Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Is it legal?
The new health care legislation requires individuals to purchase health insurance. Is this constitutional? Numerous organizations have threatened to file suit if the bill passes. In this bill, the government will force individuals to purchase a product from a private organization (or face tax penalties). There are subsidies, to help make it affordable, but that is not the point. Verbiage also in the bill states that the bill cannot be repealed or altered. How is that legal? I guess this is way over my head because it makes no sense to me how any of this can actually be happening. The bill also requires state to use their own funds to expand the Medicaid program, this is an unfunded federal government mandate to the states. Last I heard, that was illegal. The federal government can't write new laws requiring the states to pay for things that they don't have the budget for. States are in charge of themselves. The federal government isn't in charge of states or state budgets. I will be interested to see how the question of legality is answered.
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It's all about power.
ReplyDeleteFor a while it puzzled me why any educated person (like senators and congressmen) could have such liberal views on policies like this that take away individual and state liberties. Clearly it's a bad idea to give the government so much power. That is, unless you are the government.
I've come to the conclusion that the majority of democratic politicians are just in it for the power. I’m sure there’s a few that actually believe in what they’re doing. But I’m convinced that the vast majority are only acting in their own best interests. Regards of what they think is right, they say and do whatever it is they think will get them elected and keep them in power.
Now, they’re taking advantage of how lazy most of America has become. I think that a lot of people must actually buy into this something for nothing mentality. People want handouts. That’s why the democrats are in power. They promise handouts in exchange for our personal freedoms.
You read Orwell’s 1984 and think that it sounds extreme, like nothing like that could ever happen. And it’s true, it does seem very extreme, but history (and even current events in other parts of the world) has shown that governments will take whatever they can, if the people will allow it, until the people are powerless to stop it.