Big Fitz
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- Nov 23, 2009
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Just to mention a few things related. This will probably devolve into a rant.
1. There is one constitutional basis for government health care. It is on the state level. You can have universal socialist care from cradle to grave if you so choose at the state level. Your state budget will suffer the consequences.
2. The Preamble of the constitution is not law, nor law making. It is a mission statement and should have no more value in the making of law other than a guiding principle. This is grossly misunderstood by far too many.
3. We do not have a health care crisis. We have a DEADBEAT crisis. Medical care is abundant and easy to access. What is also abundant? People saying "I'm don't want to pay for that"! Somebody has to. And until we solve this cultural Deadbeat Crisis brought on by false assumptions of entitlement and priviledge brought on by too many "participant' trophies as a kid... we are fighting an uphill battle. Life sucks get used to it. If not... get over it.
4. It is not the federal government's job to be either a business or a charity. If a state wants to, fine. They have the broad and undefined powers in the constitution, and I can move out of whatever hellhole busybody do-gooder asshat sociopaths want to create. The common good is not license to rob the people for your dilettantish predilections.
5. If the whole of the power of the federal government can be summed up in the interest of the 'common good', why did the founding fathers waste all that ink and feather quills enumerating powers? Even Madison points out in the federalist papers that the affect the National Government can have is limited strictly to the enumerated powers, and nothing more. EVERYTHING else is left to the states. So, we need to quit trying to franchise California, New Yawk and Massatwoshits way of doing government to the rest of the country.
yep... I was right. Ended in a bit of a rant. Oh well.
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1. There is one constitutional basis for government health care. It is on the state level. You can have universal socialist care from cradle to grave if you so choose at the state level. Your state budget will suffer the consequences.
2. The Preamble of the constitution is not law, nor law making. It is a mission statement and should have no more value in the making of law other than a guiding principle. This is grossly misunderstood by far too many.
3. We do not have a health care crisis. We have a DEADBEAT crisis. Medical care is abundant and easy to access. What is also abundant? People saying "I'm don't want to pay for that"! Somebody has to. And until we solve this cultural Deadbeat Crisis brought on by false assumptions of entitlement and priviledge brought on by too many "participant' trophies as a kid... we are fighting an uphill battle. Life sucks get used to it. If not... get over it.
4. It is not the federal government's job to be either a business or a charity. If a state wants to, fine. They have the broad and undefined powers in the constitution, and I can move out of whatever hellhole busybody do-gooder asshat sociopaths want to create. The common good is not license to rob the people for your dilettantish predilections.
5. If the whole of the power of the federal government can be summed up in the interest of the 'common good', why did the founding fathers waste all that ink and feather quills enumerating powers? Even Madison points out in the federalist papers that the affect the National Government can have is limited strictly to the enumerated powers, and nothing more. EVERYTHING else is left to the states. So, we need to quit trying to franchise California, New Yawk and Massatwoshits way of doing government to the rest of the country.
yep... I was right. Ended in a bit of a rant. Oh well.
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