Consider: any human activity at all could effect one's needs. For example, if I jog I might have more need of a water bottle. Of coarse water bottle transactions within the store I might purchase it are part of a network of interconnected transactions which are a commerce that cross state lines.
Thus, if we accept such expansion of the interstate commerce clause that regulates a farmer growing crops for his own animals, then all human activity is covered by this clause...since no human activity is completely independent of interstate commerce. Mandating that I jog would encourage interstate commerce and help the economy...or conversely mandating I not jog might help lower the cost of water bottles. Either way an excuse can be dreamed up for the federal government to make any mandate of my behavior it wishes.
Obviously this is not just an unorthodox opinion the court let stand. It was in fact a blatant violation of any kind of valid reasoning. Thus, I simply can not respect the US Supreme Court unless and until it reforms itself, overturns such absurd rulings, and repudiates and rejects any that presided over them as being unfit to any profession that requires critical thought.
In the meantime, although clearly forcing somebody to buy something is crossing another line that ought never be crossed...based on past behavior, I do not have confidence that they will not bulldoze right over that line as well.
I really wish they were worthy of the respect that the office should have. But they are not. The US Supreme court has become a disgrace, and giving them respect at this point is an affront to the institution as it ought to have been, and I pray might one day be.
Of course you are right. I was simply less sympathetic is the case of the farmer who claimed that the wheat he was growing was for his chickens. I don’t believe him. It was a bad case, almost as though the case was picked as a sure loser.
What is really the question is the whole system of farm subsidies and government regulation.
Have you heard about Obama’s newest executive order, putting all his Czars in charge of the rural areas of the country, under the guise of controlling food production? It’s all part of the Agenda 21, Wildlands project.
Right now, the left is pushing a Gateway terminal in my county. They have picked an island of commercial development that is not connected to any town or city, so that the residents who will be impacted, have no voice in the approval process. Then they went further and got the state to rule that the county council, who have ultimate say in the approval, cannot even discuss the project with their constituents until it is all over.
Then , the developers said that they wanted to include grain as an export to China, and invited all these farmers, who are now being paid not to produce grain and asked them if they would ship their grain to China through our county if the government lifted the regulations. So, it’s ok to grow the grain, or soy beans if they ship it to China.
The plan to ship both the coal and the food are part of the Agenda 21 plan for America, shipping out our natural resources to developing nations where the manufacturing and jobs will take place. Building these rail/ port projects to facilitate it and keeping all the profit inside the Democrat fascist system. The partners in the port projects are Goldman Sachs/ BNSF and Warren Buffet, using GE clean coal technology, Peabody coal. Oh, and the coal leases are on the Crowe reservation.