Letters Not Sent and Other Musings: July 2009

About Me

Location: In the hills

I jokingly say that I am a Luddite with an internet addiction.. I am an independent designer and remodeling contractor, writer, explorer of ideas, places, and cultures. I a lover of nature, reason, and craftsmanship no matter the form. Update: I am just a guy who left a successful business in the city to go to the mountains, to live the simple life in a home I am building for myself. I am experimenting with various aspects of simplicity, off grid power, efficiency, frugality, living with the seasons, gardening, and freeing up the time I used to spend working for others so that I can pursue various passions including the above, but also reading, writing, and the general exploration of ideas via critical examination, aka Philosophy. This blog chronicles my adventures in traveling, as well as my current adventures in living a truly simple, comfortable, peaceful, and enjoyable life. If you like it tell me.. if you have ideas for me to try tell me.. As with all aspects of life, this blog is ever adapting to the environment, so come along on the adventure.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Subsidize the official "insurance" companies or go to jail

Since some time last summer I have been commenting, particularly to those of the Obama cult, that the health care plans that Barack wants includes and in fact relies upon prison sentences for the poor struggling to make a better life for themselves and their family. I began pointing this out when I heard that Barack wants to implement a plan akin to the one promoted by Teddy Kennedy in Mass. The Mass plan called* for financial and legal penalties for those least able to afford to subsidize the approved "insurance" companies.

* I say "called" only because I have not followed this scheme in Mass for a couple of years and so cannot say if they have changed this particular and particularly evil portion of their plan.

Well tonight while catching up on some reading, I came across this post by James Bovard: http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/07/15/will-obamas-health-reform-lead-to-a-prison-building-boom/

In this he notes too the inevitable consequence of legal penalties for being poor, or for choosing to be personally responsible for your own health choices: prison time.

This is why good, thinking individuals wish neither to rule or be ruled.