Happy Dependence Day From Pelosi

No, that's not a typo.  I typed Dependence Day intentionally, and I mean it that way.

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says:

. . . soon we'll all be leaving for the 4th of July recess, next week, for when we celebrate Independence Day.  We'll also be observing health independence.  This week marks one year, since the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act.  It captures the spirit of our founders, they wrote in the Declaration of Independence.

'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness," and the Affordable Care Act offers just that.  A healthier life, the liberty to pursue a person's happiness, to be free of constraint, to be job locked, because they are policy locked.  And so, if you want to be a cameraman, a writer, you want to be self-employed, you want to be assertiveness (sic), you want to change jobs, whatever it is that you want to do, you are free, you have the liberty to do.

So, we've had Social Security, Medicare, and now health independence, and that's something our members will take home to celebrate over this Independence Day. 

What!!!???? 

These things she's mentioned aren't about independence, they're about dependence.  Dependence on government for a retirement income.  Dependence on government for income for months, and months, and months if you are unemployed (don't try getting a job, or anything too extreme like that).  And now dependence on government for health care.

I'm pretty certain that The Founders never expected the day when the federal government would tax people for not buying something.  They would have never expected the government requiring that people with serious illnesses receive their health care at the same price as healthy people.  I don't think the founders would have provided themselves with no-cost top-notch health care, while the proletariat receive only minimal coverage, or what they can pay out-of-pocket for.

Pat yourself on the back a little more, Ms. Pelosi!