Originally Posted By: Fin2Feather
Originally Posted By: Steve Lawson

I go back to the US Constitution and the framers of that sacred document. There are no provisions in there for a national health care system. As I stated previously, I am a strict Consitutionalist, if it ain't in the directions, don't do it.


Don't you think it's a little naive to expect that those drafting the constitution would have anticipated the population growth of the nation, not to mention the all needs of the people, 200+ years into the future?


If I did that for health care, I would also have to consider revisions to the rest of the Document because of changed technology in guns, printing, airwaves, TV, DVD, Music, pornography, photography, transportation, phamachology, illegal drugs,...... on and on and on ad infinitum.

I can see where the Consitution and its ammnedments would be quite a different document if the same authors were writing it today. They did not and we still have the greatest country in the history of the world mostly as a result of that document and those that devised it.

To quote Merle Haggard, ..... "if you don't love it, leave it......." If life is SO much better where you pay 60 to 70% taxes, then why are those countries (Like Cuba, Sweden, and others) not experiencing a HUGE influx of immigration as we are? (and always have?) If Life is SO much better there, why aren't those that profess how much better it is packing their bags?

Last edited by Steve Lawson; 02/20/08 06:26 PM.