However, unlike the street pimp, the damage inflicted by such political hustlers is systemic and backed by government muscle. Hiding it all under the C-word, as they do, is a merciless deception. By comparison, the street pimp is both innocuous and forthright.
"A pimp don't steal nothin' but the bitches mind."
On those occasions when so-called Liberals find it necessary to ape civilized man, they point to the one fragment of a single sentence from the preamble, not the body, of the U.S. Constitution:
"... promote the general Welfare ...".
That sound byte is proffered by political hustlers as if it grants them some kind of open-ended, happy-sounding, totalitarian power to tax and spend on anything and everything their nonexistent socialist hearts desire. Thereby, they pose as benefactors, albeit with other people's money, to unbound their political ambitions. Such hustling of the preamble phrase is, necessarily, a tacit rejection of the remainder of the document -- the entire body of the constitution -- thereby evidencing their contempt for it. And it shows.
Force citizens to sponsor illegals? No problem!
Defense of their baseless, lawless absurdities requires an abject denial of Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution (Enumerated Powers of Congress), which includes The General Welfare Clause, and enumerates thereunder those powers to which "general Welfare" refers, item by item. It's a finite and specific list. (Hence the word "enumerated".)
Thus, the political hustlers' Welfare notion not only overrides constitutional limits, such as the aforementioned, but more broadly rejects the principle evidenced thereof limiting the scope of government authority.
In short, their notion of "general Welfare" is a hoax.
Our lawless federal government encroaches into ever more sectors of our lives and livelihoods, of which it has NO authority to either tax or spend for under the US Constitution. People keep focusing on the symptoms, while protecting, proliferating and expanding all the causes.
In fact, under The General Welfare Clause, there are only eighteen (18) enumerated powers. Universal Happiness is NOT one of them. Neither is Universal Car Care nor Universal Day Care nor universal ... anything.
The clause is sometimes referred to as the "Taxing and Spending Clause" because it and the section containing it, together, define the allowable scope for taxing and spending by the legislative branch; the only branch of our republican form of government allowed to do so.
Radical document, aye?
Thus, taxing or spending for anything outside that scope, beyond what's enumerated therein, is necessarily NOT within the powers granted BY us, a self-governing people, TO them, the hired help.
All claims to the contrary; all claims of purity of INTENT; all claims of COMPASSION; all such "big pimping" fails to change constitutionality. (Pardon the Liberal lingo again.)
In other words, it's illegal.
That isn't deterring Democrats from trying to LAWLESSLY nationalize another industry, criminalize whatever is left, and put everyone on some kind of new Welfare program, thereby ensnaring all Americans in yet another of the government's merciless criminal enterprises.
To the payer goes the decisions.
Most children learn that; Democrats never do.
Borrowing Democrat lingo yet again, do watch a citizen soldier "bitch-slap" a senator back into reality regarding this constitutional matter, to resounding applause:
"US Soldier Demands Apology From Senator Claire McCaskill at Town Hall"
Sorry?
I wholeheartedly share the mindset of this fellow, though the notion of asking for an apology from those whose day job is federal racketeering is no more appealing to me than the prospect of passively listening to the reply. When private citizens are caught racketeering, doesn't somebody usually go to prison?
"Perform your sworn duty, resign, or shut up and WE, a self-governing people, will deliver justice." Yes, much better.
From Fannie Mayhem to Social Security and the rest of their Ponzi-type schemes; from harboring illegals to sponsoring labor price-fixing cartels; from betraying classified war programs to criminalizing the act of national defense; from criminalizing parenting to criminalizing efficient refrigerants under scientific hoaxes; the government is a labyrinth of organized criminal enterprises, at the federal, state, county and local levels. It's called racketeering.
And they're no longer shy about it, are they?
Instead of an apology, the citizenry should be demanding the FBI step up, perform their sworn duty, and slap government functionaries with federal indictments under the RICO Act. I mean semi-tractor-trailers full of such federal indictments. And from the top down, not the little guys. Absent that, it's the military's job to step up and restore legitimacy to government.
Too many Americans have forgotten, under our republican form of self governance, politicians, officers of the court (lawyers), government bureaucrats, and all other government agents are just the hired help.
