Executive Power
The framers wrote the Constitution to provide for a separation of powers, or three separate branches of government. Each has its own responsibilities and at the same time they work together to make the country run smoothly and to assure that the rights of citizens are not ignored or disallowed. This is done through checks and balances. A branch may use its powers to check the powers of the other two in order to maintain a balance of power among the three branches of government. The three branches of the U.S. Government are: Legislative, Executive, Judicial
Finally there is news that President Obama’s “stimulus” has had some positive effects on our economy. The usually Obama-cheer-leading Associated Press has produced a very deep “news” article boasting the fact that gasoline prices are finally coming down and some predict prices as low as $3.25 per gallon within a month. First I’ll believe and welcome that when I see it. Second there is a rather sinister reason for the recent price drop.
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Ayn Rand’s famous character from Atlas Shrugged railed against big government and a nanny state. Many of us find inspiration in his words and actions to bolster capitalism;
was an infamous economist from France. Bastiat was infamous because he was able to show the fallacies behind many government and false economic policies and he often did it with humor. One of my favorite tactics that he uses is to take an economic argument to the extreme to expose the fallacy. I have used this to “silence” the naïve. I love it when they finally “get it.”