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Finally Congress is flexing its muscle. Today the House Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology voted 15-8 to repeal the FCC's doctrine of "net neutrality" and give the internet providers the ability to run their own businesses the way they see fit.

Net netrality which sounds like it is designed to give equal access to the internet to all is actually government interference in private business and telling ISPs that they are prohibited from denying their users access to  competing phone or cable services. Why would a business encourage their customers to use a competitor's product? Obviously in the name of fairness, the FCC has no clue of how for-profit businesses operate.

This is a victory for free enterprise. It is a victory for Congress - who legally is the only one who can enact such rules anyway and not the FCC. It is a victory for we the people because an out-of-control federal agency was stripped of illicit power than it had taken upon itself. It's also a victory for the economy as the ISPs will now be willing and interested in investing in technology and premium services.

May this be the first salvo in many, many actions by Congress that strip departments and agencies in the Administration of their ill-gotten quasi-legislative powers and help to restore the separation of powers from the Constitution.

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© Steve Hoffacker, 2011. All Rights Reserved.

Martin Van Buren, our 8th President, said the following about government spending a the national debt:

"To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government."

What a novel idea - Congress should only authorize and spend what it is Constitutionally allowed to do. This would mean no earmarks - even without a prohibition of them. It would mean no stimulus bills, no bailouts of companies, no Obamacare, no funding of federal elections, and possibly no income tax because they wouldn't need that much money to spend.

It would have meant no social security - but we are way past that point now.

Going forward, Congress would do well to observe these great words. Forget Debt Commissions and all of the exercises of trying to find out why we are spending so much money. Just stop already. Do your job Congress - your Constitutional job and stop most of your spending authorizations.

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For more information on my coaching and educational programs and services, visit my website stevehoffacker.com, or go to my other blog homesalesinsights.com for additional sales tips, insights, and commentary. Listen to my free podcast messages at Steve Hoffacker's Happenings.

Steve Hoffacker - Consultant, Coach, Author, Blogger, Photographer, Motivator, Teacher, & Strategist - for Realtors, Real Estate Sales Professionals, Home Builders, New Home Salespeople, Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners, and Independent Sales Representatives.

© Steve Hoffacker, 2010. All Rights Reserved.

Most of the work of Congress is illegal and unnecessary. Congress is governed by a very specific set of guidleines called the US Constitution - more specifically, Article I, Section 8. There are only 17 areas (plus an enabling clause) where Congress has any jurisdiction. Health care is not one, and amnesty for illegals is not one.

I think back to freshman political sciense in college. We had to write from memory the Bill of Rights - every capital letter, period, comma, and semi-colon. Seemed dumb at the time, but I still remember much of it verbatim.

It's time Congress be forced to memorize Article I in it's entirety, and especially Secrtion 8. Perhaps they need tutoring to get this done.

Congress last declared war on December 8, 1941. Congress has no authority to bailout private companies or take them over. It has no authority for health care. It has no authority for education. It has no authority over the arts or labor unions or baseball. It has no authority for regulating the environment except as it relates to interstate commerce. Yet, that has not stopped Congress from going into those areas or allowing the Prsident to do so.

The health care debate and cap and trade should never have happened. These are not powers of the government. The amnesty debate that is brewing needs to go away. The government is not allowed to be in the mortgage business or student loan buisness. Congress is quite limited in power - by design.

If they don't know what they're allowed to do, it's time we remind them. Someone needs to hold them accountable - and that's us.

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For more information on my coaching and educational programs and services, visit my website stevehoffacker.com or go to my other blog homesalesinsights.com for additional sales tips, insights, and commentary. You can also listen to my free podcast messages at Steve Hoffacker's Happenings.

© Steve Hoffacker, 2010. All Rights Reserved.