Posted by
David Smith on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:06:38 PM
Just in time for my rant on Socialized Healthcare Insurance!
Seems it's not such a good idea after all! This article shows the future of US Healthcare if "Hillary 2.0" is enacted. You want it? Great! Then go sign up for it for yourself. Don't make the government do it for you.
This is the same issue as Mr. Bunce raised with Col. David Crockett a couple of days' blogs ago. Mr. Bunce was one of the Congressman's constituents, and when his Representative came knocking wanting his vote for re-election, as often politicians do, Mr. Bunce brought up a vote Col. Crockett had cast the previous year awarding the small sum of $20,000 to Georgetown area residents whose homes had burned recently.
Mr. Bunce informed the Congressman, rightly, that it is not Congress' area of responsibility nor Power to award charity in such cases. Take a look at the Congress in contemporary times and compare...strikingly similar, hmm??
Same case with Socialized Healthcare, and as I expounded upon yesterday, Social Security. "An obsequious court to the people" is being paid by those with something to gain. In modern times, it is the Democratic Party, driven by MoveOn.org, that wishes to secure the "supreme Court" for another generation with Liberal, activist Justices who will define Constitutional rights of the people broadly, while not only limiting States' Rights narrowly, but dismissing them entirely!
I attended only my second Republican Party event ever, this time the Denton County Young Republican's monthly meeting, the previous event being a Denton County Republican Executive Committee meeting in about 2002. Five years' time in between, not bad! We had the pleasure of hosting a candidate for the Republican Party nomination for a State Court Judgeship in next spring's Republican Primary.
The candidate began with a brief introduction of his background and qualifications, followed by an impressively long Q&A session with all present. Being that we had one local City Councilman present along with at least one attorney, and myself being somewhat cognizant of Judicial issues, a very good session indeed.
This fellow also acknowledged that the 9th, 10th, and 11th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States are basically being ignored in the contemporary environment.
Did you see those repealed??? I mean...hello? For crying out loud, the 11th Amendment was meant to restrict the Judiciary! And it is being ignored.
Does that bother anybody else??
Neither does Congress have the Power under the Constitution to handle...or even discuss the issue of Social Security, nor Socialized Healthcare Insurance, nor a whole litany of other matters that fall under 10th Amendment States' Rights like, say...abortion? Nor does the Judiciary have the right, Power, or authority to simply "ignore" selective portions of the Bill of Rights. In this case, 20% of the same.
Alexander Hamilton wrote the words quoted earlier, "an obsequious court to the people," in Federalist #1 in support of ratification of the newly Framed Constitution. It fits rather well today as well.
And Mr. Bunce, and no doubt Mr. Crockett, too, are both calling out to us across the span of time and the pages of history to learn from their mistakes. God only knows we have made enough of the same in our own era! Perhaps we should review that grand old line about history's mistakes...