More "Fear-Mongering" from the Right!

“The Pandemic Response Bill (2028) was passed by the Massachusetts state senate and is now awaiting passage in the House. This bill would give state authorities the ability to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwellings and destruction of citizen property and impose fines on citizens for noncompliance.
If citizens refuse to comply with isolation or quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.” (WorldNet Daily: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108604)

Why such drastic (and unconstitutional) measures? The proponents of the bill will claim that these measures are for the good of the people, but we’d be foolish to forget that Massachusetts is also the only state in the union that has adopted socialized medicine, and is of course suffering the fiscal fallout for having made such a stupid choice. The state run healthcare system is innately incapable of sustaining itself in the event of a medical pandemic.
This cuts right to the heart of the current healthcare debate, not to mention every bit of incrementalized socialism adopted by this nation under the guise of “reform” in the last 75 years.

When Social Security was being debated prior to its passage in 1935, people like James A. Emery, chief counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers, Thomas A. Jenkins, Representative of Ohio, Allen Treadway of Massachusetts, and John Taber of New York were some of its most vocal critics. They were the political/social oracles of their day, predicting that Social Security would become a welfare program within a decade (which it did), that it would undermine or cause the elimination of better private pension programs then in existence (which it did – when was the last time you heard of a pension plan offered by a company not affiliated with a union?), that creating a government run pension would create dependency on government and a national attitude of entitlement (which it did), and that it would shrink the economy and increase unemployment (which it did – unemployment went from 17% to 25% before settling back down to 17%). Despite the modern misinformation that passes for History these days, the New Deal and all of FDR’s creeping socialistic programs did not end the Great Depression - in fact they probably made it last longer. It was World War II that saved our economy. All of the predictions of FDR’s opponents have come true despite the Roosevelt Administration’s promises and reassurances to the contrary.

So too will come to pass all of the dire predictions of Obama’s opponents. Government control of healthcare will lead any state body to trample the constitutional rights of the people in order to keep costs down. If the legacy of FDR’s agenda doesn’t convince you that government run programs are a bad idea, then the current police state being created in Massachusetts should!