Yesterday Justice Ginsberg suggested there was a correlation between the Constitutionality of Social Security to Obamacare. What is the difference between the government's ability to dictate individuals participate in a government ponzi scheme verses a bloated, ineffective government mandate to buy a product in the private market whose prohibitive current cost, otherwise known as the government caused "crisises", is from State government mandates that expanded into covering costs that should be born by the individual.
The private market provides more choices in risk management, costs us less, provides better rate of return, and competition improves performance, choice and patient control and satisfaction.
Social Security was meant to address the need for a safety net yet nothing mentions such a right of the federal government to enact it and force us to participate in it but instead leaves it to the States and the individual to provide charity. Here is Virginia State Delegate Bob Marshal on how FDR strong armed the Court into "making Constitutional" his New Deal programs. http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/supreme_court_to_decide_if_t...
Given how severely underfunded our State and local government pension and healthcare benefits are, I'd submit we should role back growth in benefits in a Chapter 11 of sorts. The steady theft of our benefits and rights by government or crony capitalists and the fraud, waste and abuse that stems from government interference, demands we think again on the "Constitutional" basis of Federal regulation and programs like Social Security and Medicare that were created to provide a safety net.
Here is my speech last Saturday at the US Capitol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXePsejkBYY&feature=youtu.be
Here is Erick Erickson on another leftist dash by Justice Kennedy on the issue of the indiviual mandate. http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/03/28/sinners-in-the-hands-of-an...
The Heritage Foundation has mapped out the four issues confronting the Court. I believe this is an opportunity to rethink Stare Decisis, that prevents us from examining the Constitutionality of programs like Social Security and Medicare and can force "reorganization and privatization" of programs that everyone can generally agree is not in the general welfare and isn't supportable based on the limits of the Federal Government's enumerated powers.
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/25/obamacare-in-the-supreme-court-...
In Liberty,
Lisa Miller
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