Re: Molly Ivins: Whom Do We Blame When We Lose the Republic?
- From: eighter7@xxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:33:53 -0600
Yes it looks like even the former middle class is relagated to
becoming part of the vast Army of surfs or slave labor around the
World.
The prices, for drugs and medical treatment is controled and many are
now seeking alternative medicine because they are sick of being sliced
diced, misled, lied to and generally screwed out of mega bucks to get
a cure.
The price of labor is being contiously hammered. According to one web
site we can't get out of China without wrecking the World economy and
the American economy is going to collapse from lack of consumer
puchasing power..
i see this myself, wanting to do remodeling decorating and so on but
fearful of needing cash for real emergencies. I could easliy spend
100k in one weeks time if I had it without taxes due in total....
Everything from fencing and landscape to perhaps a pond and picnis
area.
I wonder what will happen as we see most construction workers out of
jobs or perhaps I should say the few remaining white American skilled
carpenters, cabinet makers, and stone masons along with plumbers,
electricians and hvac people.
Congress has sent every manufacuring company to a foreign Country in
the name of free trade. They literally left the dance with people who
did not bring them. I wonder what other jobs they will export, may be
the surgeries, and elder care of Americans or something.
My grown children all have salaries of double what we had in our
thirties but no one can live off 40k per year with all the expenses of
rent, autos, gas, education debt and so on while living in sleek
apartment complexes and driving a decent auto unless you economize
somewhere and prioritize spending.
I estimat it would take 20k espense to get a homeless person off the
street and set up with basic needs...
Talked to my son in Vegas today and his new bride was telling me how
filthy dirty the town is away from the strip with homeless panhandlers
all over the place. She said is was disgusting... So goes American
Cities
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:55:44 -0500, "Alan Illeman"
<illemann@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>"penny" <penny@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ct89r1502chtolfbn6lr87a86bkt1oljic@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Molly Ivins, Dec. 29th, 2005
>> http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/columnists/molly_ivins/13506881.htm
>>
>>
>> Bush established a secret program under which the National Security
>> could bypass the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court
>> and begin eavesdropping on Americans without warrants.
>>
>> As many have patiently pointed out, the entire program was unnecessary
>> because the FISA court is both prompt and accommodating. There is
>> virtually no possible scenario that would make it difficult or
>> impossible to get a FISA warrant -- it has granted 19,000 warrants and
>> rejected only a handful.
>>
>> Folks, we know this program is being and will be misused. We know it
>> from the past record and current reporting. The program has already
>> targeted vegans and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals -- and
>> if those aren't outposts of al Qaeda, what is? Could this be more
>> pathetic?
>>
>> This could scarcely be clearer. Either the president of the United
>> States is going to have to understand and admit that he has done
>> something very wrong, or he will have to be impeached. The first time
>> this happened, the institutional response was magnificent. The courts,
>> the press, the Congress all functioned superbly.
>>
>> Anyone think we're up to that again? Then whom do we blame when we
>> lose the republic?
>
>You've already lost the republic..
>
><quote>
> It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider the judges as
>the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions .... The
>Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to
>whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party,
>its members would become despots.
> Thomas Jefferson
>
> That those who wrote the United States Constitution did not
>trust majorities is plain. That they did not trust anyone else,
>including themselves, is less plain, but ultimately more
>important.
>
> It was out of this wariness that they formulated the
>elaborate checking apparatus for which the Constitution is known.
>Its structure represented an attempt to avert the tyranny they
>discerned in every previous human government. Instead, they
>would establish a "dynamic equilibrium" -- a condition that
>quivers but does not go anywhere, that creaks and groans but
>remains essentially the same. And the entirety of this complex
>configuration would be subsumed within the overriding constraint
>that is the very purpose of a constitution: the notion that the
>revocable authority of a state is limited to the expressed
>stipulations of the contract itself.
>
> James Madison was certain that the human inclination toward
>faction would eventually destroy this Constitution. John Adams
>was sure that the passions of man would subvert its Newtonian
>balance, so carefully wrought by the most advanced of human
>reason. Yet each conceived that the structure they inspired
>would survive a generation. As it happened, neither of these
>dour thinkers was dour enough.
>
> The Constitution prevailed for 14 years, exhausting its
>noble effort in 1803 with the implementation of judicial review
>as the official doctrine of the United States Supreme Court.
>Through the successful infusion of this doctrine into American
>ideology and politics, the constitutional experiment must be
>perceived as an historic failure.
></quote>
>
>Ref:
>Supreme Law Library - Paul N. Goldstene - The Ultimate Elite In
>America - Preface (22/12/91)
>
.
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