Comments on: Congress Shall Make No Law . . .

By: the_gaffer

the_gaffer — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:24:47 +0000

Until the sheeple are deprived of their bread and circuses, power will remain entrenched where it is, with the powerful reaching and grabbing for more and more. I don’t savvy how the elite maintain their present course knowing that the house of cards they’ve built has got to come tumbling down. The sheeple will be driven hither and thither, unthinkingly attracted to whomever has the loudest drumbeat (or meal!).
Libertarians and Anarchists will still not be heard, because sheep can’t process much thought.
For my part, I have thrown in with the Constitutionalists, and will try in my own way to bring people to heed it. This way the thoughtful and the thoughtless can experience freedom again, for their gain or their detriment.

By: CorkyAgain

CorkyAgain — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:46:23 +0000

It’s none of the government’s business?

I would argue that interfering in the marketplace in such ways IS the government’s business — and that this is why we need to get rid of government altogether.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:45:46 +0000

Though I agree that enumerated powers would be the way to go, our experience is that holding government to powers enumerated in a paper document does not work. The constitution is exactly that, a list of the only powers government has. Nobody pays any attention to it. So how can the list be enforced? Democracy (elections) doesn’t work. Term limits? That might work, but try getting federal politicians to limit their political careers. And try getting people who collect money stolen from others to throw out the politicians who write their checks. As more people get on the federal payroll, the less likely it becomes that anything will be done to restrain the government monster. Only a near total financial meltdown will provoke real change and I’m not sure I want to see what that change might be. See Weimar Germany in the 1920s or Zimbabwe in the last few years for what could happen. We need to strike down the system and create a free society. But not many people care about freedom.

By: Libertarian

Libertarian — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:24:17 +0000

How drugs and medical devices are marketed over the Internet is none of the government’s business. In fact, there’s a lot of stuff that’s none of the government’s business, yet it likes to poke its nose (and build the government’s power) in to everyone’s business.

I’m with Vake on this on: let’s start enumerating exactly what the government can do. Anything not of the list of enumerated powers is verboten for government to do.

Works for me!

By: Vake

Vake — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:42:18 +0000

Yes, we need to get back to enumerated powers.