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Will Americans Finally Realize that the Feds Destroy Freedom?

All three branches, Legislative, Executive, and Judicial have contributed to the massive expansion of the federal government (GOV) over the last 120 years. During the expansion, GOV has passed laws that created so many agencies that CONgress and Executive operatives are unable to enumerate them, i.e., they don't know exactly how many agencies exist.

Also, many thousands of other statutes are/were passed by CONgress prohibiting so many activities that it has become impossible to track this "nation of laws"! Agencies post 50-200 regulations per day in the Federal Register enforcing laws passed by CONgress, and some regs expand the intended meaning of the law. Agencies are staffed by GOV employees who were not elected to represent private citizens, but these employees write very restrictive regs that increase their authoritative and administrative power over private citizens.

The Judicial branch since 1895 has, in many cases, sided with the GOV viewpoint or redefined a critical clause of a law to make it more favorable to GOV. A Judge or Justice is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate to interpret the Constitution or provide a resolution to a dispute not rewrite legislation to change the intended meaning.

The result of this massive expansion of laws and regulations is a GOV that is 40% of the economy with companies that derive 90% of income from GOV. GOV controls every facet of American life with regulations that restrain and restrict all forms of free behavior. WE the PEOPLE and States have allowed the GOV (created by States) to slowly force us to become part of federal collective that will fine or imprison citizens for not falling in line with their directives. This is not LIBERTY and FREEDOM. My definition of LIBERTY is to leave everyone alone to decide their own course in life. Life, Liberty, and Property is no longer the concern of GOV. The Constitution is relegated to history.

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"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." —George Orwell

TRUMP'S PROMISES
DEFIED/STALLED by CONgress & RNC

As of 7/25/17, there is a great amount of evidence that the Democrats are inflamed at the daily reminiscences of Hillary losing the election. The Democrats have constantly generated misdirection, making claims of Trump disclosing classified information, Trump obstructing justice, Trump committing treasonable offenses, Trump colluding with Russia's Putin, or Trump is psychologically incapable of holding the office of President.

The only evidence of collusion is between Obama, his lying, hyper-liberal media, and his criminal agencies—FISA courts, FBI, and NSA—whose activities to surveil the Trump campaign and his transition team are unconstitutional and have infringed the rights of citizens. Such activities are reminiscent of Soviet-style police tactics. While the AG, FBI, or CONgressional entity have not filed charges, Trump has demanded an investigation to no avail.

FROM Article V Convention of States Reaches Fox News

The other established TV media—ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN—constantly bend and shape the news or don't bother to show news that contradicts their hyper-liberal, socialist, and even felonious support for those who break the law if the given criminal reporter supports the TV program's  [socialist/progressive]  polemical view. Of course, all of these clowns are free [Constitution] to say anything they want. Citizens should be educated enough to [recognize and distinguish true news from] the freedom-restricting trash on TV today.

THESE CLAIMS ARE ALL BOGUS, PHONY, DESPERATE ACTIONS FROM DEMOCRATS WHO WANT MORE DISASTROUS GOVERNMENT SPENDING TO ENHANCE THEIR OWN POCKETS WITHOUT EARNING ANYTHING!

This is just desparate politics to smear Trump and build political support among Democrat voters for the mid-terms and 2020. The Democrat voters are still whining because they lost their socialist welfare payments or food stamps (some fraudulent) from government.

While all of this distracting, misdirecting, insolent garbage is distributed by Democrats and their Socialist media, CONgressional Democrats are obstructing progress on Bills, failing to confirm presidential appointees, and, generally, failing to perform their elective responsibilities. Everyday there is continual and demonstrative evidence not of adults elected to do a job for their State but of pouting and whining children who didn't get what they want. The method of their behavior comes from Saul Alinsky's and Obama's Rules for Radicals and the general socialist behaviors of disruption whenever their opposition might be making progress.

As of 6/8/2017 with the testimony of Comey, former director of FBI, has demonstrated by testifying against himself that his hyper-liberal bias against Trump and his presidency is his main motivation governing his actions as FBI director. Former AG Lynch has demonstrated the same kind of bias as Comey. The Justice Department is THE MOST CORRUPT in recent history.

