Posted by
drpete on Saturday, April 04, 2009 7:52:35 AM
It is my conviction that the Founders of these United States of America possessed collective genius. They somehow understood, for example, that human rights come not from a king or a government, but from the Creator and, thus, are unalienable.
The
Constitution
they -- as "We the People of the United States" -- crafted prohibited the federal government from exercising any power or authority not explicitly enumerated.
Those Founders with their collective genius rightly feared that the
Constitution could, and would, not survive without a moral people. The 16th amendment, ratified in 1913, must have shaken the Founders' graves. Then, in the 1930s President Franklin Delano Roosevelt single-handedly "trashed" our
Constitution more than all of his predecessors combined . . . a hundredfold.
FDR's Federal Reserve Bank Chairman -- a former Macy's ceo -- supersized 1913 by forcing all employers to withhold income taxes rather than taxpayers stroking a check each March 15. Thus, taxes were no longer paid; they were taken. Government is constantly working to expand itself, never to limit itself. The "expansions" of Presidents William Taft in 1910s and Roosevelt in the 1930s, along with all who've followed their precedents, all remain with us today.
We at
GetAmericaRight seek to cause the federal government to not only limit itself, but to
shrink itself. We seek nothing less than to save America . . . from itself.