VA Senator Mark Warner had a couple of articles published over the weekend, one on economic/monetary policy, and one on health care. Unfortunately I was not surprised by his view on either issue. What he proposes in his articles is, of course, more government.
Looks like there may be a good development coming up in gun control. Alan Gura, the man behind the District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290) case that got the Washington, D.C. handgun ban struck down, may be heading back to the Supreme Court to fight basically the same battle again in McDonald, et al., v. City of Chicago, except this time he has to successfully argue that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that such rights (i.e. the Second Amendment) “may not be violated by any form of government throughout the United States”. If he argues successfully, this would mean that no government entity could take away your right to carry. Since D.C. is run by the Federal government (they are not a state), this is a new case as it is applying the Fourteenth Amendment to over-ride states rights to legislate away your “fundamental” rights (like your right to carry as granted by the Second amendment).
Some People out there actually get it
If my employer decides they no longer want me as an employee, then it should be their right to fire me." she told me. "I understand the desire for people to have government step in and try to protect women, but there’s real costs to government intervention.
This is going to be a short post, I’m just going to try to re-enforce the Principles of Government yet again, and hope that more people at least try to understand.
Just un-fucking believable.
What scares me even more is that this realistically could happen in the U.S.
So Massachusetts is starting to jump on the bandwagon with regulations around fast food and calorie notifications on menu items. Here are a few of questions you should be asking yourself:
Ok, here are your answers:
Let me go into detail on the 3rd one, that will explain the answers on the other two. The government is trying to control what you eat for one reason, to control the cost of health care. But why should government care about that, I hear you crying! They care because they have taken over and now own health care in Mass. This is the wonderful result of government ownership of anything, once they own it, they will control you with it. Now since everyone is becoming a fat ass, that adds cost to the bottom line of the health care program. How long until they start requiring people to weigh-in in order to get their full benefits. Wait, that would be exclusory, and government can’t do that. What they can do is control businesses, so it won’t be long before you start seeing proposed legislation on what restaurants can sell, so they can then limit what you can eat. It’s all about control. They rope you in one little bit at a time.
