Ted Cruz from Texas is pushing hard to defund ObamaCare by
refusing to pass any budget or debt increase that includes funding for the “Affordable”
Care Act. He alleges that President
Barack Obama desperately wants the exchanges and subsidies in place by January
so the administration can "get people hooked on Obamacare so it can never
be unwound."
COMMENTS:
I agree with Cruz. We
need to get rid of ObamaCare and replace it with some strong legislation aimed
at cost control.
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. We keep hearing from Obama how great the economy is
doing, and he starts citing statistics.
Yet, we also keep hearing about how dire the economy really is and I
just do not believe the 7.6% unemployment figure. What is your picture of the economy? (Morgan ~ Carmel, CA)
A. Under Obama, 9.5 million people have dropped out of the
labor force and 90 million Americans are out of work. There are 15 million more Americans on food
stamps, but that is undoubtedly due to the real unemployment facts and the 7.7%
decline in family income. More than two
Americans have been added to the food stamp program for every “job”
created. A part-time or temporary job
created counts as a full job created. ObamaCare
is adding to the rush of small businesses to cut back staff hours to under 30
hours per week. Personal savings are
depleted and people are turning to the use of credit cards to try and keep food
on the table.
Q. There’s a legal case about requiring Americans to decrypt
their electronic files versus the Constitutional guarantees against
self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment.
I can see both sides of the argument, since the case is about child
pornography and officials are unable to determine exactly what is on some
discs. But, isn’t the protection of the
Fifth Amendment paramount? (Cornelius ~
Boulder City, NV)
A. You are correct, if you are a believer in the
Constitution. You are incorrect if you
fall for the argument that times have changed and the Constitution is a “living
document” subject to change of interpretation.
Anytime you allow existing law to be interpreted according to the whims
of some judge at the time, you open the door to corruption and tyranny.
Q. What’s your opinion of Michelle Bachmann backing the NSA
claim to the right to collect whatever it wants about whomever it wants without
judicial oversight? (Melissa ~ West Covina,
CA)
A. She should know better.
If you give up your rights to privacy and freedom in order to achieve
security, you are going to end up with neither your freedoms nor security. It’s a lame excuse to allow the government to
snoop into your private affairs. The
government has no business knowing who my friends are, how much money I have in
the bank, how often I have sex or if I have hemorrhoids. The Patriot Act and similar legislation
enacted after 9/11 was designed to give authorities ability to gather this
information after review of at least an administrative judge to show some
probable cause. I was in favor of it,
but NSA has been able to morph it into the full time right to monitor anybody
without review, and this opens the door wide to all kinds of corruption and tyranny.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“Any one who will trade freedom for security deserves
neither.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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