These types of things 'hardly' started with the current administration. IMO
Remember how the CIA hid a good portion of their funding under the "Agriculture Dept.-? There are many more examples of things that We the People don't get to vote on, nor discuss, nor do We even know that they're happening. On Aug 27, 4:29 pm, Laurie Ann Poole <[email protected]> wrote: > Dismantling America: Part II > By Thomas Sowell > Wednesday, August 18, 2010 > "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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WebTV Dawgs/Dittos" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webtv-pals?hl=en.
