Monday, March 22, 2010

This is what change looks like

"The United States Congress finally declared that America's workers and America's families and small businesses deserve the security of knowing that here in this country neither illness nor accident should endanger the dreams they worked a lifetime to achieve." - Barack Hussein Obama

This sounds like an infomercial:

"Yes, that's right folks, you dream it and the US federal government will make sure that nothing, thats right, NOTHING, interferes with your dream.  No medical insurance?  We have you covered.  No money?  No problem, we will just make more and give it to you.  The responsibility of raising that child you didn't plan on getting you down?  We can make it all go away AND it is covered in your new mandatory Health-Care.  Your dreams WILL HAPPEN, and all you have to do is VOTE US IN, we will do the rest AT NO COST TO YOU!"

This would make a great SNL skit, but as reality it is not funny.

It is bad enough that the government has taken even more of our liberty in the guise of yet another "just the right thing to do.", but forcing all people participate is such a blatant revocation of our unalienable Rights staggers the mind.  The health-care legislation is bad, but that is not the story here.  The real story is how we are being forced to make choices on health-care that the government approves of.  I am wondering, what, exactly, the federal government can't tell us to do now. 

Can the government pass the Organic Vegetarian Diet bill?  Can it require that my family eat a strict vegetarian diet of organic food?  You could make a case that it would benefit my family, so why would it be wrong?  The Fed (pun intended) could have programs for helping those who can't afford organic food and fine those who refuse to change to the government approved diet (you know, because we all pay the bill when those meat eating savages have health issues).

Colon cancer is a big issue, lots of folks die because of it.  Maybe we need a federally mandated colon cleanse that all comrades...errr...I mean citizens have to use every 3 months.  How could that be wrong, I mean it helps people, right?  We could do a test run in Congress, because you know they are full of....uh...well because we know how hard they work on our behalf.

All joking aside, the character of our nation, this grand experiment in liberty, is in peril.  The cancer of entitlement will metastasize soon and invade every vital organ in our nation.  Now is the time for us to rescue the liberty of our children and grandchildren.  We will already bare the shame of allowing our comfort and complacency to lull us into a stupor of inaction, but we can also be known as the generation that woke up just in time.  Tyrants abhor a vacuum of power and fill it with their own will if we let them.  We still have the opportunity to prove that free men can, and should, rule themselves.

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