So, on the way home from the Fun Show Mrs. Drang and I stopped at a local eatery for a late lunch, and, while waiting for our fodder, I thought I would peruse Google Reader for Mobile on my smart phone.
Darn that Brigid. A poetic, insightful analysis of human rights and the Constitution of the United States that we would all really be better for if His Imperial Majesty-Elect were to read it before this coming Tuesday. Left me sitting there with a tear in my eye, and not due to the yummy bacon on my burger, either.
Makes me realize that I still haven't posted my "book report" on Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg yet.
Look, the basic issue here (to me) is whether some elite, whether self-appointed or elected, legitimately has the authority to tell a sub-set of "the collective" what to do, in the name of a claimed "greater good". How far does that authority, that power go? Take driving: Speed limits? Arguably, under some, if not most or even all conditions, regulating speed (and other driving habits) can be justified because reckless driving does not just endanger the driver, it endangers other people on the road. And, yes, I am ambivalent on seat belt and helmet laws.
But making me pay higher taxes to pay for health care for someone else? Especially since my own experience with government-supplied health care was less than satisfactory? How about, if you simply must regulate stuff, you fix it so that doctors don't have to pay so much for malpractice insurance, that they don't have to join expensive HMOs in self-defense?
Or, maybe, regulate lawyers instead.
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