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Why Obamacare is wrong; the Sockdolager

May 8, 2010 | congress, obama, obamacare

I think that one of the big differences between the Left and the Right is that the Left feels that the people have to be controlled, whereas the Right feels it is the government that needs to be controlled.

Davy Crockett, in his famous Sockdolager, had a dialoge with one of his constituents…

” ‘No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity. Individual (Congress) members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this county as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of Congress would have thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing each one week’s pay, it would have made over $13,000. There are plenty of wealthy men in and around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life. The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt applauded you for relieving them from the necessity of giving by giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution.’ “

Obama did not just happen! For over two generations, mainstream Americans have been bombarded with a three pronged challenge to the continuity of their values, culture & identity. These have included the absurd, yet oft repeated lie, of an equality of human potential; a direct attack on the ethnic pride & identity of mainstream Americans as unique peoples–coupled with the pretense that they are somehow guilty of causing most of the earth’s problems;–and the promotion of a Utilitarian view of Government, which imagines that despite a written Constitution–precisely intended to prevent such misuse of power–the Government has whatever power a majority desire it to have, to address any and all problems of unhappy individuals.