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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

O.K., here's a good example.  Mid-wives.  The government has decided they 
aren't good for "you."  When the government telling folks that mid-wives 
weren't good for them didn't work, they insisted that you had to have a 
doctor "supervise" the mid-wives.  When that didn't work, the government 
regulatory agency that oversees insurance, made it clear to the insurance 
carriers that they felt this practice was too high risk.  Doctors started to 
refuse to work with mid-wives that did home births, so hospitals set up 
birthing rooms for the mid-wives to use.  Then the insurance companies were 
"encouraged" to jack the rates on hospitals.

Socialism in this country has become synonomous with uniform and control. 
That is a uniform population *except* for the rich and control of the middle 
and lower classes.  Social control under the banner of helping the middle 
class.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is not reading their history books, nor are they 
really looking at what is happening.

If you can find me ONE single speech where Teflon doesn't mention at least 
once "helping the middle class," I'd like to see it.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Bob, thanks for your thoughts.
>
> I have no interest in taking shots. I seek truth.
>
> I largely feel as you do. But the word "socialism," it seems to me, is
> today used more casually and less usefully than in the past. For
> instance, here, you seem to feel that loss of freedom is tied to
> socialism. How do you see that connection? I see it as Big Brother-- 
> the government--intruding further into our lives, not the direct
> result of social programs except as we willingly accept them. Yes, for
> some we have no choice. Pay taxes or go to jail.
>
> We cannot take or use what the government provides without giving up
> some freedom. If we use any public facilities then we are subject to
> the rules of those charged with maintaining those facilities. So, yes,
> if you walk to the store, your freedom is restricted by traffic
> signals. But that walk is your choice. To avoid that walk you must
> leave the city. That is my choice.
>
> Seems to me you could take that Missouri trip as you wish. As long as
> you pay cash, there is no record of your movement except your
> registration in the hotel. The hotel is a choice for you. If you
> choose to stay in the hotel you must follow the rules of the hotel,
> which will certainly include identification and registration. The
> hotel management would be fools to not require that. Would you give a
> room in your house to someone you did not know?
>
> Tyranny of the many over the few is also sometimes suggested as a
> definition of democracy. It doesn't work; all of us have equal power
> at the ballot box. We mostly deserve what we get, except when lies are
> so well done that we cannot see through them. I detest lies but they
> are part of the modern scene. To me they are criminal and those who
> speak or write them should be subject to censure. Whoops--that would
> be a loss of their freedom, right? So we see that full freedom
> includes recieving much we don't want.
>
> I have been a non-conformist for all of my life. It has caused me
> pain. I persist. The homestead life, here in the midst of hundreds of
> wooded acres, is my best answer.
>
>
>
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