Just a quick word on this, and then it's back to our regularly scheduled mundanities.
People, we are talking about entrusting our health care decisions to the same government that counts on a certain percentage of us to die before we collect Social Security benefits. Believe me, they have actuarial data on it and they base policy on the fact that a certain number of people will die before they reach retirement age.
Foolish.
We already have a Europe on this planet. If Europe is truly a socialist paradise, let people vote with their feet and immigrate there. We don't need yet another nation of government-dependent children-citizens. What we do need is to hold the line. We need to retain our ideal of being the land of the free and the home of the brave. No free-born person trusts the promises of politicians. All free-born people know instinctively that when government intrudes into our personal lives, it does great damage.
Don't trade your noble heritage, your blood-bought freedom, for a mess of pottage.
As someone who has lived in two different European countries (and given birth in each one) I have never been able to understand the American love affair with all things European. It is a total lack of appreciation for the freedoms and blessings we enjoy in this country and disgusts me.
• May. 4, 2008 - health care