Obama: New Deal Constitutional Assault Wasn’t Big Enough
A closed-door meeting between President Barack Obama and House Republicans has proven very enlightening about the dark path Obama has in mind for America.
From CNS News:
In a closed-door meeting with House Republicans on Tuesday to discuss the $819-billion economic stimulus bill, President Obama suggested that Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal failed because it was too small, Reps. Steve King (R-Iowa) and Rob Bishop (R-Utah), who attended the meeting, told CNSNews.com.
“FDR’s initial steps did actually work,” Obama said at the meeting, according to King. Obama went on to say, “Then he [FDR] pulled back towards a balanced budget, and then what you had was a recession within a depression. Then World War II came along and was the biggest stimulus plan ever.”
This is scary, and it tells us a lot.
FDR’s New Deal was the first and biggest assault on the U.S. Constitution and the constitutional limits on government.
If Obama thinks that massive assault on our nation’s highest law, and that huge attack on the fundamental principles of Americanism didn’t go far enough…we may not recognize America when Obama is done.
We had warning, though. We knew (for those with eyes to see and ears to hear) that Obama held disdain (contempt?) for the Constitution and American principles before the election. We knew from a 2001 radio interview about his ”reparative” strategy for wealth redistribution that the constitutional limits on government–put there to protect the people–were merely an obstacle to be overcome in Obama’s mind:
But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent as radical as people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn’t shifted.
Our Constitution was specifically designed to limit the power of the federal government by the enumerated powers of Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution and by the Tenth Amendment.
The Tenth Amendment states
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Notice that if a power has not been specifically authorized by the Constitution, the federal government has no power to do it. Any such powers are reserved to the states and the people.
Yet President Obama believes these constitutional protections which guard the freedom of the people from the clutches of oppressive government are mere obstacles to be swept out of the way.
America, what have we done?!
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