{"id":1318,"date":"2012-12-10T15:06:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2012-12-10T15:06:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:06:01","slug":"what-can-the-government-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"WHAT CAN THE GOVERNMENT DO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can the federal government do?<\/p>\n<p>What is the government allowed to do?<\/p>\n<p>What is the government able to do?<\/p>\n<p>What can only the government do?<\/p>\n<p>What can the government get away with doing?<\/p>\n<p>What can the government do that&#8217;s not in the Constitution?<\/p>\n<p>What will we allow the government to do, now that the democratic process is not working?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start with the last question first.\u00a0 &#8220;If you give the devil [or a dictator] a little finger, he&#8217;ll take the whole hand.&#8221;\u00a0 I first heard my dad quote that before I was ten years old, as I watched him fight tooth and nail for something he believed in.<\/p>\n<p>By free choice, we have now allowed the government to give promises that it will take care of us &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; not realizing we surrender more freedom with every promise.<\/p>\n<p>So what will we allow the government to do now?\u00a0 Probably everything dictators have done in the past&#8212;EMP&#8212;Ever More Power (and EMP&#8217;s may be used to do it).\u00a0 The government (the dictator) will take our freedom, our money, and our blood if we resist.<\/p>\n<p>The current breakdown of the democratic process is the predicted outcome that this form of government works only for a moral people, and it is totally unfit for any other.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What can the government do that&#8217;s not in the Constitution?\u00a0 NOTHING<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What can the government get away with doing?\u00a0 ANYTHING, once the people realize that they can vote handouts for themselves from the government treasury.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What can only the government do?\u00a0 NATIONAL DEFENSE and DEFENDING OUR GOD-GIVEN FREEDOMS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is the government able to do?\u00a0 Only what the CONSTITUTION says it can do, and no more, as long as the people stop it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is the government allowed to do?\u00a0 ANYTHING THE PEOPLE VOTE FOR.\u00a0 Now that scares the daylights out of any true American.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What can the federal government do?\u00a0 ANYTHING THE STATES LET IT DO.\u00a0 States, it is time to stop the federal government.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t work within the system.\u00a0 Stand up to the encroaching dictatorship now, or else&#8212;now, or never.<\/p>\n<p>Every state leader and every state citizen must immediately set aside all dreams of this crisis working itself out through the democratic process of national elections.\u00a0 Many states have voted their values.\u00a0 Now it&#8217;s time to act on what we know we have to do.<\/p>\n<p>Please go back and read everything I&#8217;ve written on compromise and compatibility and waiting and playing it safe.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t have much time.\u00a0 This second term of this administration in Washington will result in a third term with third degree devastation.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not willing to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can the federal government do? What is the government allowed to do? What is the government able to do? What can only the government do? What can the government get away with doing? What can the government do that&#8217;s not in the Constitution? 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