Interested Observer. Statement 10116.
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Thoughts on Commerce Clause
I wonder if a grocery selling selling oranges in its home state can be charged with selling oranges under the commerce clause because it impacts the selling of oranges in all the other states. And this is precisely how stupid the constitutional commerce clause is.
Since buying health care insurance across state lines is prohibited there can be no interstate commerce involved. Not buying insurance is not commerce of any kind. But if one were to buy insurance in one’s state that is intrastate commerce. Congress cannot mandate that intrastate commerce is interstate commerce as if buying a policy affects the commerce of all the other states and this is precisely what they do under the commerce clause. This is what we call an absurdity.
The commerce clause was to regulate commerce among the states meaning that there would be no irregularities and that commerce would be legal and legitimate. So the legal and legitimate was to be first determined by the states engaging in interstate commerce. The states have a free hand in regulating their own commerce. Commerce is both natural and necessary. The states do their own regulating both between and among themselves. Congress was not to make a endless series of laws telling states how to conduct their own trade or even what was to be traded.
The 10th Amendment prohibits Congress from interfering with interstate commerce.
Over the decades the courts have given Congress unlimited say,sway, and control over interstate commerce to which it is not entitled. Congress was just to oversee that nothing was improper or irregular in interstate commerce and it doesn’t even have to be necessary.This centralized power was given to Congress because no single state could do this and in giving it to Congress serious conflicts would not arise between the states due to petty envy and jealousies.
Congress regulates AMONG the states and not BETWEEN them.In other words it was to see that interstate trade was fair and just. The commerce clause is toothless and there is very little cause for Congress to be interfering or managing interstate trade between and among the states.
Invoking the commerce clause as a means for the states to participate in health care is fraudulent.
Thoughts on Illegal Immigration
A large part of the cost of the health care problem is illegal immigration. There are 12-20 million illegal immigrants in this country.
1 There are already proper immigration laws on the books.All they need to do is enforce them.Immigration reform is a joke because it is unnecessary.The border patrol for years has been prevented from enforcing the laws.
2 If the federal government will not defend our borders and do its constitutional duty expressed in law and the Constitution then the federal government itself is breaking the laws framed from the Constitutional powers under Sec1 Art8. These are criminal acts.We no longer have a rule of law but a rule of men.
3 A sovereign state has the right and obligation to its citizens to defend its borders from invasion of any kind and doesn’t need permission to do what is right, and necessary, and this is obviously self evident..NECESSITY IS NOT SUBJECT TO ANY LAW! Arizona is doing what is NECESSARY!
4 The President has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution and under Art2 Sec3 he is charged with making sure the laws of the land are enforced. By not enforcing the immigration laws he perjures himself,breaks the law,and is subject to criminal prosecution.and criminal charges.
5 Under the 9th and 10 Amendments Arizona and every other state bordering on Mexico has the right to defend its borders.If the state of Maine broke out in smallpox neither Canada nor Massachusetts would allow immigration or emigration and rightly so. Mexican immigration has become a harmful and costly disease to this country.Every state has the right to defend its borders when its safety and security are threatened.