
Lyndon LaRouche has made an important point about Obama’s health Reform “pitch” last night. LaRouche says that at 5 different times in the speech “he called for health reform legislation featuring the establishment of “an independent board of doctors and health care experts” to make the life-and-death decisions of what care to provide, and what not, based on cost-effectiveness criteria--exactly the infamous “T-4″ (Tiergarten) policy (MEDPAC) imposed by Adolf Hitler in 1939, for which the Nazi regime was tried and condemned at Nuremberg.
Article I, section 8 of the U. S. Constitution grants Congress the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defense and general Welfare of the United States.”
“They’re going to have to give up things they don’t like.” This is what Obama said in the speech. Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. (R-La), who has been a doctor for 14 years, said that when he heard that his alarm system went on. This would be like “Big Brother.” You can hear Rep Boustany on a a radio interview.
Another really odd thing is that Factcheck.org, which has been in Obama’s corner for so long, has pointed out several “inaccuracies” in his speech. Given the supposed fact that he was/is a “Constitutional scholar”, do you think it might have occurred to him that his insistence for the “Deciding-Your-Life-And-Death-Committee” is unconstitutional? Mr. LaRouche says “the President’s promotion of this “T-4″ as the non-negotiable element of his package is really a Nuremberg crime. It’s really an act of treason against the General Welfare clause of the Constitution.”
constitutional Awareness. org notes: “James Madison, when asked if the “general welfare” clause was a grant of power, replied in 1792, in a letter to Henry Lee,
‘If not only the means but the objects are unlimited, the parchment [the Constitution] should be thrown into the fire at once.’ [6] [p.257]
Article I section 8 enumerates Seventeen Congressional Powers, therefore, it does not have unspecified and unlimited powers. In 1937, the so-called “Revolution of 1937″ occurred when “the President (FDR) proposed that for each sitting justice over the age of seventy there be appointed one new Justice to “help them with their case load.” In reality FDR wanted to pack the court with six additional justices willing to declare all of his “must legislation.” However, Justice Roberts, the “swing vote, went with the majority on the Stewart Machine Co. v Davis” (301 US 548) 1937 which allowed the Social Security Act under the “General Welfare Clause.” Judge Roberts later explained in his book: “we voted against the Constitution to save the Court” (the switch in time that saved nine”).