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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

This prohibited all of the mess, if we had just followed what the 
Constitution required:

(Tenth Amendment) –  

"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. "

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--- On Tue, 10/28/08, DSanner106 AT aol.com <DSanner106 AT aol.com> wrote:

> From: DSanner106 AT aol.com <DSanner106 AT aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Upcoming - under Dem/Obama reign  - wsj
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 10:18 AM
> That would probably be a better focus, asking if you like
> paying taxes is  
> like asking if you like
> getting a root canal, or would you like a poke in the eye
> with a sharp  
> stick. The answer is obvious
> and nearly universal. It is a politicians trick to make you
> think they are  
> like you, by stating support
> for the obvious. 
>  
> Personally, I think we either really fight drugs, or
> legalize them and take  
> away the criminal elements profit
> motive. If we do that, we need to require more personal
> responsibility. If  
> one commits a crime, the punishment is increased for having
> a gun, whether it  
> was used or not. If one commits a traffic violation, it is
> dramatically more  
> severe if drunk. If one commits a crime on drugs, rather
> than be a mitigating  
> circumstance it should also increase the punishment. That
> would encourage  
> personal responsibility for ones actions and help limit
> some of the negatives  
> against legalizing drugs. 
> The military will be cut again as soon as the war is over,
> but can never be  
> eliminated. As far as picking
> one to fund more than the others, that should happen every
> year, it should  
> be need based. We cannot just
> shut down the Navy, but they don't need the same amount
> each year. 
> The federal govt. should NEVER build hometown museums, and
> should build  
> bridges on highway systems that benefit all people, but not
> local bridges. I  
> could support a federal loan program to states and
> localities that need such  
> things, but that is it. 
>  
> Drew
>  
>  
> In a message dated 10/28/2008 11:39:09 A.M. Eastern
> Daylight Time,  
> don.bowen AT earthlink.net writes:
> 
> What we  should be doing instead is questioning how the
> money is being spent.
> Do we  really need to spend all that money on fighting the
> drug war  against
> Marijuana?  Do we really need to spend the exact same
> amount  on all three
> military services?  Do we need to spend federal money for 
> a hometown museum,
> or a bridge that benefits only a few campaign donors?  The
> list goes on but
> that is much harder than saying "cut taxes."
> 
> We  all have different ideas on what the Government should
> provide but we  all
> have similar biases against paying  taxes. 
> 
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