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- 0:11Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
- 0:15This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host, Paul Engel.
- 0:30How many times will the American people put their trust in government to make things better only to be disappointed?
- 0:37You'd think by now we'd have learned our lesson.
- 0:41Hello there, everyday Americans.
- 0:42Paul Engel here with the Constitution Study, where we read and study the Constitution, teacher Ice and Generation HP freak.
- 0:47Glad I could join you today.
- 1:04Nothing bad could happen by giving government control over more and more of our lives.
- 1:13Not because it's Canada, but because I'm seeing the same thing happen down here in the United States.
- 1:19And that has to do with this obsession with physician assisted suicide.
- 1:24Now, listen, I have a personal moral issue with suicide.
- 1:32You know, you have the liberty to take your own life.
- 1:34I don't see that as a constitutional issue.
- 1:37I get very concerned when you try to get other people to help you, especially when they're acting in the name of the government.
- 1:47Canada has had their own physicians to assisted suicide law for many, many years.
- 1:52And um, well, more and more data's coming out about just how dangerous having, especially when you've got a government-run healthcare system, just how dangerous that could be.
- 4:36That to me is crossing uh a moral line, a moral rubicon.
- 4:41I understand the scenario that says, listen, um, you know what?
- 4:45My life is miserable.
- 4:47And while I think it's wrong, I understand from a constitutional standpoint, the liberty to take one's own life can be argued.
- 4:59Right.
- 4:59Um the ability to coerce someone or compel someone to participate in that.
- 5:07That to me is a problem.
- 5:08And the reason I bring this up is I see more and more uh states and and and cities that are proposing medically this same type of medical assistances in dying.
- 5:18And it's always from the standpoint of well, you know, is dignity in dying.
- 5:23What dignity is there in death?
- 5:25I was there with my father at the end.
- 5:28Trust me, there is no dignity in death.
- 5:32Uh, you know, you you you you may decide that that you can't take it anymore.
- 5:36My father had decided that he didn't want any more treatment.
- 5:41The the treatment was causing more pain than it was worth.
- 5:44He just wanted to let nature take its course.
- 5:48Okay.
- 5:49We made sure he was comfortable.
- 5:52We made sure he didn't have pain.
- 5:54We did the best we could to give him whatever time he had left to see and and be with family and friends.
- 6:02But when you say this this idea that some people think we we should have had a doctor simply end his life so he wouldn't be a burden anymore.
- 6:15I'm sorry, that that just doesn't compute for me.
- 6:19And especially when you see now in Canada, right?
- 6:21The doctors, they have a national health care system.
- 6:27They doctors work for the government.
- 6:29So now you have government actors encouraging people to die.
- 6:35Why?
- 6:35Because they're a drain on this on the uh uh on the system, or is it just because he's old and he's gonna die soon anyway?
- 6:43I mean, that to me really is a how do I put this?
- 6:48It's a pretty lousy way of of doing things.
- 6:52And it's something that, again, I see more and more people in the states promoting this idea.
- 7:00And again, I'm all for hospice.
- 7:00And again, I'm all for hospice, I'm all for palliative care, I'm all for making sure people as they're dying, they're kept comfortable, they can spend as much time with family as situations allow.
- 7:02I'm all for palliative care.
- 7:04I'm all for making sure people, as they're dying, they're kept comfortable.
- 7:08They can spend as much time with family as situations allow.
- 7:15But when you tell me that a doctor that a person has a a duty to die to make their life the lives of others easier, that that that to me is evil.
- 7:15When you tell me that a doctor that a person has a duty to die to make their life the lives of others easier, that that to me is evil.
- 7:24That's manslaughter at best.
- 7:24That's manslaughter at best.
- 7:28But really, should we be surprised that that?
- 7:28But really, should we be surprised that that you know healthcare systems run by government have a problem that they don't work?
- 7:37I mean, that was that's Canada.
- 7:39Great.
- 7:39Okay, we don't want replicated.
- 7:41I don't want to see replicated here.
- 7:42But I go back to a 2022 law called the the no surprises act.
- 7:48And the idea was simple, right?
- 7:50You you know nobody knows what a medical bill is gonna cost, right?
- 7:54I remember my wife, my wife has a serious disease, she was on some exotic medication, and I had the temerity to want to know how much that medication actually cost.
- 8:05Nobody could tell me.
- 8:06They could tell me what my insurance would cover.
- 8:08They could tell me what my co-pay was, but they could never actually tell me what the drug cost.
- 8:14When I finally found out, I understood why it was ridiculous.
- 8:20So I believe that you know you should know, you know, uh hospitals, doctors.
- 8:26Yeah, I'd love to have them.
- 8:27This is what we charge.
- 8:29And uh, you know, you see you know ahead of time what things are gonna cost.
- 8:32And the idea of this bill was to make sure that if you get treatment outside of your network, right?
