Were kind of due for one of those, as you know, but they wanted to avoid the nuclear EMP issue. Thus far, weve primarily focused on achieving tactical success against the enemys capacity while missing the overall battle thats being waged, and that is its ideology or intent. One of the first things we do in a nuclear exchange protocol is do an EMP lay down to try to blind our enemy and let them know whats happening. Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld said weakness is provocative. Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, to name just a few of his many noteworthy positions. The North Koreans understand it. So Mullen is right. In the passage that follows, if you read carefully, Article I, Section 8 enumerates a broad range of about 19 activities for which Congress can use its taxing authorities, chief among them a common defense. Stuart Butler, I believe in talking with people and doing everything we can to express a peaceful intent with everyone. Overview General Constitutional Authorization. Its important to understand that global jihad is taking place on two very different fronts: warfare on the battlefield and what has now become known as lawfare in the judicial system to impose Sharia law upon all of humanity. Overview General Constitutional Authorization. I think its reflected in the budget. Let me do this from a former mayors point of view. I think we will need a new calendar if Iran gains nuclear weapons. Options One intention the framers had when creating the U.S. Constitution was to provide for the common defense. But who shoulders that duty has not always been so clear. Im afraid that theyre doing diplomacy to buy time. ailud18. We also saw that we had demobilized our forces. Iran has called for Israel to be wiped off the map and for the utter annihilation of the Jewish state. For that reason, Ive introduced whats known as the SHIELD Act. 
This bill sets out vital policy initiatives to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with authorities to carry out the duties involved in maintaining national security. Yes, any effort on our part to interdict that on the part of Iran is steeped with great dangers, but it will pale in insignificance compared to dealing with Iran after they gain nuclear weapons. We have it in writings of Irans own military journals already. I dont doubt that these threats are very real and are a real security threat to the U.S. The most significant threat to our national security is the debt. Had that battle gone the other way, you and I would not be sitting here discussing the issue at all. Let them come with the armies of Hell; they will not pass. Weve kind of outsmarted ourselves in that weve integrated the grid to the extent that if one part of it goes down, it can cascade and cause problems with the other. A President or a Congress can come in and cut that budget overnight, and all that investment weve made is lost. Resources are finite: $3.5 trillion in federal outlays is already almost 25 percent of all U.S. market activity. So said former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen. To make common defense a national priority without giving too much power to one branch of government, they divided defense duties between Congress and the president. The head of the household used to be the driver and the provider of the care for the family. WebThe Senates Fiscal Year 2021 NDAA does this by strengthening American deterrence through investing in greater capabilities in support of priorities listed in the National Defense Strategy, and ensuring Americas service members are ready so, when challenged, they prevail in any conflict. We have asked him to address what providing for the common defence means to social conservatives, and we are very pleased to have him here today. He stated that Muslims should uproot satanic powers and declared that Israel is about to die and will soon be erased from the world and geographical scene. Theres a very good paper done recently by Baker Spring looking at the structure of compensation, health care, retirement benefits for the military and what would be the right way to do that to be efficient but also to have the quality and quantity of personnel that we need in the defense area. 
Thats a different intent. I remember being in charge of lots of budget analysts, including a lot of libertarian analysts, in the early days of The Heritage Foundation, when all our analysts were on the same floor and we didnt have separate offices. The reality is, our military depends on the civilian grid for 99 percent of its electricity needs. I know the economy is losing its ability to compete internationally as we spend 17% of our wealth on our health care while our competitors in Europe and Asia spend no more than 11%. I always thought that my first obligation as mayor of Cincinnati was to create a secure environment for families to rear children, educate those children successfully, where capital felt that the environment was secure enough for adequate investment. As you might expect, a lot of ordinary Americans tended to focus on concerns about things that affected them immediatelythings like whether they were going to get their Social Security check, whether they could go see a doctor, and so on. This Senate-passed NDAA does just that, which makes us and the rest of the world safer. Under the Articles of Confederation, no authority existed to The God of Jacob honored their courage, and the threat of the Nazis is now no more. Basically, what youre getting at is this ongoing debate about military intervention, which is a stand-in for a debate over what our national interests are. I dont know of anything thats more vital to our countrys future on a host of different levels, but certainly with respect to national security, than that. This is an invitation for them to exploit a weakness, and all