You'll note that the constitution only grants the power to make laws "necessary and proper" to execute the Powers already listed in the constitution.

Therefore, most of those programs you mentioned are simply unconstitutional, regardless of their value.

I know that it is unrealistic of me to expect that the constitution will be followed when it has been ignored for the last century, but I can continue to hope.

>> ^heropsycho:

"The Congress shall have Power - To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."
Don't need to amend the Constitution. How do you think Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Meat Inspection Act, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pure Food and Drug Act, Clean Air Act, and other extremely valuable pieces of federal legislation are constitutional?

>> ^srd:

So to reduce Pauls standpoint to its essence: if it isn't explicit in the constitution, then it's evil. Human decency and common sense can go love off.

Hey, you want to provide goods and services to everyone for sake of "human decency and common sense", then fine. Amend the constitution, and have at it.

But unless you can obtain a 2/3 majority vote in Congress, and ratification by 3/4 of the states, you're bound by the constitution to find other _voluntary_ means of providing those goods and services.

I love melonpan and always wondered how it was made.

*beg

*beg

As soon as a "doctor" recommends homeopathy, his credibility is shattered.

This is just another "scare story" that the news broadcasters use when they need to fill airtime.

I scanned the CDC document that they referenced (found via wiki). It seems to indicate that feeding infants and toddlers fluoridated water _may_ be harmful, but that a much greater source of fluoride is fluoride toothpaste.

A more rational response is to lower the fluoride levels slightly, while teaching people to reduce infant intake of fluoridated water. We are not being poisoned by our government, and the government has not "admitted that fluoridated water damages teeth."

*promote

Even more interesting than the shielding was the visualization of the increase in satellite installations over time.

It's (almost) all true!

I've worked 80 hour weeks, 28 days straight. I've worked an 18 hour day.

I've worked on children's games and derivative sports games and shovelware mobile games. I've worked a year on a game only to see it discarded by an uncaring publisher. I've seen original IP thrown out in favor of some random pop culture license.

But on the bright side, now after 10 years in the industry, I'm working for a great company on an excellent MMO. So sometimes it works out.

But not usually

Very cleverly written propaganda.

What he leaves out, of course, is that the bill doesn't overturn "pollution". It overturns the definition of carbon dioxide and water vapor as pollution.

I wish I knew.

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Navy Faction but still very tech 1.

I see what you did there

Access to property is supposed to be preserved by law. Hopefully when it's all said and done, she can win a judgment against the new owner for violating easement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easement

*discard

oops, I duped it.

I can't wait to see this in the theater ... but someone has to pick it up for distribution in the US