ObamaCare: Trick or False Treat

It is appropriate on Haloween to think of the Trick or False treat Obama gave the Country in the form of Obamacare.

The Trick was in his weasel message "If you like your Health Insurace you can keep it". Turns out that was only true if it didn't change since 2009. Changes in co-pay and other amounts, he knew didn't meet his sneaky Grandfather clause that He, the Democrats, and the press never let us know about.

The False treat, was the higher premiums and deducables which have gone through the roof for most people in most states.

But the most aweful of the false treats was millions losing their Health Insurance.

Can't wait for the Democrat/Progressive/Liberals and the Press to explain that away. Oh, they are already trying and failing. Why, because the website is failing too.

Now is the time to stand for the foundational principles of liberty enshrined in the 1787 Constitution.

The "Trojan horse" called "health care reform" simply was a vehicle in the goal of "transforming America" from its foundations in individual liberty to one of coercive rule by political elites--imperfect persons in positions of power in government.

America's Founders understood the latter concept well, and they soundly rejected it in favor of a written "People's" Constitution to forever limit, separate, check and balance, and "bind down" their elected and appointed representatives in government. In Article V, they provided the only valid means of amending that written Constitution. The results were astounding!

Then, along came the so-called "progressives" who, in their arrogance and lust for power and control, several decades ago began to erode those "foundations" of individual liberty. Now, led by the current Administration, "health care reform" was to lay a different and opposite foundation.

By the Founders' formula, "the People's" written Constitution was the anchor of our liberties, binding government to the "People's" limitations on its power.

The "progressives" (who are, in fact, regressive in their counterfeit ideas), in effect, would undo all the monumental work accomplished by the Founders on behalf of liberty and leave the law afloat and without anchor, relying, as of old, on mere men and women.

From Page xv of "Our Ageless Constitution," allow me to include here excerpted words from President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation of December 10, 1832:

"We have received it [the Constitution] as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation. We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here and our hopes of happiness hereafter in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution . . .? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault. . . . No, we did not err! . . . The sages . . . have given us a practical and, as they hoped, a permanent* Constitutional compact. . . . The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace: it shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity. . . ."

*Underlining added for emphasis

And, it was Thomas Jefferson who used another metaphor with reference to the Constitution when he indicated that "the People" must "bind them (government) by the chains of the Constitution." In another instance, he declared: "It was intended to lace them up straitly within the enumerated powers. . . ."

Now, we are seeing what "transforming America" really meant, and that the troublesome little response to the Plumber about "spreading the wealth around" really was an honest description of redistribution of wealth by unqualified government busybodies to be imposed by whatever deceptions and means those busybodies could use.

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