Public Money for Private Business.

We have been hearing a lot about private business receiving public money,your money, and government takeover of private businesses. First let me say that I find nowhere in the Constitution that the federal government has the authority to either authorize funds, tax money, to be used for private business. Nowhere. Further more I find nowhere does the government have authority to interfere with free market enterprise or take over any private business. They do have limited federal authority to prosecute criminal activity by businesses and they do have some authority to prosecute individual criminal activity. I say some because the states have more jurisdiction and power than the federal government.

Founding Quote from Founding Fathers
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.

Now we do not see prosecutions because mismanagement is not a criminal offense. If a company like General Motors cannot operate at a profit the free market dictates that they go out of business. If a company does not produce a product that the people want or need then the result is company closure. It really is that simple. Propping up companies simply is not constitutional and cannot legally be practiced.

Practical Quotes
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves." William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783

When government starts to meddle in private affairs it only leads to chaos and a unproductive environment. Man was created to produce and reap fruit from his labor. God never intended nor did our founding fathers, for us to be given a free ride at the expense of others. It is not fair nor just that I have to pay for the indiscretions of the few. The GM bailout was about propping up unions and in a sense a payoff for the support of these unions to the socialist liberals.

Founding Quotes from Founding Fathers
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson

We must incite a revolution of knowledge of our rights under the constitution. We must get busy and work to elect representatives that are passionate about that document. We must do all we can to return our nation to its Christian roots so that citizens may live the free and peaceable gift without fear and interference of a tyrannical government in the name of equality.

Founding Quotes from Founding Fathers
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people.. must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live.. We have not time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers. Our landholders, too...retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must...be contented with penury, obscurity and exile.. private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance.

This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." Thomas Jefferson

Under a constitutional republic all opportunity is equal and the free are able to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness according to his passion and ability. Failure for most people is good and an opportunity to grow. Fear of failure makes a person a failure permanently. Freedom brings true prosperity to the nation.
God Bless America!
David