"Wasn't the point to make sure the richest and most powerful nation on the planet could protect its own people, as other nations do?" he wrote. "If Americans are promised not just liberty but life and happiness, is there not a constitutional right to affordable healthcare?"
I hope the fellow wasn't paid to write that drivel. It is, of course, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that are the object of governments instituted among men as proposed in the Declaration of Independence, but there is nothing in it, or in that pesky Constitution, that details a "right" to healthcare, and only an ignoramus would reason that there is. There is, however, a good deal about the rule of law. And that is the issue here.
What is really astonishing European commentators is not the fact that the Court might declare certain features of 0bamacare unconstitutional, it's the depth and breadth of the national fury that 0bama is now receiving for suggesting that the Court cannot. 0bama may be a five-star international celebrity, star of stage and screen, but in government he is only the President. And the very concept "only" the President seems to be the real point of confusion. It appears to be confusing 0bama and his throne-kissers most of all.
The real damage done is to the illusion that capturing the Presidency empowers anyone to single-handedly transform the country under any fundamental lines, an illusion that was swept into office with this political and intellectual fraud and now has dissipated like a stinking swamp miasma in a force ten storm. It was bound to happen sooner or later.
It is, of course, entirely possible that 0bamacare will survive the gantlet of judicial review, although it looks like a sucker bet at the moment. There is another review coming in November. That one is provided for in the Declaration as well, in the section that begins "that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends..." Our European cousins might want to review the rest of that particular sentence.
It is, of course, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that are the object of governments instituted among men as proposed in the Declaration of Independence, but there is nothing in it, or in that pesky Constitution, that details a “right” to healthcare, and only an ignoramus would reason that there is.
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I agree with your entire posting; especially the above excerpt!
“Wasn’t the point to make sure the richest and most powerful nation on the planet could protect its own people, as other nations do?” he wrote.
What planet does this guy think he’s on? In my reality, our nation has a long history of protecting other, lesser nations.