The Constitution versus Obamacare
Friday, November 27, 2009
Fellow Patriots worried by the prospects of the health reform bill Washington is trying to ram down our throats, you may take some solace in this -- a state saying, “Barry & Congress, even if you pass these horrific bills, we can still reject them on the basis of States Rights.”
So many of the problems we have today can be traced to power-hungry leftists ignoring and abusing the 10th Amendment of the Constitution: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
What this means is if The US Constitution does not EXPLICITLY STATE that the Federal Government CAN do something, then IT CAN'T DO IT, period. This is an edict that clearly irritates Mr. Obama, who lamented in a 2001 interview that the Constitution is simply a “charter of negative liberties.”
Washington really has no constitutional right whatsoever to get involved in: Education, Housing, Agriculture and a million other things, including HEALTH CARE. Very, very few of our citizens realize this, especially the young lefty hipsters who cried and screamed that BUSH was “shredding the Constitution” – they wouldn’t know the Constitution from an iPod playlist if they saw it. Though it is perfectly fair to debate the Constitutional Meritoriousness of The Patriot Act, Wiretaps, etc… the point is this: as Citizens, we CAN individually, or in smaller groups, take care of our own health care; we CAN’T individually fight terrorists or defend the country. That’s why Defense is among the very limited things the Federal Government IS empowered to do.
Health care is a service, the devices of which should be up to Individual Citizens. That said, if the citizens of, say, the state of Georgia, collectively decide to empower their State Government to take over part of the Health Care System, that's cool too.
The beauty here is this: all people are different. All states are different. That’s REAL diversity as it was intended at our nation’s founding. By building in a firewall against tyrannical federal power into the Constitution, the Founding Fathers endeavored to prevent Washington DC from bullying the entire country into "one-size-fits-all" solutions dictated from the faraway capital.
THIS IS WHY WE HAD THE REVOLUTION IN THE FIRST PLACE!
The further beauty is this: Let's say you live in Illinois. The legislators in Springfield pass a bunch of laws you don't like, raise taxes, regulate business too much, etc. So what you can do is pick up and move to Indiana or Wyoming or anywhere else. Then, as people start leaving IL in droves, IL is motivated to change its ways to attract people back. With the combination of free movement between states, and the states being in continual competition with each other not to displease their citizens, we have a system designed to ensure that people can always escape tyranny and undesirable government intrusions into their lives.
And this is not just a "conservative" thing, either. You want to smoke pot? Move from South Carolina to Oregon!
You want your kids to pray in School? Move to Alabama!
You want to go to prostitutes? Move to Nevada.
You're a guy and you want to marry another guy? Move to Massachusetts.
You want 3 wives? Move to Utah!
You want to have abortions? Move to New York, etc...
As intended, STATES RIGHTS MAXIMIZES PERSONAL FREEDOM. The problem is, if the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT imposes laws on the WHOLE COUNTRY and you don't like it, you can’t just pick up and leave the USA to move somewhere else. Well, not easily, anyway (and, sadly, the power mongrels in DC concocting these legislative abortions know this).
The problem is, this notion of "STATES RIGHTS" has been gradually eroded over the past 100-150 years. The first blow was the Civil War and the aftermath of Reconstruction and Lincoln's assassination. This era saw the beginning of the idea of "We can't trust the states!" And in the Civil Rights/Post-WW2 era, opponents of the Constitution have painted attempts of the states and their people to STAND UP TO WASHINGTON as being the equivalent of being RACISTSl wanting SEGREGATION, Jim Crow Laws, all that awful stuff. Of course, in the past, SOME of the desire of states in the South to have DC butt out was likely motivated by racism, but the Left used this broad brush to COMPLETELY DESTROY the notion of States Rights by labeling virtually anyone who actually stands up for the Constitution as a racist or right wing nut job. Sound familiar?
So, the point being made here is that the States DO HAVE THE RIGHT to reject any CRAP LAWS AND PROGRAMS Washington tries to force on them. The problem is the states have been cowed and bullied into never actually trying it. If this tyrannical expansion of federal power we're seeing now re-awakens awareness of the 10th amendment and we start seeing states invoke it, it would be an awesome step toward restoring our Constitution (and maybe a silver lining to all these god awful bills Harry and Nancy are pushing).
And the thing is, if you are a big liberal, and you love big government taking everything over, and you love welfare, etc., no problem! Just move to one of the big liberal states, you get your way and i get mine! Frankly I’d hate to leave where I currently live, but… I would if I had to. Unfortunately, Galt’s Gulch does not exist, but Texas does!
