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The Constitution gives the

DF — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:08:21 +0000

The Constitution gives the government the power to tax and regulate business and to operate administrative entities. That's all that's required. Your argument is precisely the one that doesn't understand what the Constitution is and does.

It shouldn't be hard to

Cartman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:02:58 +0000

In reply to Most of the debate coming

It shouldn't be hard to understand that the constitution does NOT give government the right to take over private businesses at will, or that the constitution does NOT give the federal government the right to run the healthcare industry in America.

The constitution was written to LIMIT government, as the Founding Fathers of America knew that only by limiting government could they allow the INDIVIDUAL freedom they intended each American to enjoy.

Most of the debate coming

Orlando — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:15:42 +0000

In reply to I guess that's really my

Most of the debate coming from the right over the past 30 years is fundamentally disingenuous. They can't win on the merits of their arguments, so they attempt to win on the spin. Seventy percent of the country supports health care reform and the Republicans are threatening that Dems from conservative districts will face problems for voting yea. It's mind-boggling. Conservative Dems should vote yea, and then get t-shirts, billboards, commercials, and tattoos announcing their votes. Instead, they believe the spin and they are scared. Idiots.

I guess that's really my

DF — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:59:09 +0000

In reply to Suspend logic for just a

I guess that's really my point. The debate is fundamentally disingenuous, just as the debate about the "free market" is. These aren't really questions of state or no and regulation or no, but that frame is decidedly beneficial to one side of the argument.

Suspend logic for just a

Orlando — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:45:35 +0000

In reply to You Can't Hate Government and Love the Constitution

Suspend logic for just a second and understand that these people of whom you speak support the state when their people are running it. It's only un-Constitutional to make laws when their opponents are running things. I call it "The Toddler Principle."

You sound like one of those

Nebton — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:32:49 +0000

In reply to You Can't Hate Government and Love the Constitution

You sound like one of those close-minded Western thinkers who believe in the Law of Excluded Middle. Something's either true or it's not true. Well, sometimes something is both true and not true. Light is both a wave and not a wave. It's both a particle and not a particle. I can hate the idea of government while loving the idea of government. It's really not a hard concept. If you have to ask me how this is possible, then you have not yet opened your mind to Zen.

This should help: what is the sound of one Republican in the forest if no one is there?