Dear President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi
I have searched long and hard, far and wide, near and far to answer a simple question about your health care bill and the ideas behind them. Even though I question the motives behind the push for this bill, I have set all of that aside and made the assumption that you know what you are doing. However, during this process, I found that my blood pressure was raised on several occasions. The main cause for this was not due to the increase in my taxes that will be necessary to support this bill or the fact that, even according to your own CBO, this legislation will cost well over what you have said it would. My anger and frustration lies with the fact that no one, and I mean no one has been able to answer one simple question. Here is the question and I hope the rest of the United States thinks of this question as well.
How can the Government of the United States force its citizens to buy something?
Now, before you answer, or attempt to answer, let me tell you some facts that I do know.
1. Never, never, ever, in the history of the United States of America, has the Government forced its citizens to purchase something. When this point has been brought up in the past everyone always gives that same, lame attempt at an answer such as "Well, the government forces you to buy car insurance" or "the Government forces you to buy home insurance." Before you go off half cocked please remember this one simple thing: The Government requires you to have car or home insurance only IF YOU BUY A CAR OR HOME FIRST! THE GOVERNMENT DOESN’T MAKE YOU BUY A CAR OR A HOME. PLEASE, TELL ALL OF THE CONGRESSIONAL AIDS THIS ONE SIMPLE FACT SO I DON’T GO INSANE WITH THIS PSEUDO ARGUMENT EVERYTIME I CALL.
2. Don’t try to use the interstate commerce clause BULLSHIT on the citizens of the United States. Nowhere, and I mean nowhere in any case has the commerce clause been used to make someone buy something. If you have an example then please, nay, I dare you to go on national television and tell everyone in the United States the exact law, case, constitutional section that details this. Go on…I dare you!
For those of you that don’t know, the interstate commerce clause was meant to regulate, not demand, the purchase of goods across state lines. Now, here is a funny one. Have you ever heard of Wickard v. Filburn? This was a goody by our Supreme Court. It seems that Mr. Filburn was trying to grow wheat to feed his chickens. Because he grew it himself, he didn’t have to buy it. The Supreme Court said that because of this, Mr. Filburn wouldn’t engage in commerce and it would affect interstate commerce. Mr. Filburn was forced to burn his wheat and pay a fine.
This is the same case that I am told of time and time again. Of course, even though the Supreme Court was on the equivalent of crack at the time, the ruling did not force Mr. Filburn to purchase wheat. The Government didn’t force Mr. Filburn to have chickens. The Supreme Court simply told him what he couldn’t do, it didn’t tell him to raise chickens that needed to be fed with wheat. For the love of IN GOD WE TRUST WOULD SOME SMARTY PANTS CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYER TYPE PLEASE TELL ME HOW THIS CASE EVEN APPLIES TO THE HEALTH CARE BILL? DON’T GIVE ME A DISSERTATION, DON’T GIVE ME DICK V. JANE OR BUTT V. CRACK, SIMPLY TELL ME AND THE REST OF THE COUNTRY IF THIS CASE IS A CLEAR CUT EXAMPLE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FORCING SOMEONE TO BUY SOMETHING. I HAVE ASKED MY REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS THIS EXACT SAME QUESTION AND NO ONE, AND I MEAN NO ONE, CAN ANSWER IT FOR ME.
3. Don’t try to use the General Welfare clause to get this pushed through. I have heard this approach before and you know and I know that it is total CRAP! Do you want to know why it is CRAP? I will tell you but you probably already know and are just hoping that the citizens of the United States won’t know or won’t care. If you were truly pushing though this Health Care bill to promote the General Welfare then the Government of the United States would be able to do ANYTHING to the citizens, ANYTHING to the country and say that it is to promote the General Welfare. If it were truly to promote the General Welfare then why don’t you cover dental care or eye care? People can get just as sick from a gum infection as they can get with any other disease. If you think about it, since the Federal Government is responsible for our highway system, why do we have to pay for glasses or contact lenses? Wouldn’t better sighted drivers make the roads safer and thus improve the General Welfare of the citizens? Better yet, why doesn’t the Federal Government give everyone Lasik eye surgery for free? That would certainly make the roads safer. For that matter, why doesn’t the Federal Government mandate that everyone watch Oprah? I certainly feel better after watching her show. Just think how much our General Welfare would be improved if EVERYONE watched it. The entire United States would be ready for one huge group hug. Here’s another one: Why doesn’t the Federal Government mandate that everyone have a dog? There are so many studies that indicate that pets actually lower blood pressure.
