Universal health care

Not a power to be granted

I attended a rally against HR 676, the Universal Health Care Bill, with the Kitsap Chapter of We Surround Them. I am opposed to Universal Health Care on constitutional grounds. Health care is not one of the 17 powers granted to congress under Article II Section 8 of the Constitution. The 10th amendment to the Constitution then places the health care function to the states and people.

I was awestruck by the organization and financing of the other side. They arrived via several chartered buses, used mostly professionally made signs and hired a band to play. We, on the other hand, traveled at our own expenses and made our own signs. We are a grassroots organization, where it is obvious they were an organization with a hidden agenda. Planned Parenthood and the Socialist Workers Campaign were just two of the 200 groups represented. Signs calling for a single payer system were in both English and Spanish. One of the guest speakers spoke in all Spanish. This should lead a rational person to wonder why our government should pay for those here illegally and why this group is being pandered to, future citizens perhaps.

MIKE SHARDELMAN

Bremerton