Posted on 04/12/2010 1:13:20 PM PDT by all the best
he health care legislation recently bulldozed through Congress is only the tip of the iceberg. With some 2,400 pages of dense legalese--with thousands of additional pages of regulations implementing the legislation still to be written--this huge statute puts government in effective control of some of life's most intimate, personal, and important decisions: who will receive medical care, and when, where, and how it will be received.
A popular slogan of the Italian Fascists under Mussolini was, "Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato"--meaning, "Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
I recall this expression frequently as I observe the government's growing reach in American society. Washington's medical-care power grab is only the latest example.
What of any consequence remains beyond the state's reach in the United States today? Not wages, working conditions, or labor management relations; not health care; not money, banking, or financial services; not personal privacy; not transportation or communication; not education or scientific research; not farming or food supply; not nutrition or food quality; not marriage or divorce; not child care; not provision for retirement; not recreation; not insurance of any kind; not smoking or drinking; not gambling; not political campaign funding or publicity; not real-estate development, home construction, or housing finance; not international travel, trade, or finance; not 1,000 other areas and aspects of economic and social life.
Some believe that the state still keeps its hands off religion, but even that's not true. It certifies certain religious organizations as legitimate and condemns others, as many young men discovered to their sorrow when they attempted to claim "conscientious objector" status during the Vietnam War. It assigns members of certain religions, but not members of others, as chaplains in the armed services.
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“Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
Slightly OT, but doesn’t La Raza have a very similar slogan?
Si. "For the race everything, outside the race nothing."
did we really expect anything else of the Bummer?
We must let the Obama supporters know at every opportunity that they are defacto supporters of theft by proxy, and involuntary servitude. And that we do not appreciate it. But we are pleased that they identify themselves openly.
A popular slogan of the Italian Fascists under Mussolini was, “Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato”—meaning, “Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
The perfect summary of the Obama Administration: a collection of petty tyrant socialist low lifes seeking much, much more power.
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