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To: EBH
Goods and Services in this case.

Given the history of judicial overreach using the commerce clause, do you really think that they are going to be stopped by a little quibble over services?

The Court reversed itself on the commerce clause after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Court. They caved and quit overturning his New Deal schemes. The Court must yet again reverse these decisions and that's not going to happen until we throw the Democrats out of office and get the Court back under control.

37 posted on 12/25/2009 3:20:23 PM PST by centurion316
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To: centurion316
The point is to stop them from calling health insurance a “good.” And yes we must quibble over the language if our message is to be clear here. The Commerce Clause has nothing to do with services.

Do I think the courts will overturn things on something so trivial, no. But we need to put together a consistent message for the people, being very clearly defined on the points of contention.

FReepers are an exception in most cases to the norm. Most Americans are economically illiterate. You say Commerce Clause and most will shrink away from you. Ask them to define a Good or Service. They can't.

Insurance and medical care are very clearly services as such are not able to be regulated under the Commerce Clause.

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Insurance and medical care are very clearly goods not able to be regulated under the Commerce Clause. Why not? All large scale goods are eligible to be regulated under the Commerce Clause?

It is not politically correct to call insurance and medical care a good. It is politically dishonest. This I feel is the core of the matter. They have redefined a service into a good.

Unh-uh. We have to stop that bus before it even leaves the station.

43 posted on 12/25/2009 3:39:32 PM PST by EBH (it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government)
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