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The US Constition - a sentence not usually read
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The US Constition - a sentence not usually read

Quote:"In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success." - Walter Williams, Professor of Economics, George Mason University (2005)

I read that in the special left side quote corner in thinking of it I want to point out some things I think many people always screw-up in the constitution of the U.S.

Article 1 Section 9 of the Constitution: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
I've never seen one. I'd like to know where my tax-money is going and the President has to swear to follow the Constitution during has inauguration.

~The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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01-21-2011 02:18 PM
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This is intriguing, perhaps you should ask a Congressmember, or send in a FoIA request on this.

From the tone of your post, it sounds like you're blowing the "Our government isn't following the Constitution!" whistle. If you didn't notice, that's a common occurance.
01-21-2011 04:23 PM
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Sasayaki Wrote:Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

What wonderfully relative terminology that is.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... ral_budget

You sure about that?

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Hah, well maybe they do. That wiki page was way long. I skimmed it it seems like most of them are just future projections but there might have been something about actually recording what we do spend instead of long projections that are guesses. I might read it all sometime else but I know now that they show the stuff that costs a lot now, but the pie chart on the side just said 12% of the spending is just labeled other discretionary. Booooo

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01-22-2011 10:09 AM
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^ I skimmed it too. Laugh

I agree with your post though, and I'm pretty sure the public doesn't have access to it. At least not right away... Also, some shit is completely ridiculous. They allocated $100,000,000 for a small bridge in some tiny ass country town once... Nobody caught it for years, and they have no idea what happened to the money.

The U.S is terrible with monetary management. Kickbacks are fucking everywhere.

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In my state they payed about a thousand or a few hundred don't reminder exactly for a huge sign that says welcome to our state which was a dumb waste of money and the only reason I know that is it was on the news.

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