throughout history, when an enemy was determined to hurt a country, they always exploited that weakness. Maybe its 2 or 3 percent that something will go wrong. Human capital at the present time is weak. Taxing power refers to the ability of a government to impose and collect taxes. These social issues are not the environmentalism of the Right; they are core issues on which our society will rise or fall. We call it Saving the American Dream. So when you ask a question, should we intervene here or not intervene here, the answer should be, lets do a clear-eyed analysis of what our interests are, whether or not we should do it, whether its feasible, and whether or not we can be successful. We have only one issue now, and that is if Mr. Upton[6] will allow it to come to the floor; the leadership is ready to do it. Its why we also look at not just the short term, but the long term. That was the reigning idea in the 1920s and for much of the 1930s as well, and we saw what happened: Not only did it not stop Hitler; it didnt stop Japan either, and it led to a Second World War that was far more deadly and far more costly than the first one. Its possible that only one such weapon, properly designed and delivered, could destroy or disable Americas electric grid and effectively return our society to the horse-and-buggy days without the horse and buggy. I am concerned that from a national security standpoint, we have moved into unconstitutional waters with the way we disperse and expend our resources. It does not define government powers or individual rights. [5]See H.R. Let the government provide the guns for the national defense, and Americans own enterprise will provide the butter in abundance. Men and women and their skills, capacities, and know-how continue to contribute about two-thirds of all economic growth. ailud18. Abstract: The Preamble of the Constitution gives paramount importance to the federal government to provide for the common defence. Yet there is a troubling misconception that all federal spending is more or less equal. The same thing is now happening in Syria, and on the other side, youve got the hard-core realists who are saying we dont really have interests there, and besides, how do we do it? Death to America. Terrorists are never afraid to say that. Now its time for Senate and House members to craft a compromise bill and send it to the presidents desk to become law. Provide for the common defense The Framers were acutely aware that the new nation remained extremely vulnerable to attacks by foreign nations and that no individual state had the power to repel such attacks. There is an inherent tendency to waste in all departments of the federal government, including the Defense Department, so its very important to look for efficiencies and improvements in that area. The economists would say things like, You guys on the defense side want more bombs all the time; why dont you just use up the ones you have first instead of coming and asking for more? I always thought the best response to that was an analyst called Tom Ascik, who was a former Marine. The Honorable Trent Franks: I am always so grateful to be among all of you. If a lot of innocent people are being killed, then they get all up in arms. Also during my tenure here, Ive been involved in debating budget control and how we look at budget cuts around the country. But when we think of insurance, we have to think of insurance first of all in that way. and I think the answer to your question is that we tend to look at it wrong. I had the wonderful privilege of leading Rolling Thunder into Washington here on Sunday. So we have a lot of experience looking at how ordinary Americans think about the options for dealing with fiscal problems. I think this ideological impulse is almost more dangerous than we faced with the Nazis. WebThe Common Defense refers to the authority granted to the federal government by the states to raise and fund armed forces to defend the territory of all of the states. What are examples of provide for the common defense? People say, you look at defense, whats the probability? As evil as they were, the fact that they cared about no human life of any kind except their own at least gave us leverage to threaten their lives, but the jihadists will blow their children to pieces to blow you to pieces. Thirdly, all sensible economists recognize that security is not just necessary in terms of the physical protection of our population and our allies; it is absolutely necessary for industry, for commerce, for economic growth itself. In the United States, Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to "lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of There was a lot of pressure for us to do that, but I thought this is something the liberals will try to exploit, and certainly they have. Our second speaker, Stuart Butler, is Director of the Center for Policy Innovation at The Heritage Foundation. Are we willing to invade Syria? The issue is not the percentage probability of something happening, but the downside risk if it does happen. There may even be a worse case. Thats why it was essential to come together again and advance the NDAA to bolster our own military posture, enact policies that encourage deterrence, project leadership, and deploy innovative strategies to maximize advantages that serve our national security objectives, reassure our allies, and help defend our freedoms and ideals at home and abroad. WebLatest Search American Contractor Killed in Drone Attack on Base in Syria Five service members and another U.S. contractor were wounded. Im reminded that sometimes, when we have faced challenges in the past, we didnt respond soon enough. Particularly on the issue of national security, conservatives have been concerned about the number of threats we face. In his new role as Director of CPI, Stuart is leading a team with the goal of developing innovative solutions to some of the toughest policy challenges facing Americans today, and we are glad to have him here to speak as well. