Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution implies a right to health care, education

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution.

Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence.
“One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said.

Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not listed per se in the Constitution, it should be a constitutional right.”

The Hill also reported on the floor speech, adding that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, made a similar case last year. In March 2012, Mrs. Pelosi said “Obamacare” was necessary for “a healthier life, the liberty to pursue happiness, free of the constraints that lack of health care might provide to a family.”

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is an influential and forceful voice in Washington. She is serving her ninth term (18 years) as a member of the United States House of Representatives. She represents the 18th Congressional District of Texas, centered in Houston, which is the energy capital of the world. Considered by many as the “Voice of Reason”, she is dedicated to upholding the Constitutional rights of all people.

Sheila Jackson-Lee charges taxpayers $23,646 for ‘special trip’
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sure some fancy reading indeed!
Where do they find these People?

and they keep re-electing them

that is the baffling Thing!

This is the Rep. from Houston that held a Town Hall meeting with constituents and stayed on her cell phone for the whole duration of the meeting.
She probably doesn't know the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/nillionaires-are-free-to-fly-fly-away-high-away-bye-bye-t11062.html




Here's the full-frontal snapshot of a nillionaire:

KARL MARX, The German Ideology
For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a shepherd, or a critical critic and must remain so if he does not wish to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, to fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening,criticize after dinner, just as I have in mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

In other words, the State provides you a livelihood and this liberates you thus giving you your life to do with as please.
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This is the promise of the Left. This is The Dream. The promise of the Left is the promise of giving you your life. Never make the mistake otherwise. They are offering people their lives. This is a very important thing to understand. The appeal is the very human and real desire to posses your own life. It addresses a very real aspect of the human condition that everyone can relate to. The Dream of the Left must be explicitly identified and answered or it will continue to hold sway.

And so we come to Sheila Jackson Lee.

Sheila Jackson Lee, House floor, May 6, 2013
“One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said.
Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not listed per se in the Constitution, it should be a constitutional right.”

And once education and health care "fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" what doesn't fall into those provisions? From the Marxist point of view of freedom, that to posses your life to do with as you will you must be unencumbered of economic concerns, the sky is the limit. The triumph of socialism is a world where everyone wins the lottery, so to speak. Everyone becomes a nillionaire. No more worries. I've known people that think Cubans are freer than we are. They are nillionaires.

Nancy Pelosi made pretty much the same case for ObamaCare a couple of years ago as Jackson Lee when she said ObamaCare actually increases our freedom. With ObamaCare people are free to pursue their dreams. The Marxist idea of freedom is what she meant. Don't think for a second she isn't fully aware of that fact. These people know what they're about.

So, to sum this up: The Dream of Marxism addresses a very real need of the human condition, the ability to fully posses your life.

This is the allure of communism. This is THE DREAM. In answer to THE DREAM you can throw away all the egghead economic ******** about the efficiency of market capitalism versus the poverty of socialism. What moves people is what goes to the very core of the human condition - people want to posses their lives and do with their lives what they will.

I don't know what your counter to the Left's promise is, but this is mine:

There's only one reason you posses your life at all, and though it at first sounds sort of dense to say and rather dull, you posses your life because you conceive of your life. You can conceive of the years and the decades in front of you and those that are behind you. In this way you posses yourself, your life, because you can conceive it. Other living beings don't posses their lives in this way. For the purpose of this discussion I don't care if you believe that we have this gift by the grace of God or by the gift of nature. This very human ability to posses our lives in this way is simply an expression of our human spirituality if you will; our ability to think abstractly.

Because you do conceive of your life as a span of years and decades, because you understand that your very life is that span of years and decades, it is right that you should act on this in order to live and be happy throughout the span of your life. Your life, that span of years, is your first true possession; your span of years to plan and live is your property. It is the first property right. Those years are both yours and are YOU.

To posses your life in this way you must be able to live in a stable society and you must be able to own what you produce or else you simply cannot posses the span of your life, which is YOU.

This is why the animal rights crowd is so far removed from reality, and why the socialists simply cannot understand the failure of socialism. Animals don't conceive of their lives as a span of years and so what is 'right' for them and the 'right to their life' has no relation to ours. And the socialists always deny people the right to the possession of their lives to plan and do with as they believe will be best for their own happiness because for one thing they deny that property rights are important, but also because a collectivist society is NOT a stable society. It is a society in which politics becomes loyalty to the politically powerful and the politically powerful are always afraid of each other. There is no way to posses your life in such an environment.

Perhaps what I say isn't as convincing to others as it is to me. I mean the answer to THE DREAM of the Left. It's pretty much the Objectivist answer, but I like to refer to a person's life as something they posses because they are capable of conceiving it - which I think gives a better understanding of several important issues, some I haven't touched on here [rather than simply saying we must use reason and to deny us to act on our reason is to deny us the right to our lives and leaving it at that].

constitution is vague enough to 'imply' many things,, thats why there are courts to interpret the details of how those things will be applied,,,,

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is an influential and forceful voice in Washington.

Does it say anything about my right to have regular bowel movements, cause I am tired of this; that falls under health care right? I shouldn't have to put up with this.

Sheela Jackass is more like it

it doesn't even imply what that Jackass claimed it does!

thats for courts to decide

if marriage falls under a right , than certainly education and healthcare have a shot,,,

nope,just a bit of simple common sense ought to tell anyone that it isn't right to hang such a Mortgage on everyone!
This Republic wasn't started as a Marxist Stockyards!
If you want all that in the Constitution,go the proper way with Constitutional Amendments,not the sneaky backdoor way through some political Appointee Court!
Besides,neither the Bill of Rights nor the Constitution even imply what that Idiot Marxisr Rep. suggests!

I dont understand what 'mortgage' you are referring to....?

marriage 'rights'?
educational 'rights'?
healthcare 'rights'?

or all of the above,,,,


I dont disagree that the constitution is due for more amendments on these issues,, btw

the Mortgage the Socialists are salting everyone in the US with those dumb Ideas about what the Constitution doesn't say!
That Woman definitely does NOT belong into a Legislative Body!

Many people definitely do NOT belong in a Legislative Body! She has just as much right as anyone else does.

She certainly has lowered the bar.