Posted by petercarney1978 on 5. February 2010
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Supreme Sanction (1999)
IMDB rating: 4.70
Plot: A newspaper reporter (David Dukes) is marked for assassination for his investigation into what happened to some army helicopters that were mysteriously shot down. However, the assassin (Kristy Swanson) cannot pull the trigger when she sees him with his daughter. She then teams up with him to fight the mercenaries (led by Michael Madsen) that are after him. Ron Perlman is the head of the whole organization behind the master plot.
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Directors: Terlesky John
Actors: Madsen Michael,Dukes David,Perlman Ron,Lister Tommy ‘Tiny’,Sapienza Al,Faison Donald,Teo,Green Dannon,Berg D.J.,Manesh Marshall,Hawn Phil,Action,Adventure,Crime,Thriller,
Which of the following 3 ways best describe how Obamacare is unconstitutional?
Choice 1:
First, the Constitution does not give Congress the power to require that Americans purchase health insurance. Congress must be able to point to at least one of its powers listed in the Constitution as the basis of any legislation it passes. None of those powers justifies the individual insurance mandate. Congress’s powers to tax and spend do not apply because the mandate neither taxes nor spends. The only other option is Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce.
Congress has many times stretched this power to the breaking point, exceeding even the expanded version of the commerce power established by the Supreme Court since the Great Depression. It is one thing, however, for Congress to regulate economic activity in which individuals choose to engage; it is another to require that individuals engage in such activity. That is not a difference in degree, but instead a difference in kind. It is a line that Congress has never crossed and the courts have never sanctioned.
Choice 2:
A second constitutional defect of the Reid bill passed in the Senate involves the deals he cut to secure the votes of individual senators. Some of those deals do involve spending programs because they waive certain states’ obligation to contribute to the Medicaid program. This selective spending targeted at certain states runs afoul of the general welfare clause. The welfare it serves is instead very specific and has been dubbed "cash for cloture" because it secured the 60 votes the majority needed to end debate and pass this legislation.
Choice 3:
A third constitutional defect in this ObamaCare legislation is its command that states establish such things as benefit exchanges, which will require state legislation and regulations. This is not a condition for receiving federal funds, which would still leave some kind of choice to the states. No, this legislation requires states to establish these exchanges or says that the Secretary of Health and Human Services will step in and do it for them. It renders states little more than subdivisions of the federal government.
This violates the letter, the spirit, and the interpretation of our federal-state form of government.
America’s founders intended the federal government to have limited powers and that the states have an independent sovereign place in our system of government. The Obama/Reid/Pelosi legislation to take control of the American health-care system is the most sweeping and intrusive federal program ever devised. If the federal government can do this, then it can do anything, and the limits on government power that our liberty requires will be more myth than reality.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424 052748703278604574624021919432770.html
All three are good reasons for SCOTUS to get involved, declare this Unsconstitutional and throw it
the hell out once it is passed.
raymond | Jan 02, 2010
Doesn’t matter. We have the numbers and the power to make it constitutional.
Eduardo Centeno | Jan 02, 2010
All the above
Leigh O | Jan 02, 2010
1st choice
Lkn4trouble | Jan 02, 2010
The government can not force the citizens to purchase anything under the threat of fine or imprisonment.
Dr. Fell | Jan 02, 2010
none of the above.
The government can force you to buy something that improves community safety and protection against spread of re-emerging diseases.
If they can’t, there is nothing in this country that is constitutional especially anything that makes us better than a 3rd world country.
you should probably stay away from opinion in media published by Rupert Murdoch’s companies. Maybe you will stay a little closer to reality.
avail_skillz | Jan 02, 2010
( Eduardo Centeno said: )
"Doesn’t matter. We have the numbers and the power to make it constitutional."
Spoken like a Marxist, and not a patriotic American.
Robespierre, Lenin, Stalin and Hitler would surely agree with you.
To answer the question, I go with Point 2, that exceptions were selectively made to certain states, to buy the votes of Senators on the fence ( Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, my Senator, is one of those you refer to who was bought.)
This is using billions in tax dollars to pay corrupt senators off, to ram through legislation an overwhelming majority of American voters polled DON’T WANT, but the legislation’s passing, amazingly, is being purchased with the dollars of those who oppose it.
(Rasmussen poll: )
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_c ontent/politics/current_events/healthcar e/december_2009/34_favor_single_payer_he alth_care_system
The irony is overwhelming.
Taxation without representation.
The reason we previously had a revolution: an outrageous policy, and arrogance of the elite, that may yet spark another.
Stiffler | Jan 02, 2010
That is why we have courts….first example of this that I remember was under Reagan, states were cut off from all federal highway funds unless they established a maximum 55 mph speed limit. I called it blackmail, my conservative republican parents got all huffy and said no its not he can do that..can he?
ash | Jan 02, 2010
A more simplified version would be to say that the federal government has no power to make people purchase any good or service as a consequence of citizenship.
The equal protection clause will kill Harry Reid’s sweet-heart deals.
The constitution has no provision where the states can be required to pay for an unfunded federal mandate (medicare).
The health insurance reform bill will die.
psychosteve01 | Jan 02, 2010
