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Please present a law or authority to support that claim.
The law on the books refutes that notion.
Article 4, Section 4, USCON.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion ....
GOVERNMENT (Republican Form of Government)- One in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the people and are exercised by the people, either directly, or through representatives chosen by the people, to whom those powers are specially delegated.
- - - Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, P. 695
The servant government serves the sovereign people - in the republican form.
The subject citizens serve the government - in the democratic form.
Because they could well turn violent. Plain and simple.
And they are doing just that already. Brainwashed into frothing hysteria, they are making violent threats against Democrats and there are more than 10 documented acts of violence so far against offices and other facilities related to democratic office holders. Plus some white powder stupidity in the mail.
Just today I heard an interesting analysis of the roots of what the TEA Party stands for. Its true ideological roots are based on opposition to the 14th amendment. The general proposition is that the USA belongs to White Europeans and others are not welcome. I'd go into this further but none of the right-wingers will ever listen to anyone with more sense than Glenn Beck. He claims to be a recovering alcoholic, an insult to everyone who is truly in recovery from the ravages of every type of addiction. His primary addiction now is obviously to fame, power and money. He and his f***tard friends like Rush, Hannity, and all the other drooling White Supremacist fascists want to turn the clock back a few hundred years to a time when they could shoot native Americans and declare war against Mexicans.
Its true ideological roots are based on opposition to the 14th amendment.
THERE IS SOME TRUTH IN THAT STATEMENT.
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
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What that means, is that Congress is prohibited by the 14th amendment of questioning the public debt, currently in excess of 12 trillions.
Why should we want to question it?
Well, first off, Congress is delegated the power to COIN MONEY (stamp bullion) and BORROW MONEY. [Art. 1, Sec. 8]
If Congress had the power to make money, why would it need the power to borrow it?
The next question: where's the lawful money lent to the Congress to substantiate that public debt? [Fort Knox has only 147.4 million ounces of gold ]
By law, only gold and silver coin are tender in payment of debt.
Federal Reserve notes (dollar bills) are promises to pay dollars IN THE FUTURE. [see: Title 12 USC sec. 411] That promise was repudiated in House Joint Resolution 192, in 1933.
What was lent to Congress to substantiate that public debt?
12 trillion dollar debt computes to a legal obligation to stamp 600 billion ounces of gold into coin. [see: Coinage Act of 1792, et seq.]
Estimated world wide supply of above ground gold is only 5.5 billion ounces. (2008)
ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz..... boink.
[This post has been intercepted by the Thought Police. Do not question the debt. Please go back to your regularly scheduled propaganda session.]
Your statement that the Dems are too far right shows your total lack of knowledge on the subject. This is the most leftist Congress ever in the history of this Country. Amazing. Regan saved the economy after the other moron, Carter left it in a shambles. Read some history.
Carter never had a choice in the matter ... I put the blame squarely onto Nixon/Ford ... Obama, not too unlike Carter, is currently forced to use the same playbook .. doing all of the wrong things at all of the wrong times .. just like Carter did. Obama's policies will make things worse .. just like Carter's did.
As with the 70's, it took a Republican to help get us into this mess (Nixon), and it will take a Republican to get us out (Reagan) ...
Carter never had a choice in the matter ... I put the blame squarely onto Nixon/Ford ... Obama, not too unlike Carter, is currently forced to use the same playbook .. doing all of the wrong things at all of the wrong times .. just like Carter did. Obama's policies will make things worse .. just like Carter's did.
As with the 70's, it took a Republican to help get us into this mess (Nixon), and it will take a Republican to get us out (Reagan) ...
ahhh Reaganomics..
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Other economists, however, are far less willing to give Reagan credit for the boom. They argue that the big deficits generated by the drop in tax revenues were detrimental to business investment; had the red ink continued, it would have been much harder for companies to fund their spending on info tech in the 1990s.
Instead, these economists believe far greater kudos go to President Bill Clinton for raising taxes and bringing down the budget deficit. "As for Reagan being responsible [for the 1990s boom], that's far-fetched," says another Nobel prize winner, Robert Solow of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "What we got in the Reagan years was a deep recession and then half a dozen years of fine growth as we climbed out of the recession, but nothing beyond that."
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