Back in January, I was the first to say to my fellow liberal/ Progressive Friends. that I was willing to give President Obama a chance. I must say as a conservative, I took a LEAP OF FAITH in order to do so. Now after watching the unemployment figures coming from the Labor Department. We now have near 16 million unemployed unofficially and near double digit officially we can now see that not only is this not George Bush’s economy, it has all the markings of a Obama economy. Nothing is working for Obama and as Saturday Night Live Comic skip shows radical liberals are beginning to complain.
The Radical left wanted the “Change” They voted for, from the Gay rights to environmentalist who want to spring backwards to the horse and buggy days, minus the horse.
With a two million people rallying at the mall last month, Obama’s attend to change could effectively put the Congress back into the hands of the Conservatives, and I don’t mean Republicans. The Republicans like Senators Grassley and Olivia Snowe, may find that seats in Jeopardy if they continue to vote in the wrong direction or for that matter any direction at all.
In Missile defense for Eastern Europe Obama has effectually thrown Poland and most of eastern Europe and given it to our adversaries ie Russia. Just after President Obama did so, Iran launch missiles and in doing so, you shown to the eastern Europe how much Obama really care about them! How special!
Now in health care, A friend of mine, wrote to me that i would vote against, let me quote:
“Obviously you are voting against your own best interests.”
Has Liberal progressives abandon President John Kennedy:
"Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.”
For me that simple challenge seems to be forgotten in the Modern Democrat Liberal/Progressive world. The debate over health care seems to be how we can force you to get health care. And for those who do not it seems that the government has come up with a novel approach and that would be to say if you don’t get the Health insurance , we simply going to fine you! In other words force you to do what Government says for what it considers the public good.
The Progressives/Liberal have done would they always do and that is to demonized in order to get what they want and in this health Care. Mind you they are not interested in you health, they are simply more interested in robbing you of your money and in that creates power.
With our current government you just can't "Just Say No!" Or can you, but then the government robs you of your possessions, hauls you off to jail or for that matter fines you. The attribute of coercion that attends all government action is the reason the founders framed the Constitution.
Instead of using power in an engineering sense, let's look at it in terms of political wherewithal to "get things done." Keep in mind that political power, that is government power, only "gets things done" by force.
Think for a minute what the government uniquely brings to the table of any project. Right, that's it: people can breathe and tie their shoes, raise crops, conduct large productive enterprises, take care of themselves and their families, etc. without any coercion whatsoever.
When government inserts itself, it means that someone is pointing a gun at someone else's head(s).
Here's how the Father of Our Country put it:
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a dangerous servant and a fearful master. — George Washington
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people. — Justice William O. Douglas
In other words, the reason for the Constitution is to place a severe restriction on government power, to act as a protection of the people from the excess of that power. Accordingly the document spells out only specific powers to the federal government.
• By the Eighth Amendment, the federal government has no power that is not specifically identified in the Constitution.
• And by the Ninth Amendment, the people have all other rights/powers not specifically acknowledged in the Constitution.
So if the activity ain't in here, the government doesn't have the power to engage in it. Is there a clause in the Constitution granting the federal government a power to fund or authorize a national system of health care? Nope. Not even close. Not even to provide handkerchiefs for runny noses. Historically, some states have assumed an economic role in the broad realm of "health care," but not the feds... at least not Constitutionally.
Lastly, and in conclusion the only way that Progressives/liberals will get their way is by force and nearly the plan seem to go to the nuclear option, in doing so, the Democrats place themselves in jeopardy in the upcoming election in 2010. Obama has indicated that if his agenda thought and only be a one term president he would. But it seems he is so willing to satisfies all of congress to do it. It seems some democrats are willing to to spit in the wind!