N****rs and F****ts

[StevenSeagal]

I'm not clear on why an executive order affirming that federal funds will not be allocated to abortions is an affront to the pro life crowd, apart from the fact that it isn't an overturning of Roe v. Wade. Nothing is changing re: abortion here. Or is that the problem?

[Fairweather]

Looks like a couple dozen states lining up to sue the fuck outta your constitution-shredding parasites back in D.C. Should be interesting...

[billcoe]

Looks like a couple dozen states lining up to sue the fuck outta your constitution-shredding parasites back in D.C. Should be interesting...

 

FW, what constitutional provisions do they say are being violated? I did a google search and came up with this.

 

http://www.constitutionforum.us/freedom_tour.html

 

interesting snippet:

 

"In the January 4th, edition of Time Magazine, an article was printed with the headline, "A Vicious Drug War Drags On". According to the article, to date, 14,000 people have been killed in the U.S. supported Mexican war on drugs and no end to the carnage is in sight. In response to this, the U.S. has committed an additional $1.4 billion to Mexico so it can combat this growing menace. However, this amount is minuscule in comparison to the amount being spent for drugs in the United States. We are supposed to be a democracy. If so, why doesn't our government realize that every dollar spent for illegal drugs by citizens is a vote for legalization? Prohibition led to a wholesale breakdown of law an order in this nation and contributed to the establishment of a criminal underworld which still plagues society today. Why hasn't our government learned anything from the lessons of prohibition? The obvious answer to this question is that those who run our war on drugs could care less about us or the carnage being wrought by their ignorance and stupidity. All they care about how much money their drug war puts in their budget. The formula at play here is more drugs = more crime and more crime = bigger budgets. The fallacy behind all this is that bigger budgets do not necessarily reduce the amount of drugs on the street and the beat goes on and on. The bottom line is that the bureaucrats are the only winners in our drug wars because they reap the benefits associated with having bigger budgets."

[Fairweather]

Mainly the Tenth Amendment. Also, the special deals that NB, FL, LA (and God know who else) got violate equal protection in the Fifth and Fourteenth. If the Senate reconciliation kills those provisions, I suspect many states will not sue.

 

 

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[prole]

Hey FW, who's your daddy?

[billcoe]

Thanks: I googled and got a Chuck Norris version:

 

http://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2010/03/02/obama_vs_the_10th_amendment?page=full&comments=true

By Chuck Norris:

 

"Not surprisingly, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released last Friday revealed that 56 percent of Americans think the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to their rights and freedoms.

 

Particularly apropos here is the feds' health care violation of the 10th Amendment, which is part of our Bill of Rights and was ratified Dec. 15, 1791. The amendment says, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

 

Thomas Jefferson explained the pre-eminence of this amendment in 1791: "I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition."

 

 

The point is that based on the 10th Amendment, when it comes to legislating and controlling our health care, the federal government doesn't have a constitutional leg to stand on. And even its past violations of the 10th Amendment by implementing government health care services have proved to break more national legs than they have to mend them. The proof is in the pudding. How many times does it have to be pointed out to Washington? Medicare is going bankrupt. Medicaid is going bankrupt. Case closed.

 

The government is inept to run America's health care system. And now it wants to expand its programs (its health care business) to oversee what equates to one-sixth of the gross national product? What rational board anywhere in the world would rightly appoint a CEO who had a string of miserable business failures and major corporate bankruptcies in his dossier?

 

I agree with Dr. Scott W. Atlas, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor at Stanford University Medical Center, and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who put it best in their article a few months back, titled "Alternatives to government health takeover." They said this: "We think it's critical that power shifts to the American consumer and away from government, employers and insurers, as evidence shows medical care prices come down when patients pay directly. Government should offer tax relief, such as refundable tax credits, to encourage private health insurance purchasing -- especially for low-income families. Similar ideas, like those in the Patients' Choice Act ... are important for Americans to consider. We would do well also to consider creative ideas such as changing federal payments to state-based medicaid plans to individual vouchers or expanding health savings accounts, as has been done in South Carolina."

 

Returning the onus of solving health care issues to families, local communities and states would not only return a balance of power to our federal government but also help with America's economic recovery and build up communities at the same time.

