Who Needs Freedom Anyway?

The founding principles of our country, as embodied in the Declaration of Independence, took a severe blow during the Christmas holiday break.

First, the Senate passed healthcare legislation that represents a dramatic increase in government control of our economy and in the healthcare decisions effecting everyone. Obama and the Democrats, unwilling to confront the open-ended commitment for government to pay for an unlimited amount of healthcare in Medicare, has chosen the path of controls, regulations, and restrictions to address the problem. They systematically oppose ways to address healthcare spending that are consistent with freedom and choose the path of socialism instead.

Second, the Obama administration ended the limits, previously set at the staggering amount of $400 billion, on the amount of government investment in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Now Obama can pump in as much money as he wishes into those entities, and since he has directed them to engage in money-losing actions to support mortgage modification programs, on top of all their other problems created by Democratic pressure for the past 15 years to expand lending to low-income borrowers. Renters and homeowners who pay their bills, will subsidize those who defaulted on their mortgages held or insured by Fannie and Freddie. Their existence is an affront to the principles of a free society, in addition to their being a conduit for directing subsidies to favored groups.

Last, the attempt to blow up the Northwest flight on Christmas day illustrates that when the President won't call our efforts a "war on terrorism", it reverberates throughout the government agencies. Should I risk being labeled a racist for tracking a Muslim target? Should I work late at night, when I could go home, to connect the dots quickly on a potential terrorist? Why do these things when the President doesn't think the problem is that big a deal?

The obscenity that a number of the leaders of Al Qaeda in Yemen are former Guantanamo detainees released by George Bush to satisfy the left's furies over the detention facility, that Obama recently released six more and was about release dozens more, comes down to this: how many Americans should die so the left feels good about themselves?