GIVE ME YOUR TIRED...

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless,
Tempest-tossed to me
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless,
Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!


(from the inscription on the Statue of Liberty)

What is horrific about Obamacare is not just that it is`a flagrant renunciation of that inscription, but that so many politicos favor it.  Obamacare is just another in a long list of desecrations piled on top of the rubble that was once freedom in America.   Here are just 10 of the thousands of ways we are not free:

1.  I was drafted against my will into the military.
2.  I have to pay a tax to the government for the privilege of being able to buy something in the local store, and for the privilege of earning an income, and for the privilege of owning real estate, and for the privilege of giving certain gifts during my lifetime, and for the privilege of bequeathing my assets when my life is over.
3.  I can be incarcerated for putting certain governmentally-forbidden substances into my body.
4.  I cannot practice medicine or law or open a casino or provide a hundred other services without prior government approval.
5.  I cannot work for any wage I want to work for if it is below the minimum wage the government thinks I should work for.
6.  I am restricted by the government as to whom I may marry.
7.  I must be educated by the government, or by someone approved by the government, until I am age 16.
8.  I must put money away for my retirement, and the retirement of my employees, whether I wish to or not.
9.  I cannot legally change my name unless the government approves of the new name.
10.I must contribute funds to provide others with whatever the government thinks they ought have.

 I am one of those yearning to be free.