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The powers and duties of these branches are further defined by acts of congress, including the creatin of executive departments and courts inferior to the Supreme Court. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <p><br /> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:United_States_Capitol_-_west_front.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front.jpg/220px-United_States_Capitol_-_west_front.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front.jpg/330px-United_States_Capitol_-_west_front.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front.jpg/440px-United_States_Capitol_-_west_front.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1556" /></a><figcaption>The government is us; we are the government, you and I. ~ <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> </figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Federal_government_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>If the <a href="/wiki/U.S._government" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. government">U.S. government</a> had prosecuted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" class="extiw" title="w:George W. Bush">Bush administration</a> officials for their <a href="/wiki/War_crimes" title="War crimes">war crimes</a> during the “<a href="/wiki/War_on_terror" title="War on terror">war on terror</a>,” the <a href="/wiki/ICC" class="mw-redirect" title="ICC">ICC</a> would not now take jurisdiction. But after <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> said, “Generally speaking, I’m more interested in looking forward than I am in looking backwards,” his administration refused to prosecute those implicated in the <a href="/wiki/Torture" title="Torture">torture</a> and willful killings of detainees during the <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W._Bush" title="Presidency of George W. Bush">Bush administration</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Cohn" title="Marjorie Cohn">Marjorie Cohn</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://truthout.org/articles/team-trump-tried-to-bully-the-icc-into-dropping-war-crimes-probe-but-failed/">Team Trump Tried to Bully the ICC Into Dropping War Crimes Probe But Failed, by Marjorie Cohn, <i>Truthout</i></a> (10 March 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Federal_government_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The United States is on pace to spend over $7 trillion over the next ten years for <a href="/wiki/The_Pentagon" title="The Pentagon">the Pentagon</a>. To put that number in perspective, the U.S. spends more each year on the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" title="United States Armed Forces">military</a> than <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">U.K.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a> and <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> combined. While Republicans and <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrats</a> are in sharp disagreements over the much smaller <a href="/wiki/Build_Back_Better_Plan" title="Build Back Better Plan">Build Back Better</a> legislation, there is largely a bipartisan consensus when it comes to the military budget and foreign military intervention... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amy_Goodman" title="Amy Goodman">Amy Goodman</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/24/war_party_us_military_spending">“The War Party”: Jeremy Scahill on How U.S. Militarism Unifies Democrats & Republicans, <i>Democracy Now!</i></a> (24 November 2021)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Federal_government_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>This government cannot much longer play a game in which it stakes all, and its enemies stake nothing. Those enemies must understand that they cannot experiment for ten years trying to destroy the government, and if they fail still come back into the <a href="/wiki/Union_(United_States)" title="Union (United States)">Union</a> unhurt. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln5/1:762?rgn=div1;view=fulltext">letter to August Belmont (31 July 1832)</a> in "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln" edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume V, p. 350-351</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of <a href="/wiki/Civil_and_political_rights" title="Civil and political rights">civil</a> and <a href="/wiki/Religious_liberty" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious liberty">religious liberty</a>, than any of which the history of former times tells us. We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings. We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them; they are a legacy bequeathed us by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed, race of ancestors. Theirs was the task (and nobly they performed it) to possess themselves, and through themselves us, of this goodly land, and to uprear upon its hills and its valleys a political edifice of liberty and equal rights; 'tis ours only to transmit these — the former unprofaned by the foot of an invader, the latter undecayed by the lapse of time and untorn by usurpation — to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know. This task gratitude to our fathers, justice to ourselves, duty to posterity, and love for our species in general, all imperatively require us faithfully to perform. