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While looking at the DrudgeReport I noticed an ad for Obama.  It was how much money I would save through his tax plan.  I thought to myself, “Is this guy trying to buy my vote?”.  What isn’t mentioned is what it is going to cost me.

There is only really two types of government, rule by law, and rule by oligarchy.  Take most of the systems, monarchy, communism, dictatorship.  They are all rule by a few over the masses.  Even democracy turns into an oligarchy soon enough.  Most people do not take the time to learn about proper government or even the rules setup for our government.  The masses are easily swayed by the mass media.  Only a limited government which is kept in these limits will not turn into an oligarchy.

The Constitution was setup to be a covenant between the people and the government.  The government is a creation of the people for a specific purpose.  That purpose is clearly defined in the Constitution but scheming men have taken our government far beyond those bounds.  The powers of government have slowly been extended to take away more states’ rights and individual freedoms.

What is the effect of all of this?  Instead of power being in the hands of many it has been concentrated into the hands of the few.  Wealth is increasingly being concentrated into the hands of the few.  Is this starting to look like a monarchy?

I would like to examine a few governmental policies and explain how this is happening.  Let us look at welfare and illegal immigration.  Say I have a job working at a local store.  The pay is meager and and I cannot make ends meet.  My choices are to ask for a raise, get a better job, or live off of the taxpayers.  What do most people choose?  The easiest, live off of the tax payers.  That along with illegal immigration provides cheap labor.  Cheap labor means that the companies have more profit and most of that money ends up in the hands of the rich.  Who ends up paying for it welfare and the costs of illegal immigration?  The middle class of course.  The wealthy are prety good at avoiding taxes.  Warren Buffet once bragged he payed a lower tax rate than his secretary.

Of course we can also look at the bailouts.  How much of this money is going to undeserved bonuses for the wealthy?  I don’t mind them getting bonuses if the company wants to give it to them but I do mind it when my tax dollars are used to pay bonuses or bailout any company for that matter.

These are both examples of government being used to take money from one group to give to another.  We don’t have to look far for more examples.  Just look at Proposition 1.  How can this possibly benefit a few?  I attended the county council meeting where they decided if it should be on the ballot and one of the major proponents ended up being a consultant for the Trust for Public Lands.  That group gets 10% of the money raised in order to manage the easements purchased.  Of course she was very reluctant to admit to this conflict of interest.  I later heard radio advertisements and received mailers.  I wondered who was paying for these.  It turns out that one of the major donors to the cause was the Trust for Public Lands.  Of course they had a financial motive to have this thing passed.  Another major donor was an individual who had benefited from previous easements.  I wonder if he was trying to get more.  

There are plenty of people who think they can spend your money better than you can.  Instead of forcing people to pay for your projects let them individually decide if it is worth paying for or not.

A really interesting thing to listen to is Glenn Beck about socialism and communism.  I suggest you listen to it.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTDmGt1

Many people underestimate the serious threat which gay marriage is to our society.  Fortunately I was able to live in CT while the state legislature was trying to force civil unions on the people.  I was able to be educated about what was really going on  and what the potential ramifications were.  I will list a couple.

Gay marriage will be taught in schools.  As we have seen in Massachusetts gay marriage will be taught as the norm in public schools.  Others will decide what is appropriate for your kids to learn and not you. In Massachusetts a group called GLSEN was allowed to hand out very graphic how-to books to junior high kids. Sex surveys were given to elementary kids.

You may be sued if you oppose it.  We have seen in Canada that groups have been sued for ‘discriminating’ against homosexuals by not providing services for gay weddings.  This has happened to the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic group, and a card manufacturer.  A doctor in California was sued for not helping a lesbian couple have a baby even though the doctor did it on religious beliefs and referred them to another doctor.  A photographer was fined in New Mexico for refusing to take pictures at a homosexual commitment ceremony.

People who oppose it will be discriminated against.  There have been efforts in California to prevent judges who belong to any group that finds homosexual acts immoral to rule on any case involving homosexuals.  Of course the reverse would not apply.  As we as a society continue to accept homosexuality as being OK those who oppose it will be treated much like racists are today.  It will likely become much like the GDR where it was OK to be a member of a religion but it meant that you would never get ahead in your career.

It is a threat to religious organizations.  A Canadian Ministry was fined for firing an employee who had committed homosexual acts even after the employee had signed an agreement saying she would abstain from immoral acts.  An adoption agency in Massachusetts was shutdown after refusing to adopt to homosexual couples.  It wouldn’t be surprising to see churches lose their tax exempt status for preaching that homosexual acts are wrong.

What should we do?  Of course this is just one perspective and there are many other reasons why this is a bad thing.  Go and educate yourself why this is bad and what threats there are.  Be involved.  Some people use covert methods to get their way.  There was a late USU president who tried to get USU to recognize gay marriages.  The only reason that I found out was that I was involved.

Watch out for hate crimes, a.k.a thought crimes. What they do is give extra protection to certain classes. Instead of punishing people for what they actually do they are punished for who they commit the crime against. Why should a homosexual get more protection than another? How long until it is just a crime to have a standard which others don’t like?

Now, I am not saying we should treat people who have homosexual feelings poorly. They need to be loved and respected just like anybody else.  Most are not part of this sinister plot but are only pawns.

The county platform states that “We applaud Republican efforts to return authority from the Federal
government to the citizens and to our local governments.”  I was listening to Rob Bishop speak today at USU and he stated that he wanted to lose power by returning power back to the states.  I must say that I completely agree.

To properly understand federalism we must go back to when the Constitution was written.  There was a central government set up but it was very weak under the Articles of Confederation.  The government didn’t have power to do anything and it showed.  Something had to be done to keep the momentum gained from the Revolution to unite the states to a common government.

Due to a miracle the Constitution was formed.  It was a union of the states in which the states still held most of the power.  The federal government was created to do a limited number of things that the states could not do individually.  To ensure that the federal government did not absorb to much power very specific roles were given to it and soon after the 10th amendment made sure that it kept to those roles.  It states that ‘”The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Unfortunately the lines have become blurred and rationalizations were used to create massive federal programs.  For example, the federal interstate program was created to help move troops.  It has now turned into a massive program by which the federal government controls the states.  Do what we want or you won’t get your road money.

So many of these programs have been created that many people look to the federal government instead of their local or state government or even themselves to solve current problems.

Many feel that the “General welfare” clause gives the federal government unlimited power to do whatever they want.  It states -

“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; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;”

Unfortunately the meaning of the word welfare has changed.  According to the American Heritage Dictionary the word means

welfare n. 1. health, happiness, or prosperity; well-being. [<ME wel faren, to fare well]

If it is the case that the founders meant this clause to allow for unlimited federal government what is the purpose of the 10th Amendment?