- 8:40That's that old HMO nonsense.
- 8:42Um, you had an idea what things would cost.
- 8:46But as usual, uh the devils are in the details.
- 8:50See, this law created what's an independent arbitration system.
- 8:53And the idea was listen, when there's a dispute between the providers and the payers, right?
- 8:59Between the the doctors and the hospitals and the insurance companies, um, there was a arbitration system to work out the details.
- 9:07Now, arbitration can really be a good thing in a lot of of uh uh civil cases, right?
- 9:13Where rather than going to court, you have an arbiter, uh, the rules are a little more lax, and the arbiter is supposed to find a um a fair solution to the controversy.
- 9:28But then again, it all depends on who the arbiter is, isn't it?
- 9:32Now, first you have to look at the number of arbitrations, right?
- 9:34When when Congress passed this law, they expected 17,000 disputes per year, right?
- 9:42Uh good sized number, but all right.
- 9:45Here's the problem.
- 9:48Um between April 2022 and uh March of 2026, on average, there's one been 1.4 million arbitration disputes per year.
- 10:02Quite a bit higher than the 17,000 Congress expected.
- 10:07But there's more because it seems to be a vast majority of these uh arbitration outcomes seem to fall towards the higher than expected fees charged by out of by these providers.
- 10:21Meaning not only are there more arbitrations, but they're getting more expensive.
- 10:26The they tend to be leaning towards the provider that has that that's wanting more money.
- 10:32Um not sure if that's just or not, because again, you know, you're dealing with who is the arbiter.
- 10:39It it makes people wonder um, you know, are these arbiters actually fair and impartial arbiters, or do they have some preferences, some leanings one way or another?
- 10:55Because we'd never have a a government actor that that would use their position to uh well to advance their own agenda.
- 11:04That would never happen.
- 11:06Well, for example, uh the infamous Elon Omar, right?
- 11:10The the uh um representative from from Minnesota that well just has been all in trying to find money to do health care in in Minneapolis, right?
- 11:21She's she secured millions of taxpayer dollars, your dollars and my dollars to help for support uh health care clinics in in Minneapolis.
- 11:32The fact that that money is embezzled to the American people, that the federal government is not legally authorized to spend any money on health care is completely ignored, ignored by the media, by the courts, pretty much ignored by everyone.
- 11:46But then we find out that, well, a lot of those millions of dollars in your money that Ms.
- 11:52Omar secured, yeah, it was for her sister.
- 11:57Now, I don't know about you.
- 12:00That does seem to be a bit of a conflict of interest in my mind.
- 12:05I mean, you you know, I mean, it it is not and it's not like she hasn't been celebrating it.
- 12:10Um, you know, uh uh Ms.
- 12:13Omar hosted on X that you know they were celebrating the the $2 million she got for the people clinic center, whose CEO is Sara Noor, who is apparently Ms.
- 12:28Omar's sister.
- 12:30Nothing to see here.
- 12:32Now listen, healthcare is a much is enough of a mess is I believe in large part for the amount of government regulation that has become part of it.
- 12:40Uh, I'd like to see them gone, be done with I, you know, I'd like the federal government, nothing in the constitution delegates the federal government the authority to regulate health care, not to pay for it, not to regulate it.
- 12:53When they do so, they violate the 10th amendment, they violate the supremacy, the uh uh necessary and proper clause.
- 13:00They just claim violate the constitution and the oath that Congress took to support that document.
- 13:06And oh, by the way, the entire all everyone in the executive branch is involved in this as well, all of which are uh because what they're really doing is embezzling money, taking money and spending it where that they're not legally allowed to do so.
- 13:20Um and we expect them to make things better.
- 13:23I'm certainly, I'm not sure why anybody thinks a government program is gonna make medical care better because the evidence is it hasn't.
- 13:34Now, what it really shows is that it government's really good at making difficult bureaucratic systems for those who otherwise couldn't afford um medical treatment.
- 13:45Uh, they can get medical treatment if they go through all the crazy hoops and restrictions of government, but it also shows that it also encourages people who otherwise may have taken care of their own medical needs.
- 14:00Well, just sit back and say, well, we'll just let the government take care of it when the time comes.
- 14:00Well, just sit back and say, well, we'll just let the government take care of it uh when the time comes.
- 14:06Again, government just making one more thing worse.
- 14:06Again, government just making one more thing worse.
- 14:10Pretty much everything they touch, they tend to do that.
- 14:10Pretty much everything they touch, they tend to do that.
- 14:15Now, if we're speaking about medical needs, are you prepared for an emergency?
- 14:15Now, if we're speaking about medical needs, are you prepared for an emergency?
- 14:20I don't know about you, but you know, I have uh in my home, I have I have uh um fire extinguishers, I have first aid kits, I have I even have trauma kits in my home.
