Fox Flashback: Aug 19th (Glenn)

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There is a guest host on today's show. Glenn did the Medical Meltdown in a previous segment but everything else is with Judge Andrew Napolitano.

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Medical Meltdown: Details about European Socialized Health Care

Lessons to learn from UK system with Guest
- Daniel Hannan, Member of European Parliament

• '08 UK Patient Survey: Only 43% of Patients Called Care "Excellent"
• "You turn up with an ailment and you are sent to the back of the line"- Hannan
  

UK Health Care Wait Times
Cataract Surgery- 8 months
Hip Replacement- 11 months
Knee Replacement- 12 months
Slipped Disc- 5 months
Hernia Repair- 5 months
--BBC May 27, 2009--

• "No provision for independent purchase of medicine."- Hannan
  
• "If you can't work during the period you're waiting for medical help, you are loosing money there, its not free."-Hannan
  

Prostate Cancer Survival Rates
International Comparison

USA: 5-year relative survival rate- 100%
Canada: 5-year relative survival rate- 95%
UK: 5-year relative survival rate- 77%
American Cancer Society
Canadian Cancer Society

• 5 % of American Wait more than 4 Months for Elective Surgery

• "It is the single biggest item of our government budget and the state generally doesn't do things as efficiently as the market does. If you know your getting the same treatment without paying for it, you have no incentive to keep cost down"- Hannan

• "As an elected official, No politician can disregard his constituents opinion. There is no dishonor in a elected official listening to his peoples want, that's why we call democracy. Its no kind of weakness, that's how the system is meant to work." -Hannan

• "The worst thing to be is elderly on a system like ours. Actually, to be fair, its not bad with kids. But I can tell you horrid stories about elderly people being left starving in wards and the reason we've put up with ti for so long is because its because such a huge system, such an enormous bureaucracy. We have 1.4 million people employed by the National Health Service. It is 3rd biggest employer in world. Most of those are administrators, and they outnumber the doctors and nurses."- Hannan
  

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Obamanations Ties to JPMorgan/Chase

• J.P Morgan/Chase has recieved a government bailout, aka ties to Obama administration
• J.P Morgan/Chase has given more than 5 million dollars to ACORN affiliate, ACORN Housing since 2001.(Guess I'm going to have to find a new bank...anyone know of a non-government corrupt one???)

"Our dealings with ACORN have been entirely appropriate."- JPMorgan Spokes woman, Jennifer R Zuccarelli

Guest: Peter Flaherty, National Legal and Policy Center

Question: Why would JPMorgan/Chase be interested in giving 5 million in cash to an org like ACORN?

• "This whole thing started in the '70 when ACORN, gut rolling, started targeting the banks because as Jesse Jackson quote Jessie James at an ACORN conference, "That's where the money is." They figured out that if you could picket a bank directors home in a leaky suburb, you could get them to say, who are these people, get them off my back. So pretty soon all the banks, JPMorgan, Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America started paying tribute to ACORN. Including direct cash donations, included investment in ACORN housing Inc and most importantly it included bagging opposition to something called the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. Which led to the severe loosening of lending standards, which led to the sub prime melt down which led to the general morgage crisis."- Peter Flaherty

• "Its been tradition, its the mentality. JPMorgan/Chase got 25 billion in TARP money. At the same time over 1,000 employees of the company got a bonus of a million or more the year before."- Peter Flaherty

• JPMorgan's CEO Jamie Dimon has been called "Obama's Favorite Banker" by the very liberal newspaper, THE NEW YORK TIMES
• Dimon is reportedly still in contact with Rahm Emanuel and Tim Geithner.
• President Obama on JPMorgan CEO, "...there are a lot of banks that are actually pretty well managed; JP Morgan being a good example. Jamie Dimon, the CEO there...I don't think he shuld be punished for doing a pretty good job managing an enormous portfolio."---on ABC News, Feb 10, 2009

• "Just because JPMorgan/Chase has a solid balance sheet that doesnt meant that they are absolved from balme in the morgage crisi. They provided important funding to ACORN that contributed to bringing on this whole thing.This bank is very political. " - Peter Flaherty

• "William Daily the brother of Chicago mayor Richard Daily, has a title of Midwest Director. Now how many Fortune 500 companies have a 'Midwest Director', not one other one. It's political protection, plain and simple." - Peter Flaherty

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Powers of Congress

U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section B

"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;
• 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...
• 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
• ...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)...
• 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.

Segment Guests:
Jay Sekulow, American Center for Law and Justice
Tim Lynch, CATO Institute

Host: These are the limited complete regulations that the Constitutions giver the Congress. So how can the government have the power to take over Health Care and uphold the Constitution? Congress would justify using the clasuse stating that they are able to regulate the "interstate commerce"

Jay Sekulow: "As a lawyer whose litigates in courts all over the country, I wanted to point out that if they would read there own legislation they would know what key words are missing from the bill, commerce clause!! It's not even in the bill! It doesn't appear in any of the bills. They don't even pretend to rely on the Constitution. Rather what they are doing is a policy of social engineering under the guise of legislation and they will come up with theories of Constitutional analysis, but at the end of the day your absolutely right. To say that the Government is going to take over Health Care is incorrect as a matter of law, and un-Constitutional in our view of strict Constitutional law."

Tim Lynch:"The key point I think for your audience is that the Constitution is incapable of enforcing itself. If member of Congress choose to ignore the Constitution, then it falls upon the people to exert pressure on Congress. Someone once said, Its only when Congress feels the heat that they see the light. If people want to make their voices heard they need to exhert that pressure on Congress. But if the people become apathetic about the Constitution and freedom then the rule of law and their liberties will erode and there has already been too much of that already."

Jay Sekulow: "The tenth amendment of the United States says, Look we are not giving everything to the Federal Government. The States have authority here and here is the problem..At the end of the day, Congress isn't even thinking about where are they are getting the authority to do this."

• Tenth Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.