President Obama is the most promising president since President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Roosevelt introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program with the following promises:
1) Participation in the program would be completely voluntary.
2) Participants would only pay 1% of the first $1,400 of annual income into the program.
3) “Contributions” paid into the program would be deductible from their yearly income tax.
4) The contributions would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program.
5) The annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.
Every one of these promises has been broken. Roosevelt was the initiator of the entitlement mentality which subsequent Congresses have used to buy votes all the while speeding our country into bankruptcy.
Obama has been compared by supporters to FDR…a valid comparison. Faced with an economic crisis Obama is seeking to expand the power of the Federal government to an unprecedented extent…arguably an unconstitutional extent.
FDR used the 5 promises listed above to sell FICA to us. Obama has also made promises to us to sell Health Care Reform.
1) He would not back any proposal that would prevent Americans who are currently insured from keeping that insurance. But the bill developed in Congress creates a new government board that mandates the kinds of health insurance plans that employers can offer and Americans can buy. Since the mandated level of insurance required by the bill is already higher than the level of insurance many businesses are able to provide for their workers, many Americans will in fact lose the health insurance that they currently have.
2) He would not back any proposal that would raise taxes on families with incomes below $250,000 a year. But every American who loses their current insurance provided through their employer would be forced to buy the government-sanctioned insurance or pay a tax penalty. If you have private insurance that is not “acceptable” to the “Health Choices Administrator” appointed by Obama, there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a “tax” instead of a fine to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th amendment. However, that doesn’t work because there being nothing in the bill allowing you to contest or appeal the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without due process of law.
3) His reform would not add to the federal deficit but would even lower the cost of healthcare over the long run. Doug Elmendorf, director of the non-partisan CBO, estimates that the House bill would add $239 billion to the federal deficit over the next 10 years. If CBO estimates are anything like they have been in the past for large spending bills, the real cost will be at least 10 times this estimate.
This proposed bill has no real intention of providing affordable health care choices. It is a convenient cover for the greatest transfer of power to the Executive Branch in our history. With this bill major portions of the Constitution will effectively be destroyed, particularly the masterfully designed balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the Federal government. Congress will be ceding to the Obama administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people and the businesses they own. Ironically, Congress has no constitutional authority to legislate in those areas in the first place. There is nothing in the Constitution granting Congress authority to regulate health care.
This proposed bill provides access by Obama appointees to all of your personal health care and financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this directly violates specific provisions of the 4th Amendment protecting us from unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also scratch your right to privacy.
There are also those pesky 9th and 10th Amendments so abhorrent to the far left that are effectively nullified by this bill. The 9th provides, “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” The 10th provides, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Under this bill, neither the people nor the States are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to control.
This health care reform legislation as proposed is not about health care. It is all about seizing power from the people and limiting individual rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires our federal legislators to “be bound by oath or affirmation” to support the Constitution. If I were a member of Congress, I would not be able to vote for this legislation without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I did I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.
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