We, currently, have a surprising Attorney General, an apparent "go along to get along guy", who fails to bring charges against Hillary for an obvious Gross Negligence charge maybe because of a sizeable donation from Hillary. Does anyone wonder why candidates run for office and hold keeping their office above their responsibility to their constituents? Does anyone wonder how an elected official goes to Washington as a lower middle class citizen with few assets and retires a multi-millionaire? Does anyone ask where campaign funds go? Why hasn't the AG brought charges against the director of the IRS, Koskinen, who was ultimately responsible for Lois Lerner's discrimination against conservative 501(c)(3)'s? Are laws only for non-government citizens?

June 15, 2015: Jim Jordan Calls IRS Commissioner a Lying Criminal!

Becky Gerritson: "...government is out of control!" and
"...our representative government has failed us."

Why Are Trump�s Justice Department Appointees Protecting the IRS?

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9/20/2017: Jason Chaffetz Testifies in re Obama & IRS

 

In fact, Trump has engineered the beginning of an economic turn-around from the previous direction toward Socialism, however, the radicals and the "Deep State" resist these changes toward restoration of Capitalism, the greatest wealth-producing political-economic system in history, expressed and formulated by Adam Smith. The desire to increase one's wealth is in the forefront of every industrious person's thoughts. But the industrious people carry the low-life slime of the population on their backs which emphasizes the need to make everyone productive in some way.

Trump has rescinded some very restrictive regulations but much more is needed. Outstanding Appointees have begun to repair damage caused previously by Obama's criminal agencies.

  1. If the "SWAMP" is drained first by creating a priority list of duplicative, wasteful, unnecessary Agencies to abolish and working with CONgress to amend or repeal laws that established the selected Agencies. Second by replacing all Obama holdover mal-contents with conservative supporters, and lastly reducing the headcount size and budgets of all agencies by at least 30-50% over eight years. This is the highest priority for reinventing the federal government, to increase its favorableness to citizens by restoring its Constitutional limitations. See Meckler: Why hasn't Trump drained the IRS/DOJ swamp?
  2. If Obamacare is entirely repealed (no taxes, no regs with States handling indigents) and,
  3. if Tax Reform reduces taxes for all including a 15% corporation tax and,
  4. if Annual Budgets proposed by OMB and passed by CONgress cut expenditures by 3% per annum (NOT reduce the annual increase) and,
  5. if Dodd-Frank is either repealed completely or amended to remove the autocratic Titles and,
  6. if the Wall is built with sensing electronics to detect possible tunneling and,
  7. if ICE enforces all VISAs meaning ICE will confirm that each person admitted to the U.S. on any kind of VISA for a specified Term of stay either extends their VISA's expiration (if desirable and possible) or leaves the U.S. on or before their VISA's expiration date and,
  8. if USCIS assures America that those persons who wish to gain asylum or become citizens in the U.S. are reputable, self-sustaining, English-speaking persons who are or have the potential to become productive citizens and,
  9. if NAFTA can be renegotiated to make the Agreement both fair and free and,
  10. if the infrastructure is rebuilt without funneling funds into inappropriate pockets and,
  11. if Trump can inspirit State/City police to support the removal and deportation of all illegal aliens and murderous gangs that infest and terrorize neighborhoods and,
  12. if Trump initiates via AG Sessions an investigation of Hillary Clinton's "pay-to-play favor mill" as Sec. of State.
  13. To prevent waste, fraud and abuse if the financial accounting systems of the federal government are upgraded to "interoperability" —meaning that ALL accounting systems of every department and agency communicate with each other—and the best and possibly more costly method for "connecting" all systems is to have only ONE accounting system with distributed databases for connection from each dept./agency to distribute accessibility. The 'response-time' on a given workstation at a given agency if connected to only one database shared by all agencies concurrently would slow to an unworkable pace since separate workstations across all agencies logged-in would degrade response-time. Therefore, if each dept./agency has connectivity to a separate database, response-time would not be a problem.

    The distributed databases could exist physically in an underground server farm at a very secure location. Very secure connectivity can be achieved over the internet with proxy servers for the secret accounting application and database servers. All transmissions would be communicated over SSL (secure socket layer) servers which are at least 128-bit encryted.

    The primary system would connect and accumulate the data from of each distributed database and consolidate the aggregated data into one consolidated database for producing annual consolidated statements. Of course, the single accounting system would use the standard GAAP approved, accrual-based accounting method for ALL accounting.

    Each dept./agency's accounting section would login to the main accounting system (by logging-in, the main system interface is programmed to recognize the user and select the correct distributed database), enter the dept./agency's 'Chart of Accounts', enter Assets/Liabilities, spread the annually budgeted income across the fiscal year's months, enter any specific fee income when collected, enter all expenses from agency approved expense sheets completed by employees (unless employees enter their own expenses using an online approved expense sheet program that communicates with the distributed database).

