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The People’s Amendment: The “Contract With America” (April 29, 2013)

Posted in Awards / Incentives, Balanced Budget Amendment, Coffee Party USA, Conflicts of Interest, Congress, Constitution, Immanentizing The Eschaton, Political Parties, Tea Party, Term Limits on April 29, 2013 by e-commentary.org

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X “What do Republicans and Democrats agree on?”

Y “Nothing.”

X “What do Republicans and Democrats disagree on?”

Y “Everything.”

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X “There you go. The People’s Amendment: ‘If a law applies to the people, it applies to Congress; if an exception or exemption applies to Congress, it excepts and exempts the people.’ One simple commutative rule enshrined in a constitutional amendment. Genius is always obvious and simple.”

Y “And the provision applies equally to Republicans and Democrats.”

X “Indubitably. Courts could easily interpret it without all the arrogant activism and ideological warfare that characterizes the courts today. Every tax payer has standing to enforce the People’s Amendment in court. Individual Congresspersons and Senators who vote for legislation that violates the PA are held personally liable for the attorney’s fees of the tax payer who succeeds in enforcing the PA and a small percentage of the public damages. Each representative’s self-interest is enlisted to provide for and protect the public interest.”

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Y “While you are at it, add a simple term limits provision. Six two-year terms in the House and two six-year terms in the Senate are balanced and fair. The provision applies equally to Republicans and Democrats.”

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X / Y “However, a balanced budget amendment is hollow and shallow. Congress can balance the budget without a balanced budget amendment if Congress wants to balance the budget. Congress can circumvent a balanced budget amendment if Congress wants to circumvent a balanced budget amendment.”

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[See the “e-ssays” titled The “Contract with America”; The Congressional Reform Act of 2010 (March 29, 2010), Term Limits (May 14, 2007) and Bringing Balance To The Balanced Budget Amendment Debate (July 18, 2011).]

[For an argument that John McCain and Lindsey Graham should not be considered “enemy combatants,” see the “e-ssay” titled Republicans are Enemy Combatants? (May 10, 2010).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

A Democrat for The People’s Amendment

A Republican for The People’s Amendment

An Independent for The People’s Amendment

A Libertarian for The People’s Amendment

A Green for The People’s Amendment

A Tea Partier for The People’s Amendment

A Coffee Partier for The People’s Amendment

A Partier for The People’s Amendment

My honor student supports The People’s Amendment

My average student supports The People’s Amendment

My below average student opposes The People’s Amendment

My dog supports The People’s Amendment

A sniper for The People’s Amendment

An LBGT for The People’s Amendment

A mom for The People’s Amendment

A dad for The People’s Amendment

A viscountess for The People’s Amendment

A Fan of Fred (Hayek) for The People’s Amendment

A visiting adjunct professor at the Barack Hussein O’Bama II School of Government at the University of Chicago for The People’s Amendment

The Great National Dissolution: Resolving The Great Civil War (April 18, 2011)

Posted in Immanentizing The Eschaton, Political Parties, Politics, Race on April 18, 2011 by e-commentary.org

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A “Last Tuesday marked one hundred and fifty years since the outbreak of the Civil War.”

E “And it started with a terrorist assault by a state on Ft. Sumter, an outlying Union outpost. 4/12 was 9/11.”

A “The Great National Dissolution springs from the realization that divorce and dissolution are among the most important and necessary institutions developed by humankind.”

E “The fundamental issue today really is exactly the same as the fundamental issue in 1860. Slavery disguised and marketed as States Rights. America still is divided into the Slave States and the Free States. It’s that fundamental.”

A “The division reflects tension between the human desire to be free oneself and the human urge to enslave others. The first stage of the Civil War was followed by the Great Hundred Year War of Terror. From the signing of the terms of surrender in 1865 to the signing of the Civil Rights Act (CRA) of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, there was a sustained campaign of terrorism against Blacks. Blacks rode the Underground Railroad from the Slave States to the Non-Slave States as political and economic refuges fleeing from domestic terrorists. When the CRA and VRA were signed, most of the overt terrorism against Blacks in America went underground, yet many Blacks are still railroaded.”

E “Dissolution may be an option, but you confront the proposition that the right of a state to leave the Union was settled at Appomattox in 1865. There are some guys who proclaim: ‘Lee surrendered, I didn’t’.”

A “Act on that sentiment and the Feds will issue ‘three hots and a cot.’ However, the proposal avoids the problem of unilateral and illegal state action. Congress itself must enact the Great National Dissolution.”