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln%27s_Lyceum_address" class="extiw" title="w:Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum address">the Lyceum Address</a> (1838)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let us then turn this Government back into the channel in which the <a href="/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States" title="Founding Fathers of the United States">framers of the Constitution</a> originally placed it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%E2%80%93Douglas_debates_of_1858" class="extiw" title="w:Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858">Lincoln–Douglas debates</a> (1858)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/MOWPe">speech to the Cooper Institute, New York, New York (27 February 1860)</a> - <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cooper%27s_Union_Speech" class="extiw" title="s:Cooper's Union Speech">Full text online at Wikisource</a>; similar remarks to many of these were made in later speeches elsewhere. (Philippines section) Non- govt` employee (road3 lower bicutan taguig city)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Without the <i><a href="/wiki/United_States_Constitution" title="United States Constitution">Constitution</a></i> and the <i>Union</i>, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great <a href="/wiki/Prosperity" title="Prosperity">prosperity</a>. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" — the principle that clears the <i>path</i> for all — gives <i>hope</i> to all — and, by consequence, <i><a href="/wiki/Enterprise" class="mw-redirect" title="Enterprise">enterprize</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Industry" title="Industry">industry</a></i> to all. The <i>expression</i> of that principle, in our <a href="/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a>, was most happy, and fortunate. <i>Without</i> this, as well as <i>with</i> it, we could have declared our independence of Great Britain; but <i>without</i> it, we could not, I think, have secured our free government, and consequent prosperity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln4/1:264?rgn=div1;view=fulltext">fragment on the Constitution and the Union</a> (c. January 1861); published in <i>The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln</i> (1953) by Roy P. Basler, vol. 4, p. 168</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[T]here will be no blood shed unless it be forced' upon the Government. The Government will not use force unless force is used against it... This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it... The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it". <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln4/1:376?rgn=div1;view=fulltext">speech in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a> (22 February 1861); quoted in Roy P. Basler, ed., <i>The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 4</i> (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 204.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One of the greatest perplexities of the Government is to avoid receiving troops faster than it can provide for them. In a word, the people will save their Government if the Government itself will do its part only indifferently well... This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life. Yielding to partial and temporary departures, from necessity, this is the leading object of the Government for whose existence we contend... Our popular Government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled — the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains — its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=69802">address to Congress</a> (4 July 1861)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am a patient man — always willing to forgive on the <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> terms of <a href="/wiki/Repentance" title="Repentance">repentance</a>; and also to give ample time for repentance. Still I must save this government if possible. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, letter to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverdy_Johnson" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Reverdy Johnson">Reverdy Johnson</a> (26 July 1862)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is the duty of every government to give protection to its <a href="/wiki/Citizenship" title="Citizenship">citizens</a>, of whatever <a href="/wiki/Social_class" title="Social class">class</a>, <a href="/wiki/Race" class="mw-disambig" title="Race">color</a>, or condition, and especially to those who are duly organized as soldiers in the public service. The law of nations and the usages and customs of war as carried on by civilized powers, permit no distinction as to color in the treatment of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_of_war" class="extiw" title="w:Prisoners of war">prisoners of war</a> as public enemies. To sell or <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">enslave</a> any captured person, on account of his color, and for no <a href="/wiki/War_crimes" title="War crimes">offence against the laws of war</a>, is a relapse into barbarism and a <a href="/wiki/Crime_against_humanity" class="mw-redirect" title="Crime against humanity">crime against the civilization of the age</a>. The government of the United States will give the same protection to all its <a href="/wiki/Soldiers" title="Soldiers">soldiers</a>, and if the enemy shall sell or enslave anyone because of his color, the offense shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners in our possession. It is therefore ordered that for every soldier of the United States killed in violation of the <a href="/wiki/International_law" title="International law">laws of war</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">rebel soldier</a> shall be executed; and for every one enslaved by the enemy or sold into <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the United States">slavery</a>, a rebel soldier shall be placed at hard labor on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_works" class="extiw" title="w:Public works">public works</a> and continued at such labor until the other shall be released and receive the treatment due to a prisoner of war. