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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (54627)	10/7/2013 1:45:57 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By Paul Smith Respond to of 85487

The WWII Memorial Disgrace: A Symbol of Malice By David French October 4, 2013 The mainstream media is in the midst of one of its regular exercises in completely missing a wave of groundswell conservative anger — this time over the closing of the World War II Memorial. It’s as if the entire conservative case against the Obama administration’s incompetence, malice, and inefficiency was boiled down into one incident. 1. Government overreach: This was a monument built almost entirely through private donations — now the government pretends the monument belongs to it, and not to the people who donated to build it, not to the vets whose sacrifice it honors, and not to the families of vets and other citizens who want to use it to teach their kids about courage, honor, and sacrifice. 2. Government inefficiency: It doesn’t cost money to keep an open-air memorial open. It costs money to put up barricades. It costs money to man the barricades with security. So now we’re spending money to “save money”? No, the administration is spending money to punish the public. 3. Government malice: A government run by people of good will — who are true “public servants” — would have immediately reached out to the myriad of private veterans’ groups to keep the memorials open during the shutdown — the line of volunteers to man the memorial, provide tours, and keep the bathrooms clean would have stretched around the block. Between the VFW and American Legion, the memorial could be manned and maintained in perpetuity. It’s good the government has relented and opened the memorial to Honor Flights, but what about the vets who come with their families, or the families of vets teaching the next generation? The Honor Flights won the day because they, thankfully, had a public platform to make their case, but not every World War II vet visits the memorial on an Honor Flight. The group rightfully won, but shouldn’t a family taking a great-grandfather to D.C. win also? The president just spoke from a well-prepared stage in Maryland, condemning the shutdown. The money spent on transportation, security, and staging for that event would easily cover the cost of opening our nation’s war memorials for several days. I’m hopeful that the manifest injustice and obvious malice of the memorial closings will be a clarifying moment for the American people. It’s not 1995 any longer, and we don’t have to depend on the mainstream media to tell the truth. At the ACLJ, we’re considering litigation, but litigation will be unnecessary if there is a sufficient — and proper — public response. nationalreview.com

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (54627)	10/7/2013 8:10:41 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 85487

"Congress passed a law that is unconstitutional" Not according to the process established by the Constitution; nor Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare. They've all passed muster. Find out more here... The constitutionality of the Social Security Act was settled in a set of Supreme Court decisions issued in May 1937. The text of those decisions, with dissents, is presented here. (We also include a brief historical essay to help general readers better understand the context of the decisions.) ssa.gov "To make it legal they would have had to pass an amendment to the constitution." You're thinking of a different country; I'm not sure which one. Congress can raise takes for welfare. It's very clear. "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence [note 1] and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;" How cool is that? I love those guys. Were they the ones that named it the General Welfare Clause?