 

The abuse of federal political power to intervene in areas such as Americans' private health care could exist only in a nation that no longer holds its leaders accountable to its constitution and that has governmental leadership that regards itself as above its people and its constitution. Sadly, I was listening to an interview the other day in which President Barack Obama described the U.S. Constitution as "an imperfect document ... a document that reflects some deep flaws ... (and) an enormous blind spot." He also said, "The Framers had that same blind spot."

 

In so doing, the president established a rationale and justification for disregarding the Constitution. Even worse, he placed himself above the Constitution and those "blind Framers," who just couldn't see the big picture as he does today. After all, he's the constitutional scholar, and the Framers were just, well, the creators of the document!

 

Our 44th president would do well to learn from America's third president, Thomas Jefferson, himself a source greater than any living constitutional lawyer. Imagine Jefferson sitting there at the health care summit, a ripe sage at roughly 80 years of age. After listening to all the clamoring of both Republicans and Democrats, he politely but sternly utters these words, which he also wrote to Supreme Court Justice William Johnson in 1823: "The States supposed that by their tenth amendment, they had secured themselves against constructive powers. They (did not learn from the past), nor (were they) aware of the slipperiness of the eels of the law. I ask for no straining of words against the General Government, nor yet against the States. I believe the States can best govern our home concerns, and the General Government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore, to see maintained that wholesome distribution of powers established by the constitution for the limitation of both; and never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold as at market."

 

It couldn't be any clearer or wiser than that.

 

I encourage you to go to TenthAmendmentCenter.com and learn more about your 10th Amendment rights, and then fight for those rights by holding all your representatives accountable to them."

[kevbone]

Hey FW....do you know how fast the government passed the Patriot Act?

 

24 hours.

 

So STFU.

[Fairweather]

who's your daddy?

 

I suspect the people who lack an answer to this question are the very same ones who now want big government as a stand-in.

[ivan]

None of the Republicunt cowards has come forward as of yet to take credit for shouting "Baby Killer" at Stupak last night on the floor of the House. What a surprise.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35986306/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

 

who'da thought it'd be a texan?

[ivan]

Mainly the Tenth Amendment.

we have an unenumerated right to die like dogs if we can't get/afford health-care?

[Fairweather]

Mainly the Tenth Amendment.

we have an unenumerated right to die like dogs if we can't get/afford health-care?

 

Yep. Just like it was in back in 1787. Better dead than Red.

[rob]

Boy, things were GREAT back in 1787. We should go back to how things were then. YAY!!!

 

Hey FW, how many slaves are you gonna buy in the new 'merika?

[Jim]

Oh brother. Wackos coming out of the woodwork. Can you imagine the feigned outrage if something really progressive actually passed. What a bunch of clowns.

[Fairweather]

[video:youtube]

[Fairweather]

 

Hey FW, how many slaves are you gonna buy in the new 'merika?

 

I hear your ex-wife is more partial to Coolies.

 

 

[Fairweather]

Oh brother. Wackos coming out of the woodwork. Can you imagine the feigned outrage if something really progressive actually passed. What a bunch of clowns.

 

Lemme guess: Raised by a single mom? A nation of fucking pussy boys.

[olyclimber]

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AM I THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE RULES?

[prole]

we have an unenumerated right to die like dogs if we can't get/afford health-care?

 

Yep. Just like it was in back in 1787.

 

This is why you people will always lose.

 

 

Edited March 22, 2010 by prole

[KaskadskyjKozak]

[video:youtube]

 

that guy looks like he may be in need of a triple bypass surgery soon

[olyclimber]

his eyes are too shifty

[rob]

 

Hey FW, how many slaves are you gonna buy in the new 'merika?

 

I hear your ex-wife is more partial to Coolies.

 

 

OMG, did you actually just say Coolie? Not surprising, actually. Do you kiss your family with that mouth?

 

Edited March 22, 2010 by rob

[prole]

[video:youtube]

 

Mr. Sour Grapes.

[Fairweather]

 

that guy looks like he may be in need of a triple bypass surgery soon

 

Hope he's not relying on Medicare. OB's gonna cut 600 Billion outta that shit so the solid, reliable D's can finally get a break.

[olyclimber]

If you don't stop Medicare and I don't do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free.

[billcoe]

Was the 10th amendment suspended during the FDR years? I could name a long list of federal programs still around from the 30s.....

 

 

 

BTW, it seems that around here when people realize they don't have jack shit of an argument, they try to distract the conversation by just attacking the other person personally and just displaying their ignorance and meanness for all to see.