What if you could blame a strap in your car for all the current problems? What if being right isn't necessarily good? The supreme court ruled that Obamacare will now go into effect.
The basis of their ruling lays at the feet of Chief Justice John Roberts.
Roberts explained at length the court's view of the mandate as a valid exercise of Congress' authority to "lay and collect taxes.
" The bill comes down to the idea that 30 million Americans without healthcare will now have healthcare.
What if you don't want healthcare? The administration estimates that roughly 4 million people will pay the penalty rather than buy insurance.
There you have it.
This is new America.
It doesn't matter what you want, it matters what's good for you and the government will decide it.
What if I told you this has been building for a long time and shows no signs of slowing down? I base this on seatbelts and helmets.
49 states have laws forcing you to wear seatbelts.
48 states have laws forcing motorcycle riders to wear helmets.
Is it bad to wear a seatbelt? Is it bad to wear a helmet? The answer to these two questions is overwhelmingly, "NO!" I think people are idiots if they don't wear seatbelts.
A device that can save you from flying through your windshield at 70 MPH...
sounds good to me.
A contraption that you can wear while riding your bike at 50 MPH, and when you are inevitably cut off by the driver of the four wheeler that doesn't see you, protects your precious hair from being ruffled by hot, black asphalt.
Another brilliant idea.
These are two great inventions.
The problem with America today is that we have the idea that we can think for people.
We can protect people from themselves.
Some cases this is true.
There are probably people driving and riding right now with a seatbelt and a helmet because the government is forcing them to.
The risks are never worth the rewards, however.
The lives that these laws save do not in any way measure up to the freedoms that you lose.
The problem becomes, "Once the government starts thinking for you...
are you really free?" There is no denying the helpfulness of seatbelts and helmets.
The government is right to encourage us to wear them.
They have not, are not, and will never be right in telling us what we can and can't do in matters of no dire consequence to another person.
This is the crux of the matter.
We have allowed the government to control our lives on things they are right on.
No wonder they move to other areas.
What if statistics begin to show that red cars get in more accidents than black cars.
Well, the simple solution would be to outlaw red cars.
The government is protecting us from ourselves.
If they can save people by outlawing red cars, isn't that a good thing? This is a preposterous argument, the government will never outlaw red cars.
Yeah, but they might decide you should have healthcare whether you want it or not.
Is having healthcare a bad thing? No.
Is forcing an individual to have healthcare or pay the government a penalty, a form of socialism? Absolutely.
Just like forcing someone to wear a seatbelt or a helmet is also socialism.
The idea of a free society is people are free to live their lives however they see fit as long as it doesn't infringe on another person's same rights.
Freedom to do things that are good for you is not freedom.
Do you think slaves weren't free to eat? No one forced food into their mouths.
They were free to eat, but they weren't free to come and go as they pleased.
What if a slave said, "You know, they provide me free food and free room and board, all I have to do is work when they tell me to.
I live a pretty good life.
They aren't going to let anything bad happen to me.
" This is the state of America.
We believe we are that slave that has a good life.
The government will protect us from ourselves.
The government will provide for us if we just do as we're told.
Freedom came because a slave said, "I don't want to be told when to work.
I don't want to be told when to eat.
I want to make decisions for myself.
I may not have the better house than a slaveowner can provide.
I may eat worse food than a slaveowner gives me.
It's my house and my food.
" Americans need to turn the tide.
We need to stand up and say that, "We will not be told what to do any more.
" You can provide us with information.
You can tell me how seatbelts will save my life.
You can tell me how a helmet will greatly increase my chance for surviving a motorcycle crash.
You can tell me how having healthcare will make me live longer.
But, you can not and will not continue to force me to do things...
even if they're for my benefit.
Because even when you're right, even when you are 100% correct, even when you can promise me a better life...
You take away my freedom.
And at the very core, I would rather die sooner in more stupid ways a free man than to die longer in more comfortable ways a slave.
The government is not smarter than me.
At the end I am a pawn.
The slaveowner didn't feed his slaves because he cared about them.
He wanted to maximize his return on investment.
A well fed slave is someone that will be more productive in work.
The government wants you to make more money, so they can take more of it.
The government wants you to live longer, so that you will pay into the system longer.
At any view, remember the government has nothing that we don't give it.
The government can't provide healthcare for anyone without taking from some and giving to others.
You call that fairness.
I call that slavery.
