The Last Line of Defense

while I generally don't have time to mess with too much blogging, I thought it important to weigh in on the Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare last week. If I give Justice Roberts the benefit of the doubt, let's say that he thinks changing his mind to rule that the Obamacare mandate for health insurance as a "tax" is a good thing for the country. But there was one disturbing sentence in his opinion that bothered me: he said that it "wasn't the job of the Supreme Court to protect the American people from bad legislation." OUCH. I have to strongly disagree with that philosophy. If it isn't the judicial branch's job to protect us all, who will? The three branches of our government were founded as checks and balances- and the judicial branch is our last line of defense.If they aren't charged with stopping a bad law, then what's the point? 1. Obamacare contains within it far more than just an individual mandate. It contains extreme spending that threatens the very fabric of america. $1.6 Trillion over the next several years makes the current debt so top heavy that it threatens to knock over every portion of the economy. Unless the conservatives win this election in November, America has nowhere to go but straight downhill. 2. The threat of fines and/or jail for those who can't afford healthcare insurance is not a "tax" despite what the Supreme Court says: it's socialism. If it walks like a duck the adage says- and in whatever disguise it takes, it's still socialism- forcing people to pay a "tax" or buy an insurance policy it's all the same. Quack quack quack. We need our last line of defense:the Supreme Court of the United States. If we have lost that line, we are in serious trouble. As I mentioned earlier, perhaps Mr. Roberts thinks he did America a favor. I sincerely hope he is correct- because the fallout is going to be horrendous.