Comments on: A Chicken in Every Pot, an iPod in Every Pocket, and a Right to Just About Everything Else Ingrained in the Constitution

By: Raymond Takashi Swenson

Raymond Takashi Swenson — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:22:13 +0000

Mr. Jackson missed the most important “right” that needs to be added to the Constitution: The right to have an IQ of 100 and a basic understanding of economic reality.

Apparently Mr. Jackson thinks that the Federal government has the same power as God to create manna from heaven, or loaves and fishes, from nothing.

I suspect that this is all a plot by Steve Jobs, to mandate the Federal government buy an iPod for every citizen in the US. And when a new version is issued, of course we will have to all get one of those.

By: Dimitri Cavalli

Dimitri Cavalli — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:21:09 +0000

Aren’t we way past the point of federal legislation improving our lives?

By: pentamom

pentamom — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:21:10 +0000

And Mr. Jackson will be sent back by his constituents to be 1/535 of our governing legislature every two years until he either dies or voluntarily retires. What a depressing thought.

By: John V

John V — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:54:36 +0000

The distinguished gentleman from Chicago seems to introduce each litany of new “rights” by checking some papers on his desk and saying, “He says . . . .” Any idea who the genius he’s referring to might be, or where I can get a copy of that brilliant economic treatise?

By: Michael PS

Michael PS — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:21:03 +0000

Remember when, following the Revolution of 1848, Louis Blanc and the Provisional Government proclaimed the “Right to Work” and established National Workshops, with guaranteed work for the unemployed?

Inevitably, the government ran out of money for them after three months. Inevitably, too, their closure led to the June Days. The Liberals secured a victory over the Radical Republicans, but at the cost of 1,500 dead in combat, thousands of summary executions of prisoners, with thousands more being deported to Algeria.

The Assembly, one recalls, welcomed the surrender of the last barricade with cries of “Long Live the Republic!” What they got, of course, was Napoleon III; as Marx observed, history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

By: Huston

Huston — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:04:38 +0000

Holy cow. And there you have it: a liberal admitting that they believe that legislation can actually, magically, instantly change the nature of reality. Unbelievable.

By: Boze

Boze — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:39:46 +0000

Oh, they get vegetarian “chick’n”

By: Dimitri Cavalli

Dimitri Cavalli — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:25:51 +0000

A chicken in every pot?

What do vegetarians and vegans get? Flaxseed?

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:23:36 +0000

And the leaves will fall into neat little piles.

Or blow away completely.

At night.

Of course.

By: Tom Gilson

Tom Gilson — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:50:55 +0000

“amending the Constitution,” not “amending into…”