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency established by the US Department of Homeland Security in November 2011 in reaction to the terrorist attacks of 11 September to protect the whole transportation It clearly communicates the intentions of the framers and the purpose of the document. WebDefinition. Kim Holmes, The Senate and the House of Representatives each recently passed versions of the legislation, marking the 60thconsecutive year this has occurred. Weve looked at health care, personnel savings, logistics efficiencies, and we have identified billions of dollars in efficiencies that we believe can be taken and that money plowed back into the defense budget. Thats the danger. I think President Obama came into office thinking that one of the reasons why the Iranians and people in the Middle East hated us so much is because were over there, so if we just pull back, they will not hate us as much as they did before. We estimate it at around 4 percent of GDP, but that number is derived from the needs and capabilities and efficiencies that we can reach. Its also why, when we look at getting efficient, effective defense, we have focused a lot on how to look at the structure of compensation within the military. Its hard for me to understand that. On June 2, 2008, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made clear where he stands. We are not ready for a nuclear Iran. The final report of the National Defense Strategy Commission is a compilation of the assessments of the National Defense Strategy and recommendations based on its analysis related not just to defense strategy, but also to the larger geopolitical environment in which that strategy must be executed. It does not define government powers or individual rights. . When you look at successful businesses, its very rare to have a very well run, successful business where everything is dependent on one person, maybe because they have a particular skill or something. . Umbrella insurance is the add-on insurance you get just in case the worst things happen. In a time of intense partisanship and national division, passage of the NDAA is a true testament to the significance of this responsibility. I was taken by a notion put forth by David Armor, who was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management. I would suggest to you that the terrorist world is looking not just at our capacitythey know that we have the capacity to engage them on any levelbut theyre actually examining what our intent and our commitment is, and right now I think that the person in the White House does not serve us well in that regard. In the debate within Washington itself around the think tank community, you get sort of an insidious argument that when you look at different parts of the federal government and you need to make changes, its surely appropriate to share the burden, to make similar percentage cuts across the board. Constitution 101: To Provide for the Common Defense. I dont want to overanswer this question, but I had the world summit on this issue. More Americans are on food stamps now than ever before in our history; with a 41 percent out-of-wedlock birthrate, we face the prospect of most of our American children becoming eligible for Medicaid. As a result, when Hitler marched into the Rhineland in 1936, there was no way for the U.S. to back up Frances call for strong military action. Here is the macro picture: a $15 trillion gross domestic product (GDP); $3.5 trillion in federal spending, nearly 25 percent of GDP; $2 trillion in revenue. One of the reasons we failed in that regard, according to Dr. Gorka, is the misguided belief that the religious character of the enemys ideology should not be discussedthis despite the fact that all those whove brought death to our shores, al-Qaeda operatives, have done so not so much out of purely political conviction, but clearly as a result of the fact that they feel transcendentally justified. Nobody in their right mind really wants to spend more on defense than is critical and necessary and most efficient to reach those objectives. Ive paid this for years, and Ive never collected a dime from that insurance. In the United States, Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to "lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of I want to make sure that we try to talk and are as kind to each other as we can be. In addition, he is a member of the Judiciary Committee and is the Chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee. I was just wondering, because you give very little attention to globalization and new times and the importance of negotiations and creating platforms for peaceful dialogue around these issues. We spend billions of dollars hardening our military apparatusour missile defense capability, our nuclear triadand yet the civilian grid is as delicate as a butterfly wing to EMP. It cant do its job without that. You may say, I dont want to do Syria, but then, if you dont build the infrastructure, you cant do anything anywhere. In the end, only a coherent conservative constitutional approach can get us to a point where we have adequate national security, abundant and accelerated economic growth, and a moral foundation that has contributed to American exceptionalism. I really wanted to get a fresh perspective on an issue we havent talked about: how conservatives see the common defense.. The world has to understand that Sharia is not simply a set of rules governing criminal or religious behavior; it is the primary doctrinal and legal impetus for terrorism in the name of Islam. The corollary to recognizing the downside risk of failure is to have a margin of error and a margin of safety. Constitution 101: To Provide for the Common Defense. All of the social data suggest that when the head of household is intact and families are together through marriage, the families work more effectively than the government in providing for the human capital future of America. One of the things we discover in all these situations, whether it be talking about analysts at The Heritage Foundation or going around the country or talking to people in other groups, is that theres a big inclination to see reducing defense as the easiest option to deal with the challenge of federal spending. If Iran gains nuclear capability, they will give it to terrorists the world over, and the entire human family will step into the shadow of nuclear terrorism. 