Free Government? We all know that government is expensive, but consider the following: What limits government’s size and powers? Answer: Money. Money limits our lifestyles, spending, vacations, restaurant patronage, clothing, and every facet of our life. Our wealth, limits or allows us to live to the maximum of our abilities. What limits our money supply? Our job, business, education, ability, location, age, and the list is limitless. What limits the size of government? Money? Absolutely NO! Why not? Consider the history of America, back say, to 1900.
Before America became infected and infested with European socialists and socialist thought, we were the absolute envy of the entire world. All the world knew about our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. They bought our manufactured goods, and we had no trade deficit. Our trade brought us billions of dollars, and we used it to invent more stuff, build more factories, and further raise everyone’s standard of living. The entire socialist world, with their kings, potentates, classes, rulers, and dictators, couldn’t figure out how to imitate us. Their minds were stuck in the mud of huge, domineering governments and rulers. Our system of elections, no royalty, and of course no foreign wars, kept us so prosperous, smart, inventive, and productive, that the world was agog.
Before 1900, the size of government was limited by the amount of money, we the citizens, chose to give it. Government couldn’t grow without our permission and money. We, the people, had control over government’s size, and we saw to it that the Representatives we elected, realized that, and gave government only enough to do what the Constitution gave it power to do, and that was very little. We saw to it that the size of Washington D.C. was as it was supposed to be, and that was about ten square miles. I grew up in D.C., and the boundary of D.C. was at Florida Ave, the Anacostia River, and the Potomac River, basically. By the time I knew about the official boundaries, D.C. had grown tremendously since 1900.
What changed? How did the government grow to such unbelievable, irresponsible, meddling, domineering, controlling, communistic, socialistic, size and power? Easy! It got a lot of money. How? Easy, once again. The 16th Amendment to our Constitution was passed. Or was it? From “The Law That Never Was,” by Bill Benson, he makes a case that the 16th Amendment was not legally ratified, and that Secretary of State Philander Knox, committed fraud when he declared it ratified in February 1913. The 16th had been sent out in 1909 to the state governors for ratification by state legislatures, after having been passed by Congress, which was treason in itself. The process took four years, and by 1913, Knox had received responses from only 42 of the 48 states, when he declared the Amendment ratified. Kentucky, for one, rejected it, but Knox declared that they had approved it. Oklahoma changed the wording so much, that it was virtually the opposite of the original wording of the Amendment. Virginia and Pennsylvania never even voted on it, Vermont and Massachusetts rejected it, West Virginia’s approval had not been received by 1913, and Ohio, California, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Minnesota never certified or even signed their supposed ’approval.’ “The Law That Never Was,” is very interesting reading.
Government, when the 16th Amendment was erroneously not ’ratified,’ got a lot of money, with which it could expand, to begin its slow at first, but ever so much more rapid as each year passed, growth, unconstitutional power it has seized, and which is destroying the once grand land of the free and home of the brave. Even though the new progressive income tax only tapped the wealth of the richest Americans, there were a lot of rich Americans, whose incomes could be, and were tapped. The decline had begun.
As a result of the new found money, the citizenry was made poor, and the government made rich. The process has continued ever since. Now, the federal government is ultra rich, growing richer, and the population being made ever poorer. The D.C. Gang, and the city from which they rob, harass, regulate, control, and make wars from, is probably the richest city on earth. Until about 1900, the government was poor, was kept in its Constitutional place, and Americans of all classes, were getting ever richer as each year passed. The prosperity of America, until the 16th Amendment was unconstitutionally ’ratified,’ was unbelievable. Are we the envy of the world now, as we were in 1900? Hardly! We are the biggest debtor nation on earth, have a huge underclass, 30% or the population uses food stamps to eat, our once fine neighborhoods are trashed, and we are continuing to fight two absurd, expensive wars with unbacked paper scrip, which loses value every day. I’ll continue this explanation on Tuesday, but in the meantime, for goodness sake, use their scrip to protect yourself.