On September 19, 2016, I posted the article below that explains the reasons for CONgressional mismanagement. I wrote that the CONgress passed too many laws that create INDEPENDENT agencies. CONgress has shirked its responsibility to oversee these monstrous agencies with thousand of employees. So, too many huge agencies and too little monitoring, inspecting, or supervising, i.e., oversight.

These agencies have trashed the Constitution with their interfering and infringing regulations. The new President and CONgress seem to agree that past presidents and CONgresses have failed to control their OUT OF CONTROL agencies.

CONgress created these independent agencies ideally to focus on one particular job of the Executive Branch such as Defense, Justice, or the Consumer Finanacial Protection Bureau, the National Labor Relations Board, and others. These agencies are supposed to do their general task of enforcing laws that CONgress passes. But they have illegally overstepped the boundaries of the law(s) they enforce along with citizens' Constitutional rights, especially property rights.

Agencies have infringed the rights of citizens with their arrogant, overbearing, and tyrannical regulations (rules). Instead of enforcing the precise meaning of a given law the agencies promulgate rules that expand the meaning of the law or such rules are unrelated to the law. Many of the violations are partisan related, i.e., designed to favor one of the two political parties or the current president.

In an effort to rein in these past failures, the new House of CONgress has passed the REINS Act (H.R. 26). The Senate will eventually pass REINS Act (S. 21). This law forces agencies to justify the need for each Rule. The following is a sample section from the law:

801.Congressional review

(a)

(1)

(A) Before a rule may take effect, the Federal agency promulgating such rule shall

publish in the Federal Register a list of information on which the rule is based,

including data, scientific and economic studies, and cost-benefit analyses, and identify

how the public can access such information online, and shall submit to

each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General a report containing�

(i) a copy of the rule;

(ii) a concise general statement relating to the rule;

(iii) a classification of the rule as a major or nonmajor rule, including an explanation of the

classification specifically addressing each criteria for a major rule

contained within subparagraphs (A) through (C) of section 804(2);

(iv) a list of any other related regulatory actions intended to implement the same statutory provision

or regulatory objective as well as the individual and aggregate

economic effects of those actions; and

(v) the proposed effective date of the rule.

If CONgress abides by every aspect of this new law and forces their created "monsters" to PROVE that a given PROPOSED Rule is ABSOLUTELY necessary, then future freedom and commerce will be restored. But if CONgress ignores this new law or the Comptroller General is somehow "influenced" or persuaded to permit more tyrannical proposed Rules to pass, then just like many other laws, the REINS Act will be just bogus pandering and pretensious politics of CONgress. I submit that the problem remains that there are TOO MANY AGENCIES and TOO MANY LAWS to track. Unless CONgress repeals some laws that created agencies to eliminate agencies, CONgress will fail. Also, the Comptroller will require more employees to satisfy the new law making government even bigger.

In addition, the President and CONgress must rescind or repeal previous tyrannical Rules that have prevented economic growth before and during the Obama Administration. After the "real estate bubble" popped, the first 2 years of the Obama CONgress went TOO FAR in trying to prevent a future bubble. These laws such as Dodd-Frank have almost destroyed the economy. BUBBLES cannot be prevented by eliminating economic growth. The Federal Reserve with their "easy-money policies" is the primary cause of all bubbles.

With the REINS Act, CONgress has superceded the efforts of the Convention of States (CoS) organization (also here). CoS has held a simulated Convention of States to amend the Constitution and insert a few changes of their own that return veto power to State legislatures. Under the States' proposed rules in the simulated Convention, States have veto power on Debt Ceiling increases, tax increases, specific federal laws, CONgressional power limitations, and Term Limits among others.

CoS and I know and believe that the federal government is much more powerful than the framers had envisaged. Many States realize that they have allowed a monster to evolve from a federal government with very LIMITED, defined powers, that the feds have rearranged the entire power structure. Originally, the States had all powers and agreed to create a Federal government with very limited powers defined in the Constitution. This power arrangement today is reversed. When States and the People are finally fed up with the feds' overreach, then the simulations' proof of a civil Convention of States will become a reality.

CONgress and Mismanagement of their Creations

CONgress caused their problems which only can be summed up in one word: mismanagement. CONgressional oversight is a joke. It is ineffective because the agencies they created are immune to oversight. Oversight was once just a slap on the wrist and still is coming from some of the elected. Other CONgressmen who investigate and try to solve agency failures including the person or persons ultimately responsible for failure, are stonewalled at every turn due to inefficiencies of communications or very slow response. Those involved in the failure will delay any effort to seek the truth. Political hacks are able to lie and shift the blame for failure. Agencies are over-staffed, top-heavy monsters expanded by union employees who continuosly dream up new ways to make each agency larger with MORE employees and more sub-departments to increase their power.

