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I think the basic difference is that we all want the same thing - how we get there, who runs it, and who is paying for it is where we begin to separate. I am from the South and the West - We are not very liberal in our part of the world - or at least a large number of us aren't. In my opinion, government, on the national level, should have the power and the obligation to enforce Section 8 of the US Constitution.

Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

To establish post offices and post roads;

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And

To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

All powers other than those stated are powers of the individual states - I believe we fought a war once over a dispute regarding these powers.

Medical care is an obligation of the person, not of the state. Interference, by Congress, with various social programs and entitlements, has made the costs of medical care unaffordable for most who have to pay for it themselves. Just my opinion, but I believe when everyone was responsible for paying for their own bills, insurance, etc., health care was affordable - now, to make up for all the government gimmies and semi-gimmies, those who are attempting to pay their own way are having to pick up all the charges of those who don't pay. Somewhere in here there is something that cannot continue to work the way it is going at the present time.

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