(CNSNews.com) – Edwin Meese, who served as attorney general under President Ronald Reagan, told CNSNews.com on Friday that adding a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution will backfire unless the amendment caps federal spending, requires supermajorities in Congress to raise taxes and restricts the ability of judges to preempt the elected branches in determining federal taxing and spending laws.

“A weak Balanced Budget Amendment–without certain safeguards and protections against excessive taxation and excessive spending–would be worse than the situation we have at the present time,” Meese said in a videotaped interview at the Heritage Foundation.

“It would be used by those who seek to have an expanded government and increased taxes to make it mandatory to increase taxes,” said Meese. “It would make it much easier to raise taxes, and that’s why the important thing is to have a protection, for example, that it would take two-thirds of both houses in order to increase taxes … and, likewise, that there be some sort of a cap on expenditures, perhaps in relation to Gross Domestic Product.

“It’s also very important,” said Meese, “that the balanced budget amendment provide that the courts would not be empowered to enforce the provisions of the balanced budget amendment because that would turn over to the courts the ability for them to raise taxes perhaps or to exercise powers that the Constitution gives to the elected branches of the government, and that is adopting the spending plan for the federal government.”

The legislation to increase the federal debt limit that House Speaker John Boehner negotiated with President Barack Obama in August directs that both houses of Congress will vote on a balanced budget amendment before the end of this year. But the law does not specify what type of balanced budget amendment the House and Senate will take up for a vote.

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Just prior to taking office, Barack Hussein Obama’s transition team promised the incoming administration would create “a new level of transparency, accountability and participation for American citizens.”

Of course, that was before the Fast and Furious debacle claimed several hundred lives and exposed the perjury of an Attorney General.

It was before the Obama Department of Energy bestowed half-a-billion dollars on a bankrupt Solyndra Corporation, whose principle investor happened to be an Obama campaign money-bundler.

And it was also before another Obama campaign money-bundler used his influence to have the White House pressure a general into changing his testimony before a congressional committee.

So now, unable to duck, dodge, and hide from the citizen journalists who make up the blogosphere, and even fighting a losing battle against a select few members of the Regime-owned legacy media, the Department of Justice has decided it is time to make it legal for the government to tell outright lies to the American public.

A proposed revision to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) rules would allow federal agencies to LIE TO CITIZENS AND REPORTERS seeking certain records, telling them the records don’t exist. (Emphasis added.)

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Read More at Floyd Reports By Doug Book, Floyd Reports

“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” That famous line, delivered by Peter Finch in the 1976 film Network, gave voice to millions of Americans who were frustrated with life in America. Economic anxiety existed then and does again now.

More than 14 million Americans are out of work, many for longer than six months, causing Congress to extend unemployment benefits to nearly two years. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as of June 2011, 45.2 million Americans were receiving food stamps, a near record. The Census Bureau reports that 46.2 million Americans (15.1 percent) were living in poverty in 2010, a 17-year high. An independent national poll conducted by Quinnipiac University found that 77 percent of Americans believe we are currently in a recession, which, if true, would qualify as a double-dip recession.

So, whom do we blame?

We are seeing a growing movement in the Occupy Wall Street protests. These Americans are mad as hell, and they want to blame corporate America, the wealthy, and Wall Street for their problems.

Such class warfare has been cynically utilized by the Obama White House, whose rhetoric originally gave birth to the Occupy movement, which President Obama unbelievably compared to the civil rights struggle of the 1960s.

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Read More at Floyd Reports By Matt Mackowiak, Floyd Reports

NEW YORK — A book released this week documents for the first time the radical origins of President Obama’s healthcare law, revealing the principal author of the foundation for the legislation while tracing the law itself to a group funded by George Soros.

“Red Army: The radical network that must be defeated to save America” also finds the founders of the controversial Apollo Alliance, run by a slew of radicals, helped craft the marketing campaign behind the healthcare initiative.

The new book, by authors Aaron Klein and Brfenda J. Elliott, purports to expose the radical socialist network that seized political power in Washington over decades, shaped Obama’s presidential agenda and threatens the very future of the U.S.

On Obamacare, “Red Army” documents how the legislation, deliberately masked by moderate, populist rhetoric, was carefully crafted and perfected over the course of decades and is a direct product of laborious work by a coalition of radical groups and activists, many with socialist designs.

Those activists seek to “reform” the U.S. healthcare industry, which accounts for a significant portion of the U.S. capitalist enterprise.

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