ObamaCare Is the Democrats’ New Kansas-Nebraska Act
by Michael ZakHas the Democratic Party ever enacted a law as atrocious as its government takeover of the American people’s healthcare? Has the Democratic Party ever enacted a law so unpopular? Yes and Yes.
In 1854, Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency. Their top priority was to repeal the Missouri Compromise prohibition of slavery in the northern territories. The author of this infamous legislation, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, was Stephen Douglas, a Democrat Senator from Illinois and owner of a slave plantation in Mississippi.
Senator Douglas claimed the law would be a final solution to the slavery question, so that Congress could move on to other issues. In fact, the Kansas-Nebraska Act sparked a political firestorm. Opponents of slavery – and the police state and economic stagnation that went with it – understood that, if unchecked, the slave system would expand throughout the territories and then the entire nation.
As the Democrat-controlled Supreme Court would soon prove with its 7-2 Dred Scott decision (both Republicans dissenting), pro-freedom Americans feared that the judiciary would uphold the expansion of slavery. Many Democrats were already touting slavery (not for themselves, of course) for poor whites, too. “Free Society!” declared a prominent Democrat newspaper, “We sicken at the name!”
Every American was forced to choose sides. One was either for the free market system or against it; there was no middle ground.
As Alexis De Tocqueville observed: “Socialism is a new form of slavery.” Today’s congressional Democrats who voted to impose socialized medicine on the nation while exempting themselves should bear in mind Abraham Lincoln’s words: “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
Denouncing the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Lincoln warned against submitting to political masters:
“If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.
Not all Democrats went along with the Kansas-Nebraska Act. In protest, Charles Sumner, Salmon P. Chase and others – who would soon join the Republican Party – issued an Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress to the People of the United States:
“We arraign [the Kansas-Nebraska Act] as a gross violation of a sacred pledge; as a criminal betrayal of precious rights; as part and parcel of an atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region immigrants from the Old World and free laborers from our own States, and convert it into a dreary region of despotism, inhabited by masters and slaves.
Language fails to express the sentiments of indignation and abhorrence which it inspires; and no vision less penetrating and comprehensive than that of the All-Seeing can reach its evil issues.
We appeal to the people. We warn you that the dearest interests of freedom and the Union are in imminent peril.
We entreat you to be mindful of that fundamental maxim of Democracy – EQUAL RIGHTS AND EXACT JUSTICE FOR ALL MEN. Do not submit to become agents in extending legalized oppression and systematized injustice over a vast territory yet exempt from these terrible evils.
We implore Christians and Christian ministers to interpose. Their divine religion requires them to behold in every man a brother, and to labor for the advancement and regeneration of the human race.
Whatever apologies may be offered for the toleration of slavery in the States, none can be offered for its extension into Territories where it does not exist, and where that extension involves the repeal of ancient law and the violation of solemn compact. Let all protest, earnestly and emphatically, by correspondence, through the press, by memorials, by resolutions of public meetings and legislative bodies, and in whatever other mode may seem expedient, against this enormous crime.
For ourselves, we shall resist it by speech and vote, and with all the abilities which God has given us. Even if overcome in the impending struggle, we shall not submit. We shall go home to our constituents, erect anew the standard of freedom, and call on the people to come to the rescue of the country from the domination of slavery. We will not despair; for the cause of human freedom is the cause of God.”
Hey, America! They’re talking to you.
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Well, the Democrats finally found an enemy they were willing to commit whatever it takes to defeat. Unfortunately for them this enemy was the American people. While I agree with those who assert that this bill will be difficult to reverse, this nation achieved its greatness only through the steadfast refusal of patriots to surrender to the forces of tyranny and oppression throughout our history. Let there be no mistake, in enacting this legislation the President and his allies have chosen the path of tyranny. By resorting to back-room dealmaking, the blatant payoff of special interests, and every legislative contravention imaginable, Democrats have set in motion the largest seizure of power by the federal government since the New Deal, if not our history. All at the expense of personal liberty and free enterprise, and against the clearly expressed will of the vast majority of Americans.
