Some Sanity In The Senate

No, don't get your hopes up. I'm not talking about Harry Reid. In fact. he has mouthed off again at something that actually is good.

Senator Jim DeMint has held up the confirmation of Erroll Southers to be the TSA Director. His concern - and rightfully so - is that the TSA might become unionized. This would seriously diminish the respect that the public has for this agency and the role that they play in the security of our nation.

Remember the Air Traffic Controllers Union in the Reagan days? Imagine that the TSA union decides to go on strike. Does all air travel cease? Or does TSA management step in to attempt to help out?

What if a union leader wants to apply the rules differently for certain people - say those who are members of the union or supporters of it?

We're talking trained screeners here. Anyone who can pass the background check can apply. This is not a technical, specialized job where only a limited number of people can apply and be accepted.

Thank you, Jim, for taking your Constitutional authority seriously on confirmations and for keeping unions out of the TSA. Unions have done more than enough to mess up the airline industry already.

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10 comments • Steve Hoffacker - Real Estate Sales & Marketing Consulting and Strategies • December 29 2009 08:53AM

At Least We Are Being Led By The Clueless

Someone asked Nancy Pelosi to explain by what Constitutional authority she was able to dictate to Americans that they have health care. Great question, by the way, and one that I have discussed previously.

Her answer was quite revealing.

Rather than tell the truth that there is no such Constitutional authority, she exclaimed. "Are your serious?"

Right back at you. Either you don't know the Constitution well enough to know the true answer to this question, or you were indignant that someone called you out on it.

Either way, it's nice to know that we are being led by a Congress that is being led by the clueless.

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22 comments • Steve Hoffacker - Real Estate Sales & Marketing Consulting and Strategies • October 27 2009 04:22PM

It's Time Congress Obeyed The Constitution

Cap and trade legislation, education reforms, health care, buyouts of American companies, and most of the other proposed and recently enacted bills of Congress are unconsitutional in my opinion. They are in direct violation of Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution and Amendment X.

There are but 18 specific eneumerated duties of Congress. Over one-third of them (7) have to do with the military. That leaves 11 others. Two deal with coining money and conterfeiting. One with the Post Office. Another with trademarks and patents. One deals with maritime interests and piracy. One allows establishment of lower courts

The remaining five include (1) borrowing money using the credit of the United States, (2) creating uniform laws of naturalization and bankruptcies, (3) regulating commerce (international and interstate), (4) levying and collecting taxes, and (5) making the necessary laws to carry out the first 17 duties.

Congress has not declared war since December 8, 1941 although we have been involved in many battles since then in Vietnam, Korea, Bosnia, Grenada, Haiti, Cuba, Somalia, Panama, Afganistan, Kuwait, Iraq, and elsewhere. Also, Congress has not exercised its authority over prisoners of war.

Education is not an enumerated powere and therefore a states right. However, we have the Department of Education. The Constitution is silent on giving the government the power to bailout banks or loan money to public companies. It says nothing of health care.

The point is this. We have allowed - over the years and generations - our government to grow like a stage 4 cancer until it has assumed powers never intended or permitted and it is threatening to kill our American way of life as originally expressed through the founding documents.

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8 comments • Steve Hoffacker - Real Estate Sales & Marketing Consulting and Strategies • September 26 2009 01:09PM