- 14:20I don't know about you, but you know, I have uh in my home, I have I have uh uh fire extinguishers, I have first aid kits, I have I even have trauma kits in my home, my car.
- 14:30I have all those because you never know when you need them.
- 14:33You need to be prepared.
- 14:35But what about uh the rest of the time?
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- 19:30Well, did you see Google quietly updated its AI principles removing its pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance?
- 19:40A promise they agree to in 2018.
- 19:43Well, the American people have seen Google's track record.
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- 19:56Now is our time, my fellow Americans.
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- 20:21First time I talked about health care.
- 20:22I want to spend some time on immigration.
- 20:25This came from a recent Rasmussen survey that uh said overall 49% of America of those surveyed oppose deporting illegal aliens while 45% support it.
- 20:42I find this interesting for a couple of reasons, not the least of which this idea that uh we're gonna we're gonna uh uh regulate or maybe legislate via opinion polls.
- 20:54I find it interesting that people have opinions about whether or not to actually enforce the law.
- 20:59But even the law has a lot of questions to it.
- 21:00Has a lot of questions to it.
- 21:01But this, of course, this survey that went a lot into political parties, which is not what I'm trying to throw it here.
- 21:01But this, of course, this survey that went a lot into political parties, which is not what I'm trying to tell it here, but I find it interesting that we're roughly spit 50 50 about actually enforcing our immigration laws.
- 21:07But I find it interesting that we're roughly spit 50-50 about actually enforcing our immigration laws.
- 21:16But that that that kind of got my attention.
- 21:16But that that kind of got my attention.
- 21:18This next clip, though, this one um is one I really want to talk about.
- 21:18This next clip, though, this one is one I really want to talk about.
- 21:23I think this one is really uh really important.
- 21:23I think this one is really uh really important.
- 21:25It's actually an interview uh of a candidate for.
- 21:25It's actually an interview of a candidate for a congressional seat out of Pennsylvania, who just happens to be a member of the Democratic Party.
- 21:36You also said you're running to abolish ICE.
- 21:39This is something that we've heard other Democrats and activists talk about.
- 21:44Yeah.
- 21:44Um, from an immigration enforcement perspective, yes.
- 21:48Who do you think should be in charge of enforcing immigration laws?
- 21:54It's a good question.
- 21:56You know, that is a good question, but I don't think it's the question that uh this lady is thinking of, this uh Alla Stanford.
- 22:04Um she paused for a little bit.
- 22:06In fact, she asked for them to pause the program so she can think about this answer.
- 22:12Uh, to me, it's an interesting question because again, the constitution is very specific.
- 22:17The 10th Amendment, power is not delegated to the United States by this constitution, nor prohibited by the state by to the states, are reserved to the states respectively to the people.
- 22:27Meaning, well, the first question should be well, who has been delegated the authority to create immigration laws?
- 22:35Because the Constitution doesn't delegate that to the United States.
- 22:39Congress can set standard rules for naturalization, but says nothing about immigration.
- 22:45But of course, she's all against ICE.
- 22:48She's against ice, she wants to ban ice, but she doesn't have any idea how you'd actually enforce it.
- 22:52But then it goes on, it gets better, I promise you.
- 22:56Who do I think should be in charge of enforcing immigration laws?
- 23:02Not the executive branch.
- 23:04So not the president.
- 23:06So it belongs with Congress.
- 23:09It belongs with Congress.
- 23:13Okay, I I'm really trying hard not to hotch my head explode, as you have this person running from Congress showing an absolute ignorance of one of the most fundamental aspects of the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, the land that if she the law, the law that if she were to win office, she would take an oath to support.
- 23:37Congress makes the laws, the president executes the laws.
- 23:42The Constitution says that the president takes takes an oath that they will faithfully execute the laws of the United States.
- 23:48That's his job.
- 23:50The executive branch is there to help him execute the laws.
- 23:55Now, I'm trying to figure out does she expecting that that the people in Congress are going to go down to the border and enforce the law?
- 24:02I mean, is that really what this to me, ladies and gentlemen, it's a perfect example of why we need to have a better mechanism of vetting people that we would vote for for any political office.
- 24:17One should be a basic fundamental understanding of the constitution, they're going to take an oath to support.
- 24:22If you don't have that, well, sorry, you're not qualified.
- 24:27Now, the whole thing about whether this should be a state power or a federal power, that's what I'd love to have a discussion and debate on, because most people don't.
- 24:35They simply assume it's a federal power.
- 24:36Whether it should be a federal power is another question.
- 24:40I'm talking about what it is today.
- 24:43But really, you have someone running for Congress that thinks it's Congress's job to enforce the law, not simply write the law.
- 24:51So I guess separation of powers doesn't uh doesn't make much of a difference to this candidate for Congress.
- 24:58Now, I'm not saying that the executive branch is doing a stand-up job of enforcing our laws.
