“I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.” This phrase is more applicable now than ever. For months now Americans have been telling and often shouting what they want and don’t want to their elected representatives with little results. House and Senate Democrats have continued to tell the American public that they know what is best for Americans, regardless how many of us picket their local offices or Tea Party Washington. Bottom line is they don’t want to listen. This healthscare bill is not about helping Americans. It’s about power. If the Democrat’s can get the American public hooked on Healthcare and other social dependency programs, then they feel that they will be able to remain in power indefinably because if people are dependent on the government for life they will vote for the Democratic party. This Democratic controlled 111th Congress and the Obama administration have shown us time and time again with their words and actions over the last year that they see American sovereignty as something that is vested not in the people but in the national state, and that all individuals and associations exist only to enhance the power, economic status and the well-being of the state. This is statism through and through, and it’s time that the rest of America wakes up from its brainwashed utopia.
The most important fact that the main stream media is missing about the healthcare issue is that; there is no specific part of the Constitution that gives Congress the authority to force Americans to buy health insurance. When they are asked if they have the authority they say “absolutely” and ramble off how the Commerce Clause gives them authority and then state meaningless campaign phrases about how they want to help the Americans that don’t have coverage and help lower the costs of healthcare for everyone, etc. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) studied the issue and discovered that the federal government had never in the history of the United States mandated that individuals purchase any specific goods or service. Supporters of Obamacare proudly state the 10-year cost of $829 billion that the Congressional Budget Office is estimating this will cost Americans as if this was a good thing because it didn’t come out to the trillion dollars that analysts had “expected”.
This is not the first time that the US government was told it did not have the authority the regulate healthcare. Linder v. United States was a Supreme Court case involving applicability of the Harrison Act; which was originally a taxing measure on drugs. In the case the Supreme Court unanimously held that the federal government overstepped its power to regulate medicine. The opinion of the court was written by Justice James Clark McReynolds and states, “Obviously, direct control of medical practice in the states is beyond the power of the federal government.”
This statist administration is trying to push through one of the biggest power grabs the nation has ever dealt with and is trying to force the majority of its citizens to pay for the minority and the illegal. Should this bill pass the Senate, it would be without a doubt one of the most unprecedented forms of federal action the United States Government has ever done.
The Democrat leadership in the Senate must take into account the need to amass 60 votes behind any legislation if the intend on overcoming any Republican filibuster. Let’s hope that some of the blue-dog Democrats join the Republican’s to kill this bill on its arrival….maybe they can recycle the paper the bill was printed on and make a few thousand Starbucks coffee cups or something to appease the Green advocacy groups.