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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Department of Liberty

From the preamble of the US Constitution:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. "

To form a more perfect Union, they established the Dept. of Commerce, Dept. of Treasury, and Federal Reserve System.
To establish Justice, they established the Dept. of Justice.
To insure domestic tranquility, we now have the Dept. of Homeland Security in addition to the FBI, state patrol, and numerous police forces.
To provide for the common defense, they established the Dept. of War (now called Defense).
To promote the general Welfare, they established a plethora of departments and agencies (Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Education, Veterans Affairs, National Drug Control Policy, and Social Security Administration). These agencies are really promoting *individual* welfare. They now account for about 2/3rds of the federal budget (more if we include Dept. of Energy and EPA, which truly promote the general welfare).

But...
To secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, they have done nothing! There is no Dept. of Liberty! Who is looking out for our liberty?

I support the elimination or severe reduction of every department and agency in that long list “to promote the general welfare” in order to protect our liberty.

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