On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.