The General Welfare clause doesn’t stick here. If it did, why in the hell did we need the rest of the Constitution? If you think about it, the Government would be able to promote the General Welfare and have everything fall under it. That would have certainly made the Constitution shorter. It would have looked something like this:
Article 1, Section 1
The Congress shall have the power to promote the General Welfare.
Article 1, Section 2
If you don’t like Section 1 then piss off.
More to come…
I am going to have to give up all hope that our nation will be anything but a 2nd class nation when I see the absolute lunacy being displayed at our highest levels of government.
The remarks by Sen. Klobuchar during Kagan’s Supreme Court hearing blew my mind. Can the Senator actually be taken seriously when she asks Ms. Kagan who would win the case in the Twilight Trilogy’s third movie? The Vampire or the Werewolf.
It’s as if Kagan has been rubber stamped and they’re just going through the motions. They are making a mockery of our legislative and judicial branches of government.
Oh and let’s not forget Sen. Franken’s remark to Sotomayor about Perry Mason. I’m ashamed to say I live in Minnesota. How did two freshman to our Senate get on these committees?
I don’t think there will be a shovel large enough to scoop up the mess this administration will have left for us once power has been restored to those who believe that America is the best nation on Earth. A nation built upon solid principles that have stood the test for over two hundred years.
One more item to bring to the forefront is this silly notion that employees will be better served by giving the unions access to employees’ voting records. Who runs our nations companies? The people who worked hard to build private industry or the labor unions and politicians who exist purely to cater to their own twisted concerns? And where does a chunk of the union dues go? To the party that continues to give them everything they want. That would be the Democratic Party for anyone who hasn’t taken the time to get informed.
Unions are a thing of the past. With an employment attorney around every corner waiting for an employer to mistreat an employee there is no longer a need for a union to be the caretaker of an employee’s welfare.
Unions are like Government. Once you create the monster you must feed it to keep it alive. But once it figures out that you won’t let it die no matter what it asks for at meal time it begins to ask for more…and more.
When has government ever stayed within a budget or produced something of value? By forcing a socialist agenda upon a capitalistic economy we destroy the pursuit of happiness which is a right that is sadly being stripped from our nations people.
“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.”
Thomas Jefferson
Hey Clark You are right On Buddy: I Guess we now have a “Kick Ass” President makes me feel safe that our Seafood will no longer safe to eat oh well what the Hell. Think before we vote Sleep a little Better America. While you sleep our country is being taken a way from us. WAKE UP and smell the oil or flowers or whatever.
Wow, such emotion! You do realize that the Left doesn’t take kindly to being confronted with the truth. When addressing people who believe that gingerbread houses and money trees are real you need to slip into your baby talk mode.
I had a liberal neighbor who told me that all his rights had been taken away under the Bush Administration. I asked him which ones and he didn’t have an answer. I then asked him in a voice I thought he could understand, “What did the big bad man and his monsters take from you? He started to cry. O.K., he didn’t cry but he didn’t find it amusing. He got my point.
I love to play with liberals. They get their marching orders from the American hating liberal media outlets and never look at both sides of the story. Ask anyone of them to take an argument beyond talking points and sound bytes and they get angry and walk away. God I admire their passion but pity them for their ignorance.
The insanity that comes from Congressional Liberals boggles the mind. Too much LSD in the 60′s I think. It would be funny if it wasn’t our tax dollars that they play with like Monopoly money.
I don’t believe in the theory that given enough time a monkey could write the entire works of Shakespeare.