Obama The Liar - Its 1937 All Over Again

Shortly after Social Security was passed in 1935 opponents filed lawsuits based upon the constitutionality of the landmark bill.

FDR had promoted Social Security as an "insurance program" and sold it to the American people as such. However, once the case reached the Supreme Court the FDR administration argued in defense of the program that Social Security was constitutional because it was not an insurance program, moreover a tax and entitlement program.

The Supreme Court agreed in Helvering v. Davis (1937) and Social Security has been with us ever since.

Fast forward to 2009-2010, it truly is 1937 all over again.

In 2009 President Obama sat down with George Stephanopoulos on the Sunday show this week and adamantly proclaimed that the Health Care Reform bill "was not a tax".

See here for yourself:


Now, in July 2010 the New York Times (and many more news sources) report a different story. A story with bait and switch echos to the days of FDR.

According to the Times the "Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government's "power to lay and collect taxes.""

Really?! This coming from a President who we've been told taught Constitutional law?!

The President was either a lousy Constitutional scholar or he was flat out lying on ABC's This Week. By virtue of the fact that he claimed the "tax" question was not even a legitimate argument is rather shocking given how his Administration plans to defend the Constitutionality of "Obamacare."

It truly is 1937 all over again.

Seventy years later the entitlements promised in Social Security threaten out nation's financial viability. Add Medicare and all the other entitlement programs since, and now Obamacare and we have to ask ourselves how will we ever pay for this?