“The power of Healthcare not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, therefore the power of Healthcare is reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Amendment X
The power of Healthcare by the Federal government is illegal.
If the Federal government TAKES the power of Healthcare, it is by force, not legal, and not lawfully binding.
There should only be doctors, patients, and insurance companies.
For the indigent, a state run safety net. If states halve the public pension funds and give it to health care, they could cover all the needy.
Very, very important post.
THIS is what the President, and especially the Speaker of the House, should be hammering home from the bully pulpit to the halls of Congress Every. Single. Day.
I hope and pray the ‘right’ people will read your post and run with it.
What about regulating who may use which bathroom? Is that a little outside the constitution and what the founders intended?
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
A whole lot more of what the Federal government does is, in fact, unconstitutional. Yet, the 9 members of the Supreme Court, with its activist judges, refuse to strike down these laws.
JoMa
As for healthcare, I keep wondering, if every liberal (on both sides) simply ponied up $100 per month, they'd likely have enough to fund a clinic in each and every city in the nation. Instead, they insist that everyone pony up $100 per month and only a third of the cities in the nation have open clinics at the moment.
Government only works if severely limited to keep out of the path of the people getting real work done.
>>This is the inconvenient truth no politician in Washington, D.C. will admit. But if they were honest, they would.<<
If they were honest, they wouldn’t be in politics.
BTW, for good reading, try Davy Crocket’s speech to Congress on April 2, 1828:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llrd&fileName=006/llrd006.db&recNum=309
The Constitution now says whatever the hell five out of nine Supreme Court Justices want it to say and five Justices wanted it to say that Obamacare is Constitutional.
“The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.”
That is a fabulous concept, however, over the years the SCOTUS has ruled that is not what the Constitution means. The 'commerce clause" and "general welfare" clause means there is virtually no limits at all on the FedGov.
Amen
Right on! And, to add just one more of many things the feds are unconstitutionally involved in: ALL Federal Government Involvement in Education is Unconstitutional.
The following is a really good article by the same author, on the same topic.
“All Government ‘Charity’ is Unconstitutional, Says Author of U.S. Constitution”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3567661/posts
http://thepolitistick.com/government-charity-unconstitutional-says-author-u-s-constitution/
Never underestimate the power of the Commerce Clause. Revisiting past decisions is long over due but must await a Conservative Court.
A majority of the Supreme Court held that federal government did not have power under the Commerce Clause to establish Obamacare.
And yet, Roberts upheld it purely as a tax.
I must say that the biggest blame for the bloated federal government lies with the states themselves. They’ve rolled over repeatedly and allowed the feds’ infringement upon states rights. By not pushing back and resisting the federal government’s unconstitutional mandates the states have become slaves to the very government that they originally created. Thus, we find ourselves living in an evolved republic that barely, if at all, resembles the one intended by the Founders.
The 17th amendment allowed for the direct election of senators. This had the affect of shifting power from the state legislatures to big donors. This amendment should be repealed.
The 18th amendment allowed for a federal income tax. This made every working person a virtual wage slave and gave the federal government the taxing power it needed to grow into the colossus that it has become today. This amendment should also be repealed.
Not only that, compulsion to contract is illegal.
I don’t care what Roberts says. He’s a disgrace.