"I know healthcare is not in the Constitution but it is a moral issue."
The above quote is from a left-leaning friend of mine during a discussion of the repeal of Obamacare.
Question: Given the list below, is the federal government the best purveyor of morals?
- The federal government once endorsed and enforced slavery.
- It once required the return of fugitive slaves.
- It once invaded a part of the country that wanted to secede from the union.
- It once suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
- It once prohibited women and blacks from voting.
- It once forced Japanese-Americans into internment camps.
- It once confiscated the private gold of American citizens.
- It once ordered the slaughter of millions of pigs and the plowing under of millions of acres of cotton.
- It once endorsed and enforced segregation of public schools.
- It has sent hundreds of thousands of American soldiers to die in other countries.
- It has racked up over $20 trillion in debt.
- It claims that the killing of a baby in the womb is not murder but a "privacy" issue.
- It confiscates a portion of one citizen's earnings and gives it to another.
- It collects electronic communications of Americans without a warrant.
- It was maintaining kill lists of American citizens living abroad that are subject to targeted drone assassinations.
