Unconstitutional

Part of the Bill of Rights, the 10th amendment, was ratified on December 15, 1791. The Tenth Amendment restates the Constitution's principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the national government nor prohibited to the states by the constitution of the United States are reserved to the states or the people.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." 

I have read and reread the constitution numerous times. My eldest took government 101 last semester and that was a topic of many after dinner discussions. Does congress have the power to bail out companies? Does the congress have the right to go to war with Iraq? Does the congress have the right to ________? You fill in your own blank.  Sometimes the answers were gray areas.  Sometimes they are black and white.  

Our founding fathers knew a couple of things from history when they wrote the Constitution.  They knew it had to breath, so they gave us a way to change the law of the land if we needed too.  They built this on a capitalistic economic plan, so that those who worked would make it.  They knew that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  They made checks and balances.

Judicial isn't suppose to make laws, only interpret them.  Congress is suppose to handle what is specifically given to them in the constitution, and forget the rest. Executive is suppose to carry out those laws.  

Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, George Washington just to name a few are tossing in their graves right now knowing how we've bastardized the system they've set up.  

So when are they coming after what you like? Because we've crossed that magic line of don't you dare do that. Sooner or later you won't be able to have more than 2 children, because it's bad for the economy. Or if you win the lottery it won't matter, because no one needs more than 50k a year. Your nice new car, gone, that's only for the elite of government, it's horse and buggy for you.  Go ahead and laugh.  I know these are extreme examples, but where do we draw the line in the sand? Where do we stop this madness?

I think we need to follow our forefathers and make it 10' back.  I think we need to push congress back into the box that was originally set up for them.  If they want to manage health care,  gun control, bailouts, etc then change the Constitution.  There is a written an prescribed way to do that right there, and if We the People grant them that right, then it's a totally different ballpark.

But for now the vote taken by the congress and that will be signed into law by the president is totally unconstitutional. It's government 101 for goodness sake.

God Bless
Dennis Nesser