It's all about taking over our lives!

When the Rush Limbaugh radio show began in 1988, I had friends who listened to him regularly, but I also had friends who didn’t care for him. A lot of the friends who didn’t care for him were republicans, but thought he was simply too right wing. I heard that he didn’t appear to care for women and minorities and often put these groups down and exhibited hate toward them. Because I was unable to hear him during his daily radio broadcasts as we were forbidden to listen to the radio during working hours, I never had an opportunity to listen to him and form my own opinion.

A few years after beginning his radio program, he had a TV program that was aired on one of the Birmingham stations in the middle of the night. So I decided to start watching this program by recording it and watching it the following day. After watching Rush, I found him to be a very knowledgeable and entertaining person. There was no indication that he didn’t like women and minorities. Sure, he talked about the radical feminists, but they only represent a small group of women. I’m certainly not one and don’t advocate their beliefs and actions.

Rush often said that the goal of liberals is to have the government totally control our lives, telling us what is best for us because we’re too stupid to make our own decisions. Liberals wanted to dictate how we spent our money by raising our taxes and leaving us with less money to so spend by making our own decisions. In addition to raising taxes, liberals want to tall us what to eat, what kind of vehicle to drive, how to raise our children, and the list goes on. At the time I didn’t really agree with this because I had liberal friends and they just believed that government should do more for people in the way of expanded welfare programs, national healthcare, etc.

However, over the years, I have found Rush to be very on target about this. Liberals do want to totally control our lives. They look down their noses at us and indeed think that we’re too stupid to make our own decisions. The current president has just signed an executive order requiring that motor vehicles including cars, trucks, and SUVs meet certain gas mileage standards by 2016. This will certainly put us middle class folks in smaller, less safe, and less comfortable cars at an increased price. As a result, driving will not be a good experience and we will surely drive less. Liberals claim that this is necessary to the survival of our civilization. With man-made global warming, we have to do something to curb our carbon emissions or we will be toast by 2025. Liberals claim that this is for the greater good of our civilization and how could someone possibly be against this. And by the way, if you don’t believe that the earth is warming and mankind caused this warming, you are a lowest of the low, a despicable moron.

Another thing that liberals strongly advocate is universal health care whereby you will be guaranteed healthcare by the government, but you will be told which doctors you can see and what procedures you can have. If the government denies a procedure to you, that’s it, you have no recourse. Currently, if your insurance denies a procedure, you have the option to pay for it yourself. As a result, we will be subject to health care rationing. People will surely suffer greatly and die while waiting on government health care. Liberals, though, tell us that it’s for the greater good and we should be willing to make sacrifices so that everyone has health care. If you’re against this, you’re a bad person who doesn’t want everyone to have access to health care. Again, this is just another way that the government is trying to control you life by picking you doctors and telling you which procedures you can have. With national health care, the government may very well control whether you live or die.

If you have watched any news these last few days, you know that the government is trying to find a way to pay for national health care. One of the proposals is to levy a tax on certain foods and other items that the government deems are bad for you. Some of the items that may be taxed include beer, burgers, hot dogs, sugary snacks, and other high fat food items. I even heard one talking head indicate that we should do more research on tofu.

As always, the liberals tell us that this is for our own good. We should, therefore, be willing to cut our consumption of these items, and when we do consume these items, smile as we pay more because we will be slimmer and healthier while funding national health care for the greater good. The government and the liberals just want to tell us what we can eat.

So I’m eating tofu and bean sprouts while driving my hybrid egg shaped car. Then I’m in an automobile accident and can’t get the medical procedures I need to recover. So I die after living a rather stark no-frills life. Maybe, just maybe, there will be unlimited pasta, cheeseburgers, and ice cream in heaven.