One Question on Health Care Reform that Matters

While the main stream media (MSM) has been breathlessly covering every twist and turn in Congress and in the Obama Administration in respect to health care "reform," the one key question has been omitted. In fact, it is the only one that actually matters. The it has not been asked until now is compelling proof that when it comes to those in the media and the political ruling class in America, everyone of them were "children left behind" in terms of civics and government when they grew up and went off to get their Ivy League college educations. Watching the MSM and political talking heads today, it is hard not find oneself talking to the television or the radio as they report on health care and demanding that they, "Ask the question, ask the question!" It took one reporter from CNS News to finally ask it. He inquired, "Where (does) the Constitution Authorizes Congress to Order Americans To Buy Health Insurance?" The answers from leading Democrats was telling, and clearly show that they have no understanding of the US Constitution they swore an oath to support and defend. They really don't get it, and as a result the little people will - right up the ol' orifice. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) refused to consider the question a serious one. After all, "she is the gummint!" House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said government mandates in every "reform" bill, were "like paying taxes." "Congress," said Hoyer, "has broad authority" to force Americans to purchase other things as well, so long as it was trying to promote "the general welfare." It's mind numbing when politicians speak like this and dumbfounding when nary a member of the MSM calls em' on this idiocy. Truly, "useful idiots" all - but with a common trait which reveals how little they know the US Constitution, or more importantly, the underpinning philosophy of that document. When asked that same question, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) refused to say what part of the Constitution grants Congress the power to force every American to buy health insurance, but he was 100% sure they had the authority to do it. That makes three and there are hundreds more like them in Congress voting on creating a system that will increase human misery in America, mire our economy in higher costs and unemployment, and do it all because they believe the "gummit" has to "for their own good." (Which really means: "Because the people are too dumb and stupid to take care of themselves." The "public welfare clause" argument is most troubling when politicians use it. It has been the basis for justification of all sorts of outrageous votes, each which seems to whittle away a little more personal liberty or rights to property. Once, we American plebeians could count on the US Supreme Court to void some of the really offensive and unconstitutional laws the gang in the US Congress would create, but it doesn't seem to happen much anymore. You would think though, at least in the last 200 years, this gang of thugs and legal thieves would have at least learned what the "general welfare clause" actually was. After all, that aspect of the US Constitution has been examined constantly before and since the document was first signed. In fact "welfare" in 1789 meant something entirely different from what the Peolosi's, Leahy's and Hoyer's think it does today. For a good look at the "general welfare clause" take a look at: "Does the U.S. Constitution authorize congress to force Americans to buy health insurance?" That article discusses that clause as it was discussed in multiple places "The Federalist Papers." Telling is that once, that was the stuff of every civics or government class in school. It was taught and discussed and each citizen had a basic grasp of the idea of the proper role of government, liberty, and property rights. But, no more. We have to do better people, or we deserve what is being done to us. Let's start with term limits and begin the revolution by throwing these bums out in 2010 using the power we still have left in our republic - our vote.