I'll have to look and see if dental care is covered in this bill?
I'm afraid that this government may very well be leading us off the cliff to our next civil war. The union survived that one, but will it survive another?
Make no bones about it… THEY ARE WILLING to do this battle!
Now …where did I put that slingshot I took away from my son because I thought it was a dangerous weapon? I'm thinking I'm going to need it soon!
To "celebrate" this historic event, I just had pizza and beer for breakfast. Why? Because today I can. Tomorrow I may be fined (taxed) for this health crime or even arrested by the IRS healthcare division.
He just signed away his presidency!
This time they have to flank them at Gettysburg, no more pickett's charge.
The deeper you dig into the history books the more the truth about the White Supremacist DNC comes out…
They can't hide from the truth any longer, the party of slavery and servitude has been exposed.
"That sound you hear is the WHOOSH, not of our basketball playing President dunking a basket, but the sound of yours and your children's future being confiscated."
I hear you.
I'd like to grab some of those little "Millenial Generation" hopey/changey-voting 18-30 year olds and slap them upside the head.
Not just for voting based on who MTV told them was the cool and hip candidate.
Not just for voting based on white liberal racial guilt for actions they as individuals are in no way responsible for.
No, I want to smack the Millenials for voting away their future and guaranteeing that they will spend their entire productive lives working to pay off the entitlements for which they voted away the individual freedoms that are every American's birthright.
Read the BILL! Pay real close attention…. and we will type r e a l s l o w for you….. This Government mandate IS Unconstitutional!
Hide anon hide. You will never reveal yourself, because you are a coward.
That would be the newly appointed Richard Simmons health and fitness guru Czar comming for you!
Nothing has been confiscated… yet. This travesty of legislative fiat is certainly a blatant attempt to Socialize this great country, but it is only an attempt. Now that the gloves are off and it’s clear that it’s Liberty vs. Liberalism, it is now up to those of us who still believe in the Great Experiment to prove wrong those would enslave us. If we don’t, we will get exactly the country we deserve.
Oh, Anon… Please put down the Kool-Aid…
"Simply not allowing insurers to deny coverage due to a pre existing conding. And opening an insurance exchange to expand choice."? Really?
If it were that "simple", why does it take 2,700 some-odd pages to say it?
Wake up!
"The Federal government pays for it because we will end up subsidizing those plans covering abortion just like the plans without it"
It's gone. You're now going to have to pay your own way and get weaned off the taxpayer teat.
Or if you have a better idea please share.
How do you propose you can make insurance companies accept those with pre existing conditions?
You aren't so stupid to believe that people won't simply wait until they get sick to buy insurance.
Or are you?
Watch out, crap and tax is next on the agenda…
They have said that "immigration" will be next but watch what the other hand does now…
Lindsey Graham is their RINO stooge and they will use him to do it, keep a close eye on him, he is the key…
This bill forces American citizens to engage in commercial activity upon pain of fine and imprisonment in order to pay for the "free" services provided to others.
16,000 new IRS agents. Who in there right mind would come up with a "health care plan" that adds that many IRS agents. No new Doctors. No new Nurses. Thousands of new IRS agents and hundreds of new panels and positions in the bureaucracy.
We compromised for 80 years with slavery before we stood up. We have now compromised for 80 years with big government. I think the comparison with the Kansas-Nebraska act is totally apt.
Please. I beg of you. Try to take down the mandatory Medicare and Social Security forced participation at the same time.
Those two have got to be unconstitutional as well. Right?
This is why I again point out that this is a Republic, not a Democracy. In any Democracy, either a direct or a Representative type, as a form of government, there can be no legal system which protects the individual or the minority against the unlimited tyranny by the majority in control. Democracy, as a form of government is utterly repellent to the tradional American system: that of a Republic, and its underlying philosophy, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence with the emphasis upon the people's forming their government so as to permit them to possess only "just powers" (limited powers) in order to make and keep secure the God-given, unalienable rights of each and every individual and therefore of all groups of individuals.
