The Fact Is That The New Deal

Politicians And Bureaucrats Are Substituting Their Uninformed, Largely Political Decisions For Those Of The Marketplace. Their Past Miscalculations Demonstrate That They Do Not And Cannot Possess The Information, Knowledge, Means, And Discipline To Manage The Economy.

Activist Supreme Courts Are Not New. The Dred Scott Decision In 1856, Imposing Slavery In Free Territories; The Plessy Decision In 1896, Imposing Segregation On A Private Railroad Company; The Korematsu Decision In 1944, Upholding Franklin Roosevelt’s Internment Of American Citizens, Mostly Japanese Americans; And The Roe Decision In 1973, Imposing Abortion On The Entire Nation; Are Examples Of The Consequences Of Activist Courts And Justices.

So Virtuous Are The Programs Said To Be - Pensions For The Elderly, Compensation For The Unemployed, Medicine For The Sick, And Assistance For The Disabled - Few Dare Ring The Alarm Of Looming Economic Catastrophe That Threatens To Destabilize The Civil Society.

The Seventeenth Amendment Serves Not The Public's Interest But The Interests Of The Governing Masterminds And Their Disciples. Its Early Proponents Advanced It Not Because They Championed 'democracy' Or The Individual, But Because They Knew It Would Be One Of Several Important Mechanisms For Empowering The Federal Government And Unraveling Constitutional Republicanism.

Taxation Of Private Property, Or The Regulation Of Such Property So As To Reduce Its Value, Can Become In Effect A Form Of Servitude.