re: #420 The Shadow Do

I am sure to get little respect for my position on this, but I have very little interest in reading the proposed bill. I oppose it on its face.

The United States government must not be usurping private enterprise, whether it be banks, cars, insurance companies or what have you.

The US government can provide rules and regulations to insure a fair playing field. Beyond that it simply becomes the epitamy of a trust system that was supposedly busted by T.R. a long time ago.

The Feds intentions are to simply provide competition to private enterprise?

Sure, sure, sure…

Go ahead folks, debate the detail - and prepare yourself to eat the final product.

And no, I don’t fear Canadians Mr. President, you dope.

Somebody please report me before I get more out of line.

But it has been for years… you can’t have it both ways. Either the government stays out, or it wades in. Farm subsidies anyone? You think that’s remotely “private enterprise” that functions based on market rules? How about pork that drives military spending… senators who overrule senior military staff to continue to produce weapons and products that are deemed unnecessary or outdated? That’s not private enterprise. That’s not a “level” playing field.

I’ve whines about this before so I won’t belabor it, but you can’t have it both ways… Either the government stays out - not just on gun control, taxes, and healthcare - but on abortion, assisted suicide, drugs, and prostitution.

Either you preach family values - which means you don’t sleep with dudes (while campaigning against it), cheat on your wife, or steal money, or you don’t.

You can’t preach a broad position while only supporting it in cases that you agree with on a moral basis… i mean you can, but that just makes you a hypocrite.

-PH