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Originally posted by fastpat
Indeed, our fathers and their fathers before them allowed the federal government to grant itself powers not expressly authorized in the Constitution.

We must curtail these activities of the federal government now, while there is the slim chance that we can.

We need a massive roll back of federal funding, that is the life blood of government. We need a military about one tenth the size it is today, not to switch the money spent on dangerous (to our freedom and that of others) weapons to other socialist boondoggles (the current military is one huge socialist black hole), but to simply leave in the hands of the citizenry who know how to use or not use the money. We need to abolish the Departments of Education, HUD, Agriculture, and all the rest of the pork laden federal monster.

Frankly, I don't hold out much hope of eliminating 140 years of merchantilist, fascist government without having to have portions of the country secede from the Union, ridding themselves of federal thugs.

Wow I actually agree with this for the most part. But when it comes to our nations defense I think we were meant to have a very strong executive hand.