Why on earth do we continue down this road towards tyranny? We are going down a road well traveled by tyrants of the past and yet we don’t stop when we see the numerous warning signs along the way. Perhaps we have become numb to them so that we no longer even notice the blinking neon sign flashing in our face warning of the cliff dead ahead.
Congress is oblivious to its low approval ratings. The people seem to no longer have proper representation. They only seem to be able to go from bad to worse. They have furthered the distance between us by instituting this Super Congress. It takes away the right of our own individual representatives to even debate a bill that comes from it. They can only vote up or down with no debate or amendments.
In order to keep the proper balance of power, we must follow the plan set out by the constitution. It is very difficult to get a bill turned into law for a very good reason (or at least it should be.) It is part of what keeps us free. The spending bills are supposed to be submitted by individual house members then go into committee and then released for a vote only if it succeeds should Senators even be able to contemplate it. 13 people should not hold so much power (the 13th being the president.)
We have a system of checks and balances that is in a very precarious state these days. 1913 was a very bad year for our constitution. They took away the balance of power between the states and the federal government with the 17th amendment. They took away the right of the federal government to coin its own money. They took away the right to property through the federal income tax. We have gone down hill ever since.
If we fail to return to the form of government that was intended by our constitution our Republic will continue die a painful death—it’s already on its last leg, barely recognizable anymore. It is up to us to fix what has been broken. It will take all of us waking up to the peril that we are in if we even are going to stand a chance.
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