    All data would store in the distributed database(s) in preparation for the annual consolidated statements. Preliminarily, Consolidated Statements could be run at any time such as monthly, quarterly, and/or bi-annually to acquire information about compliance with budgets.

  14. I want EOs or legislation to make government union membership voluntary, and amend the federal Anti-Racketeering Act of 1934 to state that the use of violence by any Union to pressure businesses or government is also racketeering. Such violence is hardly different than the use of violence by organized crime or gangs to extort money from businesses—a "Protection Racket". Unions have caused havoc by working slowly, various acts of sabotage to halt work progress, and strike. Ideally, the best method for achieving higher pay is to consistently demonstrate creativity, leadership, and timeliness on the job.
  15. Nothing important since the National Labor Relations Act (1935) and Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 has passed CONgress to manage the power of unions—especially government unions. Claims of 1st Amendment infringement have been made, but just as citizens are free to assemble peaceably, the opposite is true, i.e. citizens should be free to NOT assemble if they choose. This freedom is not afforded government workers. Union membership is a condition of employment.

    then America will begin to restore greatness again, and the economy will blast-off into levels of prosperity unforseeable during the depressing Obama years.

In conjunction with Trump's push to rescind onerous regs, CONgress finally did something about controlling their creations (unaccountable 4th branch of government) by using the CONgressional Review Act (CRA) to dump onerous Obama agency regulations.

Also, CONgress passed a very needed law, 5 U.S. Code Ch. 8 - CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF AGENCY RULEMAKING, which requires Agencies (before a rule is official) to publish in the Federal Register: (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, (iv) a list of any other related regulatory actions intended to implement the same regulatory objective, thereby enabling the Comptroller General, director of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), to evaluate the need for any new rule and disapprove its enactment. Who knows, Agency rule-promulgators might intuitively and introspectively realize for themselves that a given new rule is just ridiculous and stupid. This might eliminate redundancy and cumbersome, burdensome rules that have stifled the economy and the general life of citizens.

Also, GAO is responsible for auditting the consolidated financial statements for the entire federal government. In 2016 addressing the audit of the 2015-2014 consolidated financial statements, the GAO concluded that there are "(1) serious financial management problems at DoD that have prevented its financial statements from being auditable, (2) the federal government's inability to adequately account for and reconcile intragovernmental activity and balances between federal entities, and (3) the federal government's ineffective process for preparing the consolidated financial statements." It seems obvious that to gain control of potentially corrupt and fraudulent agencies, the CONgress MUST force agencies to report inter-agency income, expenditures, and transfers so that the GAO can complete a successful audit of consolidated financial statements. This will only be possible with an agency-integrated system for posting all assets, equity, income, expenditures, and transfers.

But CONgress must reduce the number of agencies, and, at remaining agencies, cut their budgets reducing head counts by 30-50% to help balance the budget. This can increase CONgressional control of the remaining, necessary bureaucracies, essentially informing the independent agencies that CONgress is the observer and final arbiter of agency actions. Then, an integrated accounting system across agencies would enable GAO to finally report a complete audit.

The CONgress's sometimes corrupt and supposedly non-partisan CONgressional Budget Office (CBO) provides various publications among which are cost-justifications or forecasts of the financial effect of various new statutes. Several reports have been just plain wrong, the most glaring example was the evaluation of the ACA's (Obamacare) financial effect on the economy.

Statute amendments and revisions should include prohibitions against exceeding the budget and prohibitions against spending excess budgetary dollars in the spendthrift August-September spending spree months. The idea is to tighten controls over unaccountable, bureaucrat spending. Further, CONgress can amend the Social Security Act and the Medicare Act to insert specificity with regard to fraud, waste, and abuse. MANY laws are very old (1930s) and inapplicable with today's technology and industrial/technological (not agrarian) society.

Additional steps toward greatness involve the CONgress finally admitting that they have delegated most of their power to agencies, that they can't control their creations, and that CONgress must legislatively repeal some agencies and combine other agencies into more effective units. To regain control of remaining agencies, CONgress must refine the original statutes to increase specificity, to add more CONgressional strict oversight, and declare that union membership is voluntary. Lastly, employee count across agencies should be provided in statute with a specific definition of jobs for each agency and a maximum ceiling of funding.

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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.]