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From: sc@00.ter
RichTravsky wrote:
> Devils_Advocate wrote:
>> Bert Hyman wrote :
>>> Advocate" wrote:
>>>
>>>> At Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Oct. 29th 2009 press conference, a CNS News
>>>> reporter asked, "Madam Speaker, where specifically does the
>>>> Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual
>>>> health insurance mandate?"
>>>>
>>>> Speaker Pelosi responded, "Are you serious? Are you serious?"
>>> I didn't hear the exchange, so I don't know what, if anything, Pelosi
>>> said to support her outburst.
>> She didn't, she just blew him off and went on to the next question.
>
> She couldn't believe he was that stupid.
>
Are you channeling the botox queen now travesty?
>>> But politicians of both parties sincerely believe that two clauses in
>>> the US Constitution give them the power to do any damned thing they
>>> want.
>>>
>>> The first:
>>>
>>> "The Congress shall have Power To ... provide for the ... general
>>> Welfare of the United States; ..."
>> But they didn't have welfare back then, in the form we know it today.
>>
>> "I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing
>> good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or
>> driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions
>> were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of
>> course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them,
>> the more they did for themselves, and became richer." - Benjamin
>> Franklin
>
> Of course, back then medical care was rather primitive...
So was communication technology.
Do us a favor, drop dead.
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