Posted by
Always To The Right on Sunday, September 27, 2009 2:38:17 PM
I don’t recall many schoolteachers leading hymms to George Bush when he shifted the ground under Saddam Hussein and changed his
world. Something tells me no one in the educational establishment would
be leading musical worship sessions for the equally historic President
Sarah Palin or President Condoleeza Rice, either.
The guy is everywhere, all the time. He’s been stalking
the American voter all summer, muttering the ever-changing details and
phony rationale for his health-care takeover plan. Mercifully, he
stopped just short of filling our inboxes with spam emails, or dropping
pop-up spyware onto our computers. I have a recurring nightmare that
the Microsoft Office Assistant will rap on my monitor to get my
attention, and start talking about the urgent need for health-care
reform.
The omnipresence of our political leadership will only grow worse
over time, if we don’t begin scaling back the super-State. Everything
in life has become politicized, and politics have become highly
centralized. The President, and the majority leadership in Congress,
have an increasing amount of influence over every aspect of your daily
life – not in a remote theoretical sense, but literally. If the
government takes over health care, your body will become property of
the State, which will have a vested interest in controlling your diet,
exercise, and everything else that might affect your consumption of
tightly-rationed medical resources. The cap-and-trade bill puts the
federal government in charge of your kitchen appliances and light
bulbs. These latest extensions of federal power come after decades of
more gradual increases.
Once the functions of government move beyond essential expenses, such
as national defense and border security, the rationale behind every
additional tax dollar is based on the greater wisdom of the political
class. You cannot be trusted to support the arts, care for the
indigent, respect the environment, or do any of the other things
Washington spends your tax money on. Soon, you will not be trusted to
manage your own health care – in fact, under the Max Baucus health-care
plan, you would be jailed
for failing to purchase government-approved health insurance. If all of
this money is taken from you because you can’t be trusted to spend it
wisely, it follows that the people spending it must possess
supreme wisdom. Likewise, the displaced private owners of a
nationalized industry must be inferior to the politicians who now
control it. No rationale for Big Government can escape these
conclusions.