Lightbringer
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Oh?
Do explain.
Neither of you made a point.
Oh?
Do explain.
I would hardly call that being fucked.Neither of you made a point.
I would hardly call that being fucked.
You're a mug!!
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I put them on 'ignore' - but that tends to make a discussion like this incomprehensible, since so few sensible people contribute.
I put them on 'ignore' - but that tends to make a discussion like this incomprehensible, since so few sensible people contribute.
This is one topic that I completely agree with Ron Paul on while disagreeing with the president, that being the ever growing, tax draining monster called health care. The republicans didn't replace Obama care with a better plan because there is no better plan. Both parties have this belief in their heads that health care is the responsibility of the federal government because health care is a right.
It is not, and under the constitution, it was never meant to be. The monster in the room will continue to grow and it's hunger for tax dollars will never cease because health care is supposed to be a right of the people.
The president should spend his term in office finding ways to slow down the growth of the monster and save billions of dollars doing it such as making cuts to both medicare and Medicaid whenever possible.
Sorry to inform you and that bastion of Constitutional knowledge Ron Paul, but healthcare is a right, as there is that "general welfare" stipulation in the Constitution. And no, it's not just in the preamble. Behold from Wikipedia:
The Taxing and Spending Clause[1] (which contains provisions known as the General Welfare Clause[2] and the Uniformity Clause[3]), Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, grants the federal government of the United States its power of taxation. While authorizing Congress to levy taxes, this clause permits the levying of taxes for two purposes only: to pay the debts of the United States, and to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. Taken together, these purposes have traditionally been held to imply and to constitute the federal government's taxing and spending power.[4]
Sorry to inform you and that bastion of Constitutional knowledge Ron Paul, but healthcare is a right, as there is that "general welfare" stipulation in the Constitution. And no, it's not just in the preamble. Behold from Wikipedia:
The Taxing and Spending Clause[1] (which contains provisions known as the General Welfare Clause[2] and the Uniformity Clause[3]), Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, grants the federal government of the United States its power of taxation. While authorizing Congress to levy taxes, this clause permits the levying of taxes for two purposes only: to pay the debts of the United States, and to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. Taken together, these purposes have traditionally been held to imply and to constitute the federal government's taxing and spending power.[4]
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
So yeah, healthcare is a right of the American people, as it is conducive to the "general welfare". Deal with it, you corporate lackeys!
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
So yeah, healthcare is a right of the American people, as it is conducive to the "general welfare". Deal with it, you corporate lackeys!
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
So yeah, healthcare is a right of the American people, as it is conducive to the "general welfare". Deal with it, you corporate lackeys!
Common defense and general welfare .... a federal military in times of war.
Absolutely nothing to do with socialized medicine.
Man, get the crack out of the pipe! YOUR MORONIC REVISIONIST INTERPRETATION IS NOT WHAT THE ARTICLE STATES! That's why they went to the trouble to specify the separate nature of the two.
Like it or not, the "general welfare" of the people encompasses health care. It took this country a LONG time to get it to the current level now, and it's STILL inefficient on many levels. But YOU benefit from it, so to try and deny it to others is akin to a sin.
Common defense and general welfare .... a federal military in times of war.
Absolutely nothing to do with socialized medicine.
Does it say in the constitution Vets should get free care??