individual - ACTION - Command Center2024-03-29T07:05:25Zhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/individualSupreme Court Orders New Hearing on Obamacare Religious School Challengehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/supreme-court-orders-new-hearing-on-obamacare-religious-school2012-11-26T21:38:04.000Z2012-11-26T21:38:04.000ZKevin Fobbshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/KevinFobbs<div><p style="text-align:left;"><strong> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063637226,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063637226,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="594" alt="4063637226?profile=original" /></a> <span class="font-size-1">Anti Obamacare activists given new life with U.S. Supreme Court order</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:left;"><strong><span class="font-size-1"> for new hearing on Obamacare religious school challenge</span></strong></p><p><strong><span class="font-size-1"> </span></strong></p><p>The U.S. Supreme Court has breathed new life into the anti Obamacare movement by ordering the 4th U.S. Circuit Appeals court to hear Liberty University’s challenge to the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare. <b>The university had brought an action against having to implement the law on the grounds of equal protection and religious freedom.</b> President Obama insisted during the presidential campaign that religious freedom would not be inhibited or an issue for religious colleges and religious organizations would have to consider.</p><p></p><p>According to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/26/supreme-court-orders-new-look-at-health-care-challenge/">Fox News,</a> the school is challenging being forced to provide insurance which pay for birth control against the institution’s constitutional rights. Liberty University and many opponents firmly believe that religious institutions are protected from having to adhere to this constitutional violation under the free exercise of religion clause in the First Amendment.</p><p></p><p>It appeared that many had seemingly resigned themselves to being victimized by the June U.S. Supreme Court decision as well as the recent reelection of Obama which appeared to defeat overturning the bill. But, legal sanity still prevails in the form of state leaders that are now openly opposing the merits of the law with renewed determination.</p><p></p><p>A number of republican governors are not waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to analyze the tea leaves in order to take concerted action against this draconian and oppressive federal interventionist law. <b>The governors refuse to have their citizens burdened as <a href="http://ohio.mediatrackers.org/2012/11/16/kasich-officially-refuses-to-implement-obamacare-exchange/">Governor Kasich of Ohio warned,</a> <i>“States do not have any flexibility to build and manage exchanges in ways that respond to unique needs of their citizens or markets.”</i></b></p><p><b><i> </i></b></p><p>Monday, November 26th, according to Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, over 16 states have already indicated that they will not be implementing Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges in their states. In fact, Ohio governor John Kasich was joined by Texas governor Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Sean Parnell of Alaska, and John Heineman of Nebraska, among others in opposition to state-run health exchanges.</p><p></p><p>In effect, these governors are providing the lead for Obamacare battleground opponents who can slow down and eventually reduce the implementation of the most odorous and oppressive aspects of the bill.</p><p></p><p>Democrats who have been doing the happy dance over the reelection of President Obama should slow down that roll to a “wait and see” crawl. More and more states and their citizens will rally against full implementation of the law based upon being deprived of their right to equal protection under the 14th Amendment. Others will seek protection of their religious freedom under the 1st Amendment.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/supreme-court-orders-new-hearing-on-obamacare-religious-school-challenge" target="_blank">( Click to read more )</a></p></div>Rajjpuut's Folly: Does Pompous Barack Believe He is America’s Messiah?https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rajjpuut-s-folly-does-pompous2011-07-29T15:00:00.000Z2011-07-29T15:00:00.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><div id="ctl00_cphCenter_ucPosts_rptPosts_ctl00_ucPost_Content"><div> </div><div> <div style="line-height:200%;margin-left:1in;"><div style="line-height:200%;margin-left:1in;"><strong><span style="color:#008000;"><strong><span style="color:#008000;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span><span><strong><span style="color:#008000;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">“Civilization and profit go hand in hand.” <br /><br /></span></span><strong><span style="color:#008000;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” <br /><br /></span></span><strong><span style="color:#008000;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” <br /><br /></span></span><strong><span style="color:#008000;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">“Duty is not collective; it is personal.”</span></span></strong></strong></strong></strong></span></span></span></span> <strong><span style="color:#008000;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><br /><br /><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:10pt;">“Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.”**</span></span></span></strong></strong></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin-left:1in;"><strong><span style="color:#008000;"><strong><strong><span style="color:#008000;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:10pt;"> </span></span></span></strong></strong></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:10pt;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">All quotes by President Calvin Coolidge</span></span></strong></span></div></div><div style="line-height:200%;"> </div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong> </strong></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;color:#000000;font-size:14pt;"><span style="color:#800000;">Progressivism = Reactionary Politics,</span></span></strong></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;color:#000000;font-size:14pt;"><span style="color:#800000;">Nihilistic Economics and Human Slavery</span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;color:#000000;font-size:13.5pt;"> <span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong> </strong><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;">Most thinking voters now realize, progressivism is a hideous political philosophy based upon the belief that we must ‘progress’ beyond ‘the ill-conceived and outdated U.S. Constitution’ in order to make progress toward an earthly Utopia. What most, even clear thinking, people don’t realize is that under the guise of “modernity” progressivism is an utterly reactionary approach to government. Totalitarian states and socialism have been the norm of human existence. Protecting people’s right to self-govern, is something virtually unheard of across history. It is freedom for individuals; and economic freedom; and documents that proclaim those individual and economic freedoms which are comparatively new on the world scene.