Saturday, February 26, 2011

Growing Up

Part of the pain of adoloscence is realizing that you are not a perfect entity. Another aspect of adolescence is realizing that your parents are not perfect.

We still live in a society where some believe that government is the solution to all of the problems in society. This kind of thinking has worked poorly for California and the United States in general.

To have a benevolant government "help" rammed down my throat whether I want it or not seems like an intrusion. Thank you, my government for screwing with health care so that my insurance company wants to charge me $690 for a prescription refill. They covered the prescription last year, but for some reason changed it in January of 2011.

Thomas Jefferson once said, "A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."