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln6/1:755?rgn=div1;view=fulltext">Order of Retaliation</a> (30 July 1863); quoted in Roy P. Basler, ed., <i>The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7</i> (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 357</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_men_are_created_equal" class="extiw" title="w:All men are created equal">every man has a right to be equal with every other man</a>... [T]here may be mistakes made sometimes; things may be done wrong while the officers of the Government do all they can to prevent mistakes. But I beg of you, as citizens of this great Republic, not to let your minds to carried off... [R]ise up to the height of a generation of men worthy of a free Government... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, speech to the One Hundred Sixty-fourth Ohio Regiment delivered at Washington, D.C. (18 August 1864)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is vain and foolish to arraign this man or that for the part he has taken, or has not taken, and to hold the government responsible for his acts. In no administration can there be perfect equality of action and uniform satisfaction rendered by all. But this government must be preserved in spite of the acts of any man or set of men. It is worthy your every effort. Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a> and <a href="/wiki/Equality" title="Equality">equality</a>. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln7/1:1155?rgn=div1;view=fulltext">speech to One Hundred Forty-eighth Ohio Regiment</a>, Washington, D.C. (31 August 1864); <i>The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln</i> (1953) by Roy P. Basler, vol. 7, p. 528-529</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Federal_government_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The man who is possessed of <a href="/wiki/Wealth" title="Wealth">wealth</a>, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the <a href="/wiki/State" title="State">states</a> and <a href="/wiki/Monarchy" title="Monarchy">kingdoms</a> of <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, — when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, at this day, if <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Elections in the United Kingdom">elections</a> were open to all classes of people, the <a href="/wiki/Property" title="Property">property</a> of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Madison" title="James Madison">James Madison</a>, statement (26 June 1787) as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/yates.asp"><i>Notes of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787</i></a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Yates_(politician)" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Yates (politician)">Robert Yates</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Madison" title="James Madison">James Madison</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1937&chapter=118854&layout=html&Itemid=27">letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 October 1788)</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1937&Itemid=27"><i>James Madison : The Writings, 1787-1790</i></a> Vol. 5 (1904)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. <a href="/wiki/Charity" title="Charity">Charity</a> is no part of the <a href="/wiki/Legislature" title="Legislature">legislative</a> duty of the government. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Madison" title="James Madison">James Madison</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(ed00423)):">speech, House of Representatives, during the debate "On the Memorial of the Relief Committee of Baltimore, for the Relief of St. Domingo Refugees" (10 January 1794)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Government Rules by Force, Fraud and Deception. The information blockade starts with the military itself. The military purposely restricts information plus its immense size and bureaucratic complexity means that it is so hard to grasp that political leaders cannot themselves understand the institution they are supposed to command.<br />You want proof? Just try reading the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) 2016 report which could not figure out just how much oil the military burns. The GAO concluded: “[C]ongress does not have full visibility over the amount of fuel volume the military services require on an annual basis for their activities…”<br />This should not come as a surprise. Since its inception in 1950 or so the modern military has resisted any accounting of costs in violation of Article I, Section 9, of the US Constitution. In 2018 the Pentagon failed its first ever audit. It’s not just about the missing 6.5 trillions dollars, (although that really matters too) it’s that the opaque accounting system is armor — a defensive weapon used to neutralize anyone that wants to understand, let alone oppose, the US government. