Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
Stephan: People like Glenn Beck rant on about the Founders with no real sense of who they were, or what they thought. That he is now the principal historian of America's past for several million people in this country is a testament to how ignorant we have become as a people.
Here are some actual facts, and an update you might want to follow-up on. UPDATE: January 21- Given the conversation and controversy this piece has engendered, Greg Sargent over at The Washington Post put the piece to the test. You might be interested in what Greg discovered in his article, 'Newsflash: Founders favored government run health care.
The ink was barely dry on the PPACA when the first of many lawsuits to block the mandated health insurance provisions of the law was filed in a Florida District Court.
The pleadings, in part, read –
The Constitution nowhere authorizes the United States to mandate, either directly or under threat of penalty, that all citizens and legal residents have qualifying health care coverage.
State of Florida, et al. vs. HHS
It turns out, the Founding Fathers would beg to disagree.
In July of 1798, Congress passed – and President John Adams signed – ‘An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen.
