The So-called Debt-limit Deal, and What it Really Means for All Americans

COMMENTARY | Before any of my readers jump up in defense of (insert politician's name here), please understand, I'm neither a Democrat nor a Republican. It's silly to me to offer my personal time and energy to any tax-funded bureaucrat for free. It's not my job to get any particular demographic so upset that their arms flappity-flappity at their sides in anger. I'm only speaking on an agenda to wake up all of my fellow Americans, regardless of their favorite flavor of political popsicle. This concerns us all.

On August 2nd, 2011, President Barack Obama and the entire U.S. Congress negotiated a deal on our country's debt limit. We were all told that without an increase on the debt ceiling, America would suffer an economic catastrophe which would make our last Great Depression of the 1930s look like a Sunday picnic in the park. We were sold a bill of goods '" again. It was nothing more than political theater, used to make another power grab.

Within just one day of passage of the 74-page S. 365 Budget Control Act of 2011, the American government used 100% of the debt limit increase, and in response to what appears to be such irresponsible behavior, our stock market dropped by 500 points on August 4th, 2011. But, the market fluctuations and the fiscal irresponsibility of our vote-buying, power-hungry politicians are not the worst part.

What the debt-ceiling negotiations have done to all of us, regardless of how anyone votes, is the creation of what's known as the "Super Congress." This group consists of twelve elected officials, chosen by Congressional leadership, and accountable on to the president. And, as so vehemently stated by Judge Andrew Napolitano, is flagrantly unconstitutional. Within the U.S. Constitution, members of Congress and Senate are permitted to debate items put before them or at least make amendments and revisions. Within the Super Congress, the only vote allowed will be a straight yes or no vote, and nothing more.

What's even more concerning to the people of America (or should be anyway) is how the Congressmen and women who opposed an increase to the debt-ceiling are going to be prevented from being a part of the Super Congress. Coincidentally, those members of Congress who opposed the debt ceiling increase, are also known as some of the most fiscally conservative, and supportive of the idea of limited government.

So, what the passage of S. 365 Budget Control Act of 2011 really means to all Americans is we now have a true oligarchy within our government. The Act wholly bypasses Article 1, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution - the Supreme law of the land - via the establishment of a 12 member committee authorized by the bill's own language to supplant the legislative powers of the Congress. This terrible Act has fundamentally altered the American system of government in ways we may never recover.