Comments on: A Different Meaning for Medical Marijuana

By: Gop3.com: The Triumvirate » Blog Archive » Policies “Progressing” Towards Socialism

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:01:42 +0000

[...] Daniel’s great post on nationalized health care being a societal “gateway drug” to socialism, I got into a rather heated debate on the subject with a friend vehemently disagreed, especially in [...]

By: mike

mike — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:24:56 +0000

Legalize pot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:27:32 +0000

So true. If you want to make liberals rushing towards socialized medicine pause it is critical to remind them that once Uncle Sam is picking up the tab he ought to ultimately have the right to decide what risks people take in their lives (ie unprotected sex that results in medical costs ought to be punishable in a socialized system etc.).

By: The General

The General — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:01:20 +0000

You nailed it.

Think of the possibilities of government if they gain control of healthcare:

-They can tell you where you can work and what you can do for a living. So say goodbye to any “dirty jobs” like coalmining, oil-rigging, etc.
-They can tell you what you can and cannot eat, or at the very least, tax the daylights out of fast food and junk food. Want that Whopper? Pay up.
-They can leverage the idea of “public health” and “common welfare” to ban things that they feel contribute to poor health. So you could extrapolate that to anything more or less they do not like (i.e. talk radio). Which means less choice for all of us.

As my parents told me as a kid, “whoever pays has the final say.” So if government pays for healthcare, what says they can’t control everything else about you?