Federal minimum wage is unconstitutional

[Lord N]

TheRealMafoo said:

What program that used to be run local, that the federal government has taken over, is now run better, or cheeper?

Healthcare (medicare/medicaid), Education (cost vs how much goes to teaching), social security, anything...

I can not see how the federal government running anything, will make it better. There are things they should run for other reasons (like the military), but they don't do it cheeper, or better. A private firm would create a much better military for far cheeper, but I don't want a private firm with an army, so glad it's not done that way.

Contrary to popular belief, one of the problems with America is not that there's too much government, but that there's not enough government.

The deregulation of banks and other savings & loan institutions is the major cause of the current financial crisis. Most of the mortgage fraud was actually perpetrated not by the borrowers, but by the lenders via predatory lending, but what do you expect with no government oversight?

Why do you think that 1/6 of the US population has no healthcare? Why do you think that 18,000 americans die every year due to lack of healthcare? Why do you think that we have infants dying due to being refused access to emergency rooms because they didn't go to an in-network hospital? Why do you think people who really need healthcare, such as people with diabetes, asthma, mental illneses, cancer, etc, are denied coverage?

All corporations and other private firms care about is profits, which means that health insurance companies are not there to provide people with the healthcare that they need. Instead they have a vested interest in denying claims and making sure that their customers don't get the care that they need.

This is what happens when we put corporations in charge of jobs that the government should be doing.