Arizona Law , Good Politics?

It would appear that those who fail to uphold our nations laws,  in other words , our elected officials are among those who think the Arizona law is a bad thing.

Critics of Arizona's tough new immigration law, which makes illegal immigration a state crime, have called supporters of the bill "racist," "mean-spirited" and "un-American." Here's the newsflash: The measure is also good politics, not only in Arizona, but nationally.

Usually after a measure like this has passed, the news media respond with stories about how the measure will hurt the GOP among Latino voters. This time, not so much.

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Big Brother to Monitor Your Bank Account?

The Patriot Post ran this article recently. It shows just another step by this administration to control every move made by American citizens, especially those who oppose the flagrant violations of the US Constitution.  While it appears they have back off from a separate Office designation to do their evil deeds they have now included such authority into the functions of the FDIC.  It's all about deception, not transparency that was promised by this administration.  For those who are not too blind to see it is very transparent as to what this administration is seeking to accomplish.

The power of Banks and Congress were something to be leery about according to Jefferson. If you are not familiar with the warning  I refer you back to last weeks post on the thoughts of Jefferson concerning the powers of Banks.  Here is just more proof of that danger via the promise of  Hope 'n' Change. My question is, who, in their right mind, needs it or wants it?

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who didn't see fit to pay his own income taxes, may soon have the authority to watch over your financial transactions, thanks to a new federal agency that would be created in the Democrats' financial overhaul bill. The Office of Financial Research, straight out of a George Orwell novel, would serve as a central repository of transaction records generated at private financial companies. Geithner, along with an unspecified number of bureaucrats that he hires, will have unlimited access for "statistical analysis and research" of the nation's financial institutions -- supposedly for the purpose of spotting systemic problems that will allow them to act before another meltdown.

This agency is the latest in the series of unconstitutional power grabs that Democrats have grown accustomed to since Barack Obama became president. It violates American citizens' Fourth Amendment guarantee of security in their "persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" and its imprecise language leaves plenty of room for expanding the agency's activities without congressional approval. The type of information access that Democrats seek would not have enabled them to prevent the financial meltdown of 2008, but it would allow bureaucrats who work for this agency the opportunity to share their privileged information with the private sector one year after leaving the agency. So, ironically, the Office of Financial Research simply presents our bloated government even more opportunity for further corruption and mismanagement of the economy.

On Wall Street and Congress

"They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please.... Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect." --Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on National Bank, 1791

What else need be said on today's situation. Jefferson seems to have been able to foresee the future or so it appears to me.