We are the Empire...

What part of Empire don't you like. How about wasting money and lives of our troops on NATO projects. Or other UN ventures. How about driving our jobs overseas with goofy environmental regulations, tax regulations that make no sense, persecutions and prosecutions of people because of partisan politics, or making every thing you do illegal unless you can win in court and bankrupt yourself.

The most troubling is the buying of votes and the whores in Washington living like kings as you and I pay for it. (Did you look over that tax return and check how much these ass holes stole!)

But in a few years we'll get a new gang in there and we'll get "change".

NOT!!!

Emperor Obama by Sheldon Richman

 There in a nutshell is the imperial premise: Our future depends on the condition of the rest of mankind. Therefore, the president may bomb or invade anywhere he likes as long as he believes intervention is feasible. And as long as he can get the U.S.-dominated NATO and UN Security Council on board. (NATO, incidentally, was never established for such a purpose.) Obama’s touted “coalition” is cold comfort to those who realize that freedom and fiscal moderation at home are jeopardized by a government run amok in the world.

Once upon a time, people actually believed that a president could not constitutionally commit troops abroad without a declaration of war by Congress. With some exceptions, that belief held presidents in check for a while. But it passed away sometime after 1942, and since then presidents have gone to war — big-time and small — whenever they damn well pleased. Congress has simply been too timid to assert itself against imperial presidents. After the undeclared Vietnam war disaster, a War Powers Resolution was passed in an attempt to limit future presidents, but it was a pale substitute for the war-declaration requirement — and besides, cowardly Congresses have never pushed to enforce the resolution.

The Anti-Federalists saw it coming. We can’t say we weren’t warned.