- 25:03Uh it's not all their fault, but let's face it, there's there's there's still a lot of problems in the system.
- 25:08Uh, for example, there's a gentleman by the name of Carlos Nava, who is who has been deported from this country eight times.
- 25:19Not once, not twice, eight.
- 25:21One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
- 25:24Yet he keeps sneaking back into the country.
- 25:27And he's now accused of brutally raping seven teen women and girls across three different states.
- 25:40According to the prosecutors, police found 17 sets of victims' underwear neatly folded and tucked, as if you were keeping trophies.
- 25:51So I want to ask that that uh that candidate, um uh, you know, Ms.
- 25:57Stanford, um, you really think Congress is up to put to taking care of this?
- 26:02Do you really?
- 26:03I say I agree.
- 26:04The executive branch isn't doing their job.
- 26:06They deported this guy eight times.
- 26:08He keeps getting back in.
- 26:10Of course, how often he got in because the Democrat-led administration refused to enforce our laws, that I don't know.
- 26:19How many of those 17 women would have would not have been victims if he had been kept out after, say, oh, the first three deportations.
- 26:29I don't know.
- 26:31What I and it does that mean that all people who are here illegally are rapists and murderers?
- 26:37No.
- 26:38Does it mean that, you know, well, you know, five times you're safe, six, eight, that no.
- 26:44But it goes to show we're doing a pretty piss poor job of enforcing our laws.
- 26:50And there are people in this country who are they're suffering the consequences.
- 26:58As I said, it's not all the executive branches' fault.
- 27:02An activist judge has ordered an illegal alien wanted for murder, released from ICE custody.
- 27:12Brian Rafael Gomez is a criminal illegal alien.
- 27:17He's from the Dominican Republic.
- 27:19He has an international warrant for arrest for homicide.
- 27:24And uh a federal judge, Melissa Du Bois ordered that he be released from ICE custody.
- 27:36Now, this happened in Massachusetts.
- 27:40In fact, the Mr.
- 27:41Gomez was arrested by the Worcester, Massachusetts Police Department.
- 27:45So maybe there's a logical reason because you have the the crazy wackadoodlist in Massachusetts.
- 27:50Um we used to have an interesting name for them.
- 27:52I won't repeat it here.
- 27:54Uh, that said, you know what, even though he's here illegally, so he's breaking he's broken the law, uh, even though there's a not just a state or federal, there's an international warrant for his arrest for murder.
- 28:00Uh, even though there's a not just a a state or federal, there's an international warrant for his arrest for murder.
- 28:05No, no, no, we're not gonna, we're not actually not gonna let him be.
- 28:05No, no, no, we're not gonna, we're not actually not gonna let him be.
- 28:08We want to let him free.
- 28:08We want to let him free.
- 28:11This, by the way, is a I believe a federal judge.
- 28:11This, by the way, is a I believe a federal judge.
- 28:15Hagen he guesses what uh president appointed her.
- 28:15Hagen he guesses what uh president appointed her.
- 28:20Yeah, it was Joe Biden.
- 28:20Yeah, it was Joe Biden.
- 28:23To me, this is not a question of donkeys versus elephant.
- 28:23To me, this is not a question of donkeys versus elephant.
- 28:26This is just the incompetence of an administration that just is.
- 28:26This is just the incompetence of an administration that just isn't interested or wasn't interested in the rule of law.
- 28:34And uh now there is an alleged murderer running free in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts because a judge said so.
- 28:45Not because the executive branch couldn't enforce the law, but because a judge let him go.
- 28:52In violation of the very federal law, she took an oath to support.
- 28:56So, yeah.
- 28:59It's not all the executive branches' fault.
- 29:02And now we head down to New Jersey, where four non-residents of the that lived in, they were in the state of Jew, but they're not legal residents.
- 29:12They certainly were not citizens.
- 29:14Uh, they have been charged in separate criminal complaints for allegedly voting in federal elections, which is illegal, and then lying about it when applying for U.S.
- 29:26citizenship.
- 29:26Well, let me tell you, it is not a federal crime to not be to vote as a non-citizen.
- 29:34And nothing in the Constitution says you have to be a citizen of the United States.
- 29:38What this is a violation of New Jersey, or the New Jersey Constitution, which does require you to be a citizen to vote in that state.
- 29:47So what we have here is uh again, a state crime that was committed.
- 29:51They uh they were, I don't know what the actual crime is in New Jersey, but they were ineligible, yet they voted um for four of them.
- 29:58And I told Paulish, yeah, it's just four.
- 29:59Yeah, it's just four.
- 30:01Uh, how much is enough?
- 30:03Uh how many of these illegal aliens illegal or these non, I shouldn't say legal, these non-citizens voting is enough.
- 30:14And um, even though they're being charged by the the U.S.
- 30:17Department of Justice, guess what?
