Posted by
Gray Cat on Saturday, November 03, 2007 10:16:42 PM
Dependence and freedom are fundamentally at odds with each other. You want to depend on government for something, you'd better be prepared to give up your freedoms in exchange. Too often, people don't notice this because the benefits of dependence are immediate, while the loss of freedom takes years or decades and happens incrementally. This is true regardless of whether we're talking about different levels of government being dependent on each other (.08 BAL limit and highway money, state budget mess affecting property taxes, etc.) or individuals being dependent on any level of government. It's the old "you live in my house, you follow my rules" principle. Now if we apply that same logic to oh, say, health care, we can begin to see the real danger in that...