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Jay's Tuesday Free Enterprise Quote

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Home Inspector with Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC 3380-000723

"It will be of little avail to the people that laws are made by men of their choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood ... that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow."                                   James Madison

Having written a document so profound yet concise, so easily understood yet intentionally misconstrued, so "experimental" and yet so enduring as the United States Constitution, we do not have to speculate as to what Mr. Madison would think of the crap coming out of Congress today!  That these "laws" are so voluminous  that Congressmen do not even read them before signing them.  It is all done behind a curtain.  And to think that you and I are supposed to not only know what is in these various oppressive documents, but are expected to obey them to the letter.  Clearly there is a "ruling class" in our great "experiment," which class will kill the goose that has laid Mr. Madison's more than two-centuries old Golden Egg.

 

 

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Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC  

Based in Bristow, serving all of Northern Virginia.

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Comments (11)

Wallace S. Gibson, CPM
Gibson Management Group, Ltd. - Charlottesville, VA
LandlordWhisperer

I sat in sweltering OVERCROWDED meeting room here in Cville and saw Dick Morris with his Americans for Prosperity tour * Robert Hurt the GOP candidate for VA's 5th Congressional district was THERE and could not SPEAK because AFP is non-political; however, Morris was GREAT and really took it to Obama for spending!!!  Jeeze * he is SHORT!!!  Dick is short!

Jul 19, 2010 11:15 PM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Hence his affection for toes, Wallace.  Ooh, did I say that?

He is quite the political analyst, isn't he!  I enjoy listening to him.  People generally do not understand the long-term impact of our recently-created debt.  And they aren't done!

Jul 19, 2010 11:35 PM
Mike Saunders
Retired - Athens, GA

The concept of "we have to pass it so that we can find out what's in it" would have been totally alien to the framers.

Jul 20, 2010 01:21 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

That person, Mike, would have been laughed out of the chamber in those days.  The person who said it should be laughed out of the chamber today!

Jul 20, 2010 02:12 AM
Steve Hoffacker
Steve Hoffacker LLC - West Palm Beach, FL
Certified Aging In Place Specialist-Instructor

Jay,

The bills keep getting bigger. Now anything under 1,000 pages is more like a resolution. :)

Steve

Jul 20, 2010 02:00 PM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Steve - I bet it took fewer pages to declare war on the Japanese.

Jul 20, 2010 02:04 PM
Steve Hoffacker
Steve Hoffacker LLC - West Palm Beach, FL
Certified Aging In Place Specialist-Instructor

Jay,

Congratulations. Your post is now featured on the group "The Law Of The Land." :)

Steve

Jul 21, 2010 02:35 AM
Steve Hoffacker
Steve Hoffacker LLC - West Palm Beach, FL
Certified Aging In Place Specialist-Instructor

Jay,

Congratulations - your post is now featured in "Celebrating Free Enterprise." :)

Steve

Jul 21, 2010 02:46 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Thank you Steve!

Thank you Steve!

Common sense from the Founders can NEVER hurt.

Jul 21, 2010 04:43 AM
Lane Bailey
Century 21 Results Realty - Suwanee, GA
Realtor & Car Guy

I wonder if the goal is to make laws that are so incomprehensible and contradictory that anyone can be a lawbreaker at any time. 

Jul 27, 2010 04:26 PM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

That might just be true Lane!  We are all lawbreakers every day no doubt.  How can anyone possibly know all the laws?

Jul 27, 2010 10:34 PM