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Date Posted: 19:43:58 07/25/09 Sat
Author: Bob
Subject: forum

The debate on health care resulted in this letter to the editor in this morning's San Jose Mercury News: "Defense, Not Health Care in Constitution."
A Mr. Don Nolan of Sunnyvale wrote: "Robert Bates (Letters, July 23) attempts to equate defense to health care, and also notes that they are entitlements. He would have us transfer funds from defense to health care. Bates would be well served to refresh himself regarding the Constitution, particularly Article 1, Section 8. He would find the requirement that Congress 'provide for the common Defense....of the United States.' He will not find health care in that or any part of the Constitution.'"

I sent an email to the Mercury stating: "Don Nolan's letter, Saturday, 25July09. Mr. Nolan reminds us that government-provided health care is not mentioned in the Constitution. Neither does the Constitution state that the nation's economic system be a capitalist one, nor does it state that sectors of the nation's economy be regulated by the federal government. The Founders did not conceive of railroads which became regulated in 1875 by the Interstate Commerce Act which, in turn, set the precedent for all subsequent federal regulatory bodies."

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