{"id":402,"date":"2012-07-04T12:37:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T17:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=402"},"modified":"2012-07-04T12:37:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T17:37:42","slug":"supreme-in-what-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/supreme-in-what-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme? In what sense?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am extremely disappointed at the latest evidence that the highest court in the land is far from supreme.\u00a0 When did they discard their duty to uphold the constitution?\u00a0 When did they decide to ignore the separation of powers between legislative and judicial?\u00a0 Does political expediency outweigh their duty to uphold the constitution?\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t that idiotic mantra, \u201cThree strikes and you\u2019re out<\/em><\/strong>\u201d, sound good right about now?<\/p>\n

The medical system in the USA is severely broken.\u00a0 I don\u2019t question this for a heartbeat.\u00a0 However, the healthcare reform monstrosity, something that will forever remain part of President Obama\u2019s legacy, fails to fix this.<\/p>\n

First, Obamacare weighs in at 2700 pages of legalese<\/strong>.\u00a0 I\u2019m confident it won\u2019t contain any opportunities for misunderstanding \u2013 not.\u00a0 Though I generally don\u2019t like using catch phrases, the name \u201cObamacare\u201d seems appropriate.\u00a0 How many pages was the Constitution?\u00a0 How about the ten commandments?\u00a0 Or even the entire bible, both old and new testaments?\u00a0 Cast in that light, 2700 pages seems to be exactly what it is \u2013 flagrantly excessive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

However, the single thing that really concerns me is the individual mandate \u2013 a clearly unconstitutional law that forces us to pay privately operated healthcare entities insurance premiums.\u00a0 We are compelled to do so.\u00a0 We have no choice \u2013 we either give our money to these for-profit corporations, or the government punishes us.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t like other insurances related to fiscal responsibility.\u00a0 While we can choose not to drive a car, we can\u2019t choose not to live.<\/p>\n

Since taxes, by the very definition of the word, go to the government these compulsory insurance premiums are very obviously not a tax.\u00a0 How the supreme court could choose<\/strong> to think premiums paid to private\u00a0corporations are taxes\u2026\u00a0 well, that boggles my mind.\u00a0 How the supreme court could choose to uphold a bill they openly acknowledge not even bothering to read\u2026 again, the mind boggles.<\/p>\n

The supreme court (deliberately not capitalized as they are clearly no longer worthy of respect), has shown itself to be far from supreme.\u00a0 It has aligned itself with the legislative branch for the sake of convenience \u2013 not for the sake of right.<\/p>\n

I intend to vote for change.\u00a0 I am distressed my choice in candidates is so abysmally poor.\u00a0 In the coming election I won\u2019t be voting for a candidate, or a party.\u00a0 I won\u2019t even be against<\/strong> a candidate, or a party (which might lend some satisfaction).\u00a0 No, mine will be a vote for no other reason than change.<\/p>\n

What a horrible state of affairs must there be to choose the devil you don\u2019t know, over the devil you do?\u00a0 I think I finally understand why Egyptians, in their small minority, voted the way they did\u2026<\/p>\n

They voted against what they had before \u2013 they voted for change, terrible though it will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am extremely disappointed at the latest evidence that the highest court in the land is far from supreme.\u00a0 When did they discard their duty to uphold the constitution?\u00a0 When did they decide to ignore the separation of powers between legislative and judicial?\u00a0 Does political expediency outweigh their duty to uphold the constitution?\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}