Posted on 05/26/2017 11:17:42 AM PDT by Twotone
Bay Area Assemblyman got an earful last week as he pushed a largely symbolic bill that would have made it legal for California public employees to be members of the Communist Party. Rob Bonta of Oakland contritely withdrew the measure, which had passed out of committee, after leaders from the states large Vietnamese community gave him an earful.
California has many problems none of which are the doing of avowed communists in state government. Instead of worrying about this nonsense, Republicans should be gearing up to fight a frightening Bonta-coauthored bill that makes no direct reference to communism, but apparently was inspired by the same kind of thinking despite its benign name, The Healthy California Act.
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And ice cream. Chocolate, please. And a pony.
Rights are from God, not gubmint.
Make working an obligation.
And then the state has a RIGHT to expect you to work for a living.
California also talks about secession. I agree, they should.
Doctors will be held captive like Cubans?
I want my flying car....
Until unborn babies have a right to life . . . nobody has a right to healthcare. What about unborn babies right to healthcare first?
California citizens are prolly in favor of this until they see how much it really costs.
I'll see your flying car and raise you a time-machine ...
To Liberals, government is God.
Modern secular liberals, yes.
It’s a poor imitation of godly liberality and one which will always turn illiberal and fail at its own stated purpose.
The Ctrl-Left wants to create positive “rights” to go with the actual (in their terminology “negative”) rights in the Constitution. The problem is that positive rights carry obligations. If you have a right to health care, that means a doctor/nurse is obligated to do their job for you, whether or not they are paid for that work. This used to be called slavery, and for a very few brief years democrats pretended they opposed slavery.
Not even this fits well on God’s plane. God wants to see those helped who in turn are willing to help others in their time of need. And all of this is personal in a sense of God’s love. Government schemes are impersonal — they lack a face. They do not rouse conscience.
More specifically, the states have uniquely had the 10th Amendment-protected power to regulate, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate healthcare since they ratified the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
The problem with low-information state lawmakers is that they dont seem to have a clue that the corrupt feds have been stealing state powers, and uniquely associated state revenues, that the states could otherwise be using to run their own healthcare programs, the feds stealing state revenues in the form of unconstitutional taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons [emphasis added], our property, our reputation and religious freedom. Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. United States v. Butler, 1936.
Also, consider that if the states ever get the idea that the corrupt feds can run a national healthcare program better than any of the 50 states can, then there is nothing stopping the states from amending the Constitution to expressly give the feds the specific power to establish such a program.
On the other hand, note that regardless what lawless Obamas state sovereignty-ignoring Supreme Court activist justices wanted everybody to think about Obamacare, the corrupt feds wrongly ignored securing the required constitutional consent of the states before establishing unconstitutional Obamacare.
Agreed. There is no virtue in “generosity” with other people’s money. Pretending that giving away things created by and belonging to others counts as charity is so absurd that only a modern liberal could pretend it makes sense to them.
Well, in some ways aspects of health care can be considered a “right”. For instance, it would be an infringement on your right to health care to interfere with a man with a full wallet offering the doctor of his choice money for the care he wants or needs.
It is an infringement on health care to tell medical students who want to deliver babies that they must first practice aborting some babies before they will be allowed to pratice medicine.
Now, what isn’t and CANNOT BE an infringement on the right to health care? Well, no one has the right to a cure, as some haven’t been invented yet, and some things may be incurable. Killing others for your health care is not a right, so it is wrong to harvest babies’ organs for someone else’s illness.
Mandatory medical treatment provision for all would imply mandatory impressment of doctors, and that would violate the 13th Amendment against slavery. If you can order someone to work on the patient, or bake the cake, arrange the flowers, or face ruination, we are outside of the realm of employment and into the realm of slavery, even if it is well-compensated slavery (see Kurt Flood Decision).
No, what they're going to do is bargain and grovel with Dems to make it a little-less socialist, and then they will beat their chests at how they prevented 100% single-payer and supported 99.9% single-payer, and that the remaining conservatives in CA must vote for them. Or else CA will become full-blown Marxist.
Maybe not dying should be a right..
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