On Nuclear War and Expensive Pennies
On nuclear war and expensive pennies
Trump’s assault on USAID is more than an exposure of its alignment with far left narratives. It raises the question: How far will he go in dealing with its perceived waste and abuse?
It looks like he won’t be satisfied with merely slashing jobs and the agency’s budget. Republican Representatives Chip Roy and Majorie Taylor Greene have already introduced legislation to permanently abolish USAID. And what about this proposed legislation would make it permanent, should it become law?
Absolutely nothing.
Government has been at odds with its Constitution since the establishment of the First Bank of the United States in 1791. In a letter to President Washington Thomas Jefferson said the Twelfth Amendment should be the final word on the issue of a national bank, that “to take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” Twenty years later Congress failed to renew its charter but only by the tie-breaking vote of VP George Clinton. President Madison reluctantly signed the bill authorizing the creation of The Second Bank of the United States in 1816, President Jackson fought to prevent renewing its charter in 1836, but the final blow came in 1913 when President Wilson signed the Federal Reserve into law, and monetary recklessness proceeded uninterrupted, often with favor.
If the central bank’s history is a bellwether, and it’s one of countless examples, nothing exists to prevent USAID II being passed by some future administration.
Changing governments
The Second Continental Congress announced its creation of the United States of America on July 4, 1776 with John Dunlap’s publication of the Declaration of Independence. Earlier that year, a 50-page pamphlet became a bestseller, arguing for American independence from England in bold language most literate Americans could understand, thus creating a groundswell of support and pressuring Congress to do what it had been fearful to do before then.
Thomas Paine, in writing the incendiary Common Sense, presented a rich treatise on governm
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