THE FREEDOM POST: WHY OBAMACARE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL (DUH) AND DOES IT MATTER?

THE FREEDOM POST: WHY OBAMACARE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL (DUH) AND DOES IT MATTER?: "ObamaCare is so clearly unconstitutional that it's embarrassing, disgusting, shameful, and dangerous that 215 Congressmen would even consider proposing it. It's almost even more atrocious that the American people can so nonchalantly allow their Constitutional rights to be stolen from them.

You don't have to be a constitutional scholar, an attorney (thank God), or a politician to know that ObamaCare is unconstitutional. Even without reading or knowing the Constitution, most of us intuitively know that it doesn't seem acceptable for the government to force you buy (also known as an 'individual mandate') a certain 'acceptable' product (health care insurance in this case, but believe me that if this is passed, a whole new can of worms will follow), with the penalties for noncompliance being jail time and onerous financial penalties. Something about that doesn't sit right with most people even if they've never cracked the cover of the Constitution. So without getting technical, most should know they're getting screwed by the government.

Never before in the nation's history has the government forced individual citizens to purchase a product, any product or service, ever. Never before has the government been given the power to say, 'Buy this, and, if you don't you go to jail.' Why haven't they? Because they can't (at least not legally), but we've never had simultaneously a radical Marxist in the White House, an extreme far-left House and Senate, and a prostrate media. If that triumvirate, along with an uninformed, apathetic, gullible public, ignores the Constitution, then in essence there are no limitations to what the government can do to us.

The Constitution was instituted primarily with one major goal: TO LIMIT GOVERNMENT, to limit its power, its control, its authority, its activities, and its size. It is not, as the Left loves to say, 'A living and breathing document,' which means they can make it mean whatever they want it to mean, changing it to meet whatever ridiculous idea, invented right, or new unauthorized Utopian government program that they happen to have the votes for. The Founders specifically laid out the steps to amend the Constitution, but the Left sees this as too time consuming and inconvenient.

The specific, allowed functions and powers of the federal government are laid out in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution:"