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Constitution’s “Good & Plenty” Clause Cited
A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative ^ | 27 March 2010 | John Semmens

Posted on 03/27/2010 3:49:45 PM PDT by John Semmens

Contentions that the recently passed Obamacare law might be unconstitutional were met with disdain by House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Representative John Conyers (D-Mich).

According to Conyers, “the government is empowered to do anything it deems necessary or useful under the ‘good and plenty’ clause. The Founding Fathers were wise enough to realize they couldn’t foresee the kinds of powers that would be needed in the future. So, they created language in that pretty much says we can do whatever we want if we think it’s for the benefit of the people. Forcing people to buy health insurance surely falls within this broad grant of authority.”

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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: constitution; democrats; satire; socialism
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To: John Semmens
1/2 satire bump. the guy sounded like a lame penny-stockbroker.

can't believe these are pigs this great nation finds itself in the hands of.

boy is the sh(t gonna hit the fan here.

41 posted on 03/28/2010 5:27:30 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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