Allen West has also said that Obama presents a “dangerous threat” to our Constitutional Republic, and expounded upon that in an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren.
“When you have a President standing there saying that healthcare, health insurance, is a right, when you go back and read the Declaration of Independence…Thomas Jefferson said that the unalienable rights that we have of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as individuals, come from the Creator, and that goes back to Natural Law theory.”
“He said that specifically that they don’t come from man, and man makes up government. Now all of a sudden the government believes that they can grant you your rights, and they can take those rights away. Which is why Jefferson said that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.”
“The last time we had a President talk about the American people as individuals having a right to a certain thing, it was back around 1978 when Jimmy Carter said that every American had a right to own a home, and that was the Community Reinvestment Act. Fast forward thirty years later to 2008, we had this incredible financial meltdown based upon the mortgage industry, and government getting involved in that industry.”
Obama is a threat to America “as a Constitutional Republic, because you have to look at the rule of law, you have to look at our founding documents, and when you have a President saying that a certain thing is a right that government is supposed to give to you, that goes against the founding premise of this country.”
“The President should not be able to delay certain parts of a law, he should not be able to push away certain mandates…because once a piece of legislation is passed through the House and the Senate and signed into law by the President, you don’t get to cherry-pick it, and that is the threat to our Constitutional Republic, when a President is starting to cherry-pick laws.”
West goes on to discuss how various aspects of the law have been delayed or changed, and how some courts have been “legislating from the bench”. He also decries the provision allowing so-called “Obamacare navigators” that are supposed to help individuals sign up for Obamacare, people who are generally tied to left-leaning community activism organizations, who will have full access to individual’s health and financial information, without having to go through a criminal background check.
Allen West is absolutely right, President Obama does present a threat to America as a Constitutional Republic. His healthcare law is not even really about providing healthcare, like it was sold, but about gaining control over a sizable portion of our economy and people’s lives.
Obamacare is the groundfloor of a socialist-style, single-payer health care system, one in which the government pays for, and thus controls, every aspect of healthcare. They will determine how much things will cost, and eventually will make decisions regarding cost-effectiveness of certain drugs and procedures, and their use on sick people.
The so-called “death panels” are real, and they will ultimately decide if your grandmother or father is worth the cost of the hip replacement surgery, or expensive heart medication, compared to their perceived worth and contribution to society as a whole.
Health insurance is not a right. It is a privilege, designed to be an option for some people to utilize as a way to mitigate healthcare costs. There are ways to bring down the costs of healthcare, and there is even a legitimate argument to be made about providing assistance with healthcare costs for the truly less fortunate among us that can’t afford it. But those things can be done without the government having to take control over the entire healthcare and health insurance industry.
