You do recall ABC News talking about $800 hammers on USAF airplanes, right?
Until we suffer through some depression level pain there is not going to be a real push to fix the debt and national budget. The "too big to fail" mentality has taken over and I have a feeling that when things do eventually come crashing down it'll make the Great Depression seems like a bright and sunny day.
Constitution doesn't guarantee explicitly plenty of things conservatives think are essential to american life. There is a legitimate reading of the 2nd amendment where you could say that they only granted the right to the states to arm militias. No explicit guarantee to personal gun ownership because that was so implicit to their way of life. So you know...
The Virginia Bill of Rights sheds more light on the meaning of the 2nd Amendment: "That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power."
The federal government does not "let" states do anything. The people of the states delegated to their agent, the federal government, certain specific enumerated powers, declaring at the same time that they were not delegating any powers not enumerated.
The first half suggest that the militia is necessary so the people should be allowed to keep arms. That is what the amendment says. Tidewater's mention of the Virginian constitution highlights that thought process further. Again, I do not believe you can read this text and say writ large personal firearm ownership is guaranteed for anyone other than able-bodied militiamen.
Well, be prepared to learn Mandarin and Spanish if you haven't already. Like I told our day care director many years ago when she had two Chinese nationals working there.
You seem to think I don't understand this. I do, and am likely as concerned about the debt as anyone. We disagree how to deal with it.
And dont forget the next time someone tells you how well the economy is doing, how well would it be doing without this unsustainable massive deficit spending?
