Posted by
Playful Walrus on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:27:38 PM
1. Having the moral authority to tell more people I don't know how to live, and backing it up with law enforcement. After all, if I am paying for their health care under the threat of my own prosecution, I damn well have the moral authority - even obligation - to cajole them into leading healthy lives to reduce costs. Hey, the Constitution doesn't really matter – that's what I've heard from Obamacare supporters. All that matters is political might. Leftists imagine this will give them the power to go after meat eating and tobacco, and force those "fundies" to vaccinate their 12-year-old girls against STDs, ...but won't crimp their own pot smoking or unhealthy sexual practices like sleeping around, for example. But hey, they're all for equality of outcomes, right? And if a Leftist in power can impose his own will on everyone with government force, then equality demands that so can a Right-winger when he is in power – that’s equality of election outcomes. I'll be watching to see who is drinking too many appletinis. They'll be going to the end of the line for liver transplants.
2. Being able to force insurance agencies to cover me with pre-existing conditions. This means I can crash my car and burn down my house and subsequently get insurance on those things! And I can take out life insurances policy on my dead relatives, then send in death notices.
3. Quitting my jobs. Hey, if on top of free-to-me entertainment, recreation, education, housing, food, transportation, I can also get government-mandated free-to-me routine and emergency medical care on the level anyone else gets, why should I work? I should be spending time with my family, letting all of the working suckers pay our way through life.
This is going to be great!