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Government Healthcare and Constitution

“[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”  ~James Madison  

Promote General welfare does not mean provide it.  It means to provide an atmosphere where growth and prosperity and be fostered.  We promote the general welfare by providing for ourselves and contributing to the growth and prosperity.  The Federal Government has no place in charity.  It clearly states so in the United States Constitution. 

Dr. Cloen Skousen outlines this in his book the 5000 Year Leap.  Dr. Skousen spent years studying the works and writings of the Founding Fathers.  On the subject of public charity he wrote the following.  “Nearly all of the Founders seem to have acquired deep convictions that assisting those in need had to be done through means which might be called ‘calculated’ compassion.”  Dr. Skousen sums up the founders sentiments in the following list.  (from 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle that Changed the World page 21) 

1.       Do not help the needy completely.  Merely help them to help themselves. 

2.       Give the poor the satisfaction of earned achievement. 

3.       Allow the poor to climb the “appreciation ladder”—from tents to cabins, cabins to cottages, cottages to comfortable houses. 

4.       Where emergency help is provided, do not prolong it to the point where it becomes habitual. 

5.       Strictly enforce the scale of “fixed responsibility.”  The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family; then the church; next the community; finally the county, and, in a disaster or emergency, the state.  Under no circumstances is the federal government to become involved in public welfare.  The Founders felt it would corrupt the government and also the poor.  No Constitutional authority exists for the federal government to participate in charity or welfare. 

v  The Constitutionality of health care reformWITH JAY SEKULOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJjhcMO0epc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbelowthebeltway.com%2F2009%2F08%2F20%2Fhealth-care-reform-the-constitution-and-the-limits-on-congressional-power%2F&feature=player_embedded 

v  The Constitution: Well said soldier
http://www.breitbart.tv/constitutionally-astute-us-soldier-demands-apology-from-us-senator-at-missouri-town-hall/ 

v  The Constitutionality of health care reform The American Thinker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJjhcMO0epc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbelowthebeltway.com%2F2009%2F08%2F20%2Fhealth-care-reform-the-constitution-and-the-limits-on-congressional-power%2F&feature=player_embedded 

v  Illegal Health Reform
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082103033.html 

v  HEALTH CARE IS NOT A RIGHT by Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D.
http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/hnr.html 

v  Patrick Henery - Liberty or Death
http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/henry-liberty.html 

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