Most "intellectually qualified" college kids would agree... Microsoft is an evil monopoly, never shop at Walmart, and its Democrat or bust. However, one of these things is not like the others (How many of you remember Sesame Street?). Regardless of the "D" or "R" prefix to our representatives name's, there's a parallel between all of these that's rarely addressed.
How can one accept the workings of the current administration and oppose shopping at Walmart or using Windows products? Think about it for a second... Let's play out the health care scenario for instance. Isn't our current government promoting a Microsoft OS-like system? If healthcare is going to be the Internet Explorer (ya know, already included with the government's "OS package"), what's going to happen to Netscape Navigator (the alternative to health care ie., insurance) and the even smaller 3rd party produced browsers? True, OB care isn't a stated as being a "single-care plan", but it rolls it right into one just like IE diverted users away from using Navigator. IE's popularity wasn't the result of function as much as it was that the users sought convenience and was generally naive to all the bugs and backdoors. And, what about Firefox - By far, a much better browser? Yet even though it is a free app, IE still far outnumbers Mozilla exponentially. It has become the nature of our lazy-ass society to have automated processes do it for us instead of making any effort on our own.
Doesn't handing over the citizen's rights and responsibilities over to the government, turn our voice into a Walmart mega-store? In other words... wont Big Government, like Walmart, be offering a slew of diversified products (encompassing markets like electronics, grocery, sporting goods, automotive, and gasoline all available at one location) that, again because of convenience, slowly strangles the mom & pop shops out of business? Although we hear things like, "It is not our intention to harm the local small down-town stores in your neighborhood" or "...you will always be able to choose where you can shop." But, the buying power the mega-store can flex by one-by-one absorbing loss in one area to offer outstanding deals in another shuts out the lil' shop's ability to compete. How long will it take before you turn around to by some sandals and the Chinese-made crap-ass jandals turn your feet yellow and give the kids chemical burns?
Although our politicians claim the Health Care bill will not close options affecting the already established insurance options, it likely will not do anything to protect them. This in itself will no doubt affect insurance. What we're hearing from the government is basic lawyer semantics. Many of our concerns here are not necessarily what today's intentions may be, but how the future government powers-that-be utilize it or exploit the bills loopholes.
Like the Patriot Act... it was "intended to benefit the citizens" by, for one, allowing wire tapping and the like in order to protect us from terrorists. But, now it's already gone a step further by allowing the admin to tap any of its private citizens... not just terrorist suspects. It's the same as "A war on terror" as the term Terror is an abstract description of what that war was to encompass. I mean, a terrorist can be just about anyone who verbally disagrees with the masses, and never defines the end. I don't know about you, but I call it a dangerous power-grab. This is hardly different.
