House Republicans, Democrats, & President Obama are in immediate danger of completely violating Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution of the United States of America which says clearly that:
"The Congress shall have power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States". The constitution does not make provision for any exceptions. It does not say that Congress, or the President, can in any way not do what the Constitution empowers them to do. It implies positively that they must do what it empowers them to do. The constitution needs to be understood as guided by the principles contained within the Declaration of Independence, as the document providing the legal basis consistent with the principles contained within the Declaration, which document reads as follows, : "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness..... (text omitted).... it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." We cannot possibly see, and it is unthinkable that any thinking, rational, American could possibly see the events taking place in United States politics, in relation to the nation's budgetary needs, as those are being discussed currently, as consistent with those most foundational principles of American law. It is unthinkable and the worst possible example that America could now give to other nations, other peoples, in the world community, as to how to meet those fundamental principles of the Declaration of Independence as it is enacted into the details of the Constitution of the United States, meant to enable those most fundamental principles into living realities. That failure of example comes at the worst possible time. It is unthinkable that potential default on the debt, failure to find acceptable means for raising revenues, cutting barely adequate and in some instances inadequate entitlement programs, services, even defence at a time of greatest and increasing dangers to the safety, security, of the United States, in violation of fundamentals to the facilitation of any real "pursuit of happiness" for massive numbers of Americans, is constitutional. It cannot be constitutional. It must not be constitutional. Reason must prevail in that realization of unconstitutionality and as to how that fact violates the most fundamental principles of all, enshrined in the Declaration upon which America's political system, its ideals, its progress, its foreign policies, its domestic affairs, are all entirely founded. It is a failure that must not happen. It is a failure that America must find a way to avoid. We must ask why a committee has not been struck by the House in conjunction with the President of the United States, Barack Obama, that would bring together the best minds to find a new solution to the debt, to building new revenue streams, to revitalizing the economy, consistent with the principles of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution of the United States. That committee ought to be comprised of the best minds, from right and left wing economic viewpoints, non partisan, Republicans, Democrats and others who excel on matters of direct relevance, to rebuild the economic basis to assure that what the Declaration and the Constitution demand of Congress and the President, are realizable and are realized in fact. That debts are paid, revenue streams built, by means of progressive innovation, entitlements improved rather than curtailed or cut, programs improved rather than reduced or cut, such that "the common defence and general welfare of the United States" of "we the people" is served according to how the Declaration and the Constitution both demand that that ultimate purpose of government be properly served. A nation that can bring together the best minds in engineering and science to build nuclear weapons, the atom bomb, the hydrogen bomb, the neutron bomb, can surely bring together the best minds in economics, finance, and business, to resolve its fiscal difficulties, positively, not negatively. Not by cuts to programs, entitlements, services, security, well being, but positively to maintain and improve programs, entitlements, services, security and well being, by means of improved revenue streams, rebuilding what is broken, failing, inadequate, in the economy and in government finance, to meet national ideals, before those ideals themselves are perished into being mere words on paper, with no meaning, as the world watches, no longer taking the principles contained in those words, seriously, because America does not take them seriously enough, and is not exemplary enough in its own conduct of its own fiscal, government, affairs. America can build rockets to send men and machines into space, but it cannot seem to find a way to deal with its deficit, and it cannot seem to find a way to further, defend, secure and facilitate "the pursuit of happiness" and other ideals upon which it is fundamentally based. That is an absurd contradiction. America must be able to do better at economics, at meeting fiscal needs, at furthering 'the common defence and general welfare of the United States" of "we the people" of the United States, in terms of assuring life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. The current situation of fiscal crisis ultimately imperils those fundamental principles for many, if not most, whether in the short or long term, and most of all it imperils how the world views America, its ideals and its means and ways to the pursuit and achievement of its ideals. It puts America into question. Bob Ezergailis Hamilton, Canada -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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