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Harris enlists state in defense of health care law
SFGate: Politics Blog ^ | 1/21/11 | Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

Posted on 01/21/2011 9:19:12 PM PST by SmithL

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To: SmithL

Mexifornia, you are one big piece of work. Why don`t you just place yourself under Mexico`s flag, secede from the USA and be done with it.


21 posted on 01/22/2011 3:45:06 AM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: Windflier

Actually, the money is in the food crop of corn. Ethanol is or will soon be a pretty dead issue. The government is now trying to control food while not telling anyone they are growing especially in Africa large food crops of corn.


22 posted on 01/22/2011 3:59:41 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; ...
...joining eight other states in a court filing defending the new law's requirement that everyone obtain medical insurance. The nine states, all with Democratic attorneys general...
Eight to go. Thanks SmithL


23 posted on 01/22/2011 4:33:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: chris_bdba

“That is because they want us to have o pay for thier moochers who they can’t afford on their own.”

You got it. They want the Federal Gov. to pay for the illegals so they don’t have too.


24 posted on 01/22/2011 9:48:49 AM PST by gunner03
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To: SatinDoll

No Just the Iowa “Attorney General(he is a BIG TIME Dem Obama toadie)”. The Governor of Iowa is joining alot of other states opposing ObambiCare.


25 posted on 01/22/2011 2:50:25 PM PST by US Navy Vet
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The nine states, all with Democratic attorneys general

Says it all.

26 posted on 01/22/2011 10:15:28 PM PST by newzjunkey
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“all with Democratic attorneys general”

Democrat. There is nothing remotely democratic about democrats.


27 posted on 01/23/2011 5:24:22 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: chris_bdba

oh not just those who can’t pay for their own (those I have less problem with helping) but those who CHOOSE not to pay cause they want stuff instead of taking care of their own families.


28 posted on 01/23/2011 7:59:57 AM PST by tickles
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To: SmithL; socialismisinsidious; GailA; LibertyRocks; libertarian27; sheik yerbouty; nikos1121; ...
A decision whether to buy or not buy insurance is "economic activity" that affects interstate commerce, which Congress has the power to regulate, the attorneys general said.

By that line of reasoning (stemming from the unfortunate 1942 SCOTUS decision in Wickard v. Filburn), what else can Congress regulate? A decision whether the citizen must buy or not buy any item in your local supermarket, for example is, within Congress' regulatory power. Big Brother would be controlling even the spending of money citizens are allowed to keep after taxes. This is not the "road to serfdom," this is serfdom.

Furthermore, there is reasonable argument to be made that health insurance currently is not interstate commerce at all, because policies can't be purchased across state lines.

29 posted on 01/23/2011 9:11:27 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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