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We The People should hate on, not only the Patriot Act, but every other "we have to pass it to see what's in it" piece of vast legislation that is: - rammed th

We The People should hate on, not only the Patriot Act, but every other "we have to pass it to see what's in it" piece of vast legislation that is: - rammed through substantially unread; - despite its prolix nature, is hardly more than a requirements outline to be filled in by un-elected, faceless Executive Branch bureaucrats as "regulations"; - continues to place financial burdens on unborn generations with gusto--"Taxation without representation" turned up to eleventy. Rather than offer a standard spleen dump, the broader point for this audience that's being made is that the government isn't scalable. The 1787 Constitution (while brilliant) is as a script that ran more-or-less well on a single instance, but has not forklifted into the cloud gracefully. And people are not software, but the readers of this site can make some important recommendations about how to capture the liberty we hold dear and avoid the various tyranny traps.

Something1234 5y ago
> - continues to place financial burdens on unborn generations with gusto--"Taxation without representation" turned up to eleventy. Can you expand on this?
- smitty1e 5y ago
  There was this hilarious John Boehner riff when he was speaker after 2010: “History has shown that future spending cuts rarely materialize,” said Andrew Roth, vice president of government affairs for the Club for Growth, which is best known for financing campaigns against Republicans deemed not conservative enough. "Nothing binds a future Congress from erasing them.” https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0728/Why-John-Boehner-is-determined-to-pass-his-doomed-debt-ceiling-bill https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0728/Why-John-Bo... However theoretically true Boehner's statement, the entitlement spending IS treated as binding, for all the unmet obligations of the government are something like an order of magnitude higher that the already ludicrous debt. No one can credibly accuse Congress of fiscal sobriety. Thanks, Johnny B.

Something1234 5y ago

> - continues to place financial burdens on unborn generations with gusto--"Taxation without representation" turned up to eleventy. Can you expand on this?

smitty1e 5y ago
There was this hilarious John Boehner riff when he was speaker after 2010: “History has shown that future spending cuts rarely materialize,” said Andrew Roth, vice president of government affairs for the Club for Growth, which is best known for financing campaigns against Republicans deemed not conservative enough. "Nothing binds a future Congress from erasing them.” https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0728/Why-John-Boehner-is-determined-to-pass-his-doomed-debt-ceiling-bill https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0728/Why-John-Bo... However theoretically true Boehner's statement, the entitlement spending IS treated as binding, for all the unmet obligations of the government are something like an order of magnitude higher that the already ludicrous debt. No one can credibly accuse Congress of fiscal sobriety. Thanks, Johnny B.