Some good news

Good news and some enlightening news. The Bailout currently bouncing around congress had a portion of it marked for providing contraception and abortion. Thankfully, that has been withdrawn. Here is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an interview on ABC news before that part of the package was withdrawn.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?

PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?

PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy. Food stamps, unemployment insurance, some of the initiatives you just mentioned. what the economists have told us from right to left. There is more bang for the buck, a term they use, by investing in food stamps and in unemployment insurance than in any tax cut.

Abortion as an economic stimulus? Contraception as an economic stimulus? As absurd as this is, it is good news because it illustrates the progressive movement in this country. I'm tired of talking to people who say things like, "The government should pay for health care for its citizens." This is what happens when we count on government to take care of us. Government then has an interest in how that health care is being administered. They don't want to waste money treating people for "preventable" disease. So they're going to take action.

Examples: Government doesn't want to provide lobectomies and pneumonectomies for people who use tobacco, so it will take actions so it won't have to. There goes our right to smoke. But it won't stop there. Cirrhosis is an expensive disease which can be caused by alcohol consumption, so you could probably expect some kind of prohibition or restriction on your alcohol use. I'm sure your imagination can make the argument for gun control, so I won't elaborate. But lets not forget the national epidemic for obesity. Byopsies and heart meds are expensive enough and common enough that you'll probably be denied fatty foods. Government wants to put you on a diet.

I've got to say, I don't blame Government here. I think it makes a lot of sense. I don't want to pay for health care for those people that make "unhealthy" life choices either. I want those people to pay for there own health care. But that's not whats being presented with socialized medicine. We'll be paying for Cancer Man's chemo treatments. We'll be paying for Arthur's liver transplant. We'll be paying for Rosie O'Donnell's lipo. We'll be paying.

This is the logical conclusion of investing in something. Investors want to make sure they have a good investment and they're not wasting money. When government invests in your life, government has more of say in your life. Here's another way to look at this. When you're a teenager, your parents provide your food, your shelter, your transportation. I've often heard it said, "As long as you live under my roof, you live by my rules." And this is not unreasonable. Parents have a great deal of control over their children while they live at home. And this is precisely why kids leave the house... to enjoy the freedom that comes with supporting yourself. There is no freedom when you are not providing for yourself. You are a slave to your provider, and subject to their dictates.

Nancy Pelosi's comments illustrate this so well. Wait until health care becomes burdened, which shouldn't take long. You'll see a lot more "incentives" for so called "family planning." Translation, abortion and contraception. It won't be long before people start saying, "people with more than 3 kids are placing an undue burden on the socialized health care system." So there will be penalties for such people. Government will begin to dictate how many children couples will be allowed to have. If you think I'm crazy, go read Speaker Pelosi's comments again. The mentality is already there.