Editor, The Commercial:
The United States Constitution and National Health Care is now before the Supreme Court. I don’t believe a law degree or a seat on the Supreme Court is needed to decide what is right, just and fair for all Americans. I think a passing score in ninth grade civics class qualifies to make this decision.
The elite writers of National Health Care have chosen to base the offer of this legislation on a 70-year-old law when Congress controlled the price of wheat raised by farmers. The result of that legislation did not determine a different price of wheat for different classes of people; nor did it determine who would eat the wheat. It dealt only with a small segment of our national economy compensating farmers for raising wheat.
On the other hand, the proposed National Health Care plan deals with everyone except Congress. It separates the elite from the masses, allowing the elite to have superior health care and exempting themselves from all aspects of the plan. As I recall, our Constitution mandates that all men are created equal, and for hundreds of years operated on that premise. That alone separates the wheat and determines who gets the shaft when comparing past legislation dealing only with farmers to this decision affecting us all.
I am not so naïve as to have missed the fact that Congress has gradually granted themselves many privileges. It has been said in American politics; “If you choose not to participate in some form of the political process seeking a seat at the table you might be placed on the menu!” The past political appointments of Supreme Court justices will now decide if we all are guests at the table or the main course of this dinner.
Bob Smithey
Pine Bluff