by Suzanna Billingsley

Created on: August 03, 2009

With the exceptions of a rare few, (Hon. Louie Gohmert, Hon. Steve King, and a few others), our United States Congressmen have forgotten they are public servants who are employed by the American people that voted them into office, and not lords governing over the people. Congressmen need to remember that the seats of congress are not inherited through a bloodline, the people voted and appointed who gets the privilege of retaining a seat in congress and nothing more.

We are to honor the title of a congressman, and in return congressmen are to respect the people they are serving, and not treat them like stewards to loot. Yet over the last decade, congressmen have exalted themselves as a prestige royalty that has stopped doing the job they were voted into office to do. But instead act as though they are waiting for the Queen to cross the pond to come and teach them how to do a royal wave properly.

Sadly it doesn't stop with just congressmen. When the new First Lady of the United States visited the Queen she was instructed many times of what was allowed and not allowed when approaching the Queen. But the First Lady walks right up to the Queen and gives her a hug, in a true royal bloodline, that is a big No! No!

The First Lady saw herself as an equal to the Queen. But sadly that's not how it works in America, because royal bloodlines do not sit in the Whitehouse, the people vote. As with our new president moving family members into the Whitehouse as though trying to set up some sort of monarchy.

These acts alone reveal public officals have distorted their place by thinking they are royalty. And it shows disrespect to the American people and its country's foundation for a free nation.

Under Article 1 of The Legislative Branch of the Constitution in section 8, the powers of congress are the following in lay-mens terms: (1 ) the power to lay and collect taxes, (2) borrow money, (3) regulate trade, (4) regulate immigration, (5) control the nation's currency, (6) set standards measurements, (7) provide for postal services, (8) issue copyrights and patents, (9) establish federal courts, (10) declare war. (Well ,1 out of 10 isn't bad, thanks congress for the Franks Sinatra stamp).

Under section 9 of the constitution are the powers denied to Congress as listed: (1) The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless in Rebellion or Invasion. (2) A bill of attainder permits the punishment of a person without a trail. An ex post facto law is retroactive, making an act illegal after it has already been committed. (3) Congress cannot order any direct tax unless it is proportional to state population. (4) No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law. (5) No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or Trust under them, shall, without the consent of the congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, prince, or foreign State.

If our leaders don't start thinking with the lump three feet above their rear-ends, this nation will collapse.

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