Barack Obama Will Not Be President Forever
I’ve been reading a lot lately. I read a lot anyway, but what I’ve been reading lately has been particularly disturbing. While our President is in London with the Queen, members of our Congress are looking to change Article I of the Constitution. In this article, it states that Congress is the sole entity constitutionally allowed to declare war. These afore mentioned members of Congress want to sneak a provision into a defense authorization bill that would give all authority to declare war to the president. The president seems to support this action, not necessarily in words but in actions. The “kinetic military action” in which we engaged in Libya is a glaring example of his support of congress’ provision. In response to a letter sent to the president from Speaker Boehner, the president merely asked for congress’ support in intervening in Libya. Knowing what we know, I don’t understand why the impeachment process hasn’t started.
Those of you who know me, know I’m not a fan on HR 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It is my belief that this is the first step in government takeover of health care. Our Federal Government has proven over and over again that the more responsibility they take on, the less efficient and cost effective they become. Our government has taken on the responsibilities of taking care of us when we are old, delivering our mail, paying our bills when we aren’t working, rebuilding our neighborhoods and towns when they are destroyed and educating our young, just to name a few. None of the previously mentioned programs are run very efficiently, they all take exorbitant amounts of time and money and they are bankrupting our country. However, we, as a society, have adopted this mentality that if the Federal Government stops funding or running something, it ceases to exist. All of these federally run programs would be more efficient and cost effective if they were run privately or on the state level, but that is not what this blog is about.
I titled this blog, “Barack Obama Will Not Be President Forever” because it’s true. Now, I’m certainly not wishing him ill, I am simply making a statement of fact. Even if congress changed the constitution tomorrow allowing him to run for presidential office as many times as he wants he still could not physically be president forever. So here is where the Libertarian side of me comes out, since we know Barack Obama is not capable of living forever, why are we granting him all this power? One day, hopefully sooner than later, he will inevitably pass the baton on to someone else and that person will inherit all the power congress is currently trying to give to President Obama. What really frightens me is that President Obama already has a tremendous amount of power, and I’m not a fan. I feel he has abused his position and his policies are destroying the American way of life. But most who still favor Obama forget, someday, within our lifetimes a man or woman will be voted President of the U.S. and you may not like him or her only now they have even more power. Did you read that? SOMEDAY SOMEONE WILL BE VOTED PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. AND HE OR SHE WILL HAVE EVEN MORE POWER. In the immortal words of John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Returning federally run programs back to the states or private sector to run does not destroy those programs, it makes them more efficient. If there is a market for these programs the people will make sure they exist. It’s time to start taking power and responsibility away from the Federal Government and giving it back to the voters and tax payers. The only way this country will crawl out of this economic disaster is to restore liberty to the people.
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