Is ACA Law Constitutional? In a word: YES

Bum Joe Pesci destroys Harvard professor Gore Vidal on genius of the Constitution: it can always be changed!

This week, the Supreme Court is hearing oral argument on the Affordable Care Act, Obama's health care reform law. Questions surrounding the law are focused on the constitutionality of forcing Americans to buy something.

Has this been done before? Is it "American"? To answer these questions, I recalled a scene from the 90s movie, "With Honors" where Brendan Frasier seeks help, to write his senior thesis, from homeless Harvard graduate Joe Pesci.

So far the only good question came from Justice Scalia who asked: if the gov't forces me to buy something (like healthcare) what's next? Broccoli?

This seems dumb because there IS a gov't system where people do buy food. Poor people use food stamps (which would have been an equivilent to the public option - the inevitable answer). With food stamps - mothers cannot go ahead and buy only Twinkies, the gov't forces mothers to buy milk and other nutritious foods essential to health.

The gov't has an obligation to force people, who cannot take care of themselves (ie pay the bills) to spend that money on the right things. #butthatsjustMe