- 30:20They didn't violate the Constitution of the United States, and that federal law that says you have it's illegal, but uh, I don't even try to remember what the federal law is that requires citizenship for voting.
- 30:31Um, because if it is, it was not made pursuant to the constitution.
- 30:34It's not the Supreme Law of the land.
- 30:36In fact, according to Alexander Hamilton, it's not even it's not valid because it was a legislative act not made pursuant to the constitution.
- 30:44You're kind of seeing a mess showing up here, right?
- 30:48So, yeah, you government is we we say, okay, government, you take care of that.
- 30:53We even asked the federal government to do something they're not legally authorized to do, that is uh regulate immigration, and they're not doing a very good job of that either.
- 31:01And really, is anyone surprised?
- 31:04I mean, if you are, you're probably surprised when Lucy pulls a football away when Charlie Brown tries to kick it, because this has been going on and on, and they keep making a mess of things.
- 31:14I'm sometimes asked you know, well, is there anything that government does well?
- 31:18Yeah, they waste money well, and they infringe on people's rights pretty well.
- 31:23Beyond that, there's not much that they do well.
- 31:26And I always laugh, well, you know, they're in charge of education.
- 31:29Yeah, look at what mess that is.
- 31:31Yeah, well, uh pretty much everything the federal government is in charge of is a mess.
- 31:37And not to be the states are really not that far behind if I come to think about it.
- 31:42But again, we like to point the fingers at government, but guess what?
- 31:46It's we the people that are picking these people that are serving.
- 31:50I wonder how many votes Ms.
- 31:52Stanford is going to get in Pennsylvania in her in her congressional district, because she thinks it's Congress's job to enforce the laws.
- 32:01I wonder how many people in her district even recognize that it's a problem.
- 32:07I remember John Jay said every member of the state odility to read and study the constitution of his country, teacher right in generation free.
- 32:14He also said by knowing their rights, they'll sooner perceive when they are violated.
- 32:18Well, here we are, people in Pennsylvania that may hire someone to hold a constitutionally established office that is utterly illiterate when it comes to the Constitution.
- 32:32Are they gonna vote for her?
- 32:34Are they even gonna are they even gonna vet her on the question of her understanding of the oath she would take should she win office?
- 32:44I would say based on history, my guess is no.
- 32:47Not because it's Pennsylvania, not because she's a member of the Democratic Party, but simply because the American people are woefully ignorant about the supreme law of the land, the Constitution of the United States.
- 33:00And you know what?
- 33:01I don't even so much blame, I mean, I sure know, I blame the education system, but ultimately I'm I blame us.
- 33:06It's the parents.
- 33:08We've failed to teach our children.
- 33:10We've failed to teach the rising generation to be free.
- 33:13We've asked government to do it.
- 33:15Government can't do it because in order for government schools to teach the children to be free, they'd have to teach the children that government is their servant.
- 33:24And you really can't teach somebody once you've taught them that you're there to serve them, and um they don't have to listen to you.
- 33:33It's the problem.
- 33:35It's what happens when we let government try to do things that they're woefully inadequately equipped for.
- 33:43I know that's bad news, but guess what?
- 33:45It's not all that that bad.
- 33:47There are there is an answer.
- 33:49The answer is we the people.
- 33:51The answer is go we going back and reading and studying the constitution, that we teach the rising generation to be free, that we know what our rights are, and that we are prepared to defend and assert them.
- 34:02That's what the system that's that's the system our founding fathers created.
- 34:08A system where government actors are public servants, and it's up to the public to hold them accountable, to treat them like the employees they are, to vet them for their jobs, and when they fail to do their job properly to get rid of them and find somebody else.
- 34:24That's our job.
- 34:26That's the job we're supposed to do.
- 34:28It's the job I hear at the cut, we here at the Constitution at the Constitution Study are trying to teach others to pick up the mantle for.
- 34:36See, if we don't, if government's no good at this, who is well, if it's gonna be we the people, we need some better education to do that.
- 34:44That's what we're trying to do here.
- 34:45That's why I hope you'll join me.
- 34:47Because our rights are under attack from all sorts of quarters.
- 34:50You know, I talk a lot about government because they're off in the mechanism.
- 34:53But remember, they're often lobbied, they're encouraged by by NGOs and nonprofits and and lobbyist organizations that have their own agenda.
- 35:00Lobbyist organizations that have their own agenda.
- 35:02Much of it involves taking away our rights so that they can get what they want.
- 35:02Much of it involves taking away our rights so that they can get what they want.
- 35:08Let's stop funding those organizations.
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- 35:10Let's stop doing business with the corporations that are giving money to organizations that are trying to take away our rights.
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- 39:17Welcome back, everybody, Americans you rejoin the Constitution study.
- 39:21Today we're talking about government making things worse.
