Founding Fathers Would Rebel at Idea of Supercommittee 'Dictatorship'

The United States needs to restore the basic principles of the Founding Fathers and President Ronald Reagan’s small-government ideals to pull itself out of its quagmire of inefficiency, stagnation, and corruption, political analyst John Fund tells Newsmax.TV.

And the founders would have would have been appalled at the idea of appointing a supercommittee to solve the country’s economic morass, said Fund, who likened the panel to a “committee dictatorship.”

The supercommittee, which is struggling with the dismal prospect of creating a plan to cut $1.2 trillion by Thanksgiving eve, is an ill-advised attempt at a solution, he said.

“I think the supercommittee was a mistake, for two reasons: One is I think it’s an abrogation of Congress’s responsibility to make these decisions by itself,” the former Wall Street Journal columnist said in the exclusive interview with Newsmax.

In addition, he said, the Founding Fathers didn’t intend for such a move, in which 535 politicians have delegated their power to a committee of 12.

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