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“Specifically where in the Constitution does Congress get its authority to mandate that individuals purchase health insurance?”
Senator Reed's answer.
“Let me see,” said Reed. “I would have to check the specific sections, so I’ll have to get back to you on the specific section. But it is not unusual that the Congress has required individuals to do things, like sign up for the draft and do many other things too, which I don’t think are explicitly contained [in the Constitution]. It gives Congress a right to raise an army, but it doesn’t say you can take people and draft them. But since that was something necessary for the functioning of the government over the past several years, the practice on the books, it’s been recognized, the authority to do that.” --- Senator Reed is a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
Assuming that like me you found that answer laughable. Can you find anywhere in the US Constitution were the US goverment can force a citizen to buy medical insurance?
Is it important that new laws be constitutional?
And yes if you refuse to obey a law you can be jailed for it.
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So many people have wondered why it is, that so many gorgeous woman fall for slimy dirt bag guys. Now we know why, it was all a plot conceived by Walt Disney. Mind conditioning from early childhood is the cause. I wonder if old Walt was a dirt bag at heart?
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As taken from the movie "The Last Days of Disco"
Josh Neff: (Describing the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp) There is something depressing about it and it's not really about dogs. Except for some superficial bow-wow stuff at the start, the dogs all represent human types which is where it gets into real trouble. Lady, the ostensible protagonist, is a fluffy blond cocker spaniel with absolutely nothing on the brain. She's great looking but, let's be honest, incredibly insipid. Tramp, the love interest is a smarmy braggart of the most obnoxious kind, an oily jail bird... Josh Neff: (Still talking about Lady and the Tramp) No, Tramp's a self confessed chicken thief, an all around sleaze ball. What's the function of a film of this kind? Essentially it's a primer about love and marriage directed at very young people, imprinting on their little psyches that smooth talking delinquents recently escaped from the local pound are a good match for nice girls in sheltered homes. When in ten years the icky human version of Tramp shows up around the house their hormones will be racing and no one will understand why. Films like this program women to adore jerks.
This warning is made necessary by past efforts at satire and comedy. Someone always thinks I am serous. I am not this time, no not even a little.
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You guys do know it is not over?
First the House bill has nothing in it to constrain costs The Senate will not be happy about that (nor anyone else in their right mind). And yeah they handed over a gold mine to the trial lawyers. (Correction someone called me on out for saying trail lawyers are one of the largest political contributers. Turns out I was wrong, they are thee largest contributor) That was expected they are one of the Democrat parties biggest contributors.
To get the bill through the House, they needed to add a anti abortion provision and to include a goverment run option.
But in the Senate the liberals are saying the anti abortion provision will not stand. More importantly ... Several Democrat Senators are saying they will not vote for a goverment run option.
The bill that just passed will never become law.
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$43.6 trillion. That how much money the top 25% of this nation is Worth. If we just take half of it from them, that would be leaving them all still rather rich. And the health-care bill is only projected to cost $1.5 trillion in the next 10 years. Or so I am told.
Lets just take it from them and end all poverty in America.
What wrong with doing that?
Really no one in this country should have more than a million dollars in assets. That is far more money that anyone needs to live extremely well. So long as only one person in this world is homeless and hungry. How can we be so greedy as to allow anyone to accumulate such obscene wealth.
"Tax the rich feed the poor untill there are no rich no more"
I say let's take it from those rich bastards!
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This one so self explanatory
- A just war can only be waged as a last resort.
- A war is just only if it is waged by a legitimate authority.
- A just war can only be fought to redress a wrong suffered.
- A war can only be just if it is fought with a reasonable chance of success.
- The ultimate goal of a just war is to re-establish peace.
- The violence used in the war must be proportional to the injury suffered.
- The weapons used in war must discriminate between combatants and non-combatants.
It is rather clear that the USA has not made a habit out of fighting only just wars. Should we limit ourselves to only just wars?
Personally I say yes and admit most of the Wars the USA has fought in. Have in retrospect not been just wars.
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