On 7/1/2012 11:06 AM, Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:34:57 -0700, Doug Winterburn wrote:

Health care, retirement, sexual orientation and all the other things the
feds are now in the middle of are not in the purview of the Constitution
or the intended power of the federal government.
As I said, there *was* no health care back then. Why do you assume the
founders would have not considered it as a possible right if todays level
of care existed? I don't assume they would have, but it's possible.

There were houses, food, clothing, and education back then. The
founders didn't consider those things to be "rights."