I'm sure eveyone has always heard some variation of the following:
If Pro is the opposite of Con... the whats the opposite of Progress?
i realize today there is nothing more true than this. It was pointed out by a friend to me today that the act that congress ir proposing is unconstitutional. I decided to look into it myself. Article 1 Section 9 Clause 3 specifically states "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed" what does this mean in non lawyer speak? Basically Congress cannot pass a law that negatively affects a single person or group of people or negatively affects them retroactively. Am i the only one that cares?
Yes they were wrong to give out bonuses. Yes the government is inept in its oversight. But in this "Age of Obama" where transparency is supposed to be a great change from the Bush Administration, do we really have to take a few steps back to passing laws that violate peoples constitutional rights? The road to hell is paved with good intentions and i do not believe making two wrongs will make anything right. By allowing this law to go unchallenged we are allowing the government to one day retroactively raise our taxes for the past 3 years for ALL OF US!!! Or better yet, why not go back next year and say the $8000 dollar stimulus bonus should be paid back with penalties because those that buy houses are too well off?????? Really where does the stupidity end?
We as a country cannot allow unconstitutional acts be committed by anyone, least of all our Congress. Instead of laying blame on greed the American People should be outraged by government incompetency. If i had a chimpanzee that i was responsible and i left a gun on my table and the Chimpanzee killed someone with it, why castigate the chimp? The real culprit is the one in charge who let things happen. And yes i'm calling the AIG execs a bunch of Baboons. Apparently the jokes on us though because it appears that the baboons are being supervised by the Dodo birds.
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