Minding Our Own Business August 6, 2008

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 6, 2008

In 1998, Congress passed the so-called ?Iraq Liberation Act,? a largely symbolic measure that served as the prelude to war. Subsequent resolutions have targeting other nations, such as Iran and Syria.

On July 31, the House enacted ? by a 419-1 vote -- a resolution condemning abuses of human rights in China. Those abuses are plentiful, of course, but as Ron Paul ? the only Congressman to vote against the measure ? reminded his colleagues, ?we have no authority over the Chinese government. It is our Constitutional responsibility to deal with abuses in our own country or those created abroad by our own foreign policies.?

Congress hasn?t abolished the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the Export-Import Bank, or other conduits of tax subsidies to corporations doing business in China. Congress has the constitutional authority and duty to end those subsidies. It prefers the sterile hypocrisy of striking politically profitable poses.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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