A republic has a different purpose and an entirely different form of government. Its purpose is to control the majority strictly, as well as all others among the people, primarily to protect the individual's GOD given unalienable rights and therefore for the protection of the rights of the minority and the liberties of the people in general.
The Definition of a Republis is: a constitutionally limited government of the representative type, created by a written constitution, adopted by the people and changeable only by amendments, with power divided between the three branches.
James Madison on Republican government:
"As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: So there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form. Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us, faithful likeness of the human character, the inference would be that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another" > Federalist #55
OOOPPS…. a mere oversight I am sure….
Just like if my employee(s) think that now I'll HAVE to provide them with health care ins. they would be wrong. I will be fined at a lesser rate than if I had to buy them care on the open market. The fine I will pay will go to the Government…. AND never…. ever get to them! AND I will reduce my staff immediately based on this formula…. For each employee that affects my bottom line = You are gone!
The fuse was lit with a pen.
"You lie. It's not a government takeover. It's simply not allowing insurers to deny coverage due to a pre existing condition."
That could have been accomplished in a five-page bill.
Well written Michael Zak. Well written indeed.
The dems havent changed one bit . They are the same as they ever were. LET ALL THE POISONS(DEMS) THAT LURK IN THE MUD COME OUT.
Your argument is comical. If you are arguing that the most forward-thinking, progressive party of the 1850s fought for the human rights of the less-fortunate members of society, then you are right. The same is true now. Except in 1854 the most Progressive, modern moving party was the Republican party, but today the Democrats are looking out for the rights of the least prividleged in society.
Nowadays, the Democrats are the party of the future. Lincoln would have been a Democrat and voted for Obama if he lived in Illinois today.
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agreed
Anon. Too much of a chickens**t to identify yourself.? Anywhoo…Even the president said we are not going to keep our drs or health plan. Somehow, that language got "snuck" into the bill withot our Master seeing it. ….The ultimate result of this legislation is to force alll citizens to go to "community health centers" for medical treatment. I can't wait! All of the advantages of the DMV and the postoffice while I wait for treatment for my sick child. (Unless, of course, I am a member of congress…..)
"So where is my choice to opt out of paying for health insurance if I so desire?"
It's gone. You're now going to have to pay your own way and get weaned off the taxpayer teat.
Or if you have a better idea please share.
How do you propose you can make insurance companies accept those with pre existing conditions?
You aren't so stupid to believe that people won't simply wait until they get sick to buy insurance.
Or are you?
Can we please get robert gibbs illegitimate son off the boards? Talk of sickness. What part of pathalogical do you not understand. You are like a broken record. YOU are the liar and Im quite sure proud of it.
Actually, The Democrats are the marxist and communist of the past, with a new friendly face but with the same brutality. This is America, if you put in the effort, you get ahead. If you are a loser, you pay the price. The Democrats wants to reward the losers with the hard-workers sweat. That is not progressive, that is a way to kill a society and make everyone losers. Progressives, by the way, is just another way of saying "I don't believe in the natural rights of mankind, and dont think people can control their own destinies."
Looking at the geographic makeup of the red states and the blue states today, most of the former slave states are now firmly red states.
Anti-slavery is a progressive, government intrusive, anti-states right sposition. The right to buy and sell slaves freely is the free market, pro-states rights, conservative position.
More "progressive" lies…
If you truly wish to aid society's least "prividleged" [sic] members, you create opportunities for them to better themselves through hard work.
If you wish to permanently enslave society's least "prividleged" members, you get them hooked on government handouts stolen by force of law from more productive members of society.
Obama's health care tyranny does the latter while undermining the former. Obama aims to create a massive underclass dependent on government to legally steal their means of support. ObamaCare is intended to strangle the private sector and diminish opportunities for hard-working individuals to better themselves in the free market.
