My point of view re government spending is that the Congress no longer even considers original intent of limitations on the federal government and, for its own self-serving interests, is spending the country into bankruptcy and is doing a great deal of harm in the process. Take away Congress's ability to tax, borrow, and spend for ONLY what the Founders intended, and you immediately make possible:
1. A balanced budget and minimal or no national debt.
2. Elimination of the unhealthiest forms of entitlement mentality and the unintended bad consequences those have produced.
3. Elimination of the greatest part of graft, malfeasance, cronyism, and corruption that exists.
4. And, once the economy readjusts, almost certain increased opportunity for prosperity for all.
Yet you fail to convince me that your view of the Founders' original intent is anything but your own view, and you further fail to convince me that there is a way for any "original intent" (or any understanding thereof) to be implemented and secured for the long term.
1. A balanced budget in times of economic distress is contrary to the nation's best interest, and thus a "balanced budget amendment" is a simplistic, one-size-fits-all measure that was rightly defeated time and again.
2. The population's mentality is usually quite unimpressed with legislation, and the banksters and other owners of the country will probably never give up their sense of entitlement to a privileged access to the national trough.
3. See above.
4. See #1) above.
You wish to govern a country of the 21st century according to the notion of an agrarian society of the 18th. If you wish to see the elderly and the unemployed / unemployable to die of starvation, and the poor who unwisely choose to fall ill to rot unattended, do please say so overtly, since hiding behind notions of bare-bones government, whilst covering up the inevitable consequences thereof, doesn't cut it. I, for one, don't begin to understand that. I further find that you misdiagnose the major causes of (over-) spending and deficits, which are the U.S.'s imperial ambition and leaving the richest and international corporations off the hook in terms of contributing to the commonweal.
The U.S. was from the onset designed, and intended to be, a plutocracy, an aim achieved by keeping the rabble as far away from having any influence as possible, so as to thwart the rabble's much-feared proclivity to vote the money of the rich into their own pockets. In the interest of open debate, if that's the core of your motivation to go back to the Founders' original intent, I invite you to say so overtly.
), but please don't try to tell me what I wish when even a cursory review of my posts would completely dismantle your opinion of what I wish. Most especially when you phrase it in leftwing propaganda as to what you seem to think we constitutional originalists want to happen or what is satisfactory for us which is both insulting and completely erroneous.