3611, May 22, 2012, http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2012/pdf/ib3611.pdf. By providing for the common defense, the Constitution secures the inalienable rights recognized in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The final report of the National Defense Strategy Commission is a compilation of the assessments of the National Defense Strategy and recommendations based on its analysis related not just to defense strategy, but also to the larger geopolitical environment in which that strategy must be executed. Certainly in World War II, as Churchills comments so profoundly came true, we saw the devastating result of not responding soon enough, because we could have. Ive got a lot of good friends here. WebProviding for the common defense means providing resources, coordination and/or oversight that keeps the country safe from attack. They know that security is critical to economics. So as important as I believe missile defense isand Im the chairman of the Missile Defense Caucus, so I believe its very, very importantwe have to harden our grid, because we invite some sort of an EMP attack if we dont, and there are even scenarios where potentially, if we had to engage a nuclear incoming mid-range and medium-range missile at lower altitude, we could even precipitate an EMP attack on ourselves if they fused the warhead. The Iranian nation now possesses enough low-enriched uranium that, if enriched further, could in a very short period of time produce enough weapons-grade fissile material to create several nuclear warheads. Ive also been, as others at Heritage have been, engaged in the debate among the various think tanks and research organizations and politicians about where you make savings in the federal government to deal with the issues that Ken brought up in terms of the yawning gap on an annual basis of deficits and the long-term debt that is burdening future generations. And it is a national security crisis because 47 percent of our debt is held by foreign interests, the lions share of that by China. Over the last few weeks, Congress has been working on the annual legislation that helps ensure our men and women in uniform have the tools and resources they need to fulfill their crucial mission to protect and defend the United States, our allies and interests. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency established by the US Department of Homeland Security in November 2011 in reaction to the terrorist attacks of 11 September to protect the whole transportation After meeting with leaders from the 188th Air Wing at Fort Smith, it was clear to me that our service members need more support when it comes to options for child care and assistance. The preamble is an introduction to the highest law of the land; it is not the law. The final report of the National Defense Strategy Commission is a compilation of the assessments of the National Defense Strategy and recommendations based on its analysis related not just to defense strategy, but also to the larger geopolitical environment in which that strategy must be executed. 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This bill sets out vital policy initiatives to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with authorities to carry out the duties involved in maintaining national security. Yes, any effort on our part to interdict that on the part of Iran is steeped with great dangers, but it will pale in insignificance compared to dealing with Iran after they gain nuclear weapons. We have it in writings of Irans own military journals already. I dont doubt that these threats are very real and are a real security threat to the U.S. The most significant threat to our national security is the debt. Had that battle gone the other way, you and I would not be sitting here discussing the issue at all. Let them come with the armies of Hell; they will not pass. Weve kind of outsmarted ourselves in that weve integrated the grid to the extent that if one part of it goes down, it can cascade and cause problems with the other. A President or a Congress can come in and cut that budget overnight, and all that investment weve made is lost. Resources are finite: $3.5 trillion in federal outlays is already almost 25 percent of all U.S. market activity. So said former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen. To make common defense a national priority without giving too much power to one branch of government, they divided defense duties between Congress and the president. The head of the household used to be the driver and the provider of the care for the family. WebThe Senates Fiscal Year 2021 NDAA does this by strengthening American deterrence through investing in greater capabilities in support of priorities listed in the National Defense Strategy, and ensuring Americas service members are ready so, when challenged, they prevail in any conflict. We have asked him to address what providing for the common defence means to social conservatives, and we are very pleased to have him here today. He stated that Muslims should uproot satanic powers and declared that Israel is about