Potential catastrophe on horizon for US Congress
Intellectual Conservative
by Anthony Tsontakis
06/03/09
Today, in the United States, a massive expansion of federal power is taking place; the economic crisis has been used as a pretext to spectacularly amplify the scope of the administrative state. For example, the $789 Stimulus Package — which exceeds the entire cost of the Iraq War that began in 2003 — was rushed through Congress so fast that most legislators did not even have the chance to read it. Yet it passed. Since our representatives apparently no longer consider understanding a bill necessary to cast votes in its favor, it is safe to infer that the activities of federal administration have expanded to a point that legislative power can no longer meaningfully restrain them...
http://tinyurl.com/q5xfjb
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=federal+power
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=federal+administration
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stimulus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anthony+Tsontakis
by Anthony Tsontakis
06/03/09
Today, in the United States, a massive expansion of federal power is taking place; the economic crisis has been used as a pretext to spectacularly amplify the scope of the administrative state. For example, the $789 Stimulus Package — which exceeds the entire cost of the Iraq War that began in 2003 — was rushed through Congress so fast that most legislators did not even have the chance to read it. Yet it passed. Since our representatives apparently no longer consider understanding a bill necessary to cast votes in its favor, it is safe to infer that the activities of federal administration have expanded to a point that legislative power can no longer meaningfully restrain them...
http://tinyurl.com/q5xfjb
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=federal+power
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=federal+administration
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stimulus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anthony+Tsontakis
rudkla - 4. Jun, 10:44
