Posted by
Arky51 on Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:52:07 AM
Only the House of Representatives may authorize expenditures from the National Treasury.
An ominous prognostication is attributed to Alexander Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (15 October 1747 - 5 January 1813), a Scottish-born British lawyer and writer, “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the Public Treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose Fiscal Policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.” [either Authoritarian or Totalitarian]
Three things I have continually tried to convince people of, in the five years or so I have been Blogging.
-- TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch! If you don't pay for it, somebody else did. Taking someone else's money without their permission is Theft!
-- Regardless of which Party has the Majority in the House of Representatives, the President should be elected from a different Party.
-- At the outset of American Government, the Senate was populated by Statesmen and some Lawyers, and the House of Representatives was populated by Average Citizens - Shop Keepers, Small Business Owners, Farmers and Ranchers, even Educated Laborers - sent as Envoys from the areas where they lived - known and trusted. They were willing to do their duty, but, almost from Day One, they were anxious to go back Home.
Now, almost all have Degrees in Political Science, and most have acquired, additionally, Degrees in Law and Jurisprudence. Further, many have not long been residents of the District they run to represent, and some do not live in their Districts at all. They do not know their Constituents, and their Constituents do not know them. They want to be Career Politicians, and they naturally want to Rule rather than Serve.
What I am saying is that the Judicial Branch has (for all intents and purposes) taken over the Legislative Branch, and it is thereby impossible for the Citizenry to expect or even hope that the Judicial Branch will check the Power of the Congress, nor that the Congress will check the Power of the Judicial Branch, nor that the President can check the Power of either .. .. .. in the face of that two-thirds disadvantage.
And, when all three Branches are controlled by the same Party, there can be no Reasonable Expectation that there is anything other than ONE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT in power. How then can we expect our needs and wills to be truly represented by a government so out of touch?
*This is my Inaugural Posting, and I want to thank Townhall for the opportunity.