Take Your Medicine

Many American liberals have a dour, Puritanical mindset. They fervently believe that if there is suffering anywhere, they should share the misery. They want to enshrine enough regulation to wipe "the pursuit of happiness" from the collective national consciousness. While Obama certainly excludes himself, his circle of confidants, and his entertainer and athlete backers from this enforced privation, he wants to impose it on the rest of us and turn us into worker bees. While Barry and Michelle lavish themselves with Paris adventures flying two separate 747s, they want you in a small, underpowered breadbox of a car (which is vastly more dangerous than a large vehicle because engineers simply can not repeal the laws of physics). While Barry may discreetly light up, you will have to spend your last dollar and find one of the few smoking-tolerated places to have your postprandial puff. Our Southern founding fathers were virtually all tobacco growers, but if a cigarette is suddenly a nicotine delivery device worthy of government micro-regulation, just do the right thing for a product so dangerous and ban smoking completely, but no, then government loses the revenue stream from the smokers (addicts). On the national health care agenda, Obama and his elites will enjoy a standard of care unavailable to us mere proles in his new system. They will have an opt out unavailable to the common folk forced into rationed care. The system will not be the gold standard for the people but a costly limitation of the choices we were formerly able to make. The national salary czar will be employed by Obama to limit executives who employ thousands while his Oprah entertainer and sports figure cronies who employ magnitudes less workers will still be able to command whatever the market will bear. So you will make less, pay more taxes, be subject to greater regulation (you will not be able to make your own dining, drinking, or smoking choices as your actions will affect the burden the system has to bear), and your life and death decisions will be stripped from you and yours and left with a cost-benefit analysis of a bureaucrat. Welcome to a Utopian nightmare of the damned.