The colonists of this land that became the United States, after liberating themselves from the monarchy of King George, didn't even want a central government, but instead formed a loose confederation of independent sovereign states. When it became evident that a more organized national government would be needed, even against the opposition of many still not wanting anything to do with a centralized government, they called for a constitutional convention. By all accounts it is obvious that, having the memory of the oppressive empire of the King of England fresh in their minds and no consensus about how to go about forming a national government, they did agree that any centralized government, no matter what, should be limited.
The spirit and intent of the Constitution of the United States, to protect people and the states against a tyrannical central government, is clear and unequivocal. Even so, since its inception the national government has steadily and systematically been incrementally eroding away the constitutional protections of individual liberty and state sovereignty and progressively transformed itself into to the tyrannical government against which our forefathers fought the revolutionary war.
The federal government has, by subterfuge and obfuscation, got away with flagrantly disregarding its constitutional limits and relentlessly taking over of the self governing authority of states, by means that would be deemed bribery, extortion and robbery if done by anyone else. Two centuries of misconduct by government and negligent trust by the people has culminated in the current messed up state of affairs, a president bypassing congress and issuing edicts as if a king, warrantless searches and seizures, levying of taxes disguised as fees and penalties by unelected bureaucrats, debt backed up by promises government has no way of keeping, federal judges legislating from the bench, outright breaches of the Constitution by the government in Washington D.C.
The central government of today is far from limited. Many elected representatives, especially Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, have expressed the sentiment that trust in government has declined and needs to be restored. I put it to you that people should never trust the federal government. It has been generations of passive and indifferent people trusting the central government that has allowed it to become the nearly totalitarian state that it is. The fact that, once they go to Washington D.C. and become part of it, they want us to trust government more just goes to show they are in reality more interested in continuing to advance the scope and power of central government, and thereby their own power. If they actually represented us, they would be at least as suspicious of it as we who elected them, if not more so.
It is highly unlikely that anyone elected to federal office will ever be able to accomplish any kind of reduction of government. There's no reason to expect government to limit itself. So, we must do it ourselves on the local level by having the states call for a Constitutional Convention as per Article 5 of the Constitution. It won't be easy, but it can be done. It must be done if the U.S. government is to be kept from becoming a totalitarian state and/or borrowing itself into oblivion.
Fundamental Transformation
It couldn’t have been said any better than Monica Crowley did on the Fox News Hannity Special with Mark Levin August 16, 2013, “In 2008 .[candidate for president] Obama spoke repeatedly about the fundamental transformation of the nation. Here we are five years later. We’ve got five years of evidence as to what he meant by that, meaning move the country away from a constitutional republic based on individual liberty and economic freedom toward a government dependency and welfare state. My worry is that he has moved us past the tipping point where more people are dependent on government than not and that he is actually changing the very character of the country.”
Obamacare Navigators
In Nancy Pelosi’s infamous statement about obamacare she left out a crucial part. Her complete statement should have been like this, “We need to pass this law so that we here in Washington D.C. can spend 67 million dollars more on navigators to help find out what’s in it.”
Government Gets Its Power From The Consent Of The People.
Our government, of the United States of America, as designed and specified in the Declaration of Independence, was instituted to secure self-evident unalienable rights and derives its “powers from the consent of the governed”, and “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, …”
The Diminishing Of Respect For The Presidency
It is Obama’s own words and actions that brought disrespect and disgrace upon the Office of the President of the United States of America.
Think For Yourself And Do Something About It
Every person who thinks for himself, as well as many who don’t, knows the wisdom of the excerpt from Benjamin Franklin’s Historical Review of Pennsylvania of 1759, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
“Love your country, but never trust its government.” -- Robert A. Heinlein
I put it to you that the only ones that would have problems because of people not trusting government are Obama and the other big government politicians and bureaucrats in Washington D.C. All the problems that will bother them would come from not having more and more power over the ordinary people living in the United States of America, and will certainly not be a problem for the people. Obama said, "If people can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust Congress, and don't trust federal judges, to make sure that we're abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we're going to have some problems here."
It is indeed too much trust in government by the people over the last hundred years or so that has allowed the problem to exist of federal government in Washington D.C. becoming way more powerful than it was ever intended to be.
It wasn't the executive branch people didn't trust; it was Obama. He was the most dishonest president ever, even more so than Nixon and more inept than Carter. In contrast to Reagan, who was portrayed by history as “the great communicator”, Obama will go down in history as “the imperious obfuscator.”
Welfare Tax Dollars At Waste
Eighty government programs, supposed to help poor people, cost a total of a trillion dollars a year. Only one of them was affected by the Clinton sponsored Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. As a result HHS welfare rolls decreased 80% and fewer people were living in poverty. In spite of that, Obama, on May 31 1997 in the Illinois state legislature, said “I probably would not have supported the federal legislation" and, in a 1996 interview in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, referred to the PRWORA welfare reform as “disturbing.”
Total welfare given out by the government is now the equivalent of 5 times the amount of money that could totally eliminate poverty in the U.S. Nearly 200 BILLION dollars a year. Shouldn't that be enough for a welfare recipient population of around 16 percent?
Personal Responsibility And Work Opportunity
When he signed the PRWORA into law in 1996 Clinton said of the welfare to work provision, “Today, we are taking an historic chance to make welfare what it was meant to be, a second chance, not a way of life.” This was the only real accomplishment that can be credited to Clinton for reducing dependence on government. Yet, Obama unlawfully ordered HHS to ignore it, thereby increasing dependence upon government, resulting in more people being trapped in poverty.
