Random thoughts
The Main Stream Media is at it again. They are using basically the same language to describe the attendance at the pro gay rights march on Washington as they used for the 9-12 anti-tax march. They are saying it was attended by “thousands”. Reading the reports you are led to believe attendance at both was similar. Nothing could be further from the truth. The attendance at the 9-12 event exceeded that of the gay march by a double digit factor. Problem is, to admit that the media would also have to admit that the “Tea Party Mobs” are more than just a small minority of the U.S. population and should be ignored.
I have heard members of Congress claim the authority for their involvement in health care comes from Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. This claim shows a true lack of knowledge on the part of these members of Congress. This section does say the “Congress shall have the power to … provide … for the general Welfare of the United States”. Note, there is nothing in this section that says anything about the welfare of individual citizens. The section only speaks to the welfare of the nation as a whole. If the founders had intended this to refer to the people as individuals they would have said so. Were the argument that health care legislation is permitted by this section there would be NO limit to the power of Congress as they could argue that anything they wanted to do was permitted because it was for the generale welfare.
Article 1 Section 8 also requires that Excise Taxes shall be uniform throughout the United States. The Senate Heath Care Bill exempts some states from several tax provisions. This exemption is a direct violation of this Constitutional provision.
There are those who would call me a “political terrorist” due to my views. They also call me a racist due to my disagreement with BO. It is the height of arrogance that the same people who called George Bush every name in the book should condemn me for disagreeing with their warped view of the Constitution. They condemn me for actions that they claimed were the height of patriotism when they used them to condemn Bush.
