The End of US Democracy

Well people it seems that the House and Senate have not read the Constitution NOR the Bill of Rights! Where in the Constitution does it say the government has a RIGHT to DICTATE to you? Thats exactly what they are doing by FORCING you with fines and jail time if you DON'T buy health insurance from a PRIVATE company[s] of THEIR choosing. Well there is plenty in the Constitution that says WE can do something about it, but will we? I doubt it! Listen to another embarrassment from California explain the reason for their abhorrent governing and RIGHT to FORCE mandates on an UNWILLING people;
Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) said that Congress has the authority to mandate that people buy health insurance and that there is no constitutional limit on Congress’ power to enact such mandates, adding that this unlimited authority stemmed from the Commerce clause of the Constitution. The health care bills in both the House and Senate require that every American purchase a health insurance policy. At the Capitol on Tuesday, CNSNews.com asked Sen. Feinstein: “Where in the Constitution does Congress get the authority for an individual health insurance mandate?”

Feinstein said: “Well, I would assume it would be in the Commerce clause of the Constitution. That’s how Congress legislates all kinds of various programs.”
 CNSNews.com followed up by asking Sen. Feinstein whether this broad power had any limits: “If there’s a health insurance mandate, is there a limit to that authority? Is there something that can’t be mandated?”
Feinstein responded: “My own view is that there is not, within health insurance.”
 The Commerce clause is found in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. It states the numerous powers authorized to Congress, including the power “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among several States, and with the Indian tribes.”
 The Senate version of health reform imposes an historic mandate on all Americans, requiring them to have government-approved health insurance, either through an employer or individually. The mandate also can penalize people with a surtax ranging from $500 to nearly $1,500 per year if they do not have a health insurance policy. The bill, which looks certain to pass the Senate sometime on Christmas Eve, is unpopular with the public, garnering the support of barely 40 percent of Americans, according to recent national polls. Those numbers led Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele to accuse Congress of “flipping the bird” to the American people. “This is a bad bill, it is bad, certainly for individuals and enough is enough,” Steele said in a conference call on Monday. “I am tired of Congress thumbing its nose and flipping a bird to the American people. I’m tired of this Congress thinking it knows better than me and my family how to provide for our health care now and in the future. I’m tired of this Congress not listening to me and to the American people – to all of us.”
 In 1994, when the Clinton administration attempted to push a health care reform plan through a Democratic Congress that also mandated every American buy health insurance, the Congressional Budget Office determined that the government had never ordered Americans to buy anything.  “The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States,” the CBO analysis said. “An individual mandate would have two features that, in combination, would make it unique. First, it would impose a duty on individuals as members of society. Second, it would require people to purchase a specific service that would be heavily regulated by the federal government.”
 In fact, the Declaration of Independence provides the basis for the states to dissolve the Federal government and reconstitute a Constitutional Republic. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." http://64.203.107.114/histdocs/declaration_of_independence.asp
"With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." James Madison in a letter to James Robertson (1831-04-20) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Madison
 We need a new American Revolution. We may be able to accomplish this without firing a shot. What has to happen is the states have to call a Constitutional Convention to repeal the 16th Amendment that established the income tax. The states have to approve the Amendment after the Convention is done, so the scare stories of a "runaway Convention" are total baloney. After we take away the Federal Government's taxing powers, the states tell them to go jump in the lake for all laws outside the strictly limited powers granted to them by the U.S. Constitution. They may point to the "General Welfare" provision, so the states will point to the 10th Amendment as well as the writings of James Madison. To wit: Amendment 10 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. http://64.203.107.114/histdocs/constitution/
 It is apparent to the most causal observer that this idiot has not only not read the Constitution, but the Bill of Rights either. She like the majority of congress believe in dictatorship as the prefered system of government. It is time to throw them out of office now! Why do you think our founders put the Second Amendent in the Bill of Rights?
Well America, here is what your apathy has gotten you! You are one step closer to socio-facist rule and our country and eventually world government. Watch what comes our way next year after healthcare.
 Obama and his Legion of Demons, which include, not only the House and Senate, but all of his Appointees, have done nothing except go against the will of the American People! If this continues into 2010, then I have to agree with Moronpolitics comment: Forcing people to buy something simply because they are alive isn't "regulating" anything. This is wide open no holds barred tyranny. The tree of liberty is best watered with the blood of tyrants.