Wow; what a government!

So, there it is--the newest progressive take-over of power, the newly signed in to law health care bill. It astounds me that so many can believe this is the correct solution to the problems in the health care system. Our government, instead of cleaning up Medicaid and Medicare (two bloated agencies full of corruption, mismanagement and fraud) and offering subsidies to the working poor, has instead taken over what makes up 1/6th of our gross domestic product--which pushes it over the 50% mark in how much it controls of our GDP.

What we have is a law that will create over 110 new agencies with tens of thousands of new bureaucrats all to oversee our health choices and to control the costs of those choices. And who oversees these agencies? One person: the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is given a free hand to decide how it is all run.

I'm sorry to say this; well, actually I'm not, but it is not the governments job so oversee my health care. It is not the governments job to force anyone to buy health insurance. It is not the governments job to mandate that employers provide health care benefits for their employees. Private businesses don't have to offer such benefits, or any benefits for that matter. They do so to attract employees and to keep employees, but it is still only a benefit offered by a private business. Our government now says different: all businesses must give health care benefits to their workers or face fines by the federal government. All businesses must offer--and all citizens must have--the correct insurance or face federal fines. If one employee is not happy with their health care benefit and tries to get extra government insurance, that business will be fined $750 for each employee it has. Constitutionally, where is any of this found or justified?

So why did the progressives (liberals, fascists, socialists) need to go this far? Because in their mind it is only through massive government programs that we the people can be made whole and better than we are. They believe that government programs and not free enterprise is what drives and grows our economy. They believe that redistributing wealth from those who work, invest, take risks and sacrifice to those who don't or won't do any of these things is the role of government. They believe in the perfectibility of man through the proper leadership of intellectual and political elites guided by a cadre of social experts who have the proper technical training to shape and perfect us. They believe government is the means to change society in unlimited ways for the better (their version of better) using unlimited resources and power.
They truly believe they have been bestowed by nature the ability to manage our lives without our consent.

Over the last year we have seen our government effectively take over our banks; even forcing some to take stimulus money, thereby gaining a controlling interest in many of them. It has taken over the majority of our auto industries. It just took over all private educational lending institutions (approx. 2000 businesses gone) and rolled it all in to four government offices. And of course it now controls every aspect of our health care, compelling us to buy insurance which conforms to the government criteria--or else. It's the "bullying spirit" of today's politics. It's a politics that no longer protects and defends our rights but rather forces us to conform to a progressive ideology of what is correct and good and right. It's called tyranny and despotism. It follows in the tradition of most fascist regimes, IE: "do it all for your country and the government." "We don't want to own any of your businesses, we just want to tell you how to run them for the betterment of society--OR ELSE!"

And what do we do? Nothing!!!! Some of us speak out, but for the most part, we do nothing. Why?
Alexander Tyler said it this way: "A democracy can not exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship...these nations have progresses through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from great courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to apathy, from apathy to dependence and from dependence back to bondage.

So, as we lay on our president the qualities of a heroic superman on a mission of salvation and our congress as benevolent sages, our liberties continue to slowly erode. In our fatal indifference to this quickly building death of our freedoms, we will soon find ourselves subject to self-avowed, all-knowing, all-caring leader of a government that will be beyond question or criticism (to do so will bring punishment). This government will demand total loyalty and worship and will do everything "for our own good" whether or not we need it.