This Week in Washington: 6/15/09

The Heritage Foundation's This Week in Washington Video discusses three major issues: the explosion of government control of private enterprise with the takeover of General Motors; the federal takeover of private health care with the proposed Ted Kennedy health care bill; and the impact of the national energy tax on farmers.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• General Motors
• Chrysler
• government ownership
• private ownership
• private health care
• health care
• Senator Ted Kennedy

[Nickk361]

Thanks for your videos Heritage. Keep them coming. This administration scares the hell out of me.

[sixletter]

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe, while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)

[aliunde]

The Founders, while not generally sectarians, certainly held Christian values. They often had harsh views towards many sectarians of their day, however--views that lead to the commonly mistaken belief that they were deists. It was certainly Christian ideals to which they appealed as the foundation of the nation's values. If the majority's values are informed primarily by one religion, those values will no doubt be reflected in government policy and its laws consistent with the Constitution.

[iloveterriers]

Okay, but does the Supreme Being have to be a certain religion's ideal or can it be any Supreme Being? If this is to be fair, then it should not focus on any one religion.

[aliunde]

Why? The founders viewed religion as being essential to success of the American experiment and Constitution. The Constitution ensures the inclusion of religion in the marketplace of ideas. The only restriction placed by the Constitution is that Congress would pass no LAW respecting an establishment of religion; i.e., setting up a state religion as had been done in all the countries of Europe. Our founding documents presuppose the existence of a Supreme Being for our rights.

[SigalaSigala]

Let Mary Jo's family drive him over a bridge.

[iloveterriers]

I agree with many of your points, but when I saw your website, it has all these obsessive articles about Judeo-Christian God. That's always disappointing to me because to me there is a hidden agenda behind this. Leave religion out of government.

[CMK227CR]

Guys just joined the heritage as a young president member. Please encourage more people to the channel or join the organization. Thanks,

[QuartuvLarry]

Well...some of us don't ACTIVELY wish ill of Tumor Kennedy ALL the time. Only between meals and snack times.

[truthsabre7]

There is a train of disaster coming and no one can stop it.

[DesertLaser]

I dislike socialism more than most, but it's wrong to wish ill health upon another.