Remeber, good old John Calhoun from your history book. Well, according to the
AP,
Butch Davis thinks we should apply the amend the constitution. The article is as follows
"BOISE -- Gov. Butch Otter followed up Idaho's lawsuit against the federal government over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul with a demand on Congress: Amend the U.S. Constitution to ban requiring people to buy insurance under threat of a penalty.
The Senate State Affairs Committee on Friday backed Otter's memorial to Congress.
It now goes to the full Senate.
Though this is symbolic and doesn't carry the force of law, David Hensley, Otter's attorney, said Idaho's chief executive is counting on other states to follow suit.
Hensley says, "There are numerous amendments to the Constitution that Congress has taken up itself because a constitutional mass of states have asked for that."
Six Republicans voted for the measure; two Democrats and a Republican -- Sen. Joe Stegner of Lewiston -- opposed it.
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Good. So we are back to 1830s and back to the good old days of state rights vs federal rights. The problem is that these Southern states do a bad job at social welfare and therefore, need to federal involvement to ensure that the citizens to receive proper social welfare. If we had a public option, they will still say "no".
These guys need to have long lecture on economic freedom, the limits of economic freedom on society, that it is impossible to achieve total economic freedom, and the need for a government to act as an investor. This debate with the Republicans is economic security vs unlimited economic freedom. We need to make them to stick this debate. We need to tell them that the achieving the American Dream is illusion and not everybody is going to get wealthy. That people need schools to get over the edge.
Without the government help, where the all of the engineers, scientists, and other people come from. You cannot achieve an equitable level of economic freedom without government assistance. And the conservatives do not acknowledge. They think that less government is more freedom and reality it is not. That is an illusion and a lot of them unconsciously believe that lie
And you need to drill and drill in this people's head especially the tea baggers. Unfortunely, Obama will not touch this debate because if he did, he could smash the banks and achieve a more equal society. A straight-up debate is what we need to do.