(CNSNews.com) -- During a town hall meeting at the Fredericksburg Expo Center, Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) said there is "no place in the Constitution" that mentions health care or education, or even gives individuals the right to own a telephone.
"[L]isten, there is, there is no place in the Constitution that specifically says health care," Warner said to a government high school teacher at the event, who asked him to cite the article and section of the Constitution that gives the federal government the authority to run the health care system.
"There's no place in the Constitution that specifically says education," said Warner.
Moreover, he repeated five times that the Constitution does not guarantee individuals the right to own a telephone.
"There is no place in the competition, in the Constitution, there is no place in the Constitution, there is no place in the Constitution, there is no place in the Constitution, there is no place in the Constitution," he said, "that talks about you ought to have the right to get a telephone, but we have made those choices as a country over the years." |