Obama Care Passes Redo

Wow! Was I bummed out yesterday. Actually I still am, but feel like I can at least write my own words today. ...For those of you who don't know what "Who is John Galt" means, it's from the book Atlas Shrugged and it's what people said when they were just too frustrated to say anything else.

Anyway, I'm still absolutely gob-smacked over the SCOTUS decision. How could they do such a thing? Forcing people to buy a product or be taxed? That is so un-Constitutional I just don't know what to think. Our founding fathers warned about this kind of thing...specifically saying the general welfare did not mean what progressives have made it into. James Madison, The Father of the Constitution said this:

"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare,
and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare,
they may take the care of religion into their own hands;
they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish
and pay them out of their public treasury;
they may take into their own hands the education of children,
establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union;
they may assume the provision of the poor;
they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads;
in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation
down to the most minute object of police,
would be thrown under the power of Congress.... Were the power
of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for,
it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature
of the limited Government established by the people of America." 

-James Madison 

Our government has morphed into something it was never intended to be...and honestly I'm tired of people saying it's the Democrats or Republicans because it's both of them. For goodness sake look at the policies of all recent presidents and show me any real differences. They all grew the government, they all put new programs into play, they all raised taxes in one way or another; especially as unfunded mandates sent down to the states. Sure the states have to do the taxing, but it's the Federal Government who makes it so. America has been faltering for years and this is the last nail in the coffin. When the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court says, "‘it’s not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices," we must say, "huh?" That is EXACTLY what the court is supposed to do...uphold the rule of law over the mob. 

We have become Ancient Rome. Like the Caesars of old, our leaders redistribute wealth (mostly to their pockets and their friend's pockets, but also enough to the people to make them slaves to their "benevolence".) Too many citizens and non citizens in America have become slaves to the system; whether through social security, medicare, medicaid, food stamps, etc. they will give their vote to the party that gives them the most for no work. The problem with taxing the rich is that eventually the rich run out of money or quit making it to just give it away. Again, The Father of the Constitution, James Madison, said it best:

“…[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
-James Madison

 Charity and caring for the poor and needy is supposed to be the business of the church, synogog, neighborhood, community, or individuals not the government. While I find it disgusting that there are a few people (very few people) who don't choose to use their excess money to help those in need, it's  not my place to make them. Generosity should come from the heart and people who feel that they have the right to take from those better off are guilty of breaking the Ten Commandments...remember "Thou shall not covet" and "Thou shall not steal"? If only we, as a people, could learn to be happy with what we have: A little or a lot. 

In most countries of the world the standard of living of the upper middle class is worse than the poorest, even the homeless, in America. We have stopped counting our blessings because instead of looking to God for our strength we look to our government--a thing so corrupt and ruined that it seems pretty impossible to bring it back. America was set up with three branches of government to check the other two...but now the Congress had given absolute power to the President and the Supreme Court has given absolute power to the Congress so we are left with a dictator in Chief and king of sorts. We have gone from Monarch to Free Republic to Monarch within a span of 200 years. What a waste. ...does anyone really believe King Romney is going to be that much better?

Pray; Stand for the truth; Resist the lies; Fight the good fight!

Blessings and love!