Obamacare vs. the Constitution in the Show-me state

All Federal employees take an oath to defend the Constitution, though most of them haven't ever read it.

A case in point: Federal employee Claire McCaskill, a United States senator from Missouri.

Senator McCaskill was recently challenged about the constitutionality of government involvement in health care. In her response she opined "...I will not support a government takeover of the healthcare system. But that doesn't mean that there's anything in the Constitution that prohibits it..."

Comrade McCaskill is either ignorant or dishonest in her assertion, because the Constitution certainly DOES prohibit government takeover of the health care system.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

That's the tenth amendment, which proscribes most of what the Federal government does these days.

The United States is not delegated any power to govern health care by our Constitution. Collectivists like Senator McCaskill will cite the "general welfare" clause, which is a statement of purpose, not an enumerated power - notice the term "general." The tenth amendment clarifies the "general welfare" clause, not vice-versa - otherwise the amendment is rendered void of meaning.

Working folks don't have time to read 1000 page bills being rammed through Congress (the politicians don't even read them). But any literate person can take a few minutes to read the Constitution, which if adhered to, would put a halt to this tsunami of progressive tyranny we are observing.