Typical yapper, FDR was elected in Novwember 1932, the “Court packing” plan was introduced in 1936 after a very conservative USSC had struck down as unconstitutional many of FDR’s New Deal reforms. The Congress rejected the plan, and you remain a far right wing neocon tool!

Timbo,

The New Deal reforms were unconstitutional. Of course that never stopped the progressives like you.

President Grover Cleveland stated, “I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds…I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.”

And don’t for get James Madison on the General Welfare clause, “With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.” - James Madison

“A democracy is always temporary in nature,” wrote Alexander Tyler; “It simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.”

Why did he come to this conclusion? He explained, “A democracy will continue to exist until the time that the voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.

“From that moment on, the majority will always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”

I know you’ve read these before Tim, but, you and the other progressive liberals just don’t want to hear what they say.

James R.

Since you wish for a strict reading of the constitution as meant by Madison and others then can we assume that you feel that the United States Air Force is illegal and un Constitutional?

After all the Constitution speaks of the army and Navy and the calling up of the Militia. Yet it remains silent on the subject of the Air Force. Since there is no mention of that force yet there was specific mentioning of land and sea forces then the omission means they never contemplated an air force so they omitted it.

Article One Section Eight gives congress the power to provide and maintain the army and the navy yet does not give any such power for an air force. So by your strict reading of the Constitution should we not rid ourselves of such an illegal organization?

Tim,

I agree, although I’m an Air Force veteran, by a strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, you could believe the Air Force should have remained part of the Army. A Democrat, Harry Truman, changed that. The difference is that the U.S. Constitution provides congress the authority to establish a strong military. It does not authorize taking the earned labor of one group of people in order to give to another group which did not earn it.

The beauty of this country is supposed to be that everyone has an equal chance to fail. We are guaranteed certain unalienable rights. Life (the unconstitutional abortion negated that right), Liberty (the past 3 administrations have done just about everything they could to negate that right), and Pursuit of Happiness. Note the last right does not guarantee happiness, only the pursuit thereof.

If you make good decisions in your life you will probably succeed in your pursuit. Stay in school and get a good education. Do not have children until your prepared for the responsibility. If you make bad decisions you will probably fail in your pursuit.

Based on Alexander Tyler’s writings, I believe we are in stage 7 - From Apathy to Dependence.

Read the preamble to the Constitution. I know you neocon yappers don’t go anywhere except to “…provide for the common defense…’ but, even before that it says “…to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility…” which relate to our aspirations for this nation to be more perfect and just in how it treats its people and how others are treated by here by each other so that we may all live at peace among ourselves.

Then, the preamble of the Constitution says; “…to promote the general welfare and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity (us, and our children and their children…)do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.”

Let’s see, hmmmm….”general welfare…” probably means all of us, not just rich white Anglo-Saxon Protestant males over age 55. And, “…blessings of liberty…” probably means for all of us and for us to be free of the yoke of monied plutocracy or aristocracy as supported by the Republican Party in the US.

If our Founding Fathers had wanted America to be run by the monied and powerful interests of the various business entities which operate here, they would have said such in the Preamble or the teaxt of the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights; I don’t see that in any of the Amendments which have been approved, either.

When I hear the yappers going on about how they want their country back, I don’t think they have a clue as to what they are talking about. After eight years of the black hole of secrecy, deceptions and corruption of the George W. Bush and Dick Cheney war criminal era, we now have our country back!

Let us move now forward and see that there is here a more pefect union which is more just and able to provide for the general health and welfare of the people; quietly confident that we have secured the future of America for our children and their children where they may be free to become whatever their true potential allows them to be.

Tim,

Why do all liberals have to call people who don’t agree with them names? Are your minds that shallow?

Where in the Preamble does it state to take someone’s earnings or property and give it to someone else?

Do you really think our founding fathers meant for the government to confiscate the earnings for some to give it to others? Why then didn’t they start doing that from the beginning. Why did it take over a hundred years for FDR to “pack the courts” so he could start the socialization programs?

James Madison shot down your general welfare argument as posted above.

You also wrote, “If our Founding Fathers had wanted America to be run by the monied and powerful interests of the various business entities which operate here, they would have said such in the Preamble or the teaxt of the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights; I don’t see that in any of the Amendments which have been approved, either.”

Tell me, who is running this country? The last time I looked Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Clinton, Bush, Gore, Kerry, Soros, McCaskill, Bond, Durbin, and all the rest are monied and powerful interests of the various business entities which operate here.

You want a secure future for our children? All you’re leaving them is a life of crushing debt and bondage. Obama has increased the deficit more that the past three administrations combined? Who’s going to pay that debt Tim?

You never did comment on Alexander Tyler’s writing. Which stage of democracy do you think we’re in?

Like all liberals and progressives you forget that someone has to make the wealth before you can confiscate it for redistribution.