Posted on 05/07/2013 1:21:33 PM PDT by jazusamo
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution.
Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence.
One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, she said.
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Absolutely dumb as a bag of hammers. Sooo, what’s that make her constituents who keep voting for her?
Yeah, if you pay for it.
Constitution implies a right to...
***but when the constitution is EXPLICIT in the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, well, let’s just talk about something else.
Two peas in a pod.
Bump
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are provisions in the Constitution? *sigh* And there will be millions out there who agree with her.
Pursuit of happiness could mean that I get a pony, a bucket of ice cream each day, free cable TV, and a week at a Fort Lauderdale beach-front motel.
Well it clearly states the right to gun ownership... Shall NOT be infringed. No interpretation required Ms Lee
And free trips to Mars to see the flag Neil Armstrong put there.
Amen.
Leftists seem to not understand that part.
Seems if it’s a right, it’s gotta be paid for by someone else.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed
Democrats: There is no constitutional right to bear arms! That's a mistake!
Constitution on health care, education:
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Democrats: It right there! Can't you read it!
I want a dune buggy! In which to pursue my happiness!
“.. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Other People’s money.”
Don’t give them ideas, they already get free obamaphones.
Well the libs ought to be glad that The Constitution also protects even idiots rights to free speech. Sorry self-entitlements that other people have to pay for is not mentioned anywhere in it, Lee.
-- James Madison, the father of the United States ConstitutionI cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
Yup. We also have a right to Big Meals with toy and super-sized fries and sodas at MickieD’s assuming we can pay for it and the government doesn’t unconstitutionally ban them.
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