Nice article here on the ObamaCare bribe.
The Un-Constitutionality of Health Care ‘Reform’
The Un-Constitutionality of Health Care ‘Reform’ was detailed September 29, 1993 in the Wall Street Journal, page A19. One of the few locations of the article on-line is here. Some selected quotations:
If the legality of a health-care package featuring federally mandated universal participation is litigated (and we can bet it will be), and the system is upheld, it will mark the final extension of this originally modest grant of federal authority. Thereafter, Congress will be able to regulate you not because of who you are, what you do for a living, or whether you use the interstate highways, but merely because you exist. …
One of the fundamental tenets underlying the Constitution of 1787 was that the federal government was a government of limited powers. Unlike the states, which had more general authority to regulate their citizens, the federal government was to be limited to those powers found within the four corners of the Constitution. In particular, Congress could exercise only that authority specifically granted to it by the people and the states.
There was a list — and not a very long list. One of the powers enumerated on it was the “Power . . . To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations and among the several States.”
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If the courts uphold Congress’s authority to impose this system, they must once and for all draw the curtain on the Constitution of 1787 and admit that there isnothing that Congress cannot do under the Commerce Clause. The polite fiction that we live under a government of limited powers must be discarded — Leviathan must be embraced.
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The implications of this final extension of the commerce power are frightening. If Congress can regulate you because you are , then it can do anything to you not forbidden by the handful of restraints contained in the Bill of Rights. For example, if Congress thinks Americans are too fat — many are — and this somehow will affect interstate commerce — who’s to say it doesn’t? — can it not decree that Americans shall lose weight? Indeed, under the new system, any activity that might increase the costs of health care might be regulatable.
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Once Congress’s power is extended to every individual not because of his activities, but because he is, limits on its power will depend upon the fortitude and creativity of the courts. No American, whatever his policy views on health-care reform, should rejoice at the disappearance of the last fragments of the principle that the federal government is one of limited powers. It is indeed ironic, and sad, that as the rest of the world is discovering the virtues of limiting their governments, the U.S. seems hellbent on unleashing its own.
From our perspective, we won last night – Pelosi
From our perspective, we won last night – Nancy Pelosi, Wednesday, November 4, 2009
After Democrats lost the Governors of NJ and VA while winning a race in NY. A few more “wins” like that, and Nancy Pelosi won’t be on the interview circuit!
Prescient cartoon in 1948
This video was produced in 1948 and shows exactly the problems we face today (and for years), and the techniques that have been used for 50 years to accomplish the goals. Disunity and division, class-warfare, race relations are the techniques used to divide the free people and to so conquer and enslave them.
Everyone should take the few minutes to watch this and forward it along.
http://nationaljuggernaut.blogspot.com/2009/09/this-cartoon-seemed-far-fetched-in-1948.html
We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move
The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world… We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan. – October 29, 2009 Hillary Clinton (see article)
Nancy Pelosi Ignores Constitution with an “Are you serious?”
Reporter: Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”
Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”
It is unbelievable that when asked where in the Constitution an individual mandate to buy health insurance is authorized, she responds with an “are you serious?” Talk about one of the most ignorant responses to a quesiton about the Constitution by a Speaker in history. Nancy Pelosi clearly has either not read the Constitution or the Federalist Papers or her own power is more important to her than the law of the land.
The people who voted for her should be ashamed of themselves for electing someone who is as foolish and uninformed as this woman. Her interest in power over the people of the United States trumps all concern for freedom, liberty and the Constitution.
More Chicago Racism and Power-hungry Dallas Police
Check this one out, a Chicago bar denying entrance to certain college kids based on skin color:
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/well-known_chicago_bar_mothers_accused_of_racism
And power-hungry police in Dallas ticketing people for not speaking English? What is it coming to?
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure – Senator Obama, 2006
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America ‘s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, “the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
House Oversight members avoid Countrywide oversight
Gotta love the Democratic members of the Oversight Committee not wanting to oversee:
In order for collectivists (socialists, progressives, fascists, communists, etc.) to check their morality…
In order for collectivists (socialists, progressives, fascists, communists, etc.) to check their morality, they need only remove government as the intermediary of their programs. When they are exposed as clubbing other people for “charity,” housing rights, medical rights, job rights and all the other rights inimical to the right to self-ownership, property, and the liberty to use it, their brute force will lay naked for all to see. That they rely on government agents to do their mugging for them is an indication of their bravery. At least union members do not hesitate to threaten or use force, but they too often rely on paid goons. ~ Bill Holmes