Scott Brown Letter to the Editor

[Bob McCorry]

Scott Brown letter to the editor
I hope you all are paying attention to what is going on in Washington. Our Senators and Congressmen are spending money like madmen. With bail-outs, buy-outs, takeovers, cash for clunkers, stimulus packages, and healthcare for all, the Democrats in Congress are in an out-of-control spending frenzy. The four Democrats running in the December 8th special election primary for the US Senate are all just a rubber stamp for the chicanery now going on in Washington.

I am concerned the irresponsible national debt will negatively affect the lives of our children and grandchildren. They will be the ones paying off this enormous debt. Bigger government and more money is not the answer to every problem. If they cut our taxes by the same amount the government has already spent, the economy would be in much better shape and more people would be back to work.

I will be voting in the Wakefield primary on December 8th. I will take a Republican ballot and vote for State Senator Scott Brown. He says taxes, already too high, will go even higher if Democrats in Congress continue with their out-of-control spending. He also says “the historic amount of debt we’re passing on to our children and grandchildren is immoral.” We need real change in Washington and Scott Brown’s election will be the first step in the right direction.

[1stRichard]

You forgot healthcare, yes we need to control cost but some are ignorantly forgetting that this bill has do with entitlements and not cost saving. How can they say it cut costs but costs over a trillion, which is ludicrous. This is not about saving lives as much, but some are using that as an argument, it is fear mongering, farcical and not rational by any measure. Insurance companies are not Hospitals and Hospitals never refuse treatment when it comes to someone’s life. Many are making totally false claims from liberal propaganda. A good number health insurance companies are non-profit and those that are not have a profit margin of about two percent. Who is making big profits are the big pharmaceutical companies whose lobbyists have already cut some back door deals with the democrats in this. Stipulations like pre-existing conditions are there because there are no open markets, interstate commerce is prohibited because of liberals. The liberals fight interstate commerce because of health insurance mandates like sex change operations, MA has over 100 driving up the cost. Some say tax the rich for healthcare but this is nonsense. On federal income taxes, top 5% pay 53.25% of all income taxes, the top 10% pay 64.89%, the top 25% pay 82.9%, the top 50% pay 96.03% and the bottom 50%, they pay a paltry 3.97% of all income taxes. Please do not go on about the ridicules argument of tax the rich, we do and it is right from the communist manifesto. Yes, we need healthcare reform but not what is being proposed that has an approval in the thirties.

However, is healthcare Constitutional, Healthcare is not listed in the Enumerated powers Article I, Section 8. Some argue the general welfare but this is the heading Article I, Section 8 and not an Enumerated Power. Some argue the commerce clause but is your body interstate commerce? Some argue the 14th Amendment would lead to a crazy slope where you could say everyone should have the exact same everything. Arguing common Defense would be almost impossible to pass Necessary and Proper.

We have separation of powers for a reason and it was so drafted in to the framework of our government. It also separated the costs, the federal government provides national defense and must never get in to national entitlements to the few. This separation made us the strongest nation in the world, even if the federal government collapsed the local governments could survive. The federal government has limited enumerated powers and the remainder and majority of power went to the states but mostly to the people, the individual. Our schools, local police and fire, all the essential services belong to and directly funded by the states but mostly to the people, the individual. Now we have the federal government entitlements competing with the national defense of the country, so noted they are talking a war tax now. Do you really want your healthcare competing with the national defense of the country? Do you really want your schools, local police and fire, all the essential services competing with the national defense of the country? Funding is literally a matter of life or death and could be between our troops or you, do you trust congress to make that choice? Furthermore, do not be so naive that the manure would never engage the rotary oscillator somewhere in the world at some point in time, a mistake we must not repeat. There is Turbulence ahead, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea and much more. We have Turbulence now and it is called jobs, we need jobs to pay for our own Healthcare and not pay for Healthcare for those without a job. But this is not to say the federal government to stay out of this completely, such as the interstate commerce clause but there are many restrictions that must be and not normally followed. It must be for the general welfare, general means everyone and no man, nor corporation, or association of men, have any other title to obtain advantages, or particular and exclusive privileges, distinct from those of the community, than what arises from the consideration of services rendered to the public. The power to regulate is not the power to prohibit all modalities of something. It is only the power to issue prescriptions to make regular, enforceable only by deprivations of property or privileges, not of life, limb, or liberty. There must always be some modality that is not prohibited.

[Monica Medeiros]

Great letter Bob!