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/14/the-climate-counter-offensive-secrecy-deception-and-disarming-the-green-new-deal/">The Climate Counter-Offensive: Secrecy, Deception and Disarming the Green New Deal, Richard Moser, <i>CounterPunch</i></a> (June 14, 2019)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This very big, very dirty secret — that <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a> drives <a href="/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming">climate change</a> — is carefully guarded. To keep things hush-hush the military is excused from oversight or obligation. This exception to the <a href="/wiki/Rule_of_law" title="Rule of law">rule of law</a> has always been the practice but <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">G.W. Bush</a> formalized it demanding language to that effect in the 1997 Kyoto Accords, which he later refused to sign anyway...The complete U.S. military exemption from greenhouse gas emissions calculations includes more than 1,000 U.S. bases in more than 130 countries around the world, it’s 6,000 facilities in the U.S., its aircraft carriers and jet aircraft. Also excluded are its weapons testing and all multilateral operations such as the giant U.S. commanded <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> military alliance and AFRICOM, the U.S. military alliance now blanketing <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a>. The provision also exempts U.S./UN-sanctioned activities of “peacekeeping” and “humanitarian relief.” <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Flounders" class="extiw" title="w:Sara Flounders">Sara Flounders</a> quoted in: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/14/the-climate-counter-offensive-secrecy-deception-and-disarming-the-green-new-deal/">The Climate Counter-Offensive: Secrecy, Deception and Disarming the Green New Deal, Richard Moser, <i>CounterPunch</i></a> (June 14, 2019)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is within this context of 70 long years of secrecy, special legal exemptions, deception, fraud, lies by omission, non-binding agreements — and the global role of militarism as climate crisis multiplier — that we can best evaluate the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a>’s version of the <a href="/wiki/Green_New_Deal" title="Green New Deal">Green New Deal</a> (GND).... The GND now has overwhelming public support and that is truly a great accomplishment. The Democrat’s version has many fine ideas linking <a href="/wiki/Inequality" class="mw-redirect" title="Inequality">inequality</a> and <a href="/wiki/Social_justice" title="Social justice">social justice</a> to efforts to fight climate change — and those ideas are all true... In its current form the plan also uses the language of market solutions and technical fixes that sadly repeat the weakest features of failed climate “action” already offered by elites.<br />But most important, the Democrat’s GND — once again — omits the US government and military as a cause of climate disaster. The other — almost unbelievable omission — is the failure of the Democrat’s GND to explicitly call for dramatic reductions in the use of fossil fuels. In fact, the words “<a href="/wiki/Oil" title="Oil">oil</a>” “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/natural_gas" class="extiw" title="w:natural gas">gas</a>” “coal” or “<a href="/wiki/Fossil_fuel" title="Fossil fuel">fossil fuels</a>” do not even appear in the final document that established the committee... The Democrat’s GND remains a vague non-binding wish. The 2050 deadlines are standard political dodge-ball. When faced with crisis, corporate politicians always want to ‘kick the can down the road” — postponing real action until the damage is already done and someone else takes the blame. Adaptation to disaster and management of the crisis rather than prevention of climate chaos is the hidden but actual program of the Democrat’s GND. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/14/the-climate-counter-offensive-secrecy-deception-and-disarming-the-green-new-deal/"><b>The Climate Counter-Offensive: Secrecy, Deception and Disarming the Green New Deal</b>, Richard Moser, <i>CounterPunch</i></a> (June 14, 2019)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Federal_government_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>These <a href="/wiki/Vaccines" title="Vaccines">vaccines</a> were created through <a href="/wiki/Government_spending" title="Government spending">public money</a> — nearly $500 million of <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> public money from <a href="/wiki/Taxpayers" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxpayers">taxpayers</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioNTech" class="extiw" title="w:BioNTech">BioNTech</a>, nearly a billion dollars in money from <a href="/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States" title="Taxation in the United States">U.S. taxpayers</a> through the government to <a href="/wiki/Moderna" title="Moderna">Moderna</a>, several billions of dollars after that in exchange for buying back vaccines at high prices. So these are very much <a href="/wiki/The_public" title="The public">the people’s</a> vaccines. It’s just that they are <a href="/wiki/Private_property" title="Private property">private property</a>.... when the Moderna CEO says, “Oh, anyone can make the Moderna vaccine,” he’s being a bit disingenuous... It’s not really possible to do that. The way vaccines work and the way regulation around vaccines work is that they need to be made with authorization and a license. Moderna and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer" class="extiw" title="w:Pfizer">Pfizer</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioNTech" class="extiw" title="w:BioNTech">BioNTech</a>... need to authorize companies to make their vaccine... to share an instruction manual as to how to do it... The problem is... it loosens Moderna and Pfizer and BioNTech’s stranglehold on these vaccines... It undercuts the massive tens of billions of dollars of <a href="/wiki/Profit" title="Profit">profit</a> and revenue that they can earn off selling to <a href="/wiki/Third_World" title="Third World">poor countries</a> in the next couple of years, once they’re done with rich countries... which is why we’re asking the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">U.S.