How to control people.

Throughout history there have always been people that wish to control other people. These attempts proved to be unsuccessful until governments and religions were created. With only a couple of exceptions governments and religions control behavior by promising to insulate people from the natural consequences of their behavior and of the fear of death. Create sin (any activity that people naturally choose to engage in), and then create repentance and saviors. Create a law (call anything a 'crime' which does not serve the interests of the government) and then build prisons to house those that choose to break them. Exemptions are given out according to your religious/political connections. Priests or Senators can abuse children, or have adulterous relationships with little fear of repercussions. They steal and call it voluntary contributions and taxes.

There are some actual sins and laws, but they come down to the golden rule of reciprocity. When you harm another person then that person should be made 'whole' again in order for justice to be served. (Read "The Law" by Fredrich Bastiat available online).

It is a sad state of affairs when a politician can buy votes with the taxpayers money. It is time to remove the idea of universal suffrage. Only those people with a vested interest in living in a free society, productive property owners, should vote. Others are just parasites that sold their birthright of freedom for a bowl of pottage. They hope to cast a vote that would allow them to receive more from government than they pay. In other words they hope to take part in enslaving their fellow citizens. Democracy is a shell game that gives us some semblance of self determination, when in fact it is just another wedge to divide the populace.

Remember the children of Israel that voluntarily placed themselves in bondage to the pharaoh? Our freedom has been purchased at the price of the welfare state. Social security has enslaved our aged population, free health care has enslaved our working class, government schools have enslaved the minds of our youth. Don't expect a Moses to arrive to clean up our mess. (Heck Christendom cannot even agree on the what constitutes the ten commandments.) Government grants, corporate welfare (where your customer is the government) and government retirement programs are also overpriced and inefficient welfare programs. These programs emasculate the veterans and capitalists that fear 'biting the hand that feeds them'.

No one could really call our military presence in over one hundred foreign nations a 'defensive' action. We have a department of defense, but this department deals mostly with offensive actions overseas. When we were attacked on 9/11, their assets were elsewhere. So in the interest of clarity I propose that we change their name to the department of offense. We could shorten this up, to Department of Government/Department of Offense to simply DOG/DOO.

All that we need to do to be free again, is to no longer accept the welfare handouts. If there were government programs that no one used, they would disappear. We are in control of our own destinies if we will but act like free people and stop giving credence to the taskmasters.

Nice thought anyway...

Pigeon Poop

Congress no longer relies upon the discreet political powers found in the US Constitution (Art. 1 Sec. 8) but since the reconstruction era after the war of northern aggression they are also over laws economical. If their successes in this field were not impressive enough, they have recently taken on control of the environmental fluctuations caused by the cyclical output of the sun and declared Carbon Dioxide a poisonous gas. These superpowers should not be wasted on selfish concerns like growing bananas in North Dakota (a state with little political clout anyway) but instead this control over natural law must be used for the betterment of all of mankind. Of course I speak of the millions of dollars of damage that is taking place each year due to pigeons pooping on building and the statues of government demigods. It is time for the federal government to show its true superpower status and stop the mess created by these foul fowl. Perhaps their bed partners in the war on terror could find a workable and overly expensive solution, Boeing Birdy Diapers, General Electric statue electrification to zap the beasts, Catalytic Converters/poop misters by McDonnell Duck Douglass. Or how about self cleaning statues? It is time to spend billions solving a million dollar problem. We could issue every 10 year old male a pellet gun and put a bounty on the creatures, but this is way to close to freedom and teaching young people to use firearms and take personal responsibility is not in the best interest of government.
So here is the real question. If the US Constitution in general, and specifically Article 1 section 8 (clauses 1-18 inclusive) does not describe both an upper and lower limit to federal powers, then is there any limit to the government's powers?