Nov

Senator Jack Reed: The Constitution Allows Congress to Make Americans Do Stuff

CNS News caught up with Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and asked him where in the constitution is Congress given the right to force Americans to purchase health insurance. His answer is says a lot about the power over our lives these politicians are grabbing.

“Let me see,” said Reed. “I would have to check the specific sections, so I’ll have to get back to you on the specific section. But it is not unusual that the Congress has required individuals to do things, like sign up for the draft and do many other things too, which I don’t think are explicitly contained [in the Constitution]. It gives Congress a right to raise an army, but it doesn’t say you can take people and draft them. But since that was something necessary for the functioning of the government over the past several years, the practice on the books, it’s been recognized, the authority to do that.”

What he’s saying is that he believes the constitution grants Congress the power to force Americans to do whatever the heck Congress wants them to do. Obviously, too many of them think this way.

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