Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin will be visiting the border separating the United States and Mexico on a four-day tour starting today. He will be joined by members of the American Independent Party — California’s Constitution Party affiliate — and other closed-border activists.
“America’s back is breaking from the burden of immigration policies that demand taxpayers pay to educate, incarcerate, medicate and house those who have broken into our country,” Baldwin said in a media release, which characterizes the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Green Party candidates as “pro-amnesty.”
The release also touted Baldwin’s opposition to NAFTA and GATT, which he says have resulted in the loss of millions of American jobs. Baldwin will visit a Chino, CA furniture plant whose motto is “Made in Chino, not China!”
The entire media release can be read here.
Baldwin will make a number of campaign stops while in California from June 25-30th, including a forum sponsored by the Constitution Party affiliate the American Independent Party June 26th, from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. at the Encinitas Community & Senior Center, 1140 Oakcrest Park Drive. Meetings at the Westin LAX Riverside County’s Historic Mission Inn and in Orange County are also scheduled.
In those cities where these benefits have been eliminated those in this country in violation of the law
It’s really more of a regime edict than a law.
leave. This fact can only lead one to the conclusion that people come to America not for a better life, not to become part of the American dream, not to enrich America but to get these tax payers supported benefits.
Bull. People are leaving because jobs available to them are leaving as well, such as in housing. Also, with an economy circling the drain, even some rich Anglos are mowing their own lawns, etc.
It’s economic supply and demand.
Jose – Although he later turned into one of the good guys, Madison was part of the centralist coup to remove the Articles of Confederation. He knew the powers were not really “few and defined,” but virtually unlimited. Congress, under the Constitution, can tax just about anything, even before the 16th amendment. So bringing up Madison in his selling of the Constitution is NOT a good way to win an argument with a true conservative constitutionalist.
Secondly, your argument makes absolutely no sense on two levels:
1) Nowhere is Congress given the authority to provide welfare benefits to LEGAL CITIZENS
2) Nowhere are the states prohibited from doing so, nor from doing so for “illegals.”
You have some very liberal assumptions, RE: the Constitution, like many Constitution Party types.
James Madison said in The Federalist Papers No. 45,
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.”
The “few and defined” powers Madison is talking about are listed in the Constitution under:
“Article. I.
Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;–And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.”
Nowhere are tax payer supported low income housing, free healthcare, low income telephone service, low income electricity service, low income natural gas service, unemployment benefits, free education, welfare, entertainment, employment, transportation, arts, retirement, and so on listed as one the “few and defined” powers in the Constitution.
In those cities where these benefits have been eliminated those in this country in violation of the law leave. This fact can only lead one to the conclusion that people come to America not for a better life, not to become part of the American dream, not to enrich America but to get these tax payers supported benefits.
I come from “another country” (although really, I don’t think lines decreed in edicts by gangs who call themselves government to delineate their turf have any great validity at all). Why would this make me any more or less eligible for forced income redistribution – itself illegitimate to begin with?
But this cannot be denied.
It can. I do.
And where in the Constitution does it say tax payers are to provide those that come from other countries free education, walfare, low income housing, low income telephone service, free heathcare, unemployment benefits, . . ?
Begging the question. “Those who come from other countries” is an entirely superfluous part of that sentence.
“and other closed-border activists.â€
Secure-border activists*
close-minded know-thing nativists**
better yet GE’s old line
“Border Marxists”
http://lastfreevoice.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/bob-barr-immigration/
media release, which characterizes the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Green Party candidates as “pro-amnesty.â€
I wish.
Hey, I’m not being combatative, Jose. I’m just saying what the AIP message said. They used the term “closed border” (or actually, “close border,” but I think it was a typo), and not “secure border,” as Trent prefers.
“where in the Constitution does it say tax payers are to provide those that come from other countries free education, walfare, low income housing, low income telephone service, free heathcare, unemployment benefits”
Right next to where it says taxpayers are supposed to pay for those thing from people who don’t come from other countries.
Not according to the AIP release I was sent!
“America’s back is breaking from the burden of immigration policies that demand taxpayers pay to educate, incarcerate, medicate and house those who have broken into our country,â€
But this cannot be denied. Under the current system we had better watch out for our wallets.
And where in the Constitution does it say tax payers are to provide those that come from other countries free education, walfare, low income housing, low income telephone service, free heathcare, unemployment benefits, . . ?
In those cities where these benefits have been cut off those here in violation of the law have left to go to states such as California where the benefits are plenty. If they were here in this country to get a better life there would be know reason for those here against the law to leave when the benefits are cut off.
That they leave is proof they are here for the tax payer supported benefits.
Not according to the AIP release I was sent! 🙂
“and other closed-border activists.”
Secure-border activists*