Posted by
Roxanna M. on Friday, October 08, 2010 10:47:13 AM
Clinton appointee George Caram Steeh, a federal judge in Michigan, has secured his placed in history . . . which was his sole aim. His is the first court to say that, yes, forcing Americans to buy health insurance is constitutional. The tired old argument is that congress can do this because of its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. Steeh said this power covers not just "economic activity" but "economic decisions" as well.
Think about your every day activities and how many of them are "economic decisions." According to this unelected, unaccountable nobody from nowhere, congress has the power to regulate those "economic decisions." Where does this power end?
What if congress decreed that you had to purchase a new refrigerator one year, a new washer and dryer the next, a new dishwasher the next, and on and on it goes. What if congress decreed that you had to completely replace your wardrobe every 3 years and buy a new car every 5 years.
What if, one day, congress decrees that America's declining birth rate is hurting "economic activity," therefore, all families will have 2 children? How about 3?
If Mr. Steeh had really been interested in the Constitution, he would have read Article I, Section 7 which states that ALL bills for raising revenue SHALL originate in the House of Representatives. He would then have noted that this bill arose in the senate (Max Baucus claims to have written, but not read, it), passed first in the senate, and then passed in the house, exactly backwards from the Constitution.
But, never stand in the way of someone trying to see his name in print.
There is no question that all of these cases will end up in the Supreme Court. But, don't expect good news from that quarter. The United States Supreme Court is, after all, the court that said the state can take your property away from you if it has a better use for it than you do.
Still think America is the land of the free?