</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_government" class="extiw" title="w:German government">German governments</a> instead to say, “Look, in the face of this intransigence, it’s time to use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_emergency" class="extiw" title="w:State of emergency">emergency laws</a>... that you can use, that you have the moral and legal <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> to put into effect, and end this pandemic for us and bring us out of this incredible cycle of hell. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/16/vaccine_equity_technology_distribution_achal_prabhala">Achal Prabhala quoted in As Omicron Spreads, 100+ Firms in Africa, Asia & Latin America Can Make mRNA Vaccine If Tech Shared, <i>Democracy Now!</i></a>], (16 December 2021)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Federal_government_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>The government is us; we are the government, you and I.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=kfYEAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+government+is+us+we+are+the+government+you+and+I%22&pg=PA521#v=onepage">Speech</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asheville,_North_Carolina" class="extiw" title="w:Asheville, North Carolina">Asheville, North Carolina</a> (9 September 1902)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Federal_government_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Most of our political leaders are not <a href="/wiki/Engineering" title="Engineering">engineers</a> or scientists and do not listen to engineers or scientists. Today a letter from <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Einstein</a> would get lost in the <a href="/wiki/White_House" class="mw-redirect" title="White House">White House</a> mail room, and the <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_Project" title="Manhattan Project">Manhattan Project</a> would not even get started; it certainly could never be completed in three years. I am not aware of a single political leader in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a>, either <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a> or <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a>, who would cut <a href="/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States" title="Health care in the United States">health-care</a> <a href="/wiki/Government_spending" title="Government spending">spending</a> in order to free up money for <a href="/wiki/Biotechnology" class="mw-redirect" title="Biotechnology">biotechnology</a> research — or, more generally, who would make serious cuts to the <a href="/wiki/Social_programs_in_the_United_States" title="Social programs in the United States">welfare state</a> in order to free up serious <a href="/wiki/Money" title="Money">money</a> for major <a href="/wiki/Engineering" title="Engineering">engineering</a> projects. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Thiel" title="Peter Thiel">Peter Thiel</a>, In <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/278758/end-future-peter-thiel">an editorial</a> published by <i>National Review</i> (2011)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our obligations and loyalty should not be to a government that will not take care of our needs. Our obligations and loyalty should not be to a government that has proven time and time again that it is the enemy of the people unless the people are rich in <a href="/wiki/Dollar" title="Dollar">dollars</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Trudell" title="John Trudell">John Trudell</a> , "We are Power" (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> gives us life, not the American government. The earth gives us life, not the multi-national corporate government. The Earth gives us life. We need to have the Earth. We must have it, otherwise our life will be no more. So we must resist what they do. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Trudell" title="John Trudell">John Trudell</a>, "We are Power" (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Federal_government_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station; it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official Act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe, who presides in the Councils of Nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes: and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success, the functions allotted to his charge. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a>, First Inaugural Address (30 April 1789), published in <i>The Writings of George Washington</i>, edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, Vol. 30, pp. 292-3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment, for promoting human happiness, by reasonable compact, in civil Society. It was to be, in the first instance, in a considerable degree, a government of accomodation as well as a government of Laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness. Few, who are not philosophical spectators, can realize the difficult and delicate part, which a man in my situation had to act. All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it beyond the lustre, which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190217170827/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-04-02-0363">letter to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham</a> (9 January 1790), New York</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a>, letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island (1790)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions, which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate Union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns... The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. 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