Bachmann on Dictators and Socialized Medicine

Bachmann on Dictators and Socialized Medicine
Posted by Laurence Vance on September 6, 2011 07:19 AM

Michele Bachmann, when recently speaking in South Carolina about the requirement in Obama's health care bill that mandates Americans purchase health insurance, said that the federal government "will become a dictator over our lives." Is that so? But what about the federal government mandating that you cannot buy, sell, possess, and smoke marijuana­a plant? I guess the federal government is not a dictator over our lives when it tells us what we can and can't buy, sell, possess, and smoke? Bachmann, like all the major Republican Party presidential candidates (except Ron Paul), believes in selective liberty; that is, the government, including a government controlled by Republicans, should select certain liberties that Americans are allowed to have.

When Bachmann comes out for full legalization of drugs and raw milk then I will cut her some slack. But she will then still be a horrible warmonger, and still unworthy of support.

She also said this about the same subject: "This is the foundation for socialized medicine." No, Michele, the foundation for socialized medicine is Medicare, which Republicans have supported for years, expanded under George Bush, and currently want to save.