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From: slack@wxlvax.UUCP (Tom Slack)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: knee-jerk libertarians
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Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 09:42:54 EDT
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Wait?! Wait.
Isn't a constitutional amendment necessary to change what is
the Responsibility of the Federal Goverment?
Can people simply change by executive orders and legislation
for special interests what they think the central goverment
should be doing and have that process legalize a basic change
in the power of the goverment?
If so, then there was really no power in the people to begin with.
Either we believe the power in the goverment comes from the people,
or we do not.
If it does, then after something like the constitution is accepted,
it cannot be simply changed by a large group of people who believe
that the central goverment should control the economy, or soak the
rich to benefit the poor, or spend more than they get because of 
some supposed crisis or another, or spend money on anything that
does not benefit everyone in this country EQUALLY.
To say that everyone benefits when the goverment controls the economy
is like saying that illness is caused by bad blood and patients
benefit by bleeding them.