During the investigation for some failure like the Veteran Affairs, Benghazi, or the IRS, if the employees are pressed with clear evidence of cause and the employee has no other recourse, agency employees take the 5th. Taking the 5th is not a firing offense because the 5th Amendment is a protection against self-incrimination and PROOF is required. This is one of the biggest problems — employees can't be fired not just for avoiding answering questions but for almost any offense if internal investigations can't prove guilt. Agencies just grow and grow and oh yea, GROW. CONgresses change every two years with most new CONgresses unable to grasp the disasters and enormity created by their heritage. These agencies don't fix problems, they cause problems.

The appointed heads merely look the other way. If they're of the opposite party, they can slough off any demand from CONgress — their legislated overseers. These "confirmed" appointees are just ceremonial, resume-building jobs allowing them to slide from government to one cushy job or another in the private sector at higher pay. When too much political flack is felt by the president, he will ask for the unfortunate appointee's resignation.

CONgress has relegated Constitutional protection against tyranny to history by increasing presidental power and creating the very AGENCIES that are so independent that they can do anything without real legal recourse! Some may have been necessary, but instead of enabling states to manage their own problems locally a federal agency was created to provide HELP and fix the problem. Agencies are mostly not a solution, they are the cause or the expansion of already existing problems, easily handled without the sledge hammer/big free money HELP. This "HELP" usually results in states becoming dependent on federal dollars and/or the feds take control of the job, intervening and interfering in the business of a sovereign entity. Later when the state realizes their error in asking for help and wants the feds to leave, the feds threaten to withhold financial support from the project.

The Constitution is a framework for the United States system of government. The founders designed the frame to protect citizens from tyranny. The design assured the advancement of individual liberty by limiting government interference or intervention in daily life. With the Bill of Rights, the protection against tyranny was assured (until now). The Constitution defines how power is distributed among the branches. No single branch can have more power than the other (until now).

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

James Madison, Federalist Paper 47, Friday, February 1, 1788

But people permitted government, first with Teddy and later Woody as president to redefine the role of the Executive branch. They were allowed to wield too much power either because of political popularity (gotta get elected or reelected) or because of war or domestic suffering/corruption in states. CONgress later created a huge list of agencies to FIX government (at the behest of Frankie) and increase its active role(s) for the purpose of interfering in the daily life of Americans — the opposite of the founders intent. This was done during the Depression (caused primarily by the Federal Reserve) when no private businesses had a solution or much capital and also before WWII which ended the Depression that no government make-work job could do.

CONgressmen and Presidents should have been voted out by citizens, but citizens were persuaded and convinced to re-elect them for various programs. Lobbyists with campaign support and money convinced CONgressmen to vote their agendas. Citizens were oblivious to daily CONgressional actions. Democrats (Socialists), moderate Republicans, and persuaded so-called conservatives continued with actions contrary to the Constitutional frame. Now look what the years have brought upon us! CONgressional re-elections should be limited to a total of 12 years — 6 two year terms for the House and 2 six year terms for the Senate. Also, lobbying should be banned with a clear definition of illegal lobbying. A Balanced Budget Amendment is required to prevent CONgress from over-spending.

The solution is to repeal all statutes either Titles or Public Law that created most agencies and significantly decrease the employee roster of remaining agencies. Many sub-departments within agencies or sub-agencies are unnecessary cancers on the federal government, and therefore, on private citizens. Citizens can no longer freely pursue life, liberty, property, and the nebulous goal of happiness.

Anyone who believes this country is free is an idiot!

RESTORE AMERICA! CUT GOVERNMENT 50%!

"The politicians only want power so they can 'serve' you."

"Extortion and thuggery are good things when they're called law!"

Larken Rose

Joseph Story, Supreme Court Justice
... when the court wasn't part of the L-E-J Cabal

 

Joseph Story (1779�1845) was born during the American Revolution, and came of age in the early years of the new United States of America. He was a scholar of the U.S. Constitution, and, eventually helped found the Harvard Law School.

In 1811, Story was appointed to the Supreme Court by President James Madison � who knew a few things about the U.S. Constitution, in that he helped write it. Story was a contemporary of another famous member of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Marshall (1755�1835).

