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!

Health Care Reform = Redistribution of Income?

Oops!  After months and months of talking of bringing health care to the uninsured, helping those with "pre-existing conditions," and lowering the deficit (?, still don't get that one), Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont., Senate Finance Committee Chairman, by the way) has blabbed about how the "health care reform" law ". . . will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America."

I'd like to see how much money the good senator has socked away in savings accounts, stock and bonds, real estate, 401k, and other investments; for us to judge whether it's an unjust amount considering some of the poverty across the nation, and the national debt.  Fair's fair, right?

FoxNews article on the Baucus slip

John Lott (who's blog I got the story from) has linked a video of Howard Dean agreeing with Baucus.

There's Patrick Henry... And Then There's Obama

Just heard something interesting.  The famous quote from Patrick Henry, the "Give me liberty, or give me death!" one, was said on the same date that Obama signed the "health care reform" bill into law.

That's kind of ironic.

Wikipedia entry - "Give me Liberty, or give me death!"