Explosion of Executive Power

In recent years, it has become more evident that the power of the American
Executive branch grows every day. Since the days of the Great Depression the
power of the president has encompassed all areas of the private sector and has
grown to control state governments. The Federal government has abused its power
by acting as a lobbyist to the states. The executive now finds it within its realm to
promote more jobs, increase economic growth, and provide health coverage for
everyone. The debates that continue to rage on are consumed by money. This is the
wrong concern. The American people should be worried about the record debt the
United States is now facing, with stimulus debt, credit card debt and the monster,
the unfunded liabilities. However the real problem here is the growth of
concentrated Federal power to the office of the president. The abuse of the general
welfare clause has caused many of these abuses of power. Executive power has
now become the single greatest threat to the everyday citizen.
It all starts with philosophy and presuppositions. The philosophy in
Washington has changed. The United States used to be a Constitutionally Federated
Republic. This was what was created by the founders. In a Federated Republic, the
power of the government is split equally between the branches, divided and
diffused, bound by oath to the highest law of the land, the Constitution. Now, the
governments’ philosophy is that of Fabian Socialism. The word Fabian just refers to
how the socialist philosophy is put forth. It is done carefully, through series of laws
and appeal to the general public. Representatives have wised up to the days of
marching in the streets and shouting for change, because it doesn’t happen that
way. By careful planning and the gradual erosion of the Republic system, the
government is trying to enact socialism, and they are doing it successfully. Issues
such as welfare, the fairness doctrine, health care, and others are used as a segway
into socialism. President Obama is using this philosophy right now. He is pushing for
all these ideas and is surrounding himself with proclaimed communists. Van Jones,
who is now no longer a czar, is a proclaimed communist who believed that the
government had a hand in 9/11 and that white people were poising black people.
He has members surrounding him who believe that the water should be tampered
with to help control population growth, sterilization. Where in the Constitution is
that legal? Where does it say that the government gets to control if you are able to
have children? They don’t. The constitution promotes life, not make it difficult for
people to have children. The government officials have lost this one crucial point,
they work for the people. Leaders in Washington work for the citizens, but they
have become caught up in their own ego and the belief that they know what is best
for me has forced them to hire assistants to deal with the people they owe their job
to. When someone is hired by an organization of company, the new employee does
not ignore the authority above him because he is not in control, he works for
someone else. The new thoughts in Washington go like this “I know what is better
for you than you do.”The representatives have lost respect for their bosses, the
people.
The government has now made it a habit to extend its power into the
economy. The office of the president has been trying to persuade the people to just
bear with them while they try and fix the system. There is nothing wrong with the
system. In history, the office of the president was not involved in trying to restore
the economy, until the Great Depression. The president has made it a habit now to
call on the people for support when he is unable to get it from his own party. The
government has been trying to get involved with all the affairs of the economic
system, but they only cause more problems. The government does nothing more
efficient than the private sector. In a free market capitalism society, people are able
to suffer, however they are also able to thrive in another area. The new philosophy
in Washington is that everyone is equal and deserves the same, socialism. This is
wrong. Businesses are targeted and restrictions are enacted, which kill productivity.
Unions are a large part of this. The labor laws that are in effect are crippling the
American car industry. Auto makers such as Honda and Toyota are not suffering the
losses that Ford and GM are. They have not unionized. Now with the fall of GM, or
the government takeover, they are going to try and rebuild the company. The
thought of a bunch of men and women who have accumulated record debt running
a business in a competitive market sounds like a disaster and a likely loss of jobs for
many more Americans.
September 14, 2009 president Barack Obama heads to Wall Street so he can
give advice to banks on the issue of loans. The problem here is not with the
companies and the bad loans, it’s the government. The president is telling Wall
Street what to do; this is what caused the problem in the first place. During the
Clinton administration, Congress passes laws that forced loan agencies to give loans
to people who they had previously denied, which in the long run caused the people
to default.
Calling upon the population for support has now become a popular way for a
president to gain support to persuade Congress and state law makers to approve
policy. This is a problem. The appeal to the population was pioneered by FDR. From
this, the Plebiscitary Presidency has been born. The Plebiscitary presidency means
that the government turns to the people for support to pass legislation that he
supports and uses the masses to do what he feels as being correct. In the
Constitution, it does not give him the power to do this. The office of the president
before the “progressives,” was very simple and not a powerful position. Before the
progressives, the president answered his own phone, the doors of the white house
were open, and the president would not even give his state of the union address in
person for fear that the public would look to him for help. The office of the president
was meant to be a humble one. With the abuse of power, and the appeal to the
people, they have created an office similar to a king or despot. People tell all their
problems to the president, and the president asks for advice from the people, under
the blanket of helping and getting involved. This is the blanket that has been pulled
over the people’s eyes, by getting people involved, they are giving the president
more power, with the population calling upon the president, and he obtains more
power because no one wants to question his power because he has the backing of
the people and representatives.