State of the Union Speech Followup

In a follow up of somewhat old news but important none-the-less, Grady Mullins writes his views in a letter to the editor of the "Rockdale Citizen" titled "We Still Have Time To Fix Problems" as partially follows:

In his State of the Union address, the proposals the president outlined for additional spending — he called it investing — would add to an existing obscene national debt and give reasons, in the minds of the informed, to question his motives.

Many feel the country is already on the brink of bankruptcy and more spending would surely hasten that happening. Sadly, many people are either not paying attention, don’t care or don’t fully understand the effects of more spending.

In the article he cites some, what would be comical if it were not so serious, deficiencies in some of our representatives' lack of understanding of the "commerce clause", a portion of which is quoted here:

...... one career congresswoman opined that it was unconstitutional to deny citizens free health care, adding something about constitutional rights under the commerce clause.

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