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Senate Passes "SOS" - Ignores "White Elephant"

By Betsy Ross

After the "People's House" failed to stop the freight train, late yesterday, the Senate passed the "Save Our Serfs" Stimulus Package with nary a media representative, Congressman or Senator speaking about the "White Elephant" in the room.

This bill lacks adherence to our Constitution, and it was promoted by a claimed "Constitutional lawyer", at that.

The American people, over 70% of them, and Wall Street, had already clearly spoken with respect to the enormous costs of this bill. They doubt that other than public sector jobs and those of university students working free on a government subsidized national health care database, few Americans will see much in the way of economic relief. Especially so, when the inflation taxes which will be the result of such an enormous debt, eats up any gain which may or may not have been made.

Washington did what it has done for the past two decades and with the same results - threw money at problems, without addressing their original negligence which lead to this catastrophe. Lack of regulation over the Federal Reserve and the major corporations doing business in this country on any effective level, and its own political corruption for their individual campaign donors at the cost of the American people - pure "corporate" socialism.

Many Senators and Congressmen complained about the lack of time to review this over 800 page bill, filled with more pork than any other bill before it.

The founders, of course, would never subject the American people to a "law" which they had no opportunity to review for Constitutionality at its very genesis, which is their solemn duty. Lack of Constitutionality is where this bill fails the test, and fails it abominably. Washington is simply redistributing the taxpayer's wealth or incurring taxpayer debt as it sees fit, not acting as the protector of American liberties and freedom. Much was included in the legislation for assistance to local governments, which were also caught up in freewheeling spending without accountability. Thos local bodies pass a great deal of legislation which has nothing to do with their own constitutions, and often include pork projects of their own.

Meanwhile, none but a few state representatives, also representatives of the people, were in any significant way vocal, although there is a movement by 20 states to pass resolutions with respect to state sovereignty now in the works. Unfortunately, such resolutions will do little in the long run without recession of the 16th and 17th Amendments themselves. Those amendments stripped the state legislatures of most of their powers and left them merely as "agents" of the federal government, behind a long line of lobbyists and corporate interests at the federal governmental trough.

I suspect this Act will not pan out and will only increase the depressed state of the economy for the majority of the citizens at the gain of the few. Most of the beneficiaries will be in the public sector and technology fields.

When your Senator or Congressmen whine at election time when confronted with the lack of time for them to review it and the "emergency" nature of it's passage, ask them two questions.

1. Did you feel that this bill was in any manner Constitutional under our intended form of government, or that it would truly help the average American, in any manner whatsoever, who has been adversely affected by this tsunami? and
   
2. If not, then why did you not abstain from the vote on those grounds?

It appears in the length and breadth of the bill that the legal profession will gain the most economically from this spending package due to it's complexity. This is especially so because it appears to contain, from the little information available, provisions for the national health database, in direct violation of Americans' civil liberties as guaranteed under the Bill of Rights. This area alone should keep the legal profession in the black for at least another twenty years. Since a good majority of those Senators and Congressmen are all lawyers, and lawyers are some of the major lobbyists and campaign donors also, this may be the continuing agenda.

Writing one unconstitutional law after another keeps the lawyers humming right along, and our courts ever expanding. Due to the immigration attorneys, our courts are even now being utilized by foreigners, to sue U.S. citizens, another Constitutional abridgement that has enriched the legal community at the public's expense.

Instead, the only real economic stimulus for hurt industries and Joe Citizen and middle class America due to "free trade" agreements - the "buy American" provisions - were stripped instead.

Lunacy doesn't even begin to describe it. Criminal activity under the Rule of Law actually does describe what we are seeing.

Each and every American who sat on their hands and believed the lies without calling or writing so much as a letter to those in Washington is equally to blame along with the "misrepresentatives" and traitors. I am especially disappointed in the state legislators who were looking for the cash, without weighing the costs.