Balanced Budgets and States’ Rights

phil — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:46:52 +0000

The U.S. Constitution is a contract between the people and the government that greatly limits the federal government’s power. Tragically, a self-serving, power hungry Congress filled with career politicians, has engaged in hundreds of billions in unconstitutional spending for earmarks for local causes, bailouts of financial institutions and states, and set up numerous departments not authorized by our Constitution. Congress’ abuse of its constitutional authority has bankrupted the nation. Morover, Congress has stolen our social security funds leaving us with a stack of IOU’s and a collapsing social security system and mismanaged and bankrupted Medicare and Medicaid.

I believe that we must immediately begin to honor our Constitution and states’ rights, and return to a federal government that does only a very few things and does them well. This includes funding the greatest military in the world, taking excellent care of our heroic soldiers and veterans, securing our borders, and providing an effective national energy policy.
Our federal government has no authority and was not intended to create and run welfare and redistribution of wealth programs. I believe we should tend to the poor and disabled. However, these programs and services need to be paid for and administered by charities, churches,synagogues, non-profits and state and local governments, where they are run most efficiently and effectively without bankrupting the nation and destroying our children’s freedom and opportunity for prosperity.
In The Conservative Comeback, we set forth a very specific 12-Point Plan to balance our budgets and greatly reduce the size of our federal government.

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Balanced Budgets and States’ Rights