Hell, my state government requires me to have car insurance in order to even drive a damned car. Again, just how is this fundamentally changing the government?
You don't have to buy a car. Second, you can drive a car without insurance, as long as it doesn't leave private property. Thirdly, a car is property, not a part of you. Fourth, cars are not a right. Fifth, there is no power in the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT that allows the forcing the purchase of a product for citizenship.
Fail x 5
No, you don't have to buy a car, nothing's forcing you. But keep in mind,
alternatives to car transport aren't exactly everywhere in America. We've got well over
200 million registered cars, drivers with licenses number around the 200 million mark. There's a great affinity for cars in the United States, and there's a great need for them. Almost everyone requires car insurance if they drive a car, if they don't, they don't need it. But tell me how requiring people to purchase health insurance is different? People can't simply opt out and not 'drive' their bodies around, and people could opt out of cars, but the vast majority of people would find themselves inconvenienced by it.
Two, you can drive a car sans insurance as long as it doesn't leave private property? Aren't roads public, government property technically? I don't see what this point has to do with anything, since, as I stated in the above paragraph a car is almost required everywhere in the United States to get anywhere. At some point during driving a car, you will leave private property.
Your third point is true, this is fact. However, as stated twice previously, cars are very much required for transport, and our cars outnumber registered drivers comfortably. Public transit is not an option everywhere for alternatives to be viable.
Fourth, this is also true. Car's aren't a right, but since you seem to be listing the differences between it and health care, does this mean you consider health care a right now? Than why are you advocating against the health insurance mandate? Surely you must be all for it, but perhaps you think its not liberal enough?
Fifth, what makes state governments so special? Why should we allow them to mandate what citizens should buy, and not allow the federal government?
Again, just how is this fundamentally changing the government?
Look at it from an abortion point of view. By forcing a woman to get insurance, they can control the means in which is administered and she has no recourse because she must have health insurance. So if they tell her to abort her child, she must. If she must carry the child to term, she must.
A woman no longer has the right to control her own body thanks to health care.
How's that sit with your relativistic morals?
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lolwhut? That's some of the most fucked up logic you've ever touted, and I've heard you spout all liberals are fascists. I wasn't aware of a few things, that 1) the bill gave the government the power to decide what procedures people can have done, and 2) the government owned all the insurance companies so they could do as such to the entire population. I'm sure you have a link to which specific part of the bill that makes everyone buy health insurance that gives such power to the government, even in private companies?
This logic is so stupid, I must commend you for your high degree of trolling here. No one would actually use an example as silly and fucked up as that.
My analysis is so spot on it's staggering.
Progressives have honed to perfection the the notion of selling a fundamental transformation as "reform" with Health Care "reform" and banking "reform" being the 2 most recent examples.
Health Care "Reform" is a total, fundamental rewrite of the relationship between the Government and the people (subjects or conquered also fits) The government directs you what you MUST purchase and then monitors you forever! That's "reform"
And because they don't want their game exposed, they come here still telling me/us, "Who are you going to believe us or your lying eyes?"
A 2,000 page document no one read, and Democrats (Sen Dingell) are now on record as saying it finally gives them the control they've sought for the past 100 years over the American people, but I'm wrong about Reform.
Yeah. Sure.
Changing the relationship between government and it's people? Frank, for Christ's sake, the government making people buy insurance is nothing new. Hell, my state government requires me to have car insurance in order to even drive a damned car. Again, just how is this fundamentally changing the government?
See? There is is again, who are you going to believe a Progressive or your lying eyes?
This is not a state making sure you have car insurance which is perfectly appropriate and at your option; if you can't afford it or don't feel like you should be driving anymore, you don't have to get car insurance.
Do you understand that Health Care "Reform" is from the Federal Government and no one can opt out?
That's a key here and I'm not sure you understand that.
This is the formerly limited Federal Government directing and dictating all human activity for ALL its citizens in all 50 states
As I pointed out above, not getting car insurance is difficult in a nation where driving and cars are national pastimes. I'm still not sure how any of this relates to what Machiavelli wrote in the Discourses' chapter you quoted, or to a fundamental change in government. As I mentioned with my car insurance example, government telling citizens what to buy is nothing new. Hell, the federal government dictating what people should or shouldn't do isn't new either. We can't own slaves, or segregate or do anything the federal government has had to step in and enforce.