</span></strong></span></span></strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">This great experiment, this United States that has stood as the “Shining City on the Hill” for the world to aspire to . . . that is something most rare. Despite the specious modernity of the word ‘progress,’ progressivism means rule by elites and that is as old as human history. Until some people somewhere else create a society, a government, a promise of human excellence better than American at her peak . . . the driving force in human political aspiration must be to recreate and imitate America at her peak . . . and for Americans: to return to and surpass that peak.</span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Has the world really made such great progress since our Constitution was born in 1787 and purified in 1791 with the addition of the Bill of Rights? Think even further back to the Declaration of Independence . . . think on the inspiring words of Calvin Coolidge as true today as when he spoke about the Declaration of Independence a full 85 years ago:</span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin-left:.5in;"><strong><em><span style="line-height:200%;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><span style="color:#800000;">It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with unalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.</span></span></em></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin-left:.5in;"><strong><em> </em></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">In this moment in history when our present American president has no compunction whatsoever about moving us toward his sorry vision of Utopia . . . all of his supporters fooling themselves that they are racing headlong into a beautiful and rarely glimpsed future . . . imagine their shock if they were ever to succeed and then necessarily discover how much of all that they’re striving to so cavalierly toss onto the trash heap of history is what all of mankind has so long been aspiring toward. A great pity that great classics like George Orwell’s <em>1984</em> and <em>Animal Farm</em> or Aldous Huxley’s <em>Brave New World</em> are no longer read and people instead watch sitcoms and reality television . . . .</span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">As for our “fearless leader,” it’s a great misfortune that unlike Coolidge who treated his place in history very humbly, saying "It is a great advantage to a president, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man” -- it is obvious that Barack Obama mistakenly believes himself to be a great man. While Coolidge lived to serve his countrymen, Barack Obama lives that his countrymen might more deeply serve him.</span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,</span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Rajjpuut</span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"> </span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;color:#008000;font-size:10pt;">** In contrast, in Obama’s world today’s debt is how we enslave tomorrow’s children. Notice how the Coolidge quotes like Coolidge himself are soft-spoken but when you think about them you see just how powerful the concepts behind them are: for example, the ones above a) tying the rise of civilization to the rise of profits or surplus b) putting forward a reverse angle view of the Robin Hood mentality that would pull the rich down by taxation c) and d) tying in with b) and showing collectivism, progressivism, Marxism, socialism, and etc. up for the false religions they are and e) bringing up the duty we owe to posterity and a warning against enslaving them via debt while more obviously showing us the only proper way to live. By comparison, the more you examine Obama's words, the more empty they become . . . .</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"> </div></div></div><div id="ctl00_cphCenter_ucPosts_rptPosts_ctl00_ucPost_pnlTags"></div></div>Rajjpuut's Folly: Obama's Power-Grabbing Repeately Violates 10th Amendmenthttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rajjpuuts-folly-obamas2010-05-24T09:24:53.000Z2010-05-24T09:24:53.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><div id="ctl00_cphCenter_ucPosts_rptPosts_ctl00_ucPost_Content"><h2 align="center"><strong><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#800000;font-size:14pt;"><font face=""><br /><br /><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">Patriotism: a High-Demand Commitment</span></font></span></strong></h2><div class="postbody"></div><div style="line-height:200%;" class="postbody" align="center"><strong><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia;font-size:14pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;color:#008000;">Part II: Guaranteeing Our Freedoms</span></span></strong></strong></div><p style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" class="postbody" align="center"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><font face="">Audacity of Presidential Power-Grabbing</font></span></span></span></strong></p><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" class="postbody" align="center"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><font face=""><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;color:#800000;font-size:14pt;">Abhorent to Nation’s Founders</span></font></span></span></span></strong></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" class="postbody" align="center"></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;" class="postbody" align="center"></div><p style="line-height:200%;" class="postbody"></p><p style="line-height:200%;" class="postbody"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:10pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#008000;"><font face="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism</font></span></span></span></a></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;" class="postbody"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:10pt;"><a href="http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/06/01/meaning-of-federalism/"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#008000;"><font face="">http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/06/01/meaning-of-federalism/</font></span></span></span></a></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;" class="postbody"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:10pt;"><a