Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!slack From: slack@wxlvax.UUCP (Tom Slack) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: knee-jerk libertarians Message-ID: <353@wxlvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 09:42:54 EDT Article-I.D.: wxlvax.353 Posted: Wed Oct 17 09:42:54 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 07:56:30 EDT References: <1704@inmet.UUCP> <2722@ucbcad.UUCP> <459@unmvax.UUCP> ucbcad.2726 Lines: 19 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.