Category: Missing Trillions

A look at Article 8; Oversights and Abuses

There was an observation of a prominent news outlet. It was said, “Maybe people will see just how much the Federal Government does because of this shutdown.” The statement was a valid one. Not for the reasons that the news outlet reinforced, though; it was an attempt to say, “You need your Federal Government.”

      Under the current order, that statement is correct, but should it be? Do we really want umbrella governance, with such supreme dominance of control over so much of our daily functions? Would it not be better to restrict the Federal Government to what the United States Constitution intended the Federal Government to manage?

               Article 8 of the Constitution, Powers of Congress:

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; To borrow money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; To establish Post Offices and Post Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

               Section eight is violated thrice thus far, highlighted in bold, the underlined portion has been abused to extend the power of congress infinitum, creating the monster that the federal government has become today.

               Common defense and general welfare: so, taxes for this purpose, states that any welfare that does not apply to all its citizens (general) should not be accessible to our taxes. For example: food stamps restricted by income, discriminates from the general welfare, and is thus not applicable and would fall out of the purview of the federal government.

               Another insight is the pentagon’s separation from the power and control of the Congress. When the Pentagon was audited, it was found that 21 trillion could not be accounted for. We still do not know what has happened to that money. What does the Pentagon do in response to this finding? They determine that their bookkeeping practices were insufficient in regards to denoting such discrepancies! In other words, they needed to get better at not getting caught.

               Moving on, “To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures.”

               The Federal Reserve, that I might add our forefathers and authors of this noble document were vehemently against, has made our Congress impotent to effect value or regulation. The abhorrent organization is not selected by our congressional body, and even when Congress attempts to audit this parasite, it is impervious to any meaningful speculation.

               The Federal Reserve unduly ties financial interest to our daily governance. Which is well documented, in the objections of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. They argued that it was unconstitutional, that the Congress was and is the responsible party, not a central bank, and that it would take the power away from the individual. James Madison said it was not within the power of the congressional body to create such a body or any other governing body. I would have to agree, that was not listed as one of their powers. Remember the constitution was written to limit the power of the federal government.

               If you look at any attempt of our modern Congress to bring to bear the will of the people on to the Federal Reserve, they were met with indifference and outright defiance. The current Federal Reserve’s members are not selected by Congress, and they don’t even have to be U.S. citizens! Obviously, the interest of the people has been made impotent. Why then should we not sever the central bank from our governing bodies, and simultaneously abolishing the fiat currency that this bank marionettes as our currency?

               Thirdly, “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”

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               This device was designed to promote innovation, but alas if anything is invented that threatens the existing infrastructure it is gobbled up by the invention secrecy act of 1952. As of 2017, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 5784 inventions have been ceased, even those by private citizens. How then are we to grow as a people?

               Finally, “And To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.”

               Has this final statement been abused? Should we confine its language or develop constraints that prevent our corrupted governing bodies from further decaying our personal liberties?               

In the end, you either support a Draconic Empire or a Free Republic. You can’t see what we have become as both. What would you support? Think about the “programs” that pacify, and yes provide for our people; they are unconstitutional if you take the literal meaning, “general welfare” to heart. Would you shoulder that hardship to be truly free? If we all worked for our general welfare, we could take back our basic liberties. We have given too much freedom away, but do you want it back? What say you?

The Will of the Citizen Must Be Felt

               What would you do if your employer stopped paying you? Would you quit? Would you continue to work for no pay if they promised to pay you on a later date? Would the people and businesses that you pay on a month to month basis for your utilities, rent, and groceries just give you a head nod if you told them that your employer hasn’t paid you yet, but they promised they would later? If they did, how long do you think they would float you? How long before you start looking for another job?

               Our federal employees don’t even have the ability to strike under our current laws. There is no available recourse for our citizens that are employed by the federal government, except to wait and hope that they’ll get a paycheck when the smoke clears. It’s obvious to this observer that our laws do not reflect justice.

               The 1981 Strike of the air traffic controllers was resolved when the Reagan and the Federal Government said if you strike as a federal employee your basically fired. Well, what do we do as employees of the Federal Government when a said government doesn’t pay its employees?

               Folks, if we are going to shut down the federal government, we should demand it remains shut down until they provide accurate documentation as to where the missing trillions that the Pentagon has misplaced; we have a right as citizens to know where such prolific amounts of our tax dollars have been poorly allocated to. It isn’t in the economy if that amount of money was injected into our economy, our already watered-down currency would capitulate into nothing.

               That money went somewhere and, with the formation of the Space Force, I’m betting it’s above our heads, and if it is, we the people are certainly grown up enough to know what our hard-earned tax dollars are up to, in regards to space operations. There most definitely is a secret space program, and I’m betting it’s been in full swing since at least the eighties, if not long before then.

               What about other federal agencies that openly operate in secret; the CIA, NSA, DEA, FBI, these are just the obvious agencies, what about how our border agents, ICE, and Homeland Security that have been openly deceiving the public, separating family’s months before the policy was made public, and continued to do so after they claimed to cease such activities.

               The CIA had conducted experiments that push the limits of our imagination: They used clairvoyants to spy into the future, they discovered a cyclable catastrophe cycle and then classified the information to keep the public operating as business as usual. The NSA collects all of our electronic data, and I mean ALL of it. I could keep going, but I fear you would dismiss me out of hand, because of just how unbelievable it all sounds.

               My point being, the citizens have lost control of this monster we call the Federal Government. We should do what anyone would do if a beast of burden turns on its master, we should put it down. We have no hope to co-opt it from the dark actors that have corrupted every corner of this once noble apparatus. We can’t even get the stage actors of the House and Senate to act in the publics best interest anymore.               

All the Federal Employees should quit. As one. You can’t strike, but if you quit and you do it with a singular will, this government will fear you once more. Wake up America. The Monster is about to turn on us.