To JBS Freedom Campaign Meetup Members;
There is to be a morning, public, free-of-charge forum featuring Senator Orrin Hatch and Steve Forbes, on Friday, August 28th, at 9 a.m., at the Ragan Theater at Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem.

This is a great time to ask questions about Article I, Section 8 concerning the delegated power to "COIN" money, or for federal interference in the Health Care Market. In fact, here's the questions I wish someone would ask:
"Has the use of paper money since the Federal Reseve was created caused a devaluing of our monetary unit, the dollar, through inflation of the money supply; and if so, shouldn't we return to using gold and silver to prevent inflation of the money supply?"

"Senator Hatch, Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 delegated authority to Congress only to COIN money, not to print bills of credit (paper money), so how could Congress delegate a power to print paper money to a Central Bank when it never had authority to print it in the first place?"

"Senator Hatch, where in the Constitution was congress specifically given power to create the Federal Reserve System? I don't see any authority to create a central bank given by our Constitution to the Congress, do you?"

"Mr. Forbes, The Constitution, Article I, Section 10 forbids the States from printing bills of credit, that is paper money as it was called in the 18th century. And Section 10 also requires the States to use gold and silver coin for payment of debts, so how can the States obey the constitution when they are forced to use paper federal reserve notes that aren't even backed by gold or silver? Isn't America in trouble because of the trillions of dollars printed from thin air by the Federal Reserve System to fund Congressional borrowing?"

"Is the 4,000 tons of gold at Fort Knox still in Fort Knox, and if so, couldn't it be coined into small coins and returned to the people of the United States in exchange for their paper federal reserve notes so we could put the gold back in circulation in America?"

No doubt you can think of dozens of more constitutionally-based questions to ask. Where federal government intrusion into health care is concerned we could especially base questions on the Tenth Amendment and ask where in Article I, Section 8, the Congress was delegated powers over the health care of Americans.

This forum would be a wonderful place to distribute the July 20 FREEDOM INDEX from The New American magazine, which is now available as a reprint. I bought 900 of them at $0.30 each as reprinted articles. The 550 that I haven't sold yet are sitting in boxes in my front room. This is a chance to bring 100-reprints with you and distribute them so people can see the voting records of both houses of Congress. ($30 per 100 reprints).
Sorry I can't be there. I will be home on Monday afternoon if you need to purchase reprints to distribute, unless I'm at the bank, or STAPLES. Phone me at [masked].
Bliss Tew
909 West 1500 North
Orem, UT 84057