In 1833, Justice Story published a study titled, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. In a discussion of the Second Amendment, Story stated:

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."

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[Editor's Note: what I have dubbed the "Legislative-Executive-Judicial Cabal" which the American People have caused by ignoring the generational transition from our Constitutional Republic to what now is, in effect, an "elected" dictatorship. Never mind who is elected. Never mind which bogus party is in power. The superficial, theatrically staged, choreographed appearance of debate, disagreement, and stalled legislation always resolves into more government and less FREEDOM. We the People still lose more freedom after every "emergency" or unnoticeably when CON-gress passes another general, open-ended law that enables the Executive (dictator) and its unaccountable agencies to formulate more freedom-restricting regulations (200 pages a day get posted to the Federal Register). The "Dictator's" agencies (police force) continue to pile-up more weapons to squelch uprising(s) when the People finally realize and understand their tyrannical government.

A Convention of States is necessary to amend the Constitution for Congressional Term Limits to twelve (12) years and restrict time in DC to only six (6) months per year. Such an Amendment is only a FIRST step in restoring America to its Constitutional roots. Back in the day when the People still feared kings, the president's term was limited by Constitutional Amendment.

Currently, CONgress is just a group of socialists, progressives, and faux-conservatives (career politicians) that, on a daily basis, ignores the Constitution, many of their own past statutes, and cedes their responsibilities to the president ("elected" dictator). A comparison to the history of Rome becomes more and more credible with the Executive and its "featherbedded" lackeys gaining more power while CONgress sits back all fat-dumb-and-happy.

CONgress has made recent efforts to expose State Dept. failures in Benghazi (inept political leader), Fast-and-Furious gun-running (criminal AG), IRS 1st amendment violations, gov't union Veterans Administration fraud, and whining about Obama(Reid)-killer-Care, but these efforts are mostly politics as usual. Most "citizens" will forget about these infringements from our unaccountable, uncontrollable Executive branch with its tyrannical agencies staffed by socialist unions that extort "juicy" contracts from the "elected" dictatorship.

Most positions in the federal government whether elected, appointed, or hired are nominal, make-work jobs (confidentially) designed merely to grow government, bilk money from private businesses and citizens, and eventually fully transform America into a totalitarian state. When this happens, CONgress will have destroyed the economy and the country by their negligence and counter-liberty policies, and it will be almost impossible to Restore America. The 'Restore America' list is only a beginning too.]

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

James Madison, Federalist Paper 47, Friday, February 1, 1788

Anyone who believes this country is free is an idiot!

RESTORE AMERICA! CUT GOVERNMENT 50%!

"Extortion and thuggery are good things when they're called law!"

Larken Rose

[Editor's Note: a Constitutional Convention is required to reverse the damage to freedom and liberty since 1900. This Article V was ratified by the participants at America's founding Constitutional Convention as an alternate path for repairing damage to freedom and liberty, a path for the People to restore damage caused by our failed representatives in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of a government designed to represent the wishes of We the People.

The States must "demand" a Convention and explicitly specify an agenda of:

  1. laws to be repealed or modified,
  2. Amendments to existing constitutional clauses that define the co-equal branches to further specify and define, and
  3. new Amendments or statutes to be eventually ratified by States.

These Amendments should further specify and clarify the powers of the Legislature and Executive Branches. A good example is the definition of a "Bill". A Bill should contain ONLY verbiage in regards to the topic of the future law. NO earmarks and NO unrelated sections or attacments.

Many past Bills sent to a president for signature contained unrelated but essential funding sections that rendered the Bill veto-proof when it warranted a veto. CON-gress can override a veto if the Bill is deemed absolutely necessary by CON-gress. If the Bill requires SPECIFICALLY related amendments, the CON-gress can "debate" (with its usual theater) and vote any new amendments.

The original text of the Constitution contains some very GENERAL clauses enabling both CON-gress and Executive branches to write laws and regulations with their particular nuances expanding powers beyond intent. "Intent" may be gleaned from a complete understanding of Federalist Papers. An example of further specification and clarity for CON-gress should be a clear, very specific definition of the boundaries for the interstate Commerce Clause.

To restore freedom, liberty, and individuality - minimally these must be repealed:

  1. the 16th Amendment,
  2. the Federal Reserve Act,
  3. the War Powers Act,
  4. all Asset Forfeiture laws,
  5. the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)
  6. the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act
  7. NDAA
  8. Homeland Security which includes TSA
  9. the Dodd�Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
  10. most Eminent Domain laws, and
  11. the Affordable Care Act

Currently, even with computer-searching systems, the list of antiquated and/or obsolete statutes (and related regulations) is unwieldy. These statutes must be invalidated unless there remains an applicable reason for retaining the law(s).

