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By Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent 3/10/09
James Madison was not specifically contemplating Barack Obama, or Nancy Pelosi, when he wrote Federalist No. 63. But reading the document — one of the seminal arguments in favor of adopting the U.S. Constitution — it’s clear Madison knew their type. And he knew they would come along again and again in American history, if Americans were lucky enough to have a long history.
Obama and Pelosi, along with their most ardent supporters, are the types to see a crisis, like our current economic mess, as a “great opportunity,” as the president put it last Saturday. They are the types, after a long period out of power, to attempt to use that “great opportunity” to push through far-reaching changes in national policy that had only a tangential connection, if at all, to the crisis at hand. And they are the types the Founding Fathers wanted to stop.
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So 41 people should make the sole decision as to what constitutes a crisis? And it is their job to protect the people from...uh...ourselves? Wow! Where were they before the fit hit the shan? Oh, yeah, that's right. They were creating the very laws that caused this mess.
And education isn't in crisis? That's a new one on me. I guess these 41 people know better than the other 300 million about what constitutes a crisis. Tell someone who can't afford to see a doctor (with or without health insurance) that health care isn't a crisis. Tell all the corporations that are financially strained by the costs of health care benefits that health care isn't a crisis. I think "we the people" know a crisis when we're living it.
Actually, Madison and his friends were quite content to have 26 people help make those decisions since there were only 13 states with 2 senators each.
Perhaps if senators were still chosen the way they were meant to be, we wouldn't be in this mess.
And who decided it was a corporation's job to "provide" health care benefits??
Where, in the Constitution, is the "right" to health care??
If everyone had to pay the actual cost of their insurance or health care, those costs would be controlled a million times better than with the current system because people would use medical care more wisely and they would scream at all of the fraud and abuse that is enabled by insurance companies and medicaid/medicare...
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