One of the troll’s comments reminded me of a post I read on another blog.

I won’t quote it verbatim, but the post was something like:

“With the passage of the healthcare bill, what freedom(s) have you lost?”

The answer:

“The freedom of personal property. If the government can require me to spend money on goods or services I do not desire, and fine or imprison me for failure to comply, then the U.S. Constitution is dead or so twisted from the founders original intent as to have no meaning.”

If conservatives ever regain control of both houses of Congress and the presidency, and are in a humorous and pedagogical mood they should pass laws requiring everyone over the age of 18 to:

1)Purchase a battle rifle in a military caliber with related magazines, load bearing equipment, cleaning quipment, and 1000 rounds of ammunition, all from a government approved list of manufacturers.

2)Purchase a large print King James Bible, in English (why that particular holy book? Because the bureaucrats say so!), again from a government approved manufacturer.

3)Repurchase 1 & 2 each year or face a stiff fine and possible imprisonment for failure to pay the fine.

Some folks may not choose to use either the rifle or the Bible, but what the Hell! It’s a wise investment and may be useful. It would be foolish to not have a fallback plan for when things go wrong. Everyone must be covered! Everyone has a right to bear arms and freedom of religion. It says so in the Constitution! Who are average citizens to decide they don’t need a combat rifle or a Bible. The fools can’t be left to decide on their own!

I may choose to seek healthcare at a private practice in the U.S. or Costa Rica instead of using the overcrowded disaster that will be government-funded healthcare, but evidently I’m not smart enough to decide what health insurance I wish or don’t wish to purchase on my own.

The U.S. Constitution limits Federal government power by laying out what it is permitted to do. The fact that the horrendous Commerce Clause has been taken by black robed, addle brained, statists as license to grow the Federal government beyond all bounds imaginable to the founders does not change their original intent one whit!

Why should socialists and communists get to have all the fun telling people, at gunpoint, what they must spend their money on?