“This is not nanny state. This is giving MORE choice to the lower end of society.”
YES IT IS. Stop making excuses for the man’s screw-up. Nanny-Statism is AlWAYS done in the “name” of compassion.
What he attempted to do is indefensible. Bachmann went overboard in quoting shaky sources, but Perry was just dead wrong. You NEVER use the power of government to force of push vaccines unless there is a clear and immediate threat of life and limb. The potential of developing cancer many years down the road is NOT sufficient grounds for this.
There is never an immediate risk to most diseases. Risk occurs over a lifetime. Exposure to a disease doesn't always cause an infection. Infection doesn't always cause disease and even the most virulant diseases do not always cause death.
I am not excusing what he did. If you read my posts I said that I think he went about this in the wrong way. He should have worked through the legislature. However, he did do it to promote the ability for more people to be able to afford this expensive vaccine thereby promoting more freedom. It is not have been difficult to opt out of this vaccine. Opting in would be very difficult for the poor and lower wage earners.