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Remember the balanced budget amendment?
Mar. 11th, 2003 12:12 pm
The year: 1994. The issue: Democratic spending and the budget deficit. The solution: Republicans would pass an amendment to the Constitution requiring that the US operate within the constraints of a balanced budget. In other words, don't spend more than you bring in.
My response: Sounds like a good way to weaken the Constitution.
I guess it turns out that's what the Republicans were up to all along. Here we are, a little less than 9 years later, and what do we have? In 1991 Congress gladly and eagerly gave it's responsibility for declaring war to the President. Now Bush can declare war on Iraq or anyone else he wants to with little to no support from his governmental colleagues. We have John Ashcroft and Tom Ridge deciding who the Constitution protects, and how. No, it doesn't apply to all Americans. Only to those whom the government has determined pose no threat to our freedom to shop til we drop, our freedom to text message, our freedom to rent any one of 300 copies of "Dude, Where's My Car?" from Blockbuster.
You've gotta give these guys credit. They know what they want, and they go after it. And they get it. As for the rest of us, we get what we earn.
My response: Sounds like a good way to weaken the Constitution.
I guess it turns out that's what the Republicans were up to all along. Here we are, a little less than 9 years later, and what do we have? In 1991 Congress gladly and eagerly gave it's responsibility for declaring war to the President. Now Bush can declare war on Iraq or anyone else he wants to with little to no support from his governmental colleagues. We have John Ashcroft and Tom Ridge deciding who the Constitution protects, and how. No, it doesn't apply to all Americans. Only to those whom the government has determined pose no threat to our freedom to shop til we drop, our freedom to text message, our freedom to rent any one of 300 copies of "Dude, Where's My Car?" from Blockbuster.
You've gotta give these guys credit. They know what they want, and they go after it. And they get it. As for the rest of us, we get what we earn.
