JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY: Not what Founding Fathers intended

The KCRCC Resolution supporting the John Birch Society states:

“Whereas, the John Birch Society enthusiastically endorses the U.S. Constitution, and has worked for over 60 years toward education and activating Americans to abide by the original intent of the Founding Fathers …”

This is a flat out lie and shows the ultra hypocritical (and not conservative) nature of the John Birch Society (JBS).

The JBS does not educate Americans to abide by the original intent of the Founding Fathers. Just the opposite. How so?

The JBS teaches and preaches the Austrian School of Economics, which school is an extreme version of Libertarianism created to counterbalance Marxism.  

The Austrian School advocates a FREE MARKET ECONOMY UNFETTERED by government regulation.  

Opposed to this, the Founding Fathers (FF) enshrined into the U.S. Constitution the following:

Article 1 Section 8:

The CONGRESS shall have POWER To COIN MONEY, [and] REGULATE THE VALUE THEREOF …

The FF gave us GOVERNMENT and REGULATION with respect to the ECONOMY, and not one based on Wall Street, Goldman Sachs, international banking or any other private speculatory enterprise.

To re-iterate:  

FF original intent = Political Economy

JBS and Austrian School = Free Market Economy

So realistically, on that sliding dialectical libertarian/marxist scale, to the JBS, the Founding Fathers are proto and crypto Marxists!

BRAD HARALA

Post Falls