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New Year's Resolutions for Congress
Powell Gammill Website: Gammill For Congress Blog: Fascist Nation Date: 01-02-2013 Subject: Congress-Congressmen
As I prepare to retire from Congress, I’d like to suggest a few New
Year’s resolutions for my colleagues to consider. For the sake of
liberty, peace, and prosperity I certainly hope more members of Congress
consider the strict libertarian constitutional approach to government
in 2013. I also urge my colleagues to end unconstitutional wars overseas. Stop the drone strikes; stop the covert activities and meddling in the
internal affairs of other nations. Strive to observe “good faith and
justice towards all Nations” as George Washington admonished. We are
only making more enemies, wasting lives, and bankrupting ourselves with
the neoconservative, interventionist mindset that endorses pre-emptive
war that now dominates both parties. All foreign aid should end because it is blatantly unconstitutional.
While it may be a relatively small part of our federal budget, for many
countries it is a large part of theirs--and it creates perverse
incentives for both our friends and enemies. There is no way members of
Congress can know or understand the political, economic, legal, and
social realities in the many nations to which they send taxpayer
dollars. Congress needs to stop accumulating more debt. US
debt, monetized by the Federal Reserve, is the true threat to our
national security. Revisiting the parameters of Article 1 Section 8
would be a good start. Congress should resolve to respect personal liberty and free markets.
Learn more about the free market and how it regulates commerce and
produces greater prosperity better than any legislation or regulation.
Understand that economic freedom IS freedom. Resolve not to get in the
way of voluntary contracts between consenting adults. Stop bailing out
failed yet politically connected companies and industries. Stop forcing
people to engage in commerce when they don’t want to, and stop
prohibiting them from buying and selling when they do want to. Stop
trying to legislate your ideas of fairness. Protect property rights. Protect the individual. That is enough. |