Trust me when I say the issue of today’s government in America is huge versus how our Founders envisioned it. Today’s government is different than in past history. It is not the same and we all should be worried to death unless it changes big time with a new president in 2017.
Obama was not kidding about transforming America. Past presidents may have over reached as to their constitutional and executive authority, but nothing like Barack Obama!
Growing up, we were schooled about “checks and balances” and “separation of powers” regarding our three branches of government. Our Founders are turning over in their graves as these safeguards no longer exist. One branch, namely the executive one, is calling all the shots. The three branches appear to be one and the same in that Obama does what he wants.
What does that mean? It means we are no longer a democratic republic. The ultimate authority and power of “we the people” in a democratic republic has gone to a lawless president, an incompetent and complicit Congress, and even a complicit Supreme Court.
Polls show that on almost all major issues our entire government is ignoring the wishes of a majority of voters.
For example, most Americans did not want the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. It was shoved down our throat by the Obama administration in spite of major public opposition to it. To save it as a constitutional piece of legislation, the Supreme Court, out of thin air, called it a tax even though it was passed by a Democrat Congress as not being a tax.
Speaking of Congress, those elected to this body as Democrats give Obama whatever he wants regardless of constituent wishes. And, wouldn’t you know it, the current Republican controlled Congress is doing the same. The House is supposed to control the purse strings, but it turns out that Obama does. Voters in the last election went to the polls to stop Obama’s many destructive agendas, but it is not happening, and further proof we are no longer a democratic republic.
Speaking of the Supreme Court, there are four liberal justices (maybe five out of the nine) that will give Obama whatever he wants. Our president is just a phone call away. So much for an independent branch of government.
Speaking of Obama, he has gone hog wild with executive authority that far too often violates constitutional authority. Many orders should go through Congress, but don’t. Worse yet, are the 18,000 regulations per year on the average coming from his office that affect everybody’s life. Those too, in many instances, should go through Congress, but don’t. One of the latest regs prevents employers from doing a criminal background check on new hires.
How much do you think a president can get to carry out his agendas if there is rampant fraud and corruption in government agencies; probably pretty much anything he wants! It is worse now then ever before in our history! If there was anything our Founders wanted to guard against, it was an all-powerful federal government, that now exists in this country as we speak.
Along with issues mentioned above, the majority of Americans do not want more national debt, more welfare and fewer jobs, more taxes, nukes for Iran, a downsized military, open borders, thousands of Muslim refugees not being vetted by the Obama administration, etcetera.
And, it’s insanity to think most Americans, even before the Paris attacks, prefer Obama’s climate change agenda over fighting radical Islamic terrorists!
Not in a million years can our Commander in Chief prove climate change or global warming is a greater threat to our security than ISIS.
So what, as our government will continue to thumb its nose at us!
Les Knoll lives in Victoria and Gilbert, Ariz.