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Letter to the President on Congressional Mandates

September 23, 2009

Dear President Obama:                                                      

I am most distressed that the House and Senate seem hell bent on putting you into the very embarrassing position of either signing into law a clearly unconstitutional measure or rejecting the Democratic Party’s basic orientation.  I have written Speaker Pelosi about this, but she is very busy and has not advised me she has taken action on it.  Perhaps you can prevail on her and Senator Reid to stop while the issue is merely a potential, rather than a real, problem.

I write, of course, about the thrust to REQUIRE purchase of health insurance.  Such an undignified mandate is not worthy of a government of free men, but is, rather, one suited to the governing of slaves and subjects.  I see no power under Article I Section 8 of the Constitution authorizing the Congress to do any such thing.  That is one facet of the problem.  The more troubling facet is that if the usurpers actually exercise this unconstitutional power then all of the following items can also be mandated by the Congress.

  1. They can require everyone to purchase long term care insurance
  2. They can require everyone to purchase whole life burial insurance
  3. They can require everyone to purchase dental insurance
  4. They can require everyone to purchase vision insurance
  5. They can require everyone to buy and, by extension, take vitamins
  6. They can require everyone to buy and take statin drugs
  7. They can require everyone to buy and use a gym membership
  8. They can require everyone to buy only cars that have certain safety features (Oh, wait.  They already do that.)
  9. They can require sterilizations of women over 40.
  10. They can require the aborting of fetuses with detected birth defects
  11. They can require everyone to not smoke tobacco
  12. They can require everyone to not drink alcohol
  13. They can require everyone to buy a bicycle and use it for trips of less than 10 miles
  14. They can require everyone to not eat red mea

And, by extension, very important item

  • They can require no medical treatment of persons without health insurance even if such persons can pay for it themselves!

Please, sir, intervene to save us from the tyranny of the majority.  I do not use the word “tyranny” imprecisely.  Tyranny is “arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.”

Sincerely,

Richard Spalding

cc: Senator Bill Nelson, Senator George LeMeuix, Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas, Speaker Nanci Pelosi, The Washington Post, The Orlando Sentinel

 

  
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