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To: kumar who wrote (408046)	1/31/2011 8:15:05 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793998

you should look into the 18th amendment, the prohibition of alcohol which was then repealed by the 21st amendment.

To: kumar who wrote (408046)	1/31/2011 10:39:21 PM
From: greenspirit	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793998

Kumar, reading the ruling provides some outstanding lessons in American history and the Constitution. The judge wrote a profound ruling laying out the case Obamacare is unconstitutional. I recommend reading it, here's a link. scribd.com BTW, This is a great ending point to make! I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include an individual mandate because he was at that time strongly opposed to the idea, stating that "if a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house.” See Interview on CNN’s American Morning, Feb. 5, 2008, transcript available at: transcripts.cnn.com. In fact, he pointed to the similar individual mandate in Massachusetts --- which was imposed under the state’s police power, a power the federal government does not have --- and opined that the mandate there left some residents “worse off” than they had been before. See Christopher Lee, Simple Question Defines Complex Health Debate, Washington Post, Feb. 24, 2008, at A10 (quoting Senator Obama as saying: "In some cases, there are people [in Massachusetts] who are paying fines and still can't afford [health insurance], so now they're worse off than they were . . . They don't have health insurance, and they're paying a fine . . .”).