What a JOKE! This bill is a SCAM and the start of a complete Government take over of our Health Care and Freedoms! I can't believe Pelosi saying that "The Founding Fathers would be proud"! She is INSANE! This is totally unconstitutional, They ignored the will of the people, I will remember that this November! I mean just look, 70%+ of people did not want this yet they passed it anyway, what is next? Tobacco Ban, Gun Ban, Freedom of Speech Ban, Religious Ban? They can do anything they want and ObamaCare proves it!!!! I just can't believe that soon, I will have to pay a fine just because I exist! What a FUCKED UP WORLD WE LIVE IN!
Look, in a few years the only people that will be on Obamacare is sick people, healthy people will just pay the fine, then the Health Insurance companies will have too raise premiums and they can't do that now because it is against the law, then what happens? The Government comes out and says we have to offer the Public Option because the insurance companies will be going out of business (cause the Gov forced them too by passing this SCAM of a bill)! Welcome to the USSA!!!!
I can't wait till this November to vote these Commies out! Obama wants a Centrally Planned Economy, HE HATES THE FREE MARKET, HE IS IN LOVE WITH BIG GOVERNMENT!!!!!
7 years after the Kansas Nebraska act South Carolina seceded from the union and the civil war began. You can see now how that wasn't so much of a "brother against brother" war. we in the south have nothing in common with our northern "deadbeat" brothers and we are tired of paying for them. In every major piece of legislation the "south" gets screwed while we have to pay for entitlements for n.y., michigan, the UAW, and California. If the north likes socialism they can have it without our money.
Trade it for a .22, a brick of 500 rounds, and a target plate that looks like a jackass…
Make sure to work with him on trigger control…
Actually, I would prefer a Conservative candidate willing to break a chair up and use the arm as a club…but then, I'm an extremist…
"That sound you hear is the WHOOSH, not of our basketball playing President dunking a basket, but the sound of yours and your children's future being confiscated."
Or being flushed down the toilet…
Breakfast of Champions…especially if the pizza's cold and the beer warm…!
uh, Anon, read the bill – it does not say that an Insurer is no longer allowed to deny coverage. It just says that if they do they have to pay a fine. So if they decide that it is cheaper to pay the fine, than to pay for a chronic illness….. The bill also says if an insurance company find any misinformation on your insurance application, they can also deny coverage.
…and how are you going to keep your Dr. when your Dr. says (like many now do for Medicaid), "sorry, I don't take Govt. insurance – it's cash only, bud. A recent AMA survey shows that over 35% of Dr. say they will either leave the profession, or set up cash-based private practices.
I think the magic number you're looking for is fifty or below…
Thanks, Obummer, for adding to unemployment…
Yeah, sure, Lincoln would have just admired the hell out of the viciously corrupt Chicago political machine…
…you are an ignorant lying leftist Soros assclown….even stupider than most, and that's sayin' something..
Oh, great. Another article trying to tie Democrats to slavery with virtually no basis in reality and with complete disregard to the fact that the Democrat party in 2010 is not the Democrat party of the 1850s. Why do conservatives find it necessary to engage in this politically correct nonsense by constantly invoking "racism?"
Yes, Obamacare is a terrible bill that was passed against the will of the American people and will probably bankrupt the nation. Why can't we just make arguments based on the actual bill instead of making ridiculous comparisons to pieces of legislation passed 150 years ago?
….exactly! Someone once said "A Democracy is two wolves and a sheep, voting on what's for lunch."
You stupid jerk. What do you think is going to happen with insurance companies being forced to insure people with higher health costs and risks, but they will not be allowed to raise their premiums by the gov't? When the insurance companies are no longer able to make a decent return they will leave and walla….we have big government to step in and fill the void. When this is all over, you will have one choice for healthcare, and if you are denied benefits, guess what, there won't be anybody you can sue. It is short sighted people like you that can't see the train coming before it runs you over. Question 2 – what happens when the government runs out of money and can no longer afford to provide care…..rationing
Ewwww….TROLL….!!!!
Hit it with an Obamacare waiting room…full of diseased liberals all waiting for an appointment for a doctor that isn't there…!!!!
you've got that almost right:
Barack Obama is working tirelessly to create hundreds of millions of DEM VOTING new slaves.. His next step is to grant amnesty, citizenship, and the vote to every illegal alien in the country, with the promise of lots of Gov't hand-outs and free healthcare..
you are a lying liar.
