Libs SNEAKING UN-CONSTITUTIONAL MANDATE INTO OBAMACARE BILL!
Desert Conservative published
From the Desk of: Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance
“You will face ONE YEAR in prison for resisting
ObamaCare. It’s part of the massive lies and
distortions designed to hide the real dangers of
ObamaCare. Please see below.” –Steve
Desert Conservative Visitor,
Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee staged two votes on adding the “public option” to the Baucus version of ObamaCare.
I say “staged” because Senate Democrats fully expected both amendments to fail. That was their plan. They want YOU to think that the Senate version of ObamaCare will not include a “public option” and therefore it’s not really a government-run system.
That’s simply a lie–In fact, it couldn’t be further from the truth!
The REAL truth is, ObamaCare with or without the public option is still a massively oppressive and unconstitutional government takeover of our healthcare system, and as citizens we cannot support it!
But it gets worse.
Senate Democrats plan to sneak the public option back in to the final ObamaCare bill when it moves to the Senate floor… when there will be little time for real debate… and no scrutiny of a Committee hearing!
So the votes yesterday were an intentional distortion to get you and I off track — to make us think that ObamaCare is moving to the middle and becoming a bi-partisan bill.
But it gets worse…
This is because as bad as the “public option” is, it isn’t even the most insidious DANGER of ObamaCare.
And what is the most insidious DANGER of the entire ObamaCare scheme? The unprecedented and unconstitutional INDIVIDUAL MANDATE. Here’s why…
+ + The Individual Mandate is UNPRECEDENTED…
According to the Congressional Budget Office:
”A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase
health insurance would be an unprecedented form of
federal action. The government has never required
people to buy any good or service as a condition
of lawful residence in the United States.”
Never before in U.S. History has such a federal mandate been imposed on the people of the United States!
Why? Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional.
Let me say that again…
THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
If the individual mandate is considered a “regulation” then it most certainly is unconstitutional.
Most of the expansion of federal power of the past 90 years has taken place through the Commerce clause of the Constitution. In other words, if some activity impacts “commerce,” Congress claims authority to regulate.
But there is no “commerce” involved in “being” an American! As the CBO so clearly stated, such a mandate on “lawful residence” is unprecedented. That’s because it is clearly unconstitutional!
And here’s where Obama and the Democrats run into trouble because the only way they can justify ObamaCare is to call it a tax instead of a regulation and then claim Congressional authority to tax.
But scholars are saying that this type of tax is likely also unconstitutional. Plus, Obama said he “rejects the notion” that the individual mandate is a tax, fearing his plan will lose more support if it is exposed as a tax increase.
Finally…
+ + The Individual Mandate IS Government Takeover
With or without the so-called “public option”, the Individual Mandate means ObamaCare is a government takeover of healthcare. That’s because the individual mandate gives government control
over the healthcare system by giving the government the authority to FORCE you to comply!
In fact, if you don’t pay the Individual Mandate TAX, you’ll face up to a $25,000 fine or even ONE YEAR IN JAIL!
There is no escaping the government-run ObamaCare system. This is the definition of a government takeover of healthcare!
Here’s what CATO Institute says about the Individual Mandate:
”Simply making health insurance compulsory gives
government as much control over healthcare as
would a compulsory government program.”
So…
We’ve been lied to…
The truth has been distorted…
And the real dangers of ObamaCare (the pubic option and the individual mandate) are alive and well.
If you’re not angry, you might want to check your pulse!
I, for one, am outraged.
And I’m not going to allow the Left to get away with their lies and distortions!
The Senate Finance Committee is still voting. More key votes are just ahead.
Here’s what I’m asking you to do.
Action Item #1 — Fax Your Senators and the Committee Now
Even if you have done so already, we are urging all team members to schedule faxes to their two senators and the key members of the Senate Finance Committee TODAY.
Go here to schedule your faxes:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=21786&CID=122&RID=21999609
We have provided suggested text for your fax that specifically highlights the dangers of the Public Option and the Individual Mandate.
