Is Rudy Giuliani the real health care reform candidate?

[johnwk]

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Thinking people, especially “Republicans” and to be more accurate “conservative” Republicans would have to agree that our federal government is perhaps the most formidable cause for the spiraling costs of health care within the various states.

We now have Rudy Giuliani on record as ignoring the cause of our misery, the federal government, and proposing more federal involvement in how the people, within the various states, are to finance their health care needs.

Don’t get me wrong, the Giuliani plan sounds great at first blush, a $15,000 tax deduction for families to buy private health insurance, instead of getting insurance through employers. Any leftover funds could be rolled over year-to-year for medical expenses. see: Giuliani proposes tax break to buy private health insurance

In support of his plan Rudy goes on to say, "We've got to solve our health care problem with American principles, not the principles of socialism…"

But dear Rudy fails to address existing socialism and follow one of the most important American principles of our constitutionally limited Republican Form of Government ___ federalism!

Tell us Rudy, is there something you find revolting in federalism and the right of the people to be left free within their State borders to manage their own health care needs as intended by our Constitution?

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State."

So, how do we address socialism and follow federalism in such a manner as would help the people within their own state borders to meet their own health care needs? We do it not by establishing another federal rule concerning how the people are to finance their health care needs. We do it by closing down the federal department of education which interferes in a state function; closing down the National Endowment for the Arts which Congress has created to bribe the homosexual community for its vote; closing down the small business administration which channels money to big businesses and pays big businesses to leave our country, etc, and returning all these budgets to the various States by the rule of apportionment!

By closing down just one federal agency not unauthorized by our federal Constitution, the Federal Department of Education [education being a state constitutionally authorized function which the people in each state are now taxed to fund by their state government] and returning its budget [$ 67 BILLION, which was approximately the entire federal budget in 1952] to the various states by the rule of apportionment, Michigan would receive a very generous $26 MILLION which I‘m sure would help the people in Michigan with their health care costs.

Tell us Rudy, do you object to returning to federalism because the iron fist of the federal government would be weakened by closing down its political plum job Empire and Congress would loose millions of loyal foot soldiers holding these political plum jobs who double as political campaign workers during federal elections to prop up the Washington Establishment’s Empire?

We all know Congress has been very thoughtful in providing its loyal foot soldiers with outrageous salaries, top of the shelf medical plans, and very, very generous pension plans, all of which Mary and Joe Sixpack, living in the various states, can only dream of having but cannot afford because the bread they earn is confiscated by the federal Empire.

We also know the Washington Establishment views Mary and Joe as their personal tax slave ___ there to finance the Washington Establishment’s redistribution of money game which also helps to keep the Washington Establishment in power. Why are you so against closing down the Empire and favor another federal rule determining how the people in the various states are to finance their health care needs? Why do you ignore our written Constitution and its defined separations of powers called federalism?

JWK


“…..with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities“. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address