I feel for you folks…
My wife and I have advanced medical training, and will be able to take care of most of our healthcare without having to plead for it from some obscured lady behind the bulletproof glass, like Thurgood did when visiting the HUD offices in "The PJ's"…
Take some time and train up for the little things, people…because you'll need it now…
Voice of Reason,
Yes, what you pointed out is obvious to anyone who understands American history. Up until a couple of decades ago, Lincoln was seen as a leftist figure (he was – he imported dozens of European marxists to serve as commanders in the Union army) and Robert E. Lee was revered by most conservatives, North and South alike. Unfortunately, neo-conservatives have since infiltrated the GOP and virtually every aspect of the conservative movement. They have succeeded in warping history by political correctness and, now, you see many conservatives who actually believe that historical figures like Lincoln and MLK (an open marxist) were "conservative." In many ways, the Confederacy was fighting the same fight we are fighting today – the right to be free from interference by a large, centralized government. However, I guess most conservatives find it easier to call the South "racist" in their futile attempt to capture 6% of the black vote.
The democrats have always been about slavery, the progressives that took them over in the first part of the 20th century were fellow travelers (dont you love that phrase)
The only difference between the two is that the early democrats were all about race, the progressives want to enslave everyone and dont much care about the color of their slaves skin.
You have to admit they are getting close to establishing their long held dream of enslaving the US completely, but they have reached to far and too fast.
Me, I dont care much for being a slave.
Yes, they are. That will eventually make it to the table. Does that bother you? I hope it does.
Anon, you are such a tool.
Do you ever get tired of puking out your media matters talking points (sorry stupid question)
When you get finished re-writing history send a copy to Senator Byrds family, I am sure they will have a good laugh.
Ben Franklin is the Someone. ;0)
Voice of B*llsh*t – you are a lying leftist Soros-troll –
… for 100 years the 'former slave states' were solid Democratic, because Lincoln was Republican…
"As the Democrat-controlled Supreme Court would soon prove with its 7-2 Dred Scott decision (both Republicans dissenting), pro-freedom Americans feared that the judiciary would uphold the expansion of slavery. "
It's going to be interesting to see how the coming challenges from the states, against the Fed power to impose healthcontrol upon us, in the Supreme Court are resolved.
Interesting times.
Anon,
Do you know that for a fact, and you can check this fact if you have any brains, that Medicare and Medicade, both imperial government health providers, fact, have denied more people medical care than the evil insurance companies combined!!!!!!!. So when you need your hip replacement operation you will not get it because you had to pay for abortions. Stupid fool…but then to again
"Yes, they are."
Please cite the Court ruling that you claim makes Social Security and Medicare unconstitutional.
This ought to be good.
More "progressive" lies…in this case, the "conservatives = rasicsm/slavery" lie.
The right's philosophies share a belief in the inalieble rights of the individual.
Slavery was a basic violation of those rights, the most basic violation of individualism I can think of. Slavery has nothing to do with the right wing of today.
The party stealing away individual rights today is the Democratic Party, which uses the same paternalistic justifications for enslavement that slaveholders used to justify their own tyrannical power.
How is that relevant to anything? They were all Democrat states DURING slavery. You don't get to re-write history. This conversation is over.
"complete disregard to the fact that the Democrat party in 2010 is not the Democrat party of the 1850s."
In fact, in regard to fundamentals, they are identical. Both then and now, the Democrats denied Individual Rights from Natural Law, and both believed that if what they wanted was legislated, then that was all that needed to be done to make it 'right', and any consideration for true Rights, was unnecessary and irrelevant.
Such a philosophy does not end well.
Anti-slavery is not progressive, nor is it government intrusive. It is ordained by our creator who through religious teachings conveys that all men are created equal. Such rights are not created by man nor can they be taken away.
Being enslaved by a government that dictates how you should live is a progressive idea…..what is the difference between working on a plantation or working (or not working) on the government's plantation?