Aside from invalidating statutes, there are many regulations that are biased in favor of large enterprises (who buy support from bureaucrats) at the expense of the competition, effectively repressing the Free Market. Any regulations not related to public safety that gives a financial advantage to some companies over their smaller rivals must be rescinded to enable all companies with good consumer products to excel without burdensome regulations.

Additionally, the Convention should adopt for ratification at least these new Amendments or statute modifications:

  1. clearly define and limit the role of government in regards to the term "general welfare",
  2. Term Limits for CON-gress (12 years) including a 6 month limit on time residing in DC,
  3. strict Prohibition of Lobbying (with a comprehensive definition of "lobbying"), and
  4. a Balanced Budget Amendment to stop wreckless spending. During a CON-gressionally declared "war" (only after USA is attacked or attack is proven "imminent"), deficit spending is permissible.
  5. Restore America to its roots, i.e. Defense, State, Treasury, and Justice. Some Agencies are required like CIA and NSA, both respectively focused on defense against real foreign aggressors and not fictitious paranoid delusions of war mongers. Other agencies help where certain interstate communications are necessary. Most agencies like Agriculture, Education, DEA, IRS (eliminated with 16th Amendment) and many other listed here should be eliminated.
  6. Restore the world Gold Standard with five contentious steps, and
  7. Replace the IMF, World Bank, and Export-Import Bank with facilities that reflect the new Gold Standard, and
  8. After decentralizing and economizing, if tax revenue is needed to fund all or part of the federal government, then implement the Fair Tax.

Regarding a Constitutional Convention itself, some of the available literature warns the reader about a possible "unstructured" and "mismanaged" Convention that might propose and adopt amendments that could damage the Republic. Possible, however, it is difficult to envisage how much more damage could done over what the L-E-J Cabal has already done. If the Convention's agenda and rules of order strictly prohibit violation of the rules and enable a vote on unlisted Amendments AFTER all others are adopted, then the Convention will be properly structured and managed. ]

FROM Project to RESTORE AMERICA

The FairTax is a consumption tax unilaterally applied to all Americans at the same rate. For businesses, payroll taxes would no longer exist. Our exports would include a heavy tax for overseas buyers purchasing our products, while our imports would be cheaper for us to purchase. I'm not sure how this would affect GDP, as more information is necessary.

According to the FairTax website, "Under the FairTax, every person living in the United States pays a sales tax on purchases of new goods and services, excluding necessities due to the prebate." The prebate gives every legal resident household an "advance refund" at the beginning of each month so that purchases made up to the poverty level are tax-free.

So a family of four making something like $50,000/year should not have to pay taxes, thus preventing an unfair burden on low-income families. Since the FairTax eliminates both federal and payroll taxes, you get to keep your gross pay amount of each paycheck earned.

Why Do We Need Term Limits?

John Adams said, �Without [term limits] every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey�. That being said, here are some of the reasons we believe our country needs Term Limits.

  1. Term Limits can help break the cycle of corruption in Congress. Case studies show that the longer an individual stays in office, the more likely they are to stop serving the public and begin serving their own interests.
  2. Term Limits will encourage regular citizens to run for office. Presently, there is a 94% re-election rate in the House and 83% in the Senate. Because of name recognition, and usually the advantage of money, it can be easy to stay in office. Without legitimate competition, what is the incentive for a member of Congress to serve the public? Furthermore, it is almost a lost cause for the average citizen to try to campaign against current members of Congress.
  3. Term Limits will break the power special interest groups have in Congress.
  4. Term Limits will force politicians to think about the impact of their legislation because they will be returning to their communities shortly to live under the laws they enacted.
  5. Term Limits will bring diversity of people and fresh ideas to Congress.

Term limits for lawmakers: when is enough, enough?

[Editor's Note: If you want to get rich, i.e. advance from a low paying government bureaucrat job on the local or state level, THEN GET ELECTED TO THE US CONGRESS (House or Senate). Once you're elected, it's easy to steal from your campaign contributions or the Congressional budget allocated to your seat and staff. You can go on a government-funded junket with 'lavishly' paid expenses. The list of ways to steal from the government while in office is inexhaustible. There are only a few Congressmen who left Congress just wealthy instead of a multi-millionaire. Of course, there are several who arrived in Congress as multi-millionaires and don't need to steal from the government.]