Democratic Congress: Dishonest & Proud of it!

As another poke in the eye to the American people, Last night, as part of a procedural vote on the emergency war supplemental bill, House Democrats attached a document that "deemed as passed" a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget. The execution of the "deeming" document allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the pesky constraints of a budget.

The procedural vote passed 215-210 with no Republicans voting in favor and 38 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against deeming the faux budget resolution passed.

Never before -- since the creation of the Congressional budget process -- has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose a budget then deemed the non-existent budget as passed as a means to avoid a direct, recorded vote on a budget, but still allow Congress to spend taxpayer money. Read it all

here.

On today, this 4th of July, the 234th birthday of this country of Freedom, Liberty, and Independence, we should reflect on these words from the Declaration of Independence;

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security

Remember the Declaration of Independence!

In the Obamanation of Healthcare Reform, here is some of the most reprehensible language ever inserted into the most reprehensible bill ever passed by congress, Healthcare 2009.

What Harry Reid and the Democrats have set up is Senate procedural language that will make it nearly impossible for this legislation to be rolled back, if We The People decide at a later date we do not want this.

Ladies and Gentlemen: I don't say this lightly, but what do a sovereign People do when a government works against them at every turn, putting the interests of the government above the interests of the people?

Have you every read this document? It's called the Declaration of Independence.

In particular, let me draw your attention to these two parts of the document:

Part One: [When] in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation

Conservatives through many means (none violent by the way) have been making this case over the last 15 months.

Part Two: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government

What does that language mean for us today? I don't exactly know. But here is my fear: we are on a trajectory toward marxist totalitarianism. We know from history where this leads. Will those in this country who treasure freedom, liberty, and the American Way allow us to be led into the slaughterhouse of Marxism, much as the Jews were led into the ovens at Auschwitz? I don't think so.

Part 2. America: Is healthcare a right?

In America, is healthcare a right?

What is a Right? Let's focus on Natural rights and Legal rights.
Natural rights are those described in the Declaration of Independence. They include Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. These rights are inalienable (no one has a superior claim) and do not consume any resources to grant.

The Constitution of the United States grants rights to Americans such as Freedom of Worship and the Right to Bear Arms. Again, these rights consume no resources to grant to mankind.

The other catagory of Rights mentioned above are Legal Rights. These are rights that are granted by legislative or similar efforts. They need not be universal, ie, they can be granted to select classes of people. In this and many other ways, they differ significantly from Natural Rights.

Where does healthcare fall in this segmentation of rights? We will examine that next.