Comments on: Healthcare Freedom or Healthcare Bureaucracy? http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2009/11/30/healthcare-freedom-or-healthcare-bureaucracy/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Highlander http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2009/11/30/healthcare-freedom-or-healthcare-bureaucracy/#comment-19808 Highlander Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:49:58 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/?p=2395#comment-19808 Word of wisdom and knowledge regarding the matter: . “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816 ——— "Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated." - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Albert Gallatin, 1817. From: "Constitutional Limitations on Government" ——— "I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit." - President Grover Cleveland vetoing a bill for charity relief (18 Congressional Record 1875.[1877] ——— . "I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.[To approve the measure] would be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded." - President Franklin Pierce's 1854 veto of a measure to help the mentally ill. ——— . In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, . "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." . - James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794) ——— . James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, elaborated upon this limitation in a letter to James Robertson: "With respect to the two words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. If the words obtained so readily a place in the "Articles of Confederation," and received so little notice in their admission into the present Constitution, and retained for so long a time a silent place in both, the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything, had the former meaning taken for granted." ~ James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, elaborated upon this limitation in a letter to James Robertson ~ Word of wisdom and knowledge regarding the matter:
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“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816

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“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”

- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Albert Gallatin, 1817.

From: “Constitutional Limitations on Government”

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“I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.”

- President Grover Cleveland vetoing a bill for charity relief (18 Congressional Record 1875.[1877]
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“I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.[To approve the measure] would be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.”

- President Franklin Pierce’s 1854 veto of a measure to help the mentally ill.
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In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying,
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“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
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- James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)
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James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, elaborated upon this limitation in a letter to James Robertson:

“With respect to the two words “general welfare,” I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. If the words obtained so readily a place in the “Articles of Confederation,” and received so little notice in their admission into the present Constitution, and retained for so long a time a silent place in both, the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything, had the former meaning taken for granted.”

~ James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, elaborated upon this limitation in a letter to James Robertson ~

]]> By: KBCraig http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2009/11/30/healthcare-freedom-or-healthcare-bureaucracy/#comment-19807 KBCraig Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:06:44 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/?p=2395#comment-19807 I clicked on the ad saying Mike Ross "betrayed Democrats". Maybe it earned you a nickel, and cost the progressives some money. ;-) I clicked on the ad saying Mike Ross “betrayed Democrats”. Maybe it earned you a nickel, and cost the progressives some money. ;-)

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