E “When the Civil War broke out, some guys who had studied Jomini, drank Jack Walker and went on panty raids together at West Point went South while the others went North particularly many of the small cadre that were deployed at the time out West. Robert Lee, who graduated a few years earlier and higher in the class than most of his home boys, took sides with Virginia and the insurgents. Others stayed with their then-current employer, Tio Sam. So you say that everyone should be afforded an opportunity to make that decision today?”

A “Exactly. The Great National Migration. Very clean, very elegant.”

E “I suspect that the District of Columbia would elect to go with the Free States.”

A “Probably. DC could also attain statehood immediately. Again, very clean, very elegant.”

E “The battle lines in America are clear, although the specific boundary lines are cloudy. The resource extraction states would go with the Slave States; the states with exploitable natural resources do not need human resources. The entire state of Oklahoma would, of course, go with the Slave States. A state like Minnesota would be torn, like the Virginia of old, possibly in twain. M. Bachman and her ilk would go with the Slave States, K. Ellison and his followers would go with the Free States.”

A “And then there is Wisconsin.”

E “By the way, you’re hosed.”

A “Not to worry. A friend and I agree that each of us will be forced to leave or will be driven from our respective states. We agreed to swap houses. A Section 1031 exchange is possible. The possibilities are endless. There is no downside. Neither side would need to compromise its principles. The Great National Dissolution is one of the most, if not the most, clean, elegant, practical, and principled resolutions of an intractable problem in the history of humankind.”

E “I’ll concede that the solution is Pareto Optimal.”

A “And allows all of us everywhere to . . . immanentize the eschaton.”

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[See the “e-ssay” dated January 3, 2005 titled “Boycott Red America (January 3, 2005).”]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Lee Surrendered, I Didn’t

Better Dead Than Red

Better Red Than Read

The Great National Dissolution: Coming To A State Near You

Only those who have already immanenetized the eschaton warn against immanentizing the eschaton.

Immanentize The Eschaton: Move To Sunny Somalia (December 20, 2010)

Posted in Antitrust, Immanentizing The Eschaton, O'Bama, Political Parties, Politics, Tea Party on December 20, 2010 by e-commentary.org

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I “You can indeed immanentize the eschaton.”

T “The what?”

I “Immanentize the eschaton. Achieve utopia. Create heaven on Earth. Promote your own Maslowian self-realization by immanentizing the eschaton.”

T “What?”

I “You don’t want any government regulation, right.”

T “None.”

I “The market cures all, you say.”

T “Right. The market rules.”

I “You vote with your dollars and decide which businesses survive and which don’t. Unless there is only one monopoly player in each industry. In that situation, there is absolutely and unambiguously no market solution.”

T “Don’t tread on me.”

I “You cannot have free markets unless you have free markets. Every business is in business to put its competitors and the free market out of business. Only one countervailing force is available. That is us working through and with another institution that we love to castigate.”

T “I want my freedom.”

I “A beast with ‘Inc.’ as its surname is as dangerous as one with ‘Bureau’ as its first name. Big business can take away your freedom as easily as big government. The Constitution constrains the government and protects you. However, the Constitution only constrains big business and only protects you if the government is there to uphold and enforce the law.”

T “I want my country back.”

I “Then go back. If you are so hot to trot, why not trot on over to where it is hot. Trot on over to your utopia, your heaven on Earth, your eschaton. Jump a Pan Am or TWA flight to sunny Somalia.”

T “Somalia! The utopia cannot be in Asia. By definition. It has to be here. In ‘Merica.”

I “By definition.”

T “We are exceptional.”

I “We certainly are. What about Somali exceptionalism?”

T “They aren’t exceptional, whoever they are.”

I “I take exception. They may not be the exception, the way we are heading.”

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Bumper stickers of the week:

I’d rather not entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory or to the faculty of Harvard University.

Why don’t those who have already immanetized the eschaton want others to immanentize the eschaton?

My grandparents went to Somalia and all I got was this lousy t-shirt that says: “Don’t immanentize the eschaton.”

If O’Bama gets re-elected, I’m moving to Somalia

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Archive for the Immanentizing The Eschaton Category

The People’s Amendment: The “Contract With America” (April 29, 2013)

The Great National Dissolution: Resolving The Great Civil War (April 18, 2011)

Immanentize The Eschaton: Move To Sunny Somalia (December 20, 2010)

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