…but the bottom line is that extreme circumstances do happen and relying on the charitable good will of the community is … a stretch.

This government was never designed, constituted or equipped to “take care” of its citizens.

The US federal gov’t was created to “…establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”

The most important ideas in setting up the Representative Republic were to insure the integrity and continuance of citizens’ pre-existing, inalienable rights and to defend the country. It was never imagined that the federal government would come to function as some kind of welfare agency, financier or dispenser of medical protocols.

There was no federal income tax. Congress adhered to a very specific list of areas in which it could levy taxes and raise revenue.

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
~James Madison

Now, a couple hundred years later, we have Jabba The Hutt, with a huge appetite and all-encompassing maw. Every area into which the federal government has inserted itself beyond its mandate…medicine, finance, education et al….has been an unmitigated disaster.

The over-reaching and over-spending promulgated by today’s progressives is a descent into hell, not to mention fiscal ruination. More ominously, theirs is an intentional assault on individual liberty.

Creating dependencies is an ugly process. Just ask China who currently owns so much US debt that it is beginning to imagine it can direct elements of US foreign policy. The more leverage China gains over our monetary system, the shakier that system is.

That fate awaits the citizen who comes to depend on a government that is in a position to grant and withdraw the citizen’s beneficence, a government that can tell the citizen (as a function of age and predetermined “quality adjusted life years”) what kind of medical procedures he or she is entitled to receive.

Gloria, Betty and Germaine (somewhat angry as they were, like Jane and Bella) look like geniuses relative to the abjectly inane spoutings of some of today’s feminists.