Europe Is Baffled by the U.S. Supreme Court

[dmcowen674]

They are baffled?

There must not be any Conservatives in Europe.

The answer is simple.

Ship the sick to Europe.

4-5-2012

http://news.yahoo.com/europe-baffled-u-supreme-court-220944850.html

Europe Is Baffled by the U.S. Supreme Court


Europe is scratching its head over possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down President Obama's signature legislative achievement. As the judiciary and the Obama administration trade legal barbs over the high court's authority, the idea that health care coverage, largely considered a universal right in Europe, could be deemed an affront to liberty is baffling.

The Guardian's Kevin Powell called the debate "surreal" in his Monday column. "Wasn't the point to make sure the richest and most powerful nation on the planet could protect its own people, as other nations do?" he wrote. "If Americans are promised not just liberty but life and happiness, is there not a constitutional right to affordable healthcare?"

In the German edition of The Financial Times, Sabine Muscat is astonished at Justice Antonin Scalia's argument that if the government can mandate insurance, it can also require people to eat broccoli. "Absurder Vergleich" reads the article's kicker, which in English translates to, "Absurd Comparison." In trying to defeat the bill, Muscat writes, Scalia is making a "strange analogy [to] vegetables."

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

We aren't promised life and happiness and Europe can mind it's own business.

 

[FoBoT]

i'm kind of glad they don't get it, we must be doing something right, still

 

[Greenman]

Is there some reason why we should care what Europe thinks?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

 

[senseamp]

i'm kind of glad they don't get it, we must be doing something right, still

Spending twice as much to get inferior outcomes.

 

[FoBoT]

Spending twice as much to get inferior outcomes.

The Choice Before Us
This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it:

1.The few plunder the many.
2.Everybody plunders everybody.
3.Nobody plunders anybody.

-Frederic Bastiat

i chose #3

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Spending twice as much to get inferior outcomes.

 

[GrGr]

Ooooh, I can add a few faces to the horror show!

 

[thraashman]

Considering we spend more money on healthcare than any other country and are ranked 37th in the world in healthcare, maybe we should listen to some of those other countries.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Considering we spend more money on healthcare than any other country and are ranked 37th in the world in healthcare, maybe we should listen to some of those other countries.

 

[senseamp]

i chose #3

We are now stuck with
#1

 

[Moonbeam]

Oh boy, here we go with self hate Americans feeling once again inferior to the Europeans. But what else is new. People who wear the self hate on their sleeves radiate inferiority. It's really pig stupid that we don't have universal health care and anybody not raised an America with his head up his ass knows it. And one more thing my pitiful fellow citizens, I just got done eating a huge plate of broccoli.

 

[QuantumPion]

Considering we spend more money on healthcare than any other country and are ranked 37th in the world in healthcare, maybe we should listen to some of those other countries.

nah, they use different statistical methods in measuring their health care which makes it seem better than it really is. typical tactic of liberals in power - you have to lie and tell everyone everything is OK otherwise the plebs will start getting antsy.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Oh boy, here we go with self hate Americans feeling once again inferior to the Europeans. But what else is new. People who wear the self hate on their sleeves radiate inferiority. It's really pig stupid that we don't have universal health care and anybody not raised an America with his head up his ass knows it. And one more thing my pitiful fellow citizens, I just got done eating a huge plate of broccoli.

()

 

[blankslate]

Europe just doesn't understand that in America the parties must destroy their political adversaries and lately that extends to the Judges on the court making political decisions based on who nominated them to the court.

Silly naive Europeans.

 

[pauldun170]

What ass wrote that article?

Europeans understand how separation of powers work here and how politics\posturing bounces around the process. The complaints made by European writers in his example mirror that of american writers\journos in the States.

 

[sactoking]

Europeans don't understand that health insurance != health care.

 

[FoBoT]

... I just got done eating a huge plate of broccoli.

was that mandated broccoli or FREEDOM broccoli?

 

[monovillage]

Wasn't that Benedict Arnold? Europe is usually baffled by freedom, it's why they were so anxious to place themselves in the EU chains once the Soviets died.
I like Dave's idea of shipping our chronically sick citizens over to Europe where by law they have to care for them. It'll save the U.S. shitloads of money.

 

[bradley]

Ooooh, I can add a few faces to the horror show!

http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/01/president-george-w-bush.jpg
http://www.history.com/images/media/slideshow/bill-clinton/bill-clinton-portriat.jpg
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/obama_11_05/obama01_16773717.jpg

I especially detest the last two Presidents, but respect the Office as much as always. I'll take our flawed system of checks and balances and our constitutional republic (even our corrupted and fetid health care system) over King George any day.

 

[Matthiasa]

We aren't promised life and happiness and Europe can mind it's own business.

About that life part... but sure happiness was only the pursuit of but all the same.

Something about unalienable rights but I guess that doesn't matter?

 

[Jadow]

the idea that health care coverage, largely considered a universal right in Europe, could be deemed an affront to liberty is baffling.

Alas, someone has to pay for that right. I would prefer to keep the "right" to not be forced to pay for someone else's healthcare

 

[xj0hnx]

Anything that requires you take something from someone else is not a fucking right, stupid Europeans.

 

[epidemis]

People in Europe are stupid - they can't understand why everyone won't copy their great system.