I would rather die a free man that makes my own decisions about how I will live my life than die a slave that relies on the government to think and provide for me.
The basis of their ruling lays at the feet of Chief Justice John Roberts.
Roberts explained at length the court's view of the mandate as a valid exercise of Congress' authority to "lay and collect taxes.
" The bill comes down to the idea that 30 million Americans without healthcare will now have healthcare.
What if you don't want healthcare? The administration estimates that roughly 4 million people will pay the penalty rather than buy insurance.
There you have it.
This is new America.
It doesn't matter what you want, it matters what's good for you and the government will decide it.
What if I told you this has been building for a long time and shows no signs of slowing down? I base this on seatbelts and helmets.
49 states have laws forcing you to wear seatbelts.
48 states have laws forcing motorcycle riders to wear helmets.
Is it bad to wear a seatbelt? Is it bad to wear a helmet? The answer to these two questions is overwhelmingly, "NO!" I think people are idiots if they don't wear seatbelts.
A device that can save you from flying through your windshield at 70 MPH...
sounds good to me.
A contraption that you can wear while riding your bike at 50 MPH, and when you are inevitably cut off by the driver of the four wheeler that doesn't see you, protects your precious hair from being ruffled by hot, black asphalt.
Another brilliant idea.
These are two great inventions.
The problem with America today is that we have the idea that we can think for people.
We can protect people from themselves.
Some cases this is true.
There are probably people driving and riding right now with a seatbelt and a helmet because the government is forcing them to.
The risks are never worth the rewards, however.
The lives that these laws save do not in any way measure up to the freedoms that you lose.
The problem becomes, "Once the government starts thinking for you...
are you really free?" There is no denying the helpfulness of seatbelts and helmets.
The government is right to encourage us to wear them.
They have not, are not, and will never be right in telling us what we can and can't do in matters of no dire consequence to another person.
This is the crux of the matter.
We have allowed the government to control our lives on things they are right on.
No wonder they move to other areas.
What if statistics begin to show that red cars get in more accidents than black cars.
Well, the simple solution would be to outlaw red cars.
The government is protecting us from ourselves.
If they can save people by outlawing red cars, isn't that a good thing? This is a preposterous argument, the government will never outlaw red cars.
Yeah, but they might decide you should have healthcare whether you want it or not.
Is having healthcare a bad thing? No.
Is forcing an individual to have healthcare or pay the government a penalty, a form of socialism? Absolutely.
Just like forcing someone to wear a seatbelt or a helmet is also socialism.
The idea of a free society is people are free to live their lives however they see fit as long as it doesn't infringe on another person's same rights.
Freedom to do things that are good for you is not freedom.
Do you think slaves weren't free to eat? No one forced food into their mouths.
They were free to eat, but they weren't free to come and go as they pleased.
What if a slave said, "You know, they provide me free food and free room and board, all I have to do is work when they tell me to.
I live a pretty good life.
They aren't going to let anything bad happen to me.
" This is the state of America.
We believe we are that slave that has a good life.
The government will protect us from ourselves.
The government will provide for us if we just do as we're told.
Freedom came because a slave said, "I don't want to be told when to work.
I don't want to be told when to eat.
I want to make decisions for myself.
I may not have the better house than a slaveowner can provide.
I may eat worse food than a slaveowner gives me.
It's my house and my food.
" Americans need to turn the tide.
We need to stand up and say that, "We will not be told what to do any more.
" You can provide us with information.
You can tell me how seatbelts will save my life.
You can tell me how a helmet will greatly increase my chance for surviving a motorcycle crash.
You can tell me how having healthcare will make me live longer.
But, you can not and will not continue to force me to do things...
even if they're for my benefit.
Because even when you're right, even when you are 100% correct, even when you can promise me a better life...
You take away my freedom.
And at the very core, I would rather die sooner in more stupid ways a free man than to die longer in more comfortable ways a slave.
The government is not smarter than me.
At the end I am a pawn.
The slaveowner didn't feed his slaves because he cared about them.
He wanted to maximize his return on investment.
A well fed slave is someone that will be more productive in work.
The government wants you to make more money, so they can take more of it.
The government wants you to live longer, so that you will pay into the system longer.
At any view, remember the government has nothing that we don't give it.
The government can't provide healthcare for anyone without taking from some and giving to others.
You call that fairness.
I call that slavery.
I would rather die a free man that makes my own decisions about how I will live my life than die a slave that relies on the government to think and provide for me.
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