“You don’t get that choice”
Forget the notion that liberals are pro-choice. They are pro-abortion, and pro-government control on pretty much everything else. Never has the left’s anti-choice inclination been made more evident than with John “Two Americas” Edwards and his mandatory universal health care plan.
“I’m mandating healthcare for every man woman and child in America and that’s the only way to have real universal healthcare.”
“Evertime you go into contact with the helathcare system or the govenment you will be signed up.”
During a press avail following the event Edwards reiterated his mandate:
“Basically every time they come into contact with either the healthcare system or the government, whether it’s payment of taxes, school, going to the library, whatever it is they will be signed up.”
When asked by a reporter if an individual decided they didn’t want healthcare Edwards quickly responded, “You don’t get that choice.”
Hot Air does a masterful job in pointing out John Edwards’ hypocrisy on health care choice, pulling a quote from his own campaign website:
Q: What is your view on the decision on partial-birth abortion and most of the public agreeing with the court’s holding?
A: This decision by the Supreme Court is a perfect example of what’s at stake in this election. The kind of people that will be appointed to the US Supreme Court by the next president will control whether a woman’s freedom, freedom to choose, make her own health care decisions will be made by her or will be made by the government or by some men sitting on the US Supreme Court.
John Edwards just makes it too easy.
At any rate, this is liberalism in its raw form. Whereas conservatives have an innate distrust of government, liberals have an innate distrust of the ability of individuals to make choices that affect their lives. This is why liberals seek to put government in control of as many aspects of our lives as they can get away with — and then put themselves in control of government.