Among those present on May 30, 1854, when President Franklin Pierce (D-NH) signed the bill was the person who introduced the bill, Sen. Stephen Douglas (D-IL), who also was a slave holder on his plantation in Mississippi, and the Sec. of War, later the President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis (D-MS). Of course there were many others.
This was also the signified the final split between the Democratic-Republican Party and with the tiff between the progressive and the moderates in the Dems camp, as well as, the conservative and progressive Republicans could there be another party forming?
They have turned sanity on its head, do nothing and get paid, if you provide for a family, run a business or pay your taxes you are responsible for everyone else' stupidity…
We have moved away from a society based on personal merits and achievements toward a society that rewards mediocrity and failure…
I think you are learning. They are indeed unconstitutional. The only reason that people put up with them is that they are promised more than what they have contributed. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme where each generation has to pay for the generation before them. Medicare started out with a projection that it would cost $3 billion dollars.
When you start asking people what they need you will find that they will never have enough to be satisfied. It's like asking someone if they think they are being paid enough for their job.
Would someone please explain to me how, when you get the majority which currently stands at about 60+% to NOT PARTICIPATE in this plan by paying a fine or anything else for that matter, how the government will enforce that?
If we all agree not to pay a damn dime, I see NO WAY that the commies will be able to enforce it.
Am I wrong?
That's the truth!
You must be very young to be so naive. The Socialist Party did not do this to help you they did it to control you. Did you ever ask yourself "If this plan is so great, then why is Congress and the President exempt from it?" If they created this amazing, wonderful plan you'd think they'd want to be a part of it. Wouldn't you?
Something to think about.
"They are indeed unconstitutional."
Just as I thought. Nothing.
No ruling, no citation, nothing, nada, zero, zilch.
You are a moron. They are quite clearly within the bounds of the constitution.
Simply claim to to Amish and you are excempt. This is why it will be deemed unconstitional.
A woeful misreading and misinterpretation of that era of American political history. Unless, of course, the intention was to give a one-sided nationalistic interpretation of American history. If that was the intention, well done. But don't expect approval from states' rights advocates. Thomas Jefferson saw the Missouri Compromise as a perilous step toward disunion and an attack on the rights of the states reserved in the Tenth Amendment. In 1823, he said this about the Missouri Compromise which separated northern from southern states: "The line of division now, is the preservation of State rights, as reserved in the Constitution, or by strained construction of that instrument, to merge all into a consolidated government." In other words, Jefferson saw the Missouri Compromise as a huge, unconstitutional expansion of federal power — a government take-over.
The two nineteenth century politicians you praised, Salmon Chase and Charles Sumner, were nationalists (what Jefferson would call "consolidationists") who gleefully kicked the Tenth Amendment every chance they got.
No IRS agent has ever cured anybody. Not a single one.
What makes them think they're going to help now?
Just look at the Grand Wizard of the US Senate, Robert Byrd…
This will create a massive underground black market for everything they're counting on it to further erode the economy…
The Democrats are the Party of No Future. The Party of Death Panels.
The Party of Exempting their own Senior Staff from Having to Comply with this new Monstrosity of a Law.
Of course, bad laws are for the Little People. But the Democrats get caviar and champagne. Just like Soviet Communists. Even Boris Yeltsin figured that out. The Soviet leaders had dachas and had the good life while the people drove piss-poor cars, lived in awful apartments, stood for hours for food and health care and drowned their sorrows in alcohol.
But the nomenklatura didn't care then. And neither do the Democrats now, nor will they ever.
IT is call the "IRS", with Arm Bands
That's a good point… Anyone know what the fine is exactly? I've heard figures around $350.00 and as high as $250,000.00
They needed 2700+ pages to…
"It's simply not allowing insurers to deny coverage due to a pre existing condition. All done with private insurance. And opening an insurance exchange to expand choice.
You can keep your doctor and you can keep the insurance you have if you so desire. The choice is yours. "
Sorry my BS meter is pinging at 11 right now.
You don't lie, you are just a Useful Idiot.
