Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (151938)	6/9/2001 1:08:12 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

One could go on for weeks, but I like to start with the National Public Broadcasting Act of 1970...

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (151938)	6/9/2001 2:09:54 PM
From: FastC6	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

When will you condemn the actions and insist on tough expedient punishment rather than blame the tools of the action and insist on new laws?: dailynews.yahoo.com Oh what fun it is showing the idiocracy of the liberal mind set. . .

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (151938)	6/9/2001 2:53:40 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Palau, in order to answer your question, I first need to talk about constitutional philosophy so that you may understand my intent. The Constitution does two things. First, it delegates certain powers to the federal government. Second, it separates those powers among the three branches. None of the delegated powers of Congress covers Social Security, or Medicaid, or Medicare, or federal aid to education, or public works projects, or countless regulations of business, or the space program, or farm subsidies, or research grants, or on and on... Constitutional and unconstitutional aren’t just simple terms of approval and disapproval. A bad law may be perfectly constitutional. A wise and humane law may be unconstitutional. The logic of the Constitution was so elegantly simple that a foreign observer could explain it to his countrymen in two sentences. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: “the attributes of the federal government were carefully defined [in the Constitution], and all that was not included among them was declared to remain to the governments of the individual states. Thus the government of the states remained the rule, and that of the federal government the exception.” The Constitution was the instrument by which the American people granted, or delegated, certain specific powers to the federal government. Any power not delegated was withheld, or “reserved.” These principles are expressed particularly in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. Amendments conveniently forgotten about when focused on "general welfare" desires to expand federal governmental powers.