Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

December 16, 2008

After the Senate rejected the proposed bailout of the Big Three automakers, the White House announced that it would proceed without congressional help.

The Treasury Department said it would redirect some of the$700-800 billion set aside in September to bail out banks and other financial institutions stricken by the collapse of the housing bubble. A spokesman for the Department insisted that this extraordinary development was necessary because Congress had ?failed to act.?

Accordingly, the Treasury Department, acting without constitutional authority, prepared to bail out the stricken auto industry.

This is a telling illustration of the new system under which we're living. Congress no longer has control over the public purse; it has effectively surrendered that power to the Treasury Department, at least where financial and industrial bailouts are concerned. In this way, the corrupt mechanism of wealth redistribution can function without being impeded by the people's representatives.

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