Americans for Limited Government
Americans for limited government still exist, despite these dark days of obsession with top-down government correction. Americans for limited government are people, everyday people, who don't want every aspect of their lives controlled by the government.
Typically, people who want a lot of government "correction" and intervention (outside of the Democrats and RINOs in Washington, DC) are do-gooders. They think that since things are not perfect, they need to be made more perfect by that embodiment of higher moral authority--the government. Yeah, right.
There's an old adage that the highway to Hell is paved with good intentions. But of course, our mad Lib friends cannot abide anything older than what has been thought of or produced in the last 10 years (unless it was some Liberal politician, of course).
WHAT IS LIMITED GOVERNMENT, AND WHERE DOES LIMITED GOVERNMENT COME FROM?
Somehow, it has been forgotten or ignored that our Constitution answers the question of "where does limited government come from"? That, and the extra-textual documents written by the great Founders of this nation as they worked out exact concepts and definitions of things written in the Constitution and Bill of Rights so that we didn't need to. But I guess the mad Libs are jealous that someone else stole "their" glory.
For instance, Americans for limited government are people who grasp the essential meaning of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, in which it is stated that the Congress shall provide for the "general welfare of the United States". Now, modern day Libs and their political puppet masters think this means the Congress can do just about anything it wants to, as long as it's done in the name of the "general welfare" or, even better, as long as it's "all for the children".
But here's James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution", writing in a letter to Edmund Pendleton all about Article I, Section 8. "If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one ...With respect to the two words 'general welfare', I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."
And the great Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated...Whensoever the General [federal] Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."
Yet, there are those who want to tell you how to live your life if they don't think your lifestyle is "healthy enough" for their tastes--and, ergo, would cost their poor, pitiful selves too much money in the taxes that they are happy to have you pay out for them.
WHAT IS LIMITED GOVERNMENT TODAY?
Well, this is a hard question to answer, for out current President and Congressional majority seek to turn the world upside-down.
Our current government has now seen fit to launch an all-out attack on the oil and gas industry in the form (just to start with) of outrageous taxes to be imposed, and then of course there is the looming spectre of imposing arbitrary limits on how much CEOs can make. This attack seems poised to extend to basically all of our technological advancements that have made this nation the crown, and the envy, of the rest of the world. Emperor Dumbo, before he was elected, said, "we have to get used to the idea that we can’t keep our houses at 72, drive our SUVs, and eat all we want.” Who can't, Mr. Emperor? "We" actually means "You, the puny People", doesn't it? For you and your Ministers are not going to curb a damned thing about your lifestyles, are you?
Besides...this is all based around this false, blatantly fraudulent notion about American "over-consumption" and "greenhouse gas creation".
I am going to quote much of the response of one Arthur B. Robinson, president and professor of chemistry at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, because I could never say this better myself.
Says Dr. Robinson, "I don’t want to give up eating all I want because of a failed hypothesis...[31,000 U.S. scientists have signed a petition to reject the notion that] human release of greenhouse gases is damaging our climate...World temperatures fluctuate all the time. The temperature of the Earth has risen many times, far more times than carbon dioxide could drive it. There is no experimental evidence that humans are changing the environment...America is buying 30 percent of its energy abroad... Now we’re getting to the point where we can’t afford energy abroad. The problem was created by state and federal taxation against…now they want to [make]…further regulations that will stop these hydrocarbons...Industry is required to give you all the things you want, ranging from pencils to cars. When you take away technology, you lose all those things. Anything that was created with any sort of technology was created by energy...[What Liberal Democrats propose would bring about the] greatest technological genocide you can imagine. We wouldn’t have six billion people on Earth without technology. If you reduce energy, you [are also] reducing technology. The biggest problem is people in the third world who die in enormous numbers...There could be vast human suffering, death, and terrible wars, because big wars usually start over resources. And there’s no way people will understand what’s happening...when you start starving large portions of the population and diminishing the prosperity of others."
If you're one of the Americans for limited government, you understand what progressivism doesn't--where to draw the line.
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