Reagan Described Obamacare Decades Before

The abridgement of freedom in America is not a wave of despotism overtaking individual rights, but a gradual and incremental creep of regulations, rules, laws, and government programs that sapping the strength of America economically and politically while eroding the individual rights of the citizenry.

Ronald Reagan described this encroachment decades ago.  His speech remains instructive today.



Obama has mislead America and the world on his true beliefs regarding socialized health care and his true desires for "transforming" America.  His mandates are exactly that, coercive actions that compel people to programs and policies regardless of whether they want the government program or not.  Is that America?  Is that what the founders truly intended?



Does government know best, or do the people know best?  The government always acts through coercion and force, or the threat thereof.  There is no other way for the state to act because of the very nature of governance.  The state is an institution of violence, for better or worse.

This is why the limitation of government power is so important.  Once the government expands beyond the consent of the governed, tyranny becomes an inevitability.  And once tyranny is established, it can only be removed through revolution.

This cannot be allowed to happen.  Free people in America and throughout the world must be vigilant to the defence of their personal freedoms and the extent to which they allow government to dictate policy and programs that effect business and individual choice.  It is a slippery slope towards socialism, and freedom is the exception rather than the rule throughout the history of mankind.