Kristobal Festivus
So many of the problems we have today can be traced to power-hungry leftists ignoring and abusing the 10th Amendment of the Constitution: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
What this means is if The US Constitution does not EXPLICITLY STATE that the Federal Government CAN do something, then IT CAN'T DO IT, period. This is an edict that clearly irritates Mr. Obama, who lamented in a 2001 interview that the Constitution is simply a “charter of negative liberties.”
Washington really has no constitutional right whatsoever to get involved in: Education, Housing, Agriculture and a million other things, including HEALTH CARE. Very, very few of our citizens realize this, especially the young lefty hipsters who cried and screamed that BUSH was “shredding the Constitution” – they wouldn’t know the Constitution from an iPod playlist if they saw it. Though it is perfectly fair to debate the Constitutional Meritoriousness of The Patriot Act, Wiretaps, etc… the point is this: as Citizens, we CAN individually, or in smaller groups, take care of our own health care; we CAN’T individually fight terrorists or defend the country. That’s why Defense is among the very limited things the Federal Government IS empowered to do.
Health care is a service, the devices of which should be up to Individual Citizens. That said, if the citizens of, say, the state of Georgia, collectively decide to empower their State Government to take over part of the Health Care System, that's cool too.
The beauty here is this: all people are different. All states are different. That’s REAL diversity as it was intended at our nation’s founding. By building in a firewall against tyrannical federal power into the Constitution, the Founding Fathers endeavored to prevent Washington DC from bullying the entire country into "one-size-fits-all" solutions dictated from the faraway capital.
THIS IS WHY WE HAD THE REVOLUTION IN THE FIRST PLACE!
The further beauty is this: Let's say you live in Illinois. The legislators in Springfield pass a bunch of laws you don't like, raise taxes, regulate business too much, etc. So what you can do is pick up and move to Indiana or Wyoming or anywhere else. Then, as people start leaving IL in droves, IL is motivated to change its ways to attract people back. With the combination of free movement between states, and the states being in continual competition with each other not to displease their citizens, we have a system designed to ensure that people can always escape tyranny and undesirable government intrusions into their lives.
And this is not just a "conservative" thing, either. You want to smoke pot? Move from South Carolina to Oregon!
You want your kids to pray in School? Move to Alabama!
You want to go to prostitutes? Move to Nevada.
You're a guy and you want to marry another guy? Move to Massachusetts.
You want 3 wives? Move to Utah!
You want to have abortions? Move to New York, etc...
As intended, STATES RIGHTS MAXIMIZES PERSONAL FREEDOM. The problem is, if the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT imposes laws on the WHOLE COUNTRY and you don't like it, you can’t just pick up and leave the USA to move somewhere else. Well, not easily, anyway (and, sadly, the power mongrels in DC concocting these legislative abortions know this).
The problem is, this notion of "STATES RIGHTS" has been gradually eroded over the past 100-150 years. The first blow was the Civil War and the aftermath of Reconstruction and Lincoln's assassination. This era saw the beginning of the idea of "We can't trust the states!" And in the Civil Rights/Post-WW2 era, opponents of the Constitution have painted attempts of the states and their people to STAND UP TO WASHINGTON as being the equivalent of being RACISTSl wanting SEGREGATION, Jim Crow Laws, all that awful stuff. Of course, in the past, SOME of the desire of states in the South to have DC butt out was likely motivated by racism, but the Left used this broad brush to COMPLETELY DESTROY the notion of States Rights by labeling virtually anyone who actually stands up for the Constitution as a racist or right wing nut job. Sound familiar?
So, the point being made here is that the States DO HAVE THE RIGHT to reject any CRAP LAWS AND PROGRAMS Washington tries to force on them. The problem is the states have been cowed and bullied into never actually trying it. If this tyrannical expansion of federal power we're seeing now re-awakens awareness of the 10th amendment and we start seeing states invoke it, it would be an awesome step toward restoring our Constitution (and maybe a silver lining to all these god awful bills Harry and Nancy are pushing).
And the thing is, if you are a big liberal, and you love big government taking everything over, and you love welfare, etc., no problem! Just move to one of the big liberal states, you get your way and i get mine! Frankly I’d hate to leave where I currently live, but… I would if I had to. Unfortunately, Galt’s Gulch does not exist, but Texas does!
Kristobal Festivus
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