Counting on Change

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Greater minds than ours, gifted with insight and experience, understood the need for constitutional authority strictly forbidding such actions – having lived under tyranny and crown rules, they understood the need for such restraint.

Obama is a product of today's college classroom........

Change we can count on
-Mychal Massie

People say that President Obama has a winsome smile – he does – but his smile isn't leadership. They say he gives a good speech – and he does – as long as the teleprompter works. But that isn't leadership either. What cannot be said with the same validity is that he loves America – at least the America that many others and I love.

We believe in an America with limited government and an America in which the rights of the people are protected, not systematically buried under the confetti of what was once our Constitution.

Obama promised change – and in a scant seven months, that is what he has given us. Complicit with Congress, he has changed the way the free market does business – and not for the better. Are Chrysler and General Motors better run companies now that they are either out of business, under government control, or forced into a relationship with foreign companies? Are the stockholders winners or losers? Where does the Constitution provide that the president and Congress have the right to take taxpayer dollars and bail out select industries?

Judge Andrew Napolitano said, "The Troubled Asset Relief Program for the banks is itself inherently and profoundly unconstitutional for several reasons. It promotes only short-term private benefits rather than the general welfare, as the Constitution commands of all federal spending. It evades the constitutional requirement of equal protection by saving some businesses and letting others that are similarly situated simply expire. And it delegates to the secretary of treasury the power to spend taxpayer dollars as he sees fit, in violation of the express constitutional grant of the undelegable spending power to Congress." (The Wall Street Journal
: Opinion Journal; "They Violate Good Sense and the Constitution"; Feb. 6, 2009)

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