to die and will soon be erased from the world and geographical scene. Theres a very good paper done recently by Baker Spring looking at the structure of compensation, health care, retirement benefits for the military and what would be the right way to do that to be efficient but also to have the quality and quantity of personnel that we need in the defense area. Thats a different intent. I remember being in charge of lots of budget analysts, including a lot of libertarian analysts, in the early days of The Heritage Foundation, when all our analysts were on the same floor and we didnt have separate offices. The reality is, our military depends on the civilian grid for 99 percent of its electricity needs. I know the economy is losing its ability to compete internationally as we spend 17% of our wealth on our health care while our competitors in Europe and Asia spend no more than 11%. I always thought that my first obligation as mayor of Cincinnati was to create a secure environment for families to rear children, educate those children successfully, where capital felt that the environment was secure enough for adequate investment. As you might expect, a lot of ordinary Americans tended to focus on concerns about things that affected them immediatelythings like whether they were going to get their Social Security check, whether they could go see a doctor, and so on. This Senate-passed NDAA does just that, which makes us and the rest of the world safer. Under the Articles of Confederation, no authority existed to The God of Jacob honored their courage, and the threat of the Nazis is now no more. Basically, what youre getting at is this ongoing debate about military intervention, which is a stand-in for a debate over what our national interests are. I dont know of anything thats more vital to our countrys future on a host of different levels, but certainly with respect to national security, than that. This is an invitation for them to exploit a weakness, and all throughout history, when an enemy was determined to hurt a country, they always exploited that weakness. Maybe its 2 or 3 percent that something will go wrong. Human capital at the present time is weak. Taxing power refers to the ability of a government to impose and collect taxes. These social issues are not the environmentalism of the Right; they are core issues on which our society will rise or fall. We call it Saving the American Dream. So when you ask a question, should we intervene here or not intervene here, the answer should be, lets do a clear-eyed analysis of what our interests are, whether or not we should do it, whether its feasible, and whether or not we can be successful. We have only one issue now, and that is if Mr. Upton[6] will allow it to come to the floor; the leadership is ready to do it. Its why we also look at not just the short term, but the long term. That was the reigning idea in the 1920s and for much of the 1930s as well, and we saw what happened: Not only did it not stop Hitler; it didnt stop Japan either, and it led to a Second World War that was far more deadly and far more costly than the first one. Its possible that only one such weapon, properly designed and delivered, could destroy or disable Americas electric grid and effectively return our society to the horse-and-buggy days without the horse and buggy. I am concerned that from a national security standpoint, we have moved into unconstitutional waters with the way we disperse and expend our resources. It does not define government powers or individual rights. [5]See H.R. Let the government provide the guns for the national defense, and Americans own enterprise will provide the butter in abundance. Men and women and their skills, capacities, and know-how continue to contribute about two-thirds of all economic growth. ailud18. Abstract: The Preamble of the Constitution gives paramount importance to the federal government to provide for the common defence. Yet there is a troubling misconception that all federal spending is more or less equal. The same thing is now happening in Syria, and on the other side, youve got the hard-core realists who are saying we dont really have interests there, and besides, how do we do it? Death to America. Terrorists are never afraid to say that. Now its time for Senate and House members to craft a compromise bill and send it to the presidents desk to become law. Provide for the common defense The Framers were acutely aware that the new nation remained extremely vulnerable to attacks by foreign nations and that no individual state had the power to repel such attacks. There is an inherent tendency to waste in all departments of the federal government, including the Defense Department, so its very important to look for efficiencies and improvements in that area. The economists would say things like, You guys on the defense side want more bombs all the time; why dont you just use up the ones you have first instead of coming and asking for more? I always thought the best response to that was an analyst called Tom Ascik, who was a former Marine. The Honorable Trent Franks: I am always so grateful to be among all of you. If a lot of innocent people are being killed, then they get all up in arms. Also during my tenure here, Ive been involved in debating budget control and how we look at budget cuts around the country. But when we think of insurance, we have to think of insurance first of all in that way. and I think the answer to your question is that we tend to look at it wrong. I had the wonderful privilege of leading Rolling Thunder into Washington here on Sunday. So we have a lot of experience looking at how ordinary Americans think about the options for dealing with fiscal problems. I think this ideological impulse is almost more dangerous than we faced with the Nazis. WebThe Common Defense refers to the authority granted to the