Only through Citizen Vigilance can that be possible ...
It is not a question of finding some mythical class of honest lawyers or public servants. The Constitution already contains every structural protection necessary to restrain government power <> but only if the Citizen accepts the burden of enforcement. That is the meaning behind Franklin’s warning: “A republic—if you can keep it.”
When citizens grow apathetic, complacent, or deferential, elected officials predictably expand their reach. They will spend beyond limits, legislate beyond authority, and ultimately extract from the taxpayer whatever is required to sustain their excesses. The result is visible in the national balance sheet: more than $39 trillion in debt, accelerating toward $44 trillion, because too few citizens are willing to hold government to account.
A self‑governing republic cannot survive on the assumption that someone else <> lawyers, officials, or self‑proclaimed guardians of the public good <> will do the work. If the taxpayer refuses to keep the government’s feet to the fire, the government will eventually take the taxpayer to the cleaners.
@GadSaad Oh learnefred one ... please tell us the difference between a Constitutional Republic that the founders of the USA created versus a 'Democracy' that everyone expouses about including you ? ...
@Xmusknewsx "You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store"
It is remarkably easy for you <> and for many others <> sitting comfortably in the United States, twenty thousand kilometers removed from Israel, to pass judgment on Israel’s circumstances. You do not grasp the strategic vulnerability or the existential dependencies of this tiny, minuscule, yet extraordinary state. Your confidence reads less like insight and more like unexamined arrogance.
And regardless of what President Trump believes <> China is rearming the IRGC as is Russia, North Korea and Pakistan ... none of the Land routs have been closed off ... @POTUS <> President Trump, if you do not finish the Job by taking the Iranian Regime completely out your Legacy will truly be marred ...