The Cure Is Worse Than The Disease

This story gave me pause:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295432,00.html

It is, on the one hand, astonishing that our nation, with a 1st Amendment specifically protecting free speech and religious freedom, has descended to these depths. On the other hand, it is entirely predictable. Once tax money got into the education business, nothing but nonsense followed.  Who would have thought that we’d see a Constitutional Democracy with a government forbidding open religious expression?  But, when you take your neighbor’s money using government force to pay for “your” schools, you also take the government whip that goes with it.

Watch carefully. Our civil liberties will be further eroded by similarly covert means. Wait until (it is all but inevitable) the Sheeple decide that government is also the instrument best suited to dispatch healthcare. Do you smoke? Eat fast food? Drink alcohol?  Eat donuts? Love a good steak? Drink soda pop? Fail to exercise regularly? Once the snoopy Feds have their hands around the healthcare purse strings, they will then be enfranchised to incrementally dictate what should indisputably be personal choices.

Isn’t it interesting that the Western political Left is laser focused on trying to institutionalize healthcare as yet another government function. Yet it is just outraged by the perceived decline in civil liberties induced by covert wiretapping and surveillance directed at foreign nationals. Why no one seems to be able to connect the dots that these are all faces of the same dangerous coin is maddening.

Then again … I suppose the political players know exactly what they’re asking for. The Right wants a commercial oligarchy, the Left a political oligarchy. The Sheeple – as always – want Something For Nothing and serve as a gateway for the malevolent dreams of both political factions.

God help us all.  Oh wait - can I even say that?