Jesse Jackson Jr Town Hall Video 8

Jesse Jackson Jr answers questions about 1) whether health care is a commodity (rights) and 2) the tenth amendment.

Several commenters were confused about the constitution. The authority for the federal government to legislate health care comes from Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the constitution: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution

The "voting rights act" that Rep. Jackson refers to is not the 15th Amendment of 1870, but the National Voting Rights Act of 1965 that "outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act

Town hall meeting on HR 3200
Chicago, 8-18-09.

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[grwk1232000]

I Have the right to health care, just like I have the right to own a gun. I also have the responsibility to provide them to myself. I don't expect the government to flip the bill for either of them. May he should change his name to Jesse Jack Ass Jr.

[grwk1232000]

The 10th amendment has nothing to do with voting rights. Voting rights are protected by the 15th amendment. If this jack ass wants national health care then maybe he should propose an amendment to the constitution. 2/3 house, 2/3 senate, 2/3 of the states can get it done. Just like they did for the 15th. I'm pretty sure this idiot has not read the constitution. I learned this stuff in the 5th grade.

[dogmatist]

..And if Jesse Jackson, jr. knew the definition of "commodity", he would surely want health care to be a commodity. Just because peanuts and corn are examples of commodities, doesn't mean that all commodities have to be worthless. A commodity is simply a good that used to be rare and expensive and is now readily available and affordable. It disgusts me knowing that jackass jr is actually an elected official..

[dogmatist]

"conservatives" argue that the right to bear arms is a right? Of course, they do. It's in the constitution. Providing healthcare is not mentioned. And another thing, just because we have the right to bear arms does not mean that the government buys guns for us. We do have the right to healthcare, but that's only because we live in a free market system where hospitals and doctors have the economic incentives to treat patients.

[nwhwy]

I have a right to a new Buick with mud flaps! I have a right to a yellow pimp suit! I have a right to talk like a queer! I have a right to buy Obamas senate seat! I have a right to blackmail Budwieser like my ADULTERER father. I will threaten a boycott unless they give my son a distributorship! Like my father did!

[klim8hokes]

Attention Liberals!!!

A call to arms!!

This is clearly a political speech given in a....(GASP)....CHURCH!!!

[klim8hokes]

THAT apple didn't fall far from the crooked tree...

[AwakenAmerica]

3 of the purposes for which they may raise money." --Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1817. ME 15:133

etc.

[AwakenAmerica]

2

"Our tenet ever was... that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated, and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action; consequently, that the specification of powers is a limitation

[AwakenAmerica]

"This phrase,... by a mere grammatical quibble, has countenanced the General Government in a claim of universal power. For in the phrase, 'to lay taxes, to pay the debts and provide for the general welfare,' it is a mere question of syntax, whether the two last infinitives are governed by the first or are distinct and coordinate powers; a question unequivocally decided by the exact definition of powers immediately following." --Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1817. ME 15:133

[DarkMonkArt]

and can't pay for ether

[DarkMonkArt]

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