Posted on 07/17/2013 1:35:33 PM PDT by lowbridge
New Yorkers elected a mommy.
I agree. I don’t like Bloomberg or his kind but a whole lotta Americans could benefit from...I dunno...freaking MOVING.
I think that many patriots with good intentions do not understand the following. The Founding Nanny States never intended for our constitutonal privileges or immunities to be absolute. This is evidenced by the fact that historical materials pertaining to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Justice John Marshall and John Bingham, the main author of Sec. 1 of 14A, all clearly indicate that prohibitions of government power in BoR did not apply to the states.
John Bingham’s clarification is especially important because the only reason that many patriots now regard our constitutional freedoms as absolute is because FDR’s activist justices wrongly swept the 10th Amendment under the carpet so that Congress could overstep its limited Commerce Clause powers.
That said, regardless that the states have never delegated to Congress the specific power to regulate healthcare, for example, it remains that the Founding States made the 10th Amendment to clarify that the Constitution’s silence about such issues means that such powers are automatically reserved uniquely to the states. So Bloomberg’s health ideas, as long as they respect 14A-protected freedoms, compliment 10A-protected state powers.
In fact, unlike the federal government, voters who put Bloomberg in office have the option of putting a stop to Bloomberg’s official actions concerning their health via state recall laws if they decide that they don’t like Bloomberg sticking his nose into their personal affairs.
Carrying recall ideas a step farther, recall laws for federal lawmakers are arguably unnecessary if citizens would get a grip on the idea that many federal laws are based on wrongly usurped state powers anyway.
Next, “unfit” citizens of his domain will have to go through boot camp.
You think I’m kidding?
No friggin way I’d take stairs in New York during the summer.
I can see some employee walking up the stairs in those skyscrapers ..... bout the time they reported in for work, it would be time to walk down the stairs to go home. Remember ... you can’t out-stupid a Progressive .... they are professionals!
” Let them scale up the side of the buildings with no ropes “
Even better idea! Don’t tell Bloomie!
Bloomberg’s rantings are just the admonishments of a Khmer Rouge commissar telling us to forget the “before-times” and adjust to “Year 0” where everyone is forced on a diet doled out by the village elders, then bikes to work and uses the stairs instead of consuming precious electricity or gasoline that would be put to better use by the ruling class.
He can go to Hell.
Bloomberg has quite clearly become the punchline to a national joke.
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