- 39:23I said in the last segment, there is one thing that the government, especially the federal government is good at that's wasting money.
- 39:33According to a recent report from the government accountability office, the federal government in fiscal year 2024 wasted 153 billion of your dollars in overpayments, paying more than they were supposed to pay for some transaction.
- 39:58That is 24 billion more over last year.
- 40:02So I'm sorry, 2025, 153 billion.
- 40:05That's 24 billion more than last year.
- 40:08So yeah, I did find something that the federal government is good at that is wasting your money.
- 40:12And why?
- 40:13The technical term is a third-party payer problem.
- 40:16Um, Milton Freeman described this really well.
- 40:20It says very simple.
- 40:21When you buy something that you're going to use with your own money, you care the quality, you care how much it costs because you're going to use it and it's your money.
- 40:30When you're buying something that somebody else is going to use, but it's your money, you care about how much it costs, not so much it's quality.
- 40:37Vice versa, if you're using someone else's money to buy something for you, well, you care about the quality, but not so much about the cost.
- 40:46Just as anybody who's been on a corporate expense uh account.
- 40:49But the worst situation is when you're spending somebody else's money for something someone else used, the third-party payer.
- 40:57And that pretty much is always government.
- 41:00Government is taking other people's money for things that those individuals are not going to use.
- 41:05They don't care about price overruns, they don't care about the cost, they don't care about the quality because they're not going to pay for it and they're not going to use it.
- 41:13Which leads us to the government wasting billions, hundreds of billions of dollars a year in these improper payments.
- 41:20Now, I do want to look at something where, like I said, government gets things wrong all the time.
- 41:25Well, a federal appeals court has upheld a Texas law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools.
- 41:35It was a 9-8 decision of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
- 41:39Um, and uh it was a challenge saying it was an establishment of religion, kind of ignoring the fact that uh the Ten Commandments is kind of the basis of much of Western culture.
- 41:50I mean, I could understand people that saying, you know, I'm Lord your God and you'll have no other gods before me.
- 41:55Yeah, people could be uh throw that, but uh thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not murder, thou shalt honor thy mother and father.
- 42:00Steal, thou shalt not murder, thou shalt honor thy mother and father.
- 42:04Yeah, those are really bad things to teach children, isn't it?
- 42:04Yeah, those are really bad things to teach children, isn't it?
- 42:07You know, do not covet, do not steal.
- 42:07You know, do not covet, do not steal.
- 42:09Yeah, those are things we we we really don't want to teach.
- 42:09Yeah, those those are things we we we really don't want to teach.
- 42:12How dare you actually display those in schools?
- 42:12How dare you actually display those in schools?
- 42:16So, okay, you had a government entity, in this case the Fifth Circuit that got it right.
- 42:16So, okay, you had a government entity, in this case the Fifth Circuit that got it right.
- 42:21I'm curious if this is going to get appealed because I know a lot of people that believe that the separation of church and state is part of the constitution.
- 42:21I'm curious if this is going to get appealed, because I know a lot of people that believe that the separation of church and state is part of the constitution.
- 42:29It's
- 42:29It's not, but you know, it's it actually comes from a letter that Jefferson sent to the Danbury Baptist where he says, don't worry about your about being picked on because the Constitution raises a wall of separation protecting the church from the state, not the other way around.
- 42:50Now, I have a question.
- 42:52Yay, people ask questions.
- 42:54I love when people ask questions, and I don't get nearly as many of them as I would like.
- 42:58So if you'd like to ask me a question, just go to Constitution Study.com/slash questions and uh answer ask the question.
- 43:06Now I do ask for your name and email address because I'm going to email your response, just as I did the gentleman who asked today's question.
- 43:13But if you would like me to answer this on the radio, like the gentleman here, all you have to do is check the boxes is please answer on America.
- 43:22So let me read you today's question.
- 43:25Um says uh uh he said uh would you address what has happened to the Ninth Amendment?
- 43:33You address the first, tenth, and fourteenth amendments regularly, but not the ninth.
- 43:37Is it even operative anymore?
- 43:39He goes on to say, by the way, you host an interesting and informative show.
- 43:43Please tell keep up the great work.
- 43:44Thank you very much, sir.
- 43:46I appreciate the compliment.
- 43:47Let's talk about the Ninth Amendment.
- 43:49Now, we don't talk a lot about the Ninth Amendment because it's not an amendment that's violated very often.
- 43:59Let me explain.
- 44:00The Ninth Amendment reads the enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
- 44:10So in other words, there's not a specific right protected by the Ninth Amendment.
- 44:15However, doesn't mean it's not operative.
- 44:18The biggest concern we have or issue we have is okay.
- 44:22Um when we talk about rights that have not been specifically enumerated in the constitution, how do we know what a right is?
- 44:30Because it's not something we're taught in school.
