Memorial Day and the Constitution

[piercehawkeye45]

I agree with a lot of this. The only problems I have is stopping at the constitution and not looking to make it better and forcing our constitution on other people. If someone else wants to have the same thing as us, let them adopt it, but I'll be damned if I'm going to say ours is the right way.

I also think that it is the a civilians biggest duty to be the fourth branch of the government. We should keep all the other branches in check.

Good job on the greed by the way.

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

The only problems I have is stopping at the constitution and not looking to make it better ...

My problem with your problem is that once we open the door to changing the Constitution, we will most certainly screw it up. Who in Washington would you trust to change it? I wouldn't trust half the Senate to run a 7-11, I wouldn't trust 80% of the House of Representatives to run a lemonade stand and I wouldn't trust anyone in the White House to do anything.

But I agree with you on the problem of forcing our way on other countries. I think the criteria for deciding which nations to force it on seems a little suspicious. I don't think we choose by need as much/often as we choose by greed. And, let's face it: freedom ain't for everybody whether we like it or not.

And lastly, I'm late in saying what a magnificent post Rich has made. BigV beat me to it.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Beestie

My problem with your problem is that once we open the door to changing the Constitution, we will most certainly screw it up. Who in Washington would you trust to change it? I wouldn't trust half the Senate to run a 7-11, I wouldn't trust 80% of the House of Representatives to run a lemonade stand and I wouldn't trust anyone in the White House to do anything.

But I agree with you on the problem of forcing our way on other countries. I think the criteria for deciding which nations to force it on seems a little suspicious. I don't think we choose by need as much/often as we choose by greed. And, let's face it: freedom ain't for everybody whether we like it or not.

Great points! Bottom line is that the Govenment decides who they are going to force their policies on based on who and what party dominates the political top. Everyone of them does it to some other country. I say we cut off all aid to most of those shit holes and bring the bacon home to fix our own problems.