Without a doubt our Founding Fathers wrote our Constitution to specifically limit the powers granted to federal government and reserve them to the people and the states. Unfortunately the slow march of time has weakened the resolve of both the people and the states in defense of their liberty, thereby allowing our federal government to slowly but surely steal our freedoms.
James Madison wrote in The Federalist No. 46, “The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone.” He goes on to say, “But ambitious encroachments of the federal government on the authority of the State governments would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of a general alarm. Every government would espouse the common cause. A correspondence would be opened. Plans of resistance would be concerted.”
A general alarm!
Yes, a general alarm should be sounded. Correspondence should be written and spread to all the people.
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite….The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects which…concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State,” wrote Madison in The Federalist No. 45.
Quite the opposite seems true today. The federal government’s scope of power has been allowed to expand well beyond the explicit restrictions of the Constitution. We must demand a return of our sovereignty, of our freedom, of our liberty.
How can you do this? Most immediately, contact your Representatives and Senators and tell them to reject a government health care option. Tell them to focus on tort reform as one effective way to reign in the cost of health care. Let’s start by trying to fix the current system before replacing it with a government “solution.”
Longer term I strongly encourage you to support liberty by voting Libertarian. Republicans are for big government and Democrats are for bigger government. We lose in both cases. The lesser of two evils is still evil. But there can be a third way. That is through a grassroots movement of the people to reclaim their liberty from an economically and personally intrusive federal government.
Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Obama Points to Post Office for Health Care Example
Now that I'm finished rolling on the floor laughing at Obama's horrible comparison, let me share it with you in case you missed it.
At his 104th town hall meeting of the year, Obama was asked about a government run single payer health care system. Obama responded that was not what was under consideration (although he has been a proponent all his life until, um, yesterday). In fact Obama thinks a government and private system can co-exist. He pointed to the Post Office and Fed Ex as his shining case in point.
LMAO! Are you kidding me, Obama? The Post Office is your example of an effective government run agency that co-exists with the private sector????? Thanks!
The Post Office LOST $7 BILLION last year. The Post Office is going to lose another $7 BILLION this year. The Post Office is proposing to stop delivery on weekends.
If you want government run health care, do what Obama said and look to the Post Office. That is your future. Long lines, poor service and taxpayer money down the drain!
At his 104th town hall meeting of the year, Obama was asked about a government run single payer health care system. Obama responded that was not what was under consideration (although he has been a proponent all his life until, um, yesterday). In fact Obama thinks a government and private system can co-exist. He pointed to the Post Office and Fed Ex as his shining case in point.
LMAO! Are you kidding me, Obama? The Post Office is your example of an effective government run agency that co-exists with the private sector????? Thanks!
The Post Office LOST $7 BILLION last year. The Post Office is going to lose another $7 BILLION this year. The Post Office is proposing to stop delivery on weekends.
If you want government run health care, do what Obama said and look to the Post Office. That is your future. Long lines, poor service and taxpayer money down the drain!
Friday, August 7, 2009
Health Care Debate
Health care reform needs serious debate. Lawmakers need to hear from their citizens whom they are supposed to serve.
The scenes emerging are disturbing on both sides. Those against the current reform bill need to act civilly and be respectful. Lawmakers and groups like the AARP organizing community fora need to do so in a manner that is open to all and provides for citizen input.
I think what we are seeing is Democratic lawmakers, the AARP, ACORN and union groups trying to stack the deck at these meetings and shut down anyone who objects. As a result, those who do object obviously feel like their opinions are not getting heard and so the tone becomes less civil.
What is totally irresponsible is for left wing nut jobs like Nancy Pelosi to say something STUPID like, "They are carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a meeting on health care."
Or how about this comment by Washington Representative Brian Baird, another Democrat, "What we are seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics. I mean that very seriously." Nazi Brown Shirts?
What is becoming increasingly clear is the the community organizer president only wants certain parts of the community to be organized- his own community of lazy union members, socialists, and the AARP machine (not the senior citizens concerned about end of life care, just the AARP political machine). Just look at the White House blog that encourages supporters to turn their fellow citizens in and the nasty, igornant language conjuring up images of Nazi Germany. That is totally unacceptable and if it were a Republican president the media would be all over him/her.
Open, respectful debate should be the order of the day on all sides of the issue.
The scenes emerging are disturbing on both sides. Those against the current reform bill need to act civilly and be respectful. Lawmakers and groups like the AARP organizing community fora need to do so in a manner that is open to all and provides for citizen input.
I think what we are seeing is Democratic lawmakers, the AARP, ACORN and union groups trying to stack the deck at these meetings and shut down anyone who objects. As a result, those who do object obviously feel like their opinions are not getting heard and so the tone becomes less civil.
What is totally irresponsible is for left wing nut jobs like Nancy Pelosi to say something STUPID like, "They are carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a meeting on health care."
Or how about this comment by Washington Representative Brian Baird, another Democrat, "What we are seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics. I mean that very seriously." Nazi Brown Shirts?
What is becoming increasingly clear is the the community organizer president only wants certain parts of the community to be organized- his own community of lazy union members, socialists, and the AARP machine (not the senior citizens concerned about end of life care, just the AARP political machine). Just look at the White House blog that encourages supporters to turn their fellow citizens in and the nasty, igornant language conjuring up images of Nazi Germany. That is totally unacceptable and if it were a Republican president the media would be all over him/her.
Open, respectful debate should be the order of the day on all sides of the issue.
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