If you prefer to send faxes on your own we’ve done all the work for you. Simply click here to download targets and letters now:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=21787&CID=122&RID=21999609
+ + Action Item #2 — Call Your Two Senators and
Key Committee Members
Also… call your two Senators and tell them you oppose healthcare reform that includes any form of an individual mandate. Urge the Committee members to vote NO:
Sen. Reid 202-224-3542
Sen. Ensign 202-224-6244
Sen. Baucus (Chair): 202-224-2651
Finance Committee: 202-224-4515
We have listed other key Senate Committee phone numbers here:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=21788&CID=122&RID=21999609
Finally…
Please forward this message to your friends and urge them to take action by sending faxes or signing the petition here:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=21792&PID=21999609
We have reached perhaps the most dangerous time in this crucial debate. The Left is executing its deception strategy to perfection. Their plan to sneak the public option into the final bill has already been hatched. And even worse, most conservatives are not yet focusing on the dangers of the individual mandate.
Thanks for taking action,
Steve Elliott, President
Grassfire.org
P.S. My staff is gathering compelling evidence that the healthcare “crisis” is nothing more than a contrivance of Obama and the Left to seize control of one-seventh of the economy!
I’ll be sharing this with you soon.
For now, please take action to expose the distortions of the Left over the “public option” and the dangers of the unconstitutional individual mandate by clicking here:
First of all maybe that’s why the jail in Hardin Mt is being looked at, to house all of us that can’t pay the $25,000 fine. lol. Alot of young people in the US, their starting salary is $25-30 K a year. Second there are going to be plenty of law suits filed. It is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The Dems & Rep are just posturing to make us think they care. They did not hear us on 912. We will need to clean house and get rid of most of them. Obama really thinks he is getting a second term and if he does we will know the elections are rigged. He only won by 7 pts and i think if it had not been for ACORN , he might not have won this one.
Of Course, it is an artificial contrivance to sieze 1/7 of the economy. Also a way to make scared people vote Democratic, Been the Standard Operating Procedure of the Lib Demos for half a century! Create and populirize a “problem”, then make a gov’t agency to “help” it, but it always gets worse, so we have to have more gov’t interferance, to make it better, but it always gets worse, and needs more gov’t money and BUREAUCRACY!
Wait til they get control of the food! Forget about your diet program, won’t need that! You’ll be eating ditch weeds, if you can get there first!
Skinny is good?
This is outrageous, just simply outrageous.
There are very few things that I’m worried about in life, but this bill, this whole bill is set up to change our lives forever. But what’s worse, is it’s going to control us like nothing you’ve ever seen before.
I’ve read most of the bill and I’ve never seen anything put together in such a way as to control every aspect of every inch of our existance. Microchip implants, fines, prison terms for not only refusing the health care, but for refusing to do what they tell you to do is also possible. Regulations on your children, your bodies, your drugs, and your lives. It has gun contol even in it, as well as mandates that will not allow us any choice but to do as they say, or else. It’s awful, and it’s full of disrespect towards the American people.
And it’s all UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
No wonder Congress refuses to have this health care for themselves, they are too good for this garbage. But they sure can dish it out, can’t they? Oh yeah, so easy to not listen to all the people and keep on pushing something they ‘know’ is going to change our lives forever ey?
Why should they care what we think, or want, once it’s gone through, it’s gone through, and they know that as long as they keep us in the dark, we won’t know anything until ‘after’ it’s all over.
This isn’t something to worry about because like so many other things going on, remember, it’s “No big deal” and we’re making more out of it than need be, right? …………………….. WRONG! It’s a very, very big deal, and you won’t know how big until you get your child taken away from you one day when he/she decides that you’re not letting them do as they please. ( oh yes, there is also a part in there that allows a child to tell on their parents, and the case worker can then step in, and decide for you)
Be afraid, be very afraid!
I AM AFRAID THE GOVERNMENT UNDER OBAMA IS A DICTATORSHIP AND SENATOR BAUCUS IS PART OF IT, HOW MUCH IS HE GETTING PAID TO PUT TOGETHER THIS TYPE OF BILL. ARE THERE NO SENATORS IN THIS BODY THAT CAN STICK UP FOR THE PEOPLE, NO REPRESENTATIVES WHO ARE TRUSTWORTHY, I THINK MAY GREG WADELL(SP) OF OREGON IS PRETTY GOOD, HE WAS ON GRETA LAST NIGHT SHOWING HOW BIG THESE BILLS ARE AND CAN’T ANYBODY DO SOMETHING ABOUT HOW UNCONSTITUTIONAL THESE ITEMS ARE??????????//