Barney Frank Video - on Government's role

[ckblv]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...overnment.html

Frank: "We Are Trying On Every Front To Increase The Role Of Government"

Very soon our transformation to a Nanny State will be complete. Oh joy.

[Essayons89]

Originally Posted by ckblv

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...overnment.html



Very soon our transformation to a Nanny State will be complete. Oh joy.

The government has been trampling on the Constitution for decades. As much as I like Lincoln, it was also the end of the Civil War that began the ushering in of big government. It's scary to know that there are people in Washington who feel the states only exist to serve the whims of the federal government when our system of government wasn't set up to operate in that way.

Salmon Chase said something along the lines of states right's being a dead issue in America after the Civil War. The issue of state's rights being fought about during the Civil War was over slavery. The 10th Amendment is supposed to lay out what the role of the federal government is. Everything else is supposed to be left up to the states.

[Skippymjp]

Merely another case of "careful what you wish for". When people started complaining about the stimulus with that stupid argument of "where's my stimulus...who's going to pay MY mortgage...who's going to pay MY credit card debt?"...they told the government exactly what they wanted to hear; that the American people have a price. And it's a price the government is willing to pay.

Welcome aboard

[Essayons89]

Originally Posted by Skippymjp

Merely another case of "careful what you wish for". When people started complaining about the stimulus with that stupid argument of "where's my stimulus...who's going to pay MY mortgage...who's going to pay MY credit card debt?"...they told the government exactly what they wanted to hear; that the American people have a price. And it's a price the government is willing to pay.

Welcome aboard

No thank you. Oh well, the late Roman Republic was rotten to the core, too.