federal government by the states to raise and fund armed forces to defend the territory of all of the states. What are examples of provide for the common defense? People say, you look at defense, whats the probability? As evil as they were, the fact that they cared about no human life of any kind except their own at least gave us leverage to threaten their lives, but the jihadists will blow their children to pieces to blow you to pieces. Thirdly, all sensible economists recognize that security is not just necessary in terms of the physical protection of our population and our allies; it is absolutely necessary for industry, for commerce, for economic growth itself. In the United States, Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to "lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of There was a lot of pressure for us to do that, but I thought this is something the liberals will try to exploit, and certainly they have. Our second speaker, Stuart Butler, is Director of the Center for Policy Innovation at The Heritage Foundation. Are we willing to invade Syria? The issue is not the percentage probability of something happening, but the downside risk if it does happen. There may even be a worse case. Thats why it was essential to come together again and advance the NDAA to bolster our own military posture, enact policies that encourage deterrence, project leadership, and deploy innovative strategies to maximize advantages that serve our national security objectives, reassure our allies, and help defend our freedoms and ideals at home and abroad. WebLatest Search American Contractor Killed in Drone Attack on Base in Syria Five service members and another U.S. contractor were wounded. Im reminded that sometimes, when we have faced challenges in the past, we didnt respond soon enough. Particularly on the issue of national security, conservatives have been concerned about the number of threats we face. In his new role as Director of CPI, Stuart is leading a team with the goal of developing innovative solutions to some of the toughest policy challenges facing Americans today, and we are glad to have him here to speak as well. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency established by the US Department of Homeland Security in November 2011 in reaction to the terrorist attacks of 11 September to protect the whole transportation It clearly communicates the intentions of the framers and the purpose of the document. WebDefinition. Kim Holmes, The Senate and the House of Representatives each recently passed versions of the legislation, marking the 60thconsecutive year this has occurred. Weve looked at health care, personnel savings, logistics efficiencies, and we have identified billions of dollars in efficiencies that we believe can be taken and that money plowed back into the defense budget. Thats the danger. I think President Obama came into office thinking that one of the reasons why the Iranians and people in the Middle East hated us so much is because were over there, so if we just pull back, they will not hate us as much as they did before. We estimate it at around 4 percent of GDP, but that number is derived from the needs and capabilities and efficiencies that we can reach. Its also why, when we look at getting efficient, effective defense, we have focused a lot on how to look at the structure of compensation within the military. Its hard for me to understand that. On June 2, 2008, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made clear where he stands. We are not ready for a nuclear Iran. The final report of the National Defense Strategy Commission is a compilation of the assessments of the National Defense Strategy and recommendations based on its analysis related not just to defense strategy, but also to the larger geopolitical environment in which that strategy must be executed. It does not define government powers or individual rights. . When you look at successful businesses, its very rare to have a very well run, successful business where everything is dependent on one person, maybe because they have a particular skill or something. . Umbrella insurance is the add-on insurance you get just in case the worst things happen. In a time of intense partisanship and national division, passage of the NDAA is a true testament to the significance of this responsibility. I was taken by a notion put forth by David Armor, who was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management. I would suggest to you that the terrorist world is looking not just at our capacitythey know that we have the capacity to engage them on any levelbut theyre actually examining what our intent and our commitment is, and right now I think that the person in the White House does not serve us well in that regard. In the debate within Washington itself around the think tank community, you get sort of an insidious argument that when you look at different parts of the federal government and you need to make changes, its surely appropriate to share the burden, to make similar percentage cuts across the board. Constitution 101: To Provide for the Common Defense. I dont want to overanswer this question, but I had the world summit on this issue. More Americans are on food stamps now than ever before in our history; with a 41 percent out-of-wedlock birthrate, we face the prospect of most of our American children becoming eligible for Medicaid. As a result, when Hitler marched into the Rhineland in 1936, there was no way for the U.S. to back up Frances call for strong military action. Here is the macro picture: a $15 trillion gross domestic product (GDP); $3.5 trillion in federal spending, nearly 25 percent of GDP; $2 trillion in revenue. One of the reasons we failed in that regard, according to Dr. Gorka, is the misguided belief that the religious character of the enemys ideology should not be