- 44:33Now, if you go to say uh the free legal dictionary, you read a right, it says, well, in an abstract sense, justice, ethical correctness, or harmony with the rules of law or the principles of morals in a concrete legal sense, a power, privilege, demand or claim possessed by a particular person by virtue of law.
- 44:52If that makes sense, God bless you.
- 44:55Um there are I think better simple, I should say maybe maybe not as detailed, but simpler definitions of a right in this context.
- 45:06Uh say, for example, uh the Webster's 1828 dictionary, which in this context defines a right as a just claim, immunity, or privilege.
- 45:19And they use the example, all men have a right to secure enjoyment of life, personal safety, liberty, and property.
- 45:25Now, why is that important?
- 45:26Well, because many people claim as a right something that isn't legally a right.
- 45:31For example, people claim the right to health care.
- 45:34Well, the problem is that cannot be a right because it puts a uh a burden on others.
- 45:40You either demand that they work for free, or someone has to pay the bill, as opposed to say freedom of speech, which simply demands that you be left alone.
- 45:48Now, there are certain scenarios where positive rights uh um are legitimate, but the problem we have the reason I don't talk a lot about the Ninth Amendment is because I've seen very rare situations where people claim a right that isn't specifically enumerated in the constitution, but still is um legitimate.
- 46:09It it's I have no, I don't it's not a disparagement of the Ninth Amendment.
- 46:13The Ninth Amendment was simply a way of saying just because it's not listed here doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
- 46:21Um sadly, today it it's one of those situations where most people don't comprehend even how to define a right.
- 46:28But look, let me give you an example.
- 46:31Uh so let's say that you use a cell phone, right?
- 46:34And uh you uh you know, you're on your internet and checking emails and all that data that's collected by the cell phone and is your data, which means you should think it would be covered under the fourth amendment as part of your effects.
- 46:51But the constitution doesn't say if you have a right to your data on your your email or your your uh a cell phone.
- 46:59You know, the the data about you that's collected by your cell phone, your location data, your app usage, your website history.
- 47:07Um, you know, most people think they have a right to privacy for that, but it's not enumerated in the constitution.
- 47:13Sadly, it's also been ignored by the Supreme Court of the United States, but that's that to me is a whole nother issue.
- 47:20Uh, another example, for example, um, the courts have said you have the right to not be forced to unlock your phone during a stop or an arrest.
- 47:31Um, by the way, that's a little trickier nowadays with biometrics, because the court also said that uh they say you can't be forced to um open your phone, but cops can force you to force you to use your biometrics to unlock the phone.
- 47:44It's uh a bit of a of a conundrum.
- 47:46But the the fact that you're you have a right to not unlock your phone is not specifically enumerated in the constitution, but you still have it because it falls under your right against unreasonable searches.
- 47:58So uh the person who asked, I didn't get permission to use their name, but um, I thought that was a very good question.
- 48:05It was a uh uh again, it reminded me of something I don't talk a lot about because I don't have a lot of uh sources for that um in the in the news that I'm covering, but thank you.
- 48:16It's it's it's a good question.
- 48:18Uh by the way, the person responded back and he said, I wonder if the Ninth Amendment would have any traction in the health freedom movement, assuming as you rightly observe, that the judiciary can even read and understand the amendment.
- 48:31Um yeah, I would say that uh it would I don't know that it would specifically be the Ninth Amendment because I think of health freedom, I think of the the right to not be deprived of life literary property.
- 48:46I have a property in my body.
- 48:48So, you know, you can't stick it something in me because that would violate my liberty, it'd violate the property I have in my body.
- 48:56So I don't know that it would be so much a ninth amendment, but you could say, yeah, your your right to bodily autonomy is a uh a right that would that would would not be disparaged because it isn't listed in the constitution, uh, as long as you did not use that to harm or infringe on the rights of others.
- 49:00Say, yeah, your your right to bodily autonomy is a uh a right that would that would not be disparaged because it isn't listed in the Constitution, uh, as long as you did not use that to harm or infringe on the rights of others.
- 49:15That's kind of the the litmus test.
- 49:15That's kind of the the litmus test.
- 49:17When your right, when the exercise of a right infringes on the rights of others, then it's not a legitimate right.
- 49:17When your right, when the exercise of a right infringes on the rights of others, then it's not a legitimate right.
- 49:24So hopefully that answered uh this gentleman's question.
- 49:24So hopefully that answered uh this gentleman's question.
- 49:28Um, I think it did.
- 49:28Um, I think it did when I sent him an email.
- 49:31I hope you found that an interesting question.
- 49:34Uh, I hope you uh you'll be encouraged to well, send me some more questions.
- 49:38I love answering questions.
- 49:39If I got more questions, I do whole segments on answering questions because to me, questions are important.
- 49:46One, as you saw, it opened me up to something I hadn't considered, the fact that I hadn't talked a lot about the Ninth Amendment.
