Yesterday, our socialist in chief made a very telling statement during a rambling response to an assertion that Americans are "over-taxed". At one point, the community organizer informed us, the people by whom he is employed, that "we have been, up until last week, the only advanced country that allows 50 million of its citizens to not have any health insurance." Of course, he was referring to the long-disputed uninsured number and was implying that we as a nation failed these underprivileged by allowing them to fall through the cracks.
However, the word "allows" does more than imply something else this president believes: that the government of the United States cedes rights to the citizens of this country rather than the other way around. In my twenties, I didn't maintain health insurance because I saw no need to do so. Now the right to make that choice has been taken away through the unconstitutional "mandate" which forces all citizens to maintain health insurance. Not only does this require the citizens of this country to purchase something as a requisite of citizenry, it places specific limitations on what is acceptable insurance. Somehow, unalienable rights are now something to which our elected officials have some veto power.
This is not a surprise, at least not to those of us who have been paying attention. Nor is it solely an affliction of the left, as evidenced by the "Patriot Act" encroachments forced through by the previous administration. Yes, fascism creeps in from all sides. The question is, how long will we tolerate this misconception by our elected representation. It is only when we the people stand up and correct such assertions and abuses of power that we will bring back the nation of Jefferson where freedom was valued above all.
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