discussedthis despite the fact that all those whove brought death to our shores, al-Qaeda operatives, have done so not so much out of purely political conviction, but clearly as a result of the fact that they feel transcendentally justified. Nobody in their right mind really wants to spend more on defense than is critical and necessary and most efficient to reach those objectives. Ive paid this for years, and Ive never collected a dime from that insurance. In the United States, Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to "lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of I want to make sure that we try to talk and are as kind to each other as we can be. In addition, he is a member of the Judiciary Committee and is the Chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee. I was just wondering, because you give very little attention to globalization and new times and the importance of negotiations and creating platforms for peaceful dialogue around these issues. We spend billions of dollars hardening our military apparatusour missile defense capability, our nuclear triadand yet the civilian grid is as delicate as a butterfly wing to EMP. It cant do its job without that. You may say, I dont want to do Syria, but then, if you dont build the infrastructure, you cant do anything anywhere. In the end, only a coherent conservative constitutional approach can get us to a point where we have adequate national security, abundant and accelerated economic growth, and a moral foundation that has contributed to American exceptionalism. I really wanted to get a fresh perspective on an issue we havent talked about: how conservatives see the common defense.. The world has to understand that Sharia is not simply a set of rules governing criminal or religious behavior; it is the primary doctrinal and legal impetus for terrorism in the name of Islam. The corollary to recognizing the downside risk of failure is to have a margin of error and a margin of safety. Constitution 101: To Provide for the Common Defense. All of the social data suggest that when the head of household is intact and families are together through marriage, the families work more effectively than the government in providing for the human capital future of America. One of the things we discover in all these situations, whether it be talking about analysts at The Heritage Foundation or going around the country or talking to people in other groups, is that theres a big inclination to see reducing defense as the easiest option to deal with the challenge of federal spending. If Iran gains nuclear capability, they will give it to terrorists the world over, and the entire human family will step into the shadow of nuclear terrorism. 3611, May 22, 2012, http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2012/pdf/ib3611.pdf. By providing for the common defense, the Constitution secures the inalienable rights recognized in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The final report of the National Defense Strategy Commission is a compilation of the assessments of the National Defense Strategy and recommendations based on its analysis related not just to defense strategy, but also to the larger geopolitical environment in which that strategy must be executed. Certainly in World War II, as Churchills comments so profoundly came true, we saw the devastating result of not responding soon enough, because we could have. Ive got a lot of good friends here. WebProviding for the common defense means providing resources, coordination and/or oversight that keeps the country safe from attack. They know that security is critical to economics. So as important as I believe missile defense isand Im the chairman of the Missile Defense Caucus, so I believe its very, very importantwe have to harden our grid, because we invite some sort of an EMP attack if we dont, and there are even scenarios where potentially, if we had to engage a nuclear incoming mid-range and medium-range missile at lower altitude, we could even precipitate an EMP attack on ourselves if they fused the warhead. The Iranian nation now possesses enough low-enriched uranium that, if enriched further, could in a very short period of time produce enough weapons-grade fissile material to create several nuclear warheads. Ive also been, as others at Heritage have been, engaged in the debate among the various think tanks and research organizations and politicians about where you make savings in the federal government to deal with the issues that Ken brought up in terms of the yawning gap on an annual basis of deficits and the long-term debt that is burdening future generations. And it is a national security crisis because 47 percent of our debt is held by foreign interests, the lions share of that by China. Over the last few weeks, Congress has been working on the annual legislation that helps ensure our men and women in uniform have the tools and resources they need to fulfill their crucial mission to protect and defend the United States, our allies and interests. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency established by the US Department of Homeland Security in November 2011 in reaction to the terrorist attacks of 11 September to protect the whole transportation After meeting with leaders from the 188th Air Wing at Fort Smith, it was clear to me that our service members need more support when it comes to options for child care and assistance. The preamble is an introduction to the highest law of the land; it is not the law. The final report of the National Defense Strategy Commission is a compilation of the assessments of the National Defense Strategy and recommendations based on its analysis related not just to defense strategy, but also to the larger geopolitical environment in which that strategy must be executed. 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