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Thursday, July 05, 2012


One of the staples of right wing political rhetoric is the absolute conviction that government, specifically the Obama government, it totally consumed with taking away: "my rights," "my freedoms," "my liberty."  Choose one or all of the above, depending on the degree of hysteria.  Our state representative Janet Adkins declared that Obmacare is "impinging upon the freedom of Florida families and small business."  She peppered her newsletter with some other hot button verbal irritants like "hold hostage," "penalize," and crescendoed into, "This (the Affordable Care Act) takes away the right to choose where your finances go."  Presumable Rep. Adkins has a driver’s license and owns a house.  The state (in this case hers, Florida) requires her to have car insurance.  Granted, if she chooses not to, she does not have to pay a tax, fine, penalty, love offering or whatever you want to call it.  But, if she refuses to get car insurance, the state denies her a license so the state has some leverage over telling her where her finances have to go.  If she owns a home, she must have home owners and possibly flood insurance.  In this case it is private industry (banks) that tells her where her finances have to go because they will not issue a mortgage unless she has the insurance.  I woke up this morning and really tried to think of what liberties the Obama Administration has taken away from me this week and I could not come up with a single one.

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