[Charles Henrickson]

The Washington Post's Ezra Klein. . . . "If the point of health care reform is covering people who need health insurance. . . ."

This clause reveals the liberals' faulty premise. In truth, the point of the federal government is that it only exercise those powers explicitly delegated to it in the Constitution. Stealing money from some citizens (no matter how rich or evil), against their will, in order to give it to other citizens (no matter how nice or needy), or to pay their bills--that is not a power granted to the federal government in the Constitution. In fact, it is a form of involuntary servitude, which is prohibited in the Constitution. Yet this redistribution of wealth is the foundational tenet of the modern Democrat Party (since FDR).

[AlanGreenSpam]

Right Charles...

I always cite the 13th Amendment to dumbfound liberals:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Ummm, so I suppose the PRODUCERS in society are being PUNISHED FOR SOME SORT OF CRIME by the CONSUMERS (the GimmeDats)? /sarc

[lentulusgracchus]

Yet this redistribution of wealth is the foundational tenet of the modern Democrat Party (since FDR).

The hallmark of every form -- Bolshevist, Fabian, Maoist -- of socialism is its complete disrespect for every alternative tradition of government. It has a Mephisto-stink of self-importance (Satanic pride?) about it.