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Comment on What is a Human Life Worth by Larry

Larry — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:24:25 +0000

Now that the debate has drug into its fifth month and the special interests have added provisions that protect their interests, have you changed your mind?

Comment on Change Senate Rules by Keri Wyatt Kent

Keri Wyatt Kent — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:55:11 +0000

Hi
thanks for your kind review of my book on amazon. we are doing a blog tour (where bloggers post reviews, interviews, etc.) and I wondered if you would like to participate? We’d be glad to send you a book which you can give away to one of your readers.
thanks
Keri Wyatt Kent
author, Simple Compassion

Comment on Change Senate Rules by Opa

Opa — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:16:10 +0000

Larry,

Of course you are right, there are many concepts not mentioned in the Constitution. So what? If any action or inaction results in lower civil rights, the courts can declare it not constitutional. If any such action prevents what we now need to secure individual rights, property, or liberty, then we are expected to fight the action and pass a law or ask for court interpretation.

The Constitution very carefully set up a system to protect rights and potential problems seen at the time it was first adopted. Among those ideas was the concept of balancing power. No state or group of states could take over power simply because they were bigger and had more population. To guard against total rule by the populous states, the Senate was created with each state having two votes. That lead to some balance. The large population states could pass a law that was harmful to the small population states, but it would be reversed in the Senate. Good idea – balance.

Now we have the Senate, already powerful for the small population states, inventing rules that upset the balance. The smallest 16 states with less than 20 percent of the population can prevent the biggest 26 states with over 60 percent of the population from acting for their people. This “abuse” was never intended. Majority rule is a rule for a reason. What we now have is the tyranny of the minority.

Comment on Our Honored Dead by Opa

Opa — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:32:54 +0000

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Comment on Change Senate Rules by Larry

Larry — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:30:56 +0000

The party in power is afraid to change the rules because they may gain be the minority party and won’t want the majority to ram something down their throat simply because they have more votes. Do Senate rules trump the Constitution? Of course, nothing says the Senate can’t have rules. The Constitution is so non-specific that it really doesn’t say how the government will operate. There is no Cabinet in the Constitution and it doesn’t say how large the Supreme Court shall be.

Comment on “Concurrent Receipt” And The Disabled Veteran’s Tax by Sarah Puglisi

Sarah Puglisi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:29:28 +0000

I didn’t fully know this. Thanks.

I did know it would be bad.
What is the matter with America?

Comment on Congress meddles with MEDICARE by Monte Stevens

Monte Stevens — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:15:23 +0000

Yep, I read your blog and have you on my feeder. Whenever you post anything I should get a notice.

I agree our medical care system is in trouble. I agree with the need to take care of the ill and elderly as a moral problem. My fee is a change is needed within the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies, not the physicians. Expecting government to fix it for us is unreal, it starts with us. Too many CEO’s make incomes and receive bonus checks that could pay for several peoples yearly premiums.

Yes, I will be here to read your posts. I need to! You help me think and analyze what my views are. I have a tendency to sit back and not get involved.

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Comment on Christian Vote by wow power leveling

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