href="http://www.umt.edu/law/faculty/natelson.htm"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#008000;"><font face="">http://www.umt.edu/law/faculty/natelson.htm</font></span></span></span></a></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;" class="postbody"></p><p style="line-height:200%;" class="postbody"></p><div style="line-height:200%;" class="postbody"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><font face="">In the first installment of this series on constitutional-conservativism<br />(</font><a style="font-family:Georgia;color:#008000;font-size:10pt;" href="http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/2010/05/19/obama,_mainstream_media_label_tea_party_insurgents.thtml"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/2010/05/19/obama,_mainstream_media_label_tea_party_insurgents.thtml</font></a><font face="">) we looked at freedom, per se. Rajjpuut continues with a close look at personal and state freedoms as discussed in the all-important 10<sup><font size="3">th</font></sup> Amendment, sometimes known as the “Federalism Amendment.”</font></span></span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;" class="postbody"></div><p style="line-height:200%;" class="postbody"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><font face="">Barack Obama is the national nightmare that some supporters of the Articles of Confederation and other anti-constitutionalists back at the nation’s founding strenuously condemned. Seemingly ignoring all seventeen of the allotted powers (<span style="color:#008000;">enforcing our borders; standing up to our nation’s traditional enemies; obeying the uniform laws of bankrupties; and keeping treaties with our friends are all powers which Barack Obama has not chosen to exercise according to the folks in Arizona; South Korea; certified creditors of GM in Indiana; and allies in Poland to name just a few instances</span>), Obama has made himself a picnic in abusing the constitution by advancing powers NOT granted by the Constitution. Many thought that Franklin Delano Roosevelt grossly overstepped the bounds of federalism with the 40 new agencies his administrations created. Barack Obama created almost 390 new agencies just in one law: Obamacare.</font></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;" class="postbody"></p><p style="line-height:200%;" class="postbody"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><font face="">The powers of the federal government are listed in Article I, Section 8. They are available for anyone to read and simple to understand. More importantly, these powers</font></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;" class="postbody"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="postbody"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#008000;"><font face="">A. follow a simple, predictable pattern and</font></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="postbody"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#008000;"><font face="">B. Much discussion was also made of which powers the federal government definitely did not have and should not have.</font></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="postbody"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="postbody"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><font face="">In its obvious general outline of powers for the federal government which amount to the 17 specific powers allowed, the Constitution provides for a government which protects the nation’s borders and defends against foreign invasion by maintaining an efficient army and navy; deals with custom and tariff matters; conducts foreign relations including war and treaties; settles disputes among the states and facilitates trade and intercourse among the American people and states and with the peoples and states within sovereign foreign nations.</font></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="postbody"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="postbody"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><font face="">Before looking at the powers the founding fathers refused to grant to the federal government, it’s crucial to understand that in a federal system such as ours the efforts over the entire two hundred plus years of the nation’s existence to turn the states into “departments or extensions” within the federal government . . . that is, into mere “administrative units” of the national govermnet is the greatest single threat to our nation’s survival as the founders foresaw and planned for it. Recent “States Rights” discussions (that is, up until the contemporary furor in Arizona over that state’s immigration laws and the 21 State “rebellion” against Obamacare directiives for the states that would literally bankrupt every state both calling for a new appreciation of the 10<sup><font size="3">th</font></sup> Amendment to the Constitution) arguments were as insipid as the notion that people wishing upon stars might somehow influence the cosmos to somehow influence our fates. Lyndon Johnson’s expansion of the “Welfare State” is the prime example of this insidious trend both in Welfare itself and in Medicaid especially . . . the states were turned into administrative arms of the federal government’s policies. Nixon’s policies of “federalistically” turning over large grants of federal monies to the states has undoubted great practical value, but only confuses the issue . . . why is that money in the federal hands in the first place?</font></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="postbody"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="postbody"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><font face="">Federalism, and specifically the 10<sup><font size="3">th</font></sup> Amendment, is the single greatest system ever devised for the protection of individual and state liberties and for providing counter-balance to over-reaching by the federal entities. Powerful centralized government is the threat to our listed freedoms and to freedom of action. That is, because we don’t have LISTED LIBERTIES for the individual or the states . . . but they are free to do whatever is not listed as criminal . . . we have true liberty. Confusion about the limits of federal government must be cleared up and must be always aligned with the intents of the founding fathers if this blessed state of liberty is to prevail. All powers NOT listed in the Constitution are specifically reserved for the states and individual citizens.