| | John, while I wholeheartedly agree with your underlying sentiment, the examples you gave are perhaps not the perfect examples of stripping away choice.
We are free to send our children to any school we want -- but liberals make us pay to send other people's kids to crappy, overpriced public schools.
We are free to invest money as we see fit to save for retirement -- but liberals make us pay SS taxes to finance other people's retirement. The SS taxes we pay now is not being saved for our retirement -- by law it goes directly to the general fund, to be spent on anything and everything. If you're not currently retired and are counting on SS for your retirement, you're hoping that future Congresses will decide to continue robbing younger people and handing over some of their loot to you, after first skimming off their vig -- a perilous gamble considering the runaway deficit spending going on right now.
We are free to buy from an amazing plethora of car varieties -- but liberals are taking our money to prop up GM and Chrysler, and spent our money on the braindead Cash for Clunkers program.
We are free to listen to anyone we want on radio, or browse internet sites -- but liberals confiscate our money to finance other people's choices, such as NPR or public television.
What these all have in common is that if you're productive enough, you still have choices despite all the money being siphoned off, and so the only people virtually deprived of choices are those who are poor enough that the siphoned tax money makes it extremely difficult to finance private choices, driving them onto the socialist public "choices".
What is different about the health care bill is that the clear, albeit rarely stated intent, is to gradually drive all the private insurers out of business, and force all the hospitals and doctors to work for government. The end game? A Canadian-style socialized medicine system where it is illegal to buy private care, and where we truly will not have a choice of providers short of flying to a foreign country.
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If liberals are so disturbed by Congress' dictating whether abortion is a legitimate health care issue or not, it only makes sense that they should be equally troubled by government management of other health care decisions.
