Just Who & What Does Our Government Support?

This item addresses US government funding with taxpayer dollars actions that have proved disastrous to peace - funding of terrorist groups, destabilizing nations, backdoor funding to support the US military industrial complex.  Read this item with great care.  Both the Bush and Obama administrations (and prior administrations) are culpable if this reporting is true, and based on my own research and reading I think it is.  http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/terrorist-groups-arent-paid-foot-soldiers-u-s-military-intelligence-agenda/   History tells us that these are not the only examples of US intervention in the affairs of foreign states that resulted in detrimental and unintended consequences.  It is not now nor has it ever been in the best interest of our nation's reputation and citizenry, taxpayer resources and peace to engage in these type of activities. 

A footnote to this item.  The ability of the federal government to engage in these type actions was not possible until passage of the 16th Amendment.  Shortly thereafter government imposition of federal taxes and establishment of the Federal Reserve System followed.  The Founders purposely established a federal republic (comprised of the several independent states) and placed into the Constitution language that restrained the federal government from gaining too much funding as well as growing too large and powerful.  Also, they were adamantly opposed to the establishment of a Central Bank (Federal Reserve) as a source of credit based funds.  One of the reasons was to prevent the federal government from having access to unlimited funds that would enable it to among other things, engage in activities of the type covered in the above link.  The 16th Amendment eviscerated the founders intent and set in motion the expansion of the federal government's size and powers far beyond those originally intended.  Another reason was the passage of the 17th Amendment which changed the way federal Senators were elected. They were, among other things, to serve as an independent consulting body representing and preventing federal intrusion into state powers and responsibilities. The Founders knew that they had to have a way to protect state interests as a counter-weight to keep the federal government from gaining too much power.  Their solution was to have senators elected to serve at the federal level by state legislators holding the power to recall senators failing to protect respective state interests.  The 17th Amendment turned the senate into a body much like the House of Representatives by having them subject to popular vote and serving the same interests as Representatives.  As a consequence the 17th Amendment neutered that check on federal government ambitions.  The ultimate consequences should be clear to everyone.

George Burns