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Juan Williams “fasten your seat belt,” because Judge Napolitano is about to give you a basic lesson on U.S. legal history, politics, and the ideological origins of America. The real sad aspect to this video, however, is that the Judge even needs to tell Juan Williams “the federal government should stay within the confines of the Constitution.”
Even sadder, the American people and particularly constitutionalists, shouldn’t continue to let a man appear on their television every night who doesn’t understand why our Founding Fathers made it such that the “Constitution does not authorize the federal government to have anything whatsoever to do with healthcare.” He should be booed and objected toward to the point that Roger Ailes is forced to rethink renewing the contract of one Juan Williams.
All jokes aside, healthcare for all as “a right not a privilege,” sounds all well and good to many Americans, though according to Gallup no where near a majority — but, pundits like Juan Williams who could not even give you the intellectual, foundational answer to why the federal government should not be involved with healthcare, because it is unconstitutional despite cowardly Chief Justice Roberts switching his vote at the last minute, shouldn’t even be on television, let alone a “Special Report” panel pundit.
Federal programs such as ObamaCare not only undermine liberty, but our entire confederation of states, known as federalism. Napolitano put plainly the dynamic Thomas Jefferson envisioned when he described the states as conducting “experiments” in a “laboratory” in order to find what works for individuals in their individual states:
“So, if you want mandatory healthcare, go live in Massachusetts. If you want the free market and you want individual savings accounts, financial money savings accounts, go live in Texas. As Uncle Ronnie used to say, you can vote with your feet. When the government attempts to do what only the free market can do, when the government says everybody has got to drive a Mercedes whether you can can afford one or not, whether you want to drive one or not, very few people will have cars and everybody will be walking to work.”
Napolitano also said that we should abolish Medicare and Medicaid at the federal level, “because the Constitution doesn’t authorize it and it would be far better administered by the states and by private enterprise.” In what can only be described as hypocrisy and with an anti-Age of Reason logic, Juan Williams argued that popular opinion would never allow it.
“Do you think you can do away with Social Security and Medicare in this country?” The judge suggested the programs be phased out of the federal government over time, save for those who have already paid into the systems and have constructed their lives around those plans. But for younger, indebted Americans with libertarian leanings, it could be done and it is the right thing to do.
First, since when does Juan Williams and the Democratic Party even care if We the People support entitlement programs and reforms? ObamaCare has never enjoyed majority support, especially when it was being passed and now that it has hit new highs in unpopularity. Yet that never phased Juan Williams before. Such an argument truly speaks to either intellectual or character-induced dishonesty.
Second, since when does Juan Williams and his elite, extremist Democratic friends even know what We the People want? As Judge Napolitano said, “It’s not the beltway world where you live. People don’t look to the federal government to take care of them.”
Juan replied, “I think the voters would go crazy.” Does he mean crazy as in how crazy Americans went in 2010 when the Democrats rammed ObamaCare down the throats of a nation who hated the law?
They did not and do not care about any preference held by We the People if it conflicts with what they believe is best for us, and they would rather do without the pesky Constitution that constantly threatens to restrain their despotism. Either Juan Williams doesn’t care or is too stupid to know why the Constitution delegates powers to different power centers among government entities in our federalist system.
Either way, Judge Napolitano got to the heart of it when he responded to Juan Williams saying, “you abandoned the whole notion of conservatism tonight.”
“You have abandoned the notion that the Constitution means what it says,” he quickly responded. And that says it all in a nutshell, because no ideology — conservatism or statism — takes precedent over the absolute rule of law, the Natural Law outlined in our Constitution.
Any opinion to the contrary presupposes that those given said opinion believes themselves to be smarter than our Founding Fathers. Only a dunce, a Daily Dunce like Juan Williams would think that.
