Posted on 04/14/2012 6:57:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
You know you're in for a wild ride when the argument starts with, "Well, nothing in the Constitution says you can't do it!!"
He'd hold your hand while you passed kidney stones.
If you were lucky you'd have a Chinese physician ~ he had more dope and worked from a theory of how the body operated ~ all of them did bones.
Rich French noblemen would purchase or build facilities for those near death. One of my ancestors built one in the mid 1400s near Saumur. It's still standing. Today they use it as a church.
It was believed that building such a place would earn you a higher standing on Judgment Day.
OK, then let’s mandate every must buy, own, and maintain a Christian Bible of their choosing and a firearm with ammunition. They must muster with it after every church sermon on Sunday, of which they must attend, and shoot that firearm in qualification matches.
That’ll send the liberals even more batty than they are.
The problem is that a mandate is by far not the worst thing the marxists want to do. They didn’t even really want it. They want single-payer health care. And there is NO constitutional challenge available for that.
The courts are not the end of this problem by a longshot, and they will soon be a useless weapon in the fight. To stop this in the mid-to-long run, we either need to pass a constitutional amendment that would block this kind of government health care or hope that the marxists never again get as many elected officials in the government as they did in 2009-2010.
The draft was constitutional, right? Hard to think of a bigger mandate than that. It's basically slavery to the military. This firearm issue would seem to be analogous to the draft, but far less burdensome.
Looks like the Obamateur regime missed a chance to give the justices a history lesson. /sarc
Bump
So you're saying bloodletting wasn't covered? Did the government have a "leech panel?"
There are only two places to stand on Judgement Day..........on the left or the right.........it’s gonna be mighty crowded on the left........
“Teachable Moment” is the regime phrase.
Did any of those imbeciles over at the New Republic ever take Constitutional Law?? Maybe from Obummer. They should read the 10th Amendment. functions not specified in that document are reserved for the States or the people. All they knew in those days was blood letting-—good grief!
BTTT
Thus the problem. Insurance is the driving force of health prices. I can guarantee ya if there was no insurance, health care would be cheaper.
Just like students loans and grants. If we didn't have them, college would be cheaper.
Things are cheaper when ya gotta pay out of your own pocket.
These guys are idiots. Freedom to contract is a natural right that pre-exists the constitution. A contract requires willing parties. Coercion of a party voids the contract. How can the federal government coerce Americans into health insurance contracts and the contracts be binding? How about funeral insurance contracts? Life insurance contracts? Where will it end?
This seems to have come fully formed in the last week or so. I’ve been looking via google for “george washington” plus “insurance” plus “seamen” prior to March 15, 2012 and find absolutely nothing.
You’d think that a Perry Mason “fact” like this would have existed at some point in the last two or three years and been brought up at the SC. I too call BS, and look forward to the inevitable debunking that it wasn’t actually a law, or it was in fact a directive by General (not President) George Washington, or something like that.
don't lower yourself to Bill Maher's level
Great link. The gun “mandate” is a militia issue allowable via other Constitutional means, the insurance “mandate” is a matter of foreign commerce allowable under other Constitutional means, and the per-head tax is just that, a tax.
Oops, I didn’t go back far enough. He wrote something like this back in January. Still, I find it odd that nobody brought it up at the SC — unless, as many have posted earlier, it isn’t really precedent and therefore would have been quickly shot down.
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