The subversion of the United States through bailouts
The bailouts going on are unconstitutional they have subverted our system of government and in the end they will totally destroy this nation. All government representatives that had any part in this have broken their oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. They have made the citizens of the United States financial hostages of a world banking cartel. All involved in this coup should be charged with treason. Our system of government was set up with checks and balances to prevent just what is happening today. But the globalists, the cowards and the morally demented in the Legislative and Executive Branch of our government have given the government our founders set up away.
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But history will be angry at them and their colleagues for betraying the Constitution. Their attitude underscores the reasons that the Constitution does not repose in the Congress the power to bail out individuals or private industry: Bailouts violate the Equal Protection doctrine because the Congress can’t fairly pick and choose who to bail out and who to let expire; they violate the General Welfare Clause because they benefit only a small group and not the general public; they violate the Due Process Clause because they interfere with contracts already entered into; and they turn the public treasury into a public trough. Worse still, Congress lacks the power to let someone else decide how to spend the peoples’ money.
As objectionable as the secretary’s change of mind has proven to be, as destabilizing as it was to the markets, as frustrating as it has been to the politicians who authorized it, it is not inconsistent with the statute that created the bailout because the Congress gave the Secretary the power to change his mind. It gave him, figuratively and literally, a blank check. In effect, the Congress delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury some of the power the Constitution has delegated to the Congress: The power to decide when, how, for whose benefit, and in what amounts taxpayer dollars should be spent.
This delegation of power to the secretary directly violates a basic principle of constitutional law: Delegated powers cannot be delegated away.
Date posted: Thursday, November 27th, 2008 10:54 am | Under category: American patriot topics, Danger to the US, constitutional issues, cowards, crime, demented, economy, politics
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This is the most uneducated Constitutional argument I’ve ever seen. The 14th amendment protects citizens from actions taken by the individual states. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Congress and the Executive branch.
The section of the Constitution that applies in this case is the Commerce Clause and Napolitano should know this.
The country is gone.
It is time for people to make a separate peace; hopefully, this will be with God, but I have my doubts.
The 14th Amendment was a post-civil-war amendment intended to ensure that states provide equal protection under the law for all citizen under their justification. While it was aimed at the slavery issue, it has very wide application anywhere law, orders and regulations are brought to bear.
What the federal government did with the bailouts is at least hypocritical with respect to the 14th Amendment, since it legally favors one party over another despite the law that already exists. I think that Napolitano has an argument when he believes that this amendment was violated.
The 14th Amendment has everything to do with all the branches of our government. The legislative branch is capable of making laws that violate it. The executive branch may make orders and regulations that violate this amendment. The judicial branch is supposed to ensure that laws, orders and regulations do not violate this amendment. Of course, this applies to the entire constitution.
Rather than being an “uneducated constitutional argument,” I’d say that Napolitano is probably on track. However, in our present state of civic and cultural decay, his points are almost certainly moot.
As I said above, the country is gone: When a nuclear “pit” has been made supercritical in the first few milliseconds of a nuclear detonation, all of the energy of the reaction has been released. All that is left is for the released energy to do it’s destructive work. That’s where we are now, and nothing short of a miracle will stop it.