[DannyTN]

What if they change their mind and don't want insurance regulation?

That's up to KY. I live in TN.

"Insurance regulation and national defense don't belong in the same sentence. Kind of an insult to our men and women in uniform, don't you think? "

Only if you insist on reading it wrong. National defense is an absolute government necessity. Very few people would argue that we don't need it. It's there to justify that some government functions are good.

It's also there because as the statement clearly says, it's one thing that I want from government. Insurance regulation is another thing that I want from government. If you want to read anything into it more than that those are two things I want "among others" from government, then that's your problem, not mine.

I didn't in any way equate the two. That's all in your mind.

[Gilbo_3]

National defense is an absolute government necessity. Very few people would argue that we don't need it. It's there to justify that some government functions are good.

dude, yer off yer meds...Defense of the Republic is one of a very few actual fed powers supposedly delegated by the citizenry, NOT a means to justify government...

Insurance regulation is another thing that I want from government.

thats sweet...now make yer list for uncle santa, and we can combine that with a few hundred million other wants from around the nation, and voila, FEDfrankenzilla is alive and kickin...

at some point, crying to gubmint about everything has to stop...but unfortunately, the system has been layered for you to *need* them more than FReedom...

[sickoflibs]

RE :”National defense is an absolute government necessity. Very few people would argue that we don't need it. It's there to justify that some government functions are good.”

Some sort of national defense is necessary. But this thing we call national defense is a huge make works(middle class welfare) wasteful and self destructive program. It is also a huge affirmative action program that discriminates based on race and sex while outlawing it for others,

The government is not designed to do complicated things in a efficient fashion, nor even manage them,

Why we waste trillions (and waste lives) in countries where people hate us just to abandon them anyway is beyond comprehension.

China has a DIFFERENT foreign policy, it's called make $$$ for China policy then loan it to USA to waste. You see China bogging them-self down in endless fruitless wars? No, they are busy building themselves up to challenge us.