Obamacare Mandate Upheld – Roberts Expands Government’s Role in Our Lives!

Obamacare Mandate Upheld – Roberts Expands Government’s Role in Our Lives!

by Leon Howard

I am certain you have all heard about the Supreme Court’s decision that allows the Obamacare mandate to stand as “Constitutional” with Chief Justice John Roberts the swing vote in the 5 – 4 decision!

Mr. Obama and his minions in Congress kept telling us it wasn’t a tax but, instead, was a “fine” if you chose not to buy health insurance but Roberts, writing the majority opinion, said it was a tax and Congress was allowed to tax.

I find 2 problems with this “logic”: (1) Changing the language of the law by the court sounds like the justices are ‘legislating from the bench’ and (2) I thought the court had decided on numerous cases that it was improper to levy a ‘penalty tax’ against a segment of the People. We are all familiar with a ‘sin tax’ on alcohol and tobacco but that is levied against products; not people!

Ever since Bush appointed Roberts, I have had uneasy feelings about him because I could not “read” him or his philosophy but today he proved he is a big government man and has no problem aiding the federal government from overreach!

Thomas Jefferson warned us against a runaway judiciary and when you look at the Supreme Court’s record since the War Between the States, it has been decisions to help the power of a central government to grow! The Court has proven, once again, they will not base their decisions on “original intent” but on their own interpretation! With the court’s “help”, they have been ‘amending the Constitution’ through judicial meddling!

I would have thought Justice Kennedy would be the “swing” vote, if there was one but Kennedy wrote the minority opinion and he called the entire Affordable Healthcare Act unconstitutional. Justice Kennedy said he wouldn’t retire until Obama was out of office – Hopefully, that will occur this November!

All three branches of government have forgotten that the Constitution is a Contract between the government and the governed – That is us! – That is We, the People! And it is not just one party that has forgotten this fact; both parties are complicit and are making the People obsolete and expendable! Instead of a system of “checks and balances”, they have become a giant cabal against the People and we may never be able to turn this freight train away from the financial and slavery cliff these two parties are rushing to!

Through our apathy, they have managed to put 47% of the People on the federal payroll through all this damned entitlements! How do we end these entitlements without starting a civil war? Is it possible or are we going to have to recreate the nation our founding fathers created?

Obamacare is just the tip of the iceberg but it must be the rallying point for the Tea Party movement, once again!

It is time to get angry and tell D.C., “Not just NO but HELL NO!!”