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The Liberty Amendment: Let's Make the U.S. A 4th World Country
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| Forget third-world country, let's go for a fourth-world country. Some boneheads in corporate America have created this initiative called the "Liberty Amendment," which proposes to ensure the government doesn't compete with any private business interest--and they call that "liberty." This amendment is currently being considered in Congress, and if it actually passes, you should be able to sit by and watch your entire society degenerate into a Mad-Max style fourth world controlled exclusively by a few select corporations. |
Here's what this idiotic legislation says:
Section 1. The Government of the United States shall not engage in any business, professional, commercial, financial or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution.
Section 2. The constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of the United States shall not be subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment.
Section 3. The activities of the United States Government which violate the intent and purpose of this amendment shall, within a period of three years from the date of the ratification of this amendment, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected shall be sold.
Section 4. Three years after the ratification of this amendment the sixteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States shall stand repealed and thereafter Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and/or gifts.
Forget about interstate highways, water and air quality monitoring, communications infrastructure, power and other utilities, NASA, thousands of colleges, schools and universities and a plethora of other services. Everything would be privatized... kind of like bringing in Halliburton to do everything instead of the military, at ten times the cost.
I swear, people are stupid.... Stupid, stupid, stupid, to even entertain this notion for a moment. |
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| Posted by wizeGurl on 2006-12-11 12:19:01 | | I guess the name means "liberty for a few corporations to make really huge bucks." |
| Posted by Curtis R. Pack on 2008-10-18 23:46:22 | | I am always entertained by morons that do not have the ability to think beyond their own stupidity and/or ignorance. All the Liberty Amendement is proposing, is that the powers that have been usurped by the federal government would revert back to the states. Here is a little history lesson, it was the states that formed the federal government by a binding contract. The Liberty Amendment would only hold the federal government to the provisions of the contract. You are proposing that the states are somehow incapable of governing their own affairs. Here is a news flah for you; read the tenth amendment to the constitution (you know that little part of the constitution called the bill of rights) "Any powers not delegated to the federal government is reserved to the states and the people respectively!! Go study the constitution and you may be able to project intelligent opinions in the future "Every man has a right to his own opinion, but he does not have the right to his own set of facts" Milton Freidman |
| Posted by Curtis R. Pack on 2008-10-18 23:52:10 | | News flash Haliburton and the rest of the military industrial complex exist because of the federal government and its empire machine. If the Liberty Amendment passed Haliburton would be out of business. Boy you are really clueless. |
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Posted by emeraldhp on 2008-10-19 13:34:15 | Fourth world country, You mean like where we are currently headed? The fed note tanking, milliions of jobs recently lost, and, more losses every day, you don't see it?
Mad Max? You mean the current system under congress of rule, not listen to the American people and govern? 90% of the American people on record opposing the banker bailout, Congressional and White House system overwhelmed and crash due to the people making their wishes known, mad max style leadership in congress do it anyway.
The power of government competing wth the people in business, the government that makes the rules, favorable to them, and you don't think this is wrong? Let's play a game of chess and I make the rules we play under, I win, you lose.
As far as the halliburton thing, the constitution not only authorizes the federal government with national defense, it is charged with that duty, so the halliburton thing is spurious.
Can major projects succeed without government? Let's see, Boeing builds aircraft, the tennesee valley authority built by government has cost taxpayers billions over the yreas, Hoover dam dwarfs the aforementioned, and, built with private capitol money is a success, need I continue? We need the Liberty Amendment. |
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