</font></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="postbody"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="postbody"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><font face="">And just how far has the nation strayed from this wise path? Virtually no one today understands the breadth of discussion, consideration and debate that ensued once it was popularly agreed that the Articles of Confederation were too weak. During the argument going on over possible adoption of the Constitution, the Constitution’s advocates also enumerated powers the federal government absolutely would <em>not</em> have. The Bill of Rights was, one answer to critics. The most Republican document in the world still stands us in good stead 223 years after its creation. But the biggest protection, the thing that satisfied virtually all the Constitution’s detractors was the addition to the Bill of Rights of the last of the original Amendments: the <span style="color:#008000;">10<sup><font size="3">th</font></sup> Amendment</span>. The federal government would NOT be granted the potential for unlimited power but severely limited in power and abuse potential and all powers NOT specifically enumerated for the federal government would be reserved to the individual states and to individual citizens.</font></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="postbody"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><font face="">In addition, moreover, the Constitution’s proponents publicly told the people some of the important subjects which fell within the states’ exclusive jurisdiction - and outside the federal government’s control in a variety of speeches, newspaper articles, letters, and pamphlets. Chief among these proponents were, of course Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. Other names of note include:</font></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;color:#008000;margin-left:.5in;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#008000;"><font face="">James Wilson (convention delegate and chief proponent in Pennsylvania), Edmund Pendleton (chancellor of Virginia and chairman of his state’s ratifying convention), James Iredell (North Carolina judge, pro-Constitution floor leader at his state’s ratifying convention and later U.S. Supreme Court Justice), Maryland Congressman Alexander Contee Hanson, Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant (a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court), Alexander White (Virginia lawyer, ratifier, and later U.S. Senator), prominent businessman Tench Coxel and John Marshall (ratifier and later U.S. Chief Justice).</font></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;color:#008000;margin-left:.5in;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.25in;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><font face="">Here are some of the <span style="color:#800000;">powers they solemnly promised would be <em>outside the federal sphere</em>:</span></font></span></span></span></strong></p><div class="postbody"><ul type="disc"><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">governance of religion</span></span></strong></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">training the militia and appointing militia officers</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">control over local government</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">most crimes</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">state justice systems</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">family affairs</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">real property titles and conveyances</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">wills and inheritance</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">the promotion of useful arts in ways other than granting patents and copyrights</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">control of personal property outside of commerce</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">governance of the law of torts and contracts, except in suits between citizens of different states</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">education</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">services for the poor and unfortunate</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">licensing of taverns</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">roads other than post roads</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">ferries and bridges</span></span></strong></li><li style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">regulation of fisheries, farms, and other business enterprises.</span></span></strong></li></ul></div><p style="line-height:200%;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><font face="">The vast majority of these areas have been encroached upon by the federal government already. For example, the national endowment for the arts and other such organization is not a federal matter; involvement in the welfare state is forbidden; as is educational involvement; interstate highways; income taxes; inheritance taxes; family affairs; the national guard as we know it; control of personal property; and a hundred other areas where the federal government has crossed the line drawn by the 10<sup><font size="3">th</font></sup> Amendment.</font></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin-left:.5in;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><font face="">Right now our National Debt is approaching $14 TRillion; more shockingly our national obligation for Government Spending Boondoggles and Government Interference Boondoggles (GSBs and GIBs such as Social Security, Medicare and the federal side of Medicaid) has reached $109 TRillion . . . all this problem debt was created in areas where the Constitution forbid the federal government to tread. The lifeblood of the nation has been poisoned by this wanton and total ignorance and denial of the 10<sup><font size="3">th</font></sup> Amendment. Most Americans not only don’t understand the provisions of the 10<sup><font size="3">th</font></sup> Amendment, but because of the welfare state and the gross entitlement sentiment many citizens would also feel threatened by the loss of federal government involvement. The problems are exacerbated when its realized that these programs were all created as set asides and that congress never obeyed its own laws and set the money aside for these programs. Here, then lies the root cause of our present fiscal unaccountability and the potential for danger from the Obama administration’s headlong power grab . . . .</font></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin-left:.5in;"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin-left:.5in;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><font face="">Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,</font></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin-left:.5in;"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin-left:.5in;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color:#FFFF00;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><font face="">Rajjpuut</font></span></span></span></strong></p></div><div id="ctl00_cphCenter_ucPosts_rptPosts_ctl00_ucPost_pnlTags" class="tags"></div></div>