, much less have a chance to debate
it, before it becomes law.
Did you know that the huge financial reform bill that has been similarly
rushed through Congress, too fast for anyone to read it, has a provision
about "inclusion" of women and minorities? Pretty words like "inclusion"
mean ugly realities like quotas. But that too is not something that "we the
people" are to be allowed to debate, because it too was sneaked through.
Not since the Norman conquerors of England published their laws in French,
for an English-speaking nation, centuries ago, has there been such contempt
for the people's right to know what laws were being imposed on them.
Yet another ploy is to pass laws worded in vague generalities, leaving it up
to the federal bureaucracies to issue specific regulations based on those
laws. "We the people" can't vote on bureaucrats. And, since it takes time
for all the bureaucratic rules to be formulated and then put into practice,
we won't know what either the rules or their effects are prior to this
fall's elections when we vote for (or against) those who passed these clever
laws.
The biggest circumvention of "we the people" was of course the so-called
"health care reform" bill. This bill was passed with the proviso that it
would not really take effect until after the 2012 presidential elections.
Between now and then, the Obama administration can tell us in glowing words
how wonderful this bill is, what good things it will do for us, and how it
has rescued us from the evil insurance companies, among its many other
glories.
But we won't really know what the actual effects of this bill are until
after the next presidential elections-- which is to say, after it is too
late. Quite simply, we are being played for fools.
Much has been made of the fact that families making less than $250,000 a
year will not see their taxes raised. Of course they won't see it, because
what they see could affect how they vote. But when huge tax increases are
put on electric utility companies, the public will see their electricity
bills go up. When huge taxes are put on other businesses as well, they will
see the prices of the things those businesses sell go up.
If you are not in that "rich" category, you will not see your own taxes go
up. But you will be paying someone else's higher taxes, unless of course you
can do without electricity and other products of heavily taxed businesses.
If you don't see this, so much the better for the Obama administration
politically.
This country has been changed in a more profound way by corrupting its
fundamental values. The Obama administration has begun bribing people with
the promise of getting their medical care and other benefits paid for by
other people, so long as those other people can be called "the rich."
Incidentally, most of those who are called "the rich" are nowhere close to
being rich.
A couple making $125,000 a year each are not rich, even though together they
reach that magic $250,000 income level. In most cases, they haven't been
making $125,000 a year all their working lives. Far more often, they have
reached this level after decades of working their way up from lower
incomes-- and now the government steps in to grab the reward they have
earned over the years.
There was a time when most Americans would have resented the suggestion that
they wanted someone else to pay their bills. But now, envy and resentment
have been cultivated to the point where even people who contribute nothing
to society feel that they have a right to a "fair share" of what others have
produced.
The most dangerous corruption is a corruption of a nation's soul. That is
what this administration is doing.
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