That issue was solved over a hundred years ago with 600 thousand Americans shedding blood for it. Isn't that too high of a price to pay?
This generation is not theirs. Slavery is not the issue today. Bury it!
Forcing me to buy insurance at the threat of fines and jail time is tyranny. Sicking the IRS on my bank account for failing to comply is tyranny. Forcing the States to pay through the roof for health care expenses no government in their right minds are able to pay for is tyranny. Forcing doctors and hospitals to accept much lower fees for their services under threat of fines is tyranny. Forcing insurance companies – and States and the People – to accept every Tom, Dick and Harry that behave irresponsibly towards their health only to demand coverage as soon as they're in dire straits is tyranny.
The Ninth and Tenth Amendments are quite clear on the powers of the People and the States. That is why 13 states are suing Obamacare as of this moment.
The States know tyranny when they see it and so do the People.
This is spot on reporting. We are seeing history repeat itself by the same bunch of democrats that still don't understand what the word freedom even means. Whether its slavery or socialism-both are absolute enemies of freedom.
I made a new video based on the Beatles Revolution about this,
check out Billyrayband on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/billyrayband
And rifles. Did you see that FedWire request for guns and ammo for the IRS recently? I wonder what they're thinking…
Those smug and arogant people where there to witness the chagning of america today and they all clapped and smiled and shook hands.. plus GENTELMAN JOE dropped the F BOMB and it was caught on camera…
Do your own research, douchebag. Mommy DID get you a "libary" card, didn't she?
I do love your fervor there Kristine,….. this is the second time you have pointed this out here at BG today,……….
Again,…………I sure hope you are a HS teacher
2.5% of your annual income is what I have been hearing for the "1st offense" and then it goes up from there…
The question is when will grandma and grandpa start doing time for not obeying and will they bother to treat their medical needs once incarcerated…
When this starts to happen things will get VERY UGLY in a hurry…
Walla? try "Voila".
The Supreme Court is not infallible.
Teddy Roosevelt: Progressive Democrat – Umm I mean Republican. Good job there slave.
Lincoln was a Radical. So was Jesus.
You show me the citation that makes it legal. The Constitution has been betrayed many times, each time more egregiously than the next. All these rulings have lessened freedom. You may need a government nanny. I don't. Go away, you embarrass yourself and you're too stupid to see it.
"Or if you have a better idea please share."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10441
But what about pre-existing conditions?
A truly effective insurance policy would combine coverage for this year's expenses with the right to buy insurance in the future at a set price. Today, employer-based group coverage provides the former but, crucially, not the latter. A "guaranteed renewable" individual insurance contract is the simplest way to deliver both. Once you sign up, you can keep insurance for life, and your premiums do not rise if you get sicker. Term life insurance, for example, is fully guaranteed renewable. Individual health insurance is mostly so. And insurers are getting more creative. UnitedHealth now lets you buy the right to future insurance—insurance against developing a pre-existing condition.
I wonder where the modern day Harpers Ferry, will be?
Economic civil war: Let the blue states take care of the blue states and let the red states take care of the red states.
We will see soon enough which have the successful model.
Blue States= higher taxes, bigger govt., more welfare recipients, more regulation, less freedom and independence
Red States= lower taxes, smaller govt., fewer welfare recipients, less regulation, more freedom & independence
"today the Democrats are looking out for the rights of the least prividleged in society"
Unborn babies are the least privleged in society. Who is looking out for them? Not the Democrats.
Hey Missy. Until we have a chance to make changes in November, we need to keep pressure on the Senate Republicans to put a stop to further "transformations" of America.
When "health care" passed the senate, the dems had that 60 seat majority. Now they don't.
It's time to draw a line in the sand.
"Look, in a few years the only people that will be on obamacare is sick people, healthy people will just pay the fine, then the Health Insurance companies will have too raise premiums and they can't do that now because it is against the law, then what happens?"
Take a look at Massachusetts.
I believe the end result of obamacare is known as "sovereign default."
That's so he can set himself up as global dictator. Just has to take down America first, then he and his mullahs will be able to rule the world
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