Where is America going?

I used to have great respect for Newt Gingrich ten years ago, but now he's almost a lib. He still talks like he's a conservative, but he isn't. He's all about global warming and he shares some other views of the libs as well.

Anyway, it looks like Michael Steele is thinking along the lines I like to see. This would be a great start and I agree with his points here but obviously there are more that should be included ... getting rid of the idiocy of political correctness, dealing with illegal aliens, and reducing the size/scope of government leap to mind.

I think the best way to reduce government is to stop them from taxing. We could start by implementing a way to stop them from increasing the debt ceiling every time they run short of money ... I mean, they don't even discuss it ... they just pass it every single time they need money ... it's absolutely ridiculous.

If the government didn't have money, they couldn't constantly hire more and more bureaucrats to fuck with people. And they wouldn't be free to constantly invent new problems to solve "for the people."

Here are some quotes from James Madison ... aka "The Father of the Constitution."

With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one...

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow.

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

And here are some quotes from Thomas Jefferson:

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best . . . (for) when all government . . . shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as . . . oppressive as the government from which we separated."

The greatest [calamity] which could befall [us would be] submission to a government of unlimited powers."

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society."