Government Shutdown: There's got to be a better way

Budget issues are becoming a real pain in congress. Government is set to shut down on Friday and budget cuts are urgently needed. Reforms to entitlement programs such as social security, medicare and medicaid must be met before those who paid into them recieve little. But what I really want to share with you is federal funding of domestic programs such as education, transportation, agriculture, etc. Such spending is unconstitutional because the spending clause was originally meant to restrict congressional spending to spending to excercise an enumerated power. This restriction of the federal governments power is to ensure that congress and even the president do not spend however they feel like spending. James Madison, one of our founding fathers of America and 4th president of the United States remarked that spending at the federal level must be limited to spending in the exercise of an enumerated power. President Grover Cleveland vetoed many bills passed by congress during his tenure as president such as financial recovery to farmers in drought stricken lands such as in the state of Texas. Cleveland vetoed such relief on the grounds of limited government and the US constitution. He also said that such measures would eventually turn into a paternalistic nanny used to enslave recipients. The government could also use coercive methods that are not on it's face coercive but when government imposes a tax and reimburses it to the people who paid them and imposes a mandate, then it is considered theft, legal or not, which in fact is illegal, immoral and unconstitutional. FDR's New Deal included a variety of tax payer funded public works projects and high taxes that were unconstitutional. From the Start of the New Deal until 1937, the US Supreme Court struck down much of FDR's New Deal until 1937 when FDR threatened to 'pack' the court with more justices who would agree with the New Deal. Such federal spending has been upheld by the US Supreme Court in 1937 and reaffirmed in 1987's South Dakota v. Dole decision despite the fact that the people of the states pay federal taxes and most often are compelled to accept the money regardless of strings or mandates attached because they pay more in taxes than recieve in reimbursements. This is a method of extortion which first they are forced to pay taxes to the federal government so they can be reimbursed with it on certain conditions. That's like stealing somebody's car and requiring they pay it back. Taxes are needed for a government to function, however, that doesn't mean government can just tax anything it wants to spend on whatever it pleases. That's an example of totalitarianism and tyranny! These federal funding programs are like social security. First the feds demand you pay a payroll tax and force you to trust them, second, the crooks known as the government who stole from you take that forced "trust" money away from you and either give you a fraction of what you paid in or nothing. Whether the government can repay you is irrelevent because regardless, the government illigitemately stole from you in order to use the money for coercive and unconstitutional purposes. Another brand of domestic spending programs would be created under Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty. Such programs included Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, federal funding for education, food stamps and more. "Republican" president George W. Bush dramatically increased domestic spending more than LBJ did in the 1960's with for examples a federal takeover of education The No Child Left Behind Act and funding for the War on Drugs, which of course began under president Richard Nixon and escaladed under president Ronald Reagan. Taxpayer funded bailouts to banks and auto companies and to people with mortgages in 2008 were praised and signed into law by president Bush. Obama was bad for America even before he was elected. Both major presidential candidates in the 2008 election Democrat Barack Obama and "republican" John McCain praised and voted for the bailouts. When Obama took office, he started to break much of his campaign promises and increased spending and our national debt even higher with the Democratic congress in 2009-2010, much higher than George W. Bush. Just a few weeks after entering office, president Obama signed a major New Deal style "stimulus" package set to create jobs. Such a measure was a waste of taxpayer dollars and created almost no jobs at all. Cap and Trade was voted on in July of 2009 which is not a real tax and just a wasteful job-killing bill full of spending and vague statures.  The biggest spending monstrosity of all called Obamacare includes a communist government takeover of healthcare. I said communist because congress was and to a certain degree still is a communist congress. Obamacare cannot be properly upheld and that's why federal judge Clyde Roger Vinson struck down the entire Obamacare bill two months ago. Obamacare was passed last year. Even after the 2010 elections and Republicans taking majority of the house, this isn't the end. The debt is over $14 trillion and deficits exceed $1.7 trillion in 2011. And congress believes that 20 year olds and younger are too irresponsible to handle alcoholic beverages, handguns, and credit cards regardless of the person's abilities and only bases it's rationale on a mere number called age. Congress has proven itself irresponsible with people's money for decades considering wasteful spending, massive deficits and alarming national debt that congress is too out of their minds to pay for and cut spending on wasteful, unconstitutional programs. I believe that congress likes to use 20 year olds and younger as scapegoats to feel good about their irresponsible spending with taxpayer money. Keep in mind, we young people use OUR OWN money or our parents money. However, our parents are not forced to subsidize us when we want to buy non-necesseties.