Health care for everyone and the 1936 Soviet Constitution

By: American Decency Staff

The news cycle of the last week contained some very frightening tidbits in regards to exactly what our president thinks he has the power to do. Most notably, President Obama, knowing that he could not get his radical choice for a controversial new position confirmed in Congress, ignored the fact that Congress is still officially in session and made a recess appointment – a power originally granted to the president in case of emergencies during the long periods of time that Congress was out of session. Far from trying to slide this egregious action through under the radar, Obama proudly proclaimed, "When Congress refuses to act and as a result hurts our economy and puts people at risk, I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them. I have an obligation to act on behalf of the American people."For a "Constitutional Law professor," our president seems to lack even a rudimentary concept of the separation of powers. He is only one of 536 people the citizens of this country have elected to represent us and the Constitution does not grant him the authority to overrule the other 535. Syndicated radio show host, founder of Landmark Legal Foundation, and Constitutional lawyer Mark Levin does an excellent job of explaining why the president's actions are so troubling. As he states on his radio program, the Mark Levin Show, "Now my friend over at RightScoop(.com) – he reminded me that back in July when the debate was taking place over lifting the debt ceiling, Obama and Schumer and others were conspiring to twist the Fourteenth Amendment and to justify… Obama seizing power on his own to borrow money on the credit of the United States. It's never been done before, that's not what the Fourteenth Amendment says or compels, but they were prepared to do it… Obama is a mastermind… That's not to say he's smarter or wiser – not at all. He's a fraudulent mastermind… For the mastermind, where the Constitution is believed useful to utopian ends – that is to advance this notion of a paradise, a perfect city, a utopia – it will be invoked… Where it is not, under the pretense of legitimate differences of interpretation, it will be abandoned outright or be remade through various doctrinal schemes and administrative evasions. For the mastermind, the Constitution's words are as undeserving of respect as the rest of history. They will be used to muddle and disarrange not inform and clarify. And further more the Constitution's authors, ratifiers, and present day proponents – that would be us – will be dismissed as throwbacks. It will be said that to follow them will be to renounce modernity and progress, and yet to follow the mastermind is to renounce the American founding and heritage. That's what Obama is doing every day. Whether it's the debt limit where he came very close on his own to borrowing money on the credit of the United States – clearly the president doesn't have that power, he's never used it that way – and now where he's making appointments without the advice and consent of the United States Senate. Now he's telling them when they are and are not in recess. He's violating opinions set forth by his own Justice Department and argued by the Deputy Solicitor General of the United States in front of the Supreme Court. In other words, he could care less what the Constitution says, what the statutes require, or what his own Justice Department argued in front of the Supreme Court two years ago. It doesn't matter; he's a mastermind. He's got this whole plan for a model society, paradise, a utopia. Healthcare for everybody! Let me tell you a little secret. There's not going to be healthcare for everybody! Jobs for everybody! There's not going to be jobs for everybody. It's just the way it is. Concentrating and centralizing more power in the hands of a mastermind or masterminds will destroy this country because what they propose time and again is not only impracticable, it's impossible… I want to read to you something all you liberals out there… would agree with – that Americans should have the right to work – that is [be] guaranteed the right to employment and payment for their work in accordance with its quantity and quality, right? The right to rest and leisure – the institution of…  annual vacations with full pay for workers, what do we call this? Family leave, paid? Workers and employees and the provision of a wide network of sanatoria, rest homes and clubs for the accommodation of the working people. Wouldn't that be swell? How 'bout this one? The right to maintenance in old age and also in the case of sickness or loss of capacity to work, you know like universal healthcare? That right is ensured by the extensive development of social insurance of workers and employees at state expense, free medical service for the working people and the provision of a wide network of health resorts, maybe even, for the use of the working people. How about the right to education? Now this right is ensured by universal, compulsory elementary education; by education, including higher education, free of charge; by the system of state stipends for the overwhelming majority of students in the universities and colleges. What do you think about all that? I just read to you from the 1936 Soviet Constitution… Sounds great doesn't it? Not to me, but to you leftists out there. Doesn't it sound like Obama or any other left wing democrat? Quoting, almost, from the old Soviet Constitution. It never worked. They couldn't do these things, and yet they set out to do them. And in setting out to do them what did they create? A police state. A horrific, miserable, destitute police state where the "workers" didn't have all those vacations paid for, where they didn't have all that swell healthcare universally, where most of them were not educated but indoctrinated. The right to work? Sure, you worked, doesn't mean you got paid, but you worked – for the state. Everybody had skin in the game. Radical egalitarianism. You can't have really, really rich people. It's better that we have really, really poor people and as many as possible. Yes, radical egalitarianism…" Levin proves the point effectively. America was never meant to be built around a centralized government that controls every aspect of our lives – from what we learn to where we work to how our health needs are covered. Soviet Russia was founded on that idea. America was founded on the idea that we can take care of ourselves, thank you very much. ============================================= To support our efforts please click here or mail your gift to American Decency Association (ADA), PO Box 202, Fremont, MI 49412. American Decency Association is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.

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