No One Can Explain to Me What’s In the Bill! — NYC Mayor Bloomberg
The Moral Liberal, Wall Street Journal, John Fund
In a key scene in Frank Capra’s 1939 film “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” appointed senator (and unwitting pawn in a corruption scheme) Jefferson Smith, played by Jimmy Stewart, suggests to a colleague that perhaps it would be a good idea to read bills before voting on them.
“The bills?” responds an incredulous Senator Paine, played by Claude Rains. “These bills are put together by legal minds after long study. I can’t understand half of them myself, and I used to be a lawyer.”
Forget it, he tells Smith. “When the time comes, I’ll advise you how to vote.”
The Moral Liberal responds: The gross immorality of the players involved in this “done in the dark” socialist boondoggle boggles the mind. But then wolf in sheep clothing socialism is perhaps the greatest immoral scheme in the history of mankind; so who should be surprised that its proponents act without conscience, common sense, and a sense of responsibility to their constituency, their Constitution, and the sacred rights of property?
As to moral responsibility, here’s a moral line of thought for the citizens: It’s time to rise up in support of the 10th Amendment in every state against this socialist healthcare bill and every other unconstitutional powers assumed by the federal government; time to say “no” to all federal grants and monies offered to state and local governments so that there will be no “strings attached” to worry about; and finally, time to commit to saying this in 2010 and again in 2012, “Here’s your pink slip if you supported National Healthcare, or Cap and Trade, or if you stood by and did nothing about unconstitutional czars and Marxists in high places, or if you supported anything socialistic: from welfare schemes, to central control of our schools, to limiting religious liberty and freedom of speech, to refusing to investigate the secret dealings of the Federal Reserve, to placing burdensome and unnecessary regulatory controls upon free enterprise, to supporting the socialist United Nations and its surrogate regional alliances like NAFTA.
Socialism or our inspired Constitution? It’s time to make a choice.
Steve Farrell is one of the original pundits at Silver Eddy Award Winner, NewsMax.com (1999-2008), associate professor of political economy at George Wythe University, the author of the highly praised inspirational novel “Dark Rose,” and editor in chief of The Moral Liberal.
January 2001 to August 2007
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