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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (110535)	8/13/2011 1:22:48 AM
From: MJ	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224755

For once I agree with you Kenneth. The supreme court is stacked against what the majority of the citizens want, that Obama has seen to with his appointments---their ruling will rubber stamp what Pelosi and Obama want. A partial solution is to throw Obama out in 2012 to prevent anymore damage the USA and the world. Someone on another thread noted that --------"The apple does not fall far from the tree." in reference to Barrack Hussein Obama Barry Soetoro. In other words like father like son. The Democrats sure did pick a loser when they picked Obama. Yes, like father like son. Gee, wonder if the Chicago Daley's regret their support for Mr. Obama Soetoro

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (110535)	8/13/2011 11:25:54 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224755

ken, here is another picture for your bedroom wall...be sure to hang it above obama's picture after all soros is obama's boss/?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (110535)	8/13/2011 11:31:54 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224755

ObamaCare Faces Death Panel Of Its Own Posted 08/12/2011 07:05 PM ET kennyboy gets prostate removed - surgery for glaucoma - pacemaker implanted before obamacare death Judgment Day: ObamaCare isn't dead yet, but it is sitting before a death panel of its own. A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a key provision that forces Americans to buy health care insurance is unconstitutional. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta decided, by a 2-1 margin, that the individual mandate is in violation of our foundational law. It is the first appeals court to rule against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. While the defenders of freedom should be pleased with the ruling, they cannot yet celebrate. The decision will be appealed, ensuring that the case will eventually be in front of the Supreme Court. If that court fails to recognize, as the 11th Circuit did, that ObamaCare breaches our constitutional liberty, then we're in for a future of deep trouble. It took the law's apologists little time to begin squirming. Within moments of the ruling, they pointed out that while the court determined the individual mandate is unconstitutional, it also said the law's "other provisions remain legally operative after the mandate's excision." But ObamaCare's supporters know that their gross overreach, their quest to force a doomed-to-fail socialist program on Americans, is barely hanging on. U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson — whose summary judgment the appeals court ruled on — said without the individual mandate, the entire scheme falls apart. There is no severability clause in the law allowing for parts not found unconstitutional to stand alone. Though we're neither legal scholars nor judges, we see the whole law, not just the mandate, as unconstitutional and wonder how anyone who's being fully honest could believe any differently. Nowhere in the Constitution is the government granted the authority to become involved in health care. In fact, that document clearly says that the federal government has no authority outside the limited number of powers laid out in Article 1, Section 8, a restriction Washington has repeatedly ignored. It's our hope that at least five justices on the Supreme Court will, at minimum, agree with the 11th Circuit that the individual mandate is unconstitutional. An even more favorable scenario is that at least five agree with Vinson that the individual mandate is unconstitutional and that it is such an elemental piece of the law that if taken out, it invalidates the act. This would stop the Democrats from trying to implement the rest of the law without the mandate. It would also bottle up all efforts in the near future to again try to socialize the health care sector. It would mean, as well, the end of the debate over death panels, with the Supreme Court having itself served as one and correctly decided to put down a lame body

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (110535)	8/13/2011 12:07:36 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224755

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/us/13bankruptcy.html?_r=1&hp When the small, beleaguered city of Central Falls, R.I., filed for bankruptcy this month, it sought to cut the pension checks it has been sending its retired police officers, firefighters and other workers by as much as half. All the city promises now is that its retirees, many of whom do not get Social Security, will not have their benefits cut to less than $10,000 a year. But investors who bought the city’s bonds could do much better: Rhode Island recently passed a law intended to make sure that they would be paid in full, even in bankruptcy. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/postal-service-proposal-to-break-contracts-is-blasted-by-unions/2011/08/12/gIQAi3V3BJ_story.html?hpid=z2 Unions reacted furiously Friday to a proposal by the Postal Service to lay off 120,000 workers by breaking labor contracts and to shift workers out of the federal employee health and retirement plans into cheaper alternatives. Labor experts and other unions also sounded the alarm that any move by Congress to break postal contracts would further wound an already ailing labor movement, much as President Ronald Reagan’s firing of striking air traffic controllers did in 1981.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (110535)	8/13/2011 3:47:28 PM
From: locogringo	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224755

Implementation of the health care law will continue to go forward until such time as the Supreme Court says otherwise. That will not happen. Yes, and the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi will sit in the front................OOPS..............somebody was wrong about that one too....................