Con Air

on its power?

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/11/0 6/judge-andrew-napolitano-health-care-fr eedom-congress/

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a 2,000 page bill to give the federal government the power to micromanage the health care of every single American. The bill will no doubt pass. It will raise your taxes, steal your freedom, invade your privacy, and ration your health care. Even the Republicans have introduced their version of Obamacare Lite. It, too, if passed, will compel employers to provide coverage, bribe the states to change their court rules, and tell insurance companies whom to insure.

We do not have two political parties in this country, America. We have one party; called the Big Government Party. The Republican wing likes deficits, war, and assaults on civil liberties. The Democratic wing likes wealth transfer, taxes, and assaults on commercial liberties. Both parties like power; and neither is interested in your freedoms. Think about it. Government is the negation of freedom. Freedom is your power and ability to follow your own free will and your own conscience. The government wants you to follow the will of some faceless bureaucrat.

When I recently asked Congressman James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the House, to tell me "Where in the Constitution the federal government is authorized to regulate everyone’s healthcare–, he replied that most of what Congress does is not authorized by the Constitution, but they do it anyway. There you have it. Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn’t care about the Constitution, it doesn’t care about your inalienable rights, it doesn’t care about the liberties protected by the Bill of Rights, it doesn’t even read the laws it writes.

America, this is not an academic issue. If this health care bill becomes law, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, privacy as you have enjoyed it, will cease to be.
The Zeitgeist, I’m a libertarian and I didn’t vote for Bush either time. And yes I was, thanks.

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Yes, he is a very bright man !
old_quilt | Nov 07, 2009

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agreed, sad
Look out for Snakes! | Nov 07, 2009

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He sounds like an anarchist.

Also, interstates, libraries, and public fire departments are not mentioned in the Constitution either. Should we just throw those out the window?

I don’t understand why people have to take a 250 year old document word-for-word in every government situation. The Constitution should be considered to have *some* fluidity at least.
Andrew K | Nov 07, 2009

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Yes. If ignoring the constitution as in violating their oath of office was considered a crime the whole lot would have been thrown out of public life.
Search first before you ask it | Nov 07, 2009

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Made in China by corrupt politicians.
Rich | Nov 07, 2009

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No, I don’t agree, mainly because there are a few parts of the Constitution (the same document that creates a Congress) that disagree with her distorted view of Congress’ role.

The Bill of Rights.
Articles 1,2,3, and 4.

Now, whether they actually follow that is another story. If they don’t, then people have this thing called their vote that they can use to solve that problem.

Cheers!