- 49:52Um, but it's also how we learned.
- 49:55So again, head to Constitution Study.com/slash questions, and please, please ask your questions.
- 50:00And if you'd like me to answer them on the radio, check the box.
- 50:03I'd love to have I'd love to do like one segment a week that was just answering people's questions.
- 50:09But for that to happen, oh, you have to actually start asking me some questions.
- 50:13So please do.
- 50:14And and don't be concerned that it's a stupid question, because to me, there are only two stupid questions in the world.
- 50:20The one you don't ask and the one you asked three times.
- 50:23If you don't know, ask.
- 50:24If you're not sure, ask.
- 50:26All I ask is that you listen so that I don't have to keep repeating the same answer over and over and over again.
- 50:33So going back to the premise of this episode, you know, it we the people have been taught, trained, propagandized, lied to, to believe that government is the answer.
- 50:47I'm sorry, that's Marxist think.
- 50:50That's communist think.
- 50:51That's socialist thing, that the government is the answer.
- 50:54This is supposed to be the land of the free, meaning government is there to secure our rights, not us.
- 51:02They're there to protect our liberties, not protect us.
- 51:06We have the responsibility.
- 51:08And that's why it's so important, not just that we participate, that we vote, but how we decide who we're going to vote for.
- 51:17Turning things over to government doesn't make them better.
- 51:19And in the long run, it generally makes things worse.
- 51:22And sadly, it's generally our children and their children who suffer the worst for our unwillingness to do the job.
- 51:31The Constitution starts out with we the people, not we, the government, not we, the rulers, not we the dictators, we the people.
- 51:42We need to be responsible for what's going on.
- 51:44When we see a problem, we should be looking for ways to fix it.
- 51:48Not simply saying, well, government will take care of that.
- 51:50Yeah, and how well is that work?
- 51:52How's that work with Social Security?
- 51:54How's that worked with welfare?
- 51:55How's that worked with Snap and Food stamps?
- 51:58How has that worked?
- 52:00We throw tons and tons of money and things just keep getting worse.
- 52:04Like our education, right?
- 52:05The more money we throw at public education, the worse our education seems to get.
- 52:10You think there's a clue there.
- 52:13Expecting government, just because someone gets a government paycheck doesn't mean they're right, doesn't mean they're perfect, doesn't mean they're saints.
- 52:20They're still human.
- 52:22And we need to recognize that.
- 52:24And we need to take responsibility for our own lives.
- 52:28I'm I'm I'm getting ready for uh a speech I'm giving in a in a couple weeks in Florida.
- 52:33Actually, just over a week now.
- 52:35And um the point I make is the John Jay didn't tell us to have the government teach horizon generation be free.
- 52:45He told us to teach the rising generation be free.
- 52:49It's not just education.
- 52:51There are certain things that government is the only reasonable answer because it's a shared responsibility, right?
- 52:58Governments build roads, um, you know, governments enforce laws, governments pass laws.
- 53:04That's our shared responsibility.
- 53:06But pretty much everything else we're supposed to do, not hand it over some government bureaucrat in some vain hope that they'll do it for us.
- 53:16As I said, this is the land of the free.
- 53:20250 years ago, we our our founding fathers said we are no longer subjects of England.
- 53:28We are free and independent states, that we have all the same rights and powers.
- 53:33Now we decided to voluntarily join a union unionize and join together in a union that doesn't change the fact that it's supposed to be free and independent states made up of free and independent people.
- 53:46The 250th anniversary of the publication of the Declaration of Independence should be a time to remember that great document, that great era.
- 53:55And hopefully to try and emulate it.
- 54:00Now, there are a lot of ways you can do that.
- 54:02I hope you'll you'll take some time.
- 54:03Sit down and read the Declaration of Independence.
- 54:06Read it with your family, read it with your kids.
- 54:09Explain to them as you go through those 27 specific grievances.
- 54:14Explain to them what they mean.
- 54:16If you don't know, well, you can find out.
- 54:19There's plenty of documents.
- 54:20I wrote a doc I wrote a book on the Declaration of Independence.
- 54:23You can find on the website, Constitution Study.com.
- 54:25You can ask a question of the website, Constitution Study.com slash questions.
- 54:30But find out.
- 54:32Let's celebrate the semi-quincentennial by becoming a better educated populace.
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- 55:32Let's recognize that we didn't create a nation where the government would do things for us.
- 55:37We created a nation where the government is protecting our rights so that we can do for ourselves.
- 55:44We may not always agree.
- 55:46We may not always like it, but that's the point.
- 55:49When government tells you everything from what type of car you can drive to what type of toilet you can sit on, we're not free.
- 55:57This is a time to celebrate.
- 55:59Let's get government out of the business of running our lives and back in the business of securing our rights.
- 56:00Let's get government out of the business of running our lives and back in the business of securing our rights.
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