Supreme Court heads into final two weeks....what about the BIGGIE?

[Raya @ REAL CONSERVATIVES]

Supreme Court heads into final two weeks

Justices are set to hand down decisions in 14 cases involving violent video games, alleged job discrimination at Wal-Mart, generic drugs and other issues.


The Supreme Court heads into the last two weeks of its term Monday, facing a final round of decisions on matters as varied as violent video games, global warming, drug prescription records and alleged gender bias at Wal-Mart stores.

 

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WHERE'S THE BIGGIE?

In all, the justices are due to hand down decisions in 14 cases that have been argued since November. They will meet Monday and Thursday of this week to announce opinions. The remaining cases are set to be decided the following week.

 

Here are the major cases pending:

 

•Video games: The court will decide whether California and other states can limit the sale of ultra-violent video games to minors. Until now, all the state efforts to regulate video games have been struck down by lower courts on free-speech grounds. (Brown vs. Entertainment Merchants Assn.)

•Job discrimination: The court will decide whether 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees, past and present, can sue the retailer for gender discrimination in the largest employment class-action claim in U.S. history. Civil rights lawyers say only a class action can remedy systematic bias that results in lower wages for female workers. The company says such a huge claim is unwieldy and unfair. (Wal-Mart vs. Dukes)

•Campaign funds: In a major test of the public financing of campaigns, the court will decide in a case from Arizona whether states and cities may give extra matching funds to candidates who face a well-funded opponent who relies on private money. The court's conservatives are skeptical of moves to equalize spending between candidates. (McComish vs. Bennett)

*Global warming: The court will decide whether California, New York and four other states can sue the nation's five largest producers of the greenhouse gases that are widely blamed for causing climate change. The coal-fired power plants are concentrated in the Midwest and South. During oral arguments, the justices hinted they would toss out the suit. (American Electric Power Co. vs. Conn.)

 

•Prescription records: The court will decide whether drug makers have a right to buy from pharmacies the records of prescriptions that patients bring from their doctors. The data are valuable for drug company salesmen. Three New England states passed laws to restrict the sale of these private records, but Vermont's law was struck down as a free-speech violation. (Sorrell vs. IMS Health)

•Generic drugs: About 70% of the prescriptions now written are for a generic version of a brand-name drug, but it is unclear whether the makers of these copycat drugs have the same duty to warn patients about reported problems. The court will decide whether generic makers can be sued for failing to warn patients about newly revealed dangers. (PLIVA vs. Mensing)

•Crime labs: The court will decide an issue that has arisen in drunk-driving cases across the country. Must the lab technician who conducted a blood-alcohol test show up in court and testify as a witness for the prosecution? The justices split 5 to 4 when they required technicians' testimony in a related issue two years ago. (Bullcoming vs. New Mexico)

 

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WHERE'S THE BIGGIE?

 

The hecklers at Congressman Allen West's recent town meeting were "stuck on stupid." Their theme was that the Ryan plan would destroy Medicare despite the fact that "Obamacare," passed by the Democratic-controlled Congress, cuts $500 billion from Medicare funds to treat the elderly and strips Medicare Advantage plans of $200 billion. Also, the fact that the Ryan plan does not affect anyone over age 55 was never mentioned by these critics, nor was the fact that the Ryan plan saves Medicare for future generations, preventing its demise, which is a fiscal certainty in its present form.

There is a potentially catastrophic U.S. national debt crisis. It can only be fixed by government spending cuts, not by increasing anyone's taxes. Historically, for every $1 collected by the U.S. government, it, in turn, spends $1.07.

 

By Congressional Budget Office statistics, when the Bush tax code was enacted in 2001, the U.S. gross domestic product grew from 0.8 percent to over 3.8 percent within two years, and the "unexpected" tax revenue of the U.S. government rose by approximately $500 billion over the ensuing four years. Simply, unemployment dropped as businesses expanded, and U.S. revenue increased with more labor force in the marketplace. Consumer spending rose, and subsequently, the gross domestic product reached the 3.8 percent mark. Conversely, taxing S-corporations (the wealthy) would result in shrinkage of businesses with resultant higher unemployment, lower federal revenue and lower GDP.

 

Obamacare imposes a huge new $60 billion tax on U.S. medical device manufacturers, which the poor — as well as the wealthy — will pay. Pharmaceuticals face $2.4 billion in new taxes this year alone. This has already resulted in higher drug costs for us all. Layoffs are occurring now in these industries, and in the private health care insurance companies, which cannot survive long with the imposed Obamacare rules of guaranteed issue and renewability, and community rating provisions.

 

In short, the Obama administration has insured the destruction of Medicare Advantage, and the radical, draconian rationing of care for the elderly, as well as higher costs for medical devices, pharmaceuticals and health care premiums.

Obamacare must be repealed and replaced by reasonable health care reform and extensive cuts in U.S. government spending in order to save the United States.

 

Is BOMAMMACARE constitutional? ....or NOT?

 

That's the BIGGIE!

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RAYA @ REAL CONSERVATIVES

 

 

 

[Sandra]

Exactly 100% correct! Every dog has it's day, and I hope I live long enough to see this one get his!

[Your Uncle Sam]

If the federal courts weren't stacked against the American people, the "biggie" would be the Constitutional ineligibility of the Kenyan prince...

 

[Sandra]

No way to they intend to deal with the issue they need to! COWARDS... Traitors all... The can be removed from the court too!