General welfare doesn't mean - whatever they want.
As Thomas Jefferson told us - it gave no independent power to the federal government – it was tied to the powers delegated in the Constitution.
“our tenet ever was … that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated”
The worst scum on earth? Politicians who violate their oath to the constitution
That’s not my original take, it’s the attitude of the founders and old revolutionaries.
They absolutely despised violations of the constitution, arbitrary power
James Otis Jr. called it “the curse and scandal of human nature”
1913 was a really bad year.
And we are all paying the price for it today.
Like the federal reserve and the money printing machine it unleashed
But it’s not like we weren’t warned about how this would empower the government to attack our liberty, and destroy the economy.
Thomas Jefferson called it
“the evils of this deluge of paper money are not to be removed until our citizens are generally and radically instructed in their cause & consequences”
Remember when the government attempted to force Amish children to attend American public schools and arrested their parents for not complying?
It led to one of the most important religious liberty cases in American history. Everything we have has to be fought for.
When judgement day comes,
do you think your going to judged on what you've accumulated, ?
Nope, you're going to be judged on what you've done for your fellow man. Selfless acts of kindness is something we all can do.
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.”
“Money is Money, and Paper is Paper. All the invention of man cannot make them otherwise.”
With those words, Thomas Paine went after what he saw as one of the greatest scams in history: governments claiming that paper is money.
In his view, paper is all just smoke and mirrors. A path to bankruptcy and tyranny - guaranteed
♦️♦️THIS IS EXACTLY HOW I FEEL♦️♦️
Pure Outrage for our self-serving Congress!
♦️THUNE IS AT THE TOP OF THE LIST♦️
Congressman Mike Bost, YOU ROCK !!!!