Off Topic — HabitableZone

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Okay, let's deal with the other question. Excuse another rant.
TB — (archived)

The United States was set up as exactly what the name was. It was a group of independent states, working under a Constitution describing the extremely limited functions of a central government and how they would interact with the states. States ran the schools, the roads, and much of the rest of things. It was more important who your mayor and governor were than who the President was.

Now, thanks to Roosevelt and others--mostly people who, frankly, think like you about the roles of government and citizen, we are living under a monolithic system under which nearly every aspect of our lives is subject to rigid control by the Federal government. Education, welfare, transportation, health care, and not least, regulation of all economic activity down to the frigging size of the holes in Swiss cheese.

Small wonder we no longer elect chief executives of one branch of the government. We elect emperors. Not to mention Senators who think of themselves as everything the Dukes and Lords were in the old countries.

If the medical care system in this country is screwed up, a lot of the blame can be laid at the feet of those in government who have spent two generations screwing with the system and short circuiting market forces again and again. I've watched the regression myself.

What's depressing about this is that my grandchildren will wind up with what this kind of thinking has always delivered to the people. Like in Cuba, where leftists with fixed grins try to tell us that home-brewed medicines and "natural" solutions are the sign of a very advanced medical system, and idiots in America believe Castro's health statistics and ignore the photos and films from the hospitals there. Have you seen what's happening in Britain?

I won't have a choice. The one religion it's apparently okay in America to force people into is socialism. Nobody's going to give me the option of staying out of the system--collectivist economics and wealth redistribution is founded on forcing everyone to participate.

I saw this coming many years ago, and one of the main reasons I became a backer of moving humans out into space was that I couldn't see anyplace else left for free people to go. Europeans seem to believe that the government gives them the right to exist. So do too many Americans.

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