Posted on 12/23/2009 5:08:51 PM PST by Kaslin
Self-Evident Truths: Sen. Dianne Feinstein says it comes under the Commerce Clause. Rep. Steny Hoyer says it's mandated by the "general welfare" clause. Despite liberal wishes, health care is not a right.
The "living Constitution" that Democrats and their court appointees have given us may be the death of our freedoms. Their constitution adapts to the times and serves the whims of the elitists. The Constitution is supposed to limit government powers. It does not allow government to do anything it feels like doing.
Cass Sunstein, the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, is the author of "The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever."
He writes glowingly of how President Franklin Roosevelt, unsatisfied with the Constitution the Founding Fathers wrote, proposed a Second Bill of Rights in a speech on Jan. 11, 1944.
One of the new "rights" FDR envisioned was "the right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health." If health care were a right under the U.S. Constitution, FDR would not have had to propose it as one to be added.
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Okay, let’s keep the pressure on - especially Nelson. The governor and people of Nebraska are really giving it to him. Let’s add fuel to the fire! Let him know we are not only sick of the corruption of which he is chief benefactor, but we will also be cheering for the Cornhuskers to lose big to the Arizona Wildcats in their upcoming bowl game!
Nelson
bennelson.senate.gov
Phone: (402) 441-4600
Fax: (202) 228-0012
Webb
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Phone: 202-224-4024
Fax: 202-228-6363
Landrieu
http://landrieu.senate.gov
Phone: (202)224-5824
Fax:(202) 224-9735
Lincoln
http://lincoln.senate.gov
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Bayh
http://bayh.senate.gov
Phone: (202) 224-5623
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Lieberman
http://lieberman.senate.gov
Phone: 202.224.4041
Fax: 202.224.9750
Be in D.C. for a massive protest on the day of the State of the Union Address! We need to ruin their “party” - no more status quo, no more business as usual - WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE!
Medical care is a service, like auto service. These bills will enslave doctors. Good students who would go into medicine will avoid it. Good doctors will quit rather than be enslaved.
It is designed to damage a once-free people even more.
Not like Americans don’t deserve it. They have voted for socialism for decades.
Yes it is a service, like car service. Why can’t we go back to the days when we paid in cash or whatever for doctor check-up. Many doctors do not like dealing with insurance. Insurance was for catastrophic events, which it should be.
P!ss on any sonavabitch that tries to illegally amend the Constitution without a Convention!
Please stop talking about/bring up the constitution as though it is still relevant. It is dead. Sorry.
I was listening to “The Savage Nation” and one caller took the substitute host to task saying that “promote the general welfare” means that it is the government’s job to provide healthcare. If I wasn’t driving, I would have done the mother of all facepalms.
We need to have a court docket ready to file - charging every single person who voted for this bill and the President to be brought up on charges of TREASON - the minute he signs it!
This is unconstitutional! And since they are no longer bound by the rules and limits of the constitution, then we too are no longer bound and therefore are not required to follow their laws!
This is the first, PHYSICAL shot at the populace by the elites in a new revolution! They have made little, subtle shots, etc.. But THIS will be the start to a real CIVIL WAR! As the conservatives of America need to take back our country, this country, the United States of America!
...well they need to replace those parts of the Constitution they’re throwing in the toilet with something. :)
That hit the nail on the head.
Every one of these scum traitors need to get it given to them by their Constituents not just this POS.
neither is abortion...
Even if we concede that health care is a right (and for that matter food and shelter), it no more follows that the government should tax others to provide me with the means to exercise that right than it does that they should tax others to provide me with a printing press and paper to exercise the right of freedom of the press or a rifle and ammunition to exercise my right to keep and bear arms.
In fact, if health care is a right, it seems to be a right that is severely infringed by the government: we can’t buy health insurance across state lines, we can only buy health care proper from state-licensed physicians, we are forbidden from acquiring many medicines with which we might care for our own health except on orders of the same state-licensed physicians, and so forth.
Much of the problem with American health care can be phrased in terms of the government infringing a right to health care—a circumstance which will become worse if the government undertakes to ‘provide’ health insurance and/or health care.
Feinsten and Hoyer's abuse of the Constitution reminds me of another founding document...
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their CREATOR, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that Governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.
The democrats wish to twist and redefine the constitution into a tool of despotism.
Sure it is, right in with that clause about the right to kill babies.
The People’s Rights are not listed or enumerated but the government’s powers are.
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