Comments on: Updated: The Nanny State, Literally

By: John Danforth

John Danforth — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:01:10 +0000

Leave it to the goons of government to take all the fun out of short pants and diapers.

By: Bob Harrison

Bob Harrison — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:40:13 +0000

The health-care “reform” bill will mandate that people who do not have insurance buy it. Young healthy “children” in their 20’s often do not have insurance but can afford it (at least according to the all-knowing state). This seems like just another unprincipled compromise to appease both insurance companies and the young naive Obama supporters who will get to experience a state mandate for the first time.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:58:42 +0000

So, in New Jersey, you are now a “child” until age 30. And if you join the military as an 18 year old child, you can be “retired” at 38. So adulthood is down to 8 years and dropping.

Here’s another disgusting aspect of the Nanny State:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/opinion/22schramm.html

… where “everyone” is supposed to get a college education. It used to be that one actually had to pass a test to ENTER “Secondary” (e.g. “High”) School and that a High School diploma was good for most jobs. A High School graduate was expected to do advanced tasks like changing a dollar at a cash register, taking messages, and stuff that now requires a college degree. Soon, it will be that everyone, no matter how retarded, will be guaranteed a Ph.D. as a “right” – just like health care.

With education in one hand and health in the other, the government has us all by the proverbial “balls”. Pardon the sexism but much of this is actually due to the Feminization and Emasculation of a free responsible society for big Nanny.

The remaining “boys” are left performing irrelevant tasks like dropping bombs on illiterate Pushtun sexists in the name of “freedom”.

By: Gringo Malo

Gringo Malo — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:16:02 +0000

Oddly, the copy of HR 3590 you've linked above seems quite different from the copy I downloaded from the Thomas site. Of course, it's difficult to know which is the genuine article, Newsweek and the government being equally Orwellian.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:46:40 +0000

I don’t know why they want this set of rules. I don’t care. A rule of thumb on ideas you don’t understand is to look at who is for it and who is against it. Since the left majority is for it I’m against it.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:27:22 +0000

Lovely; the infantilization of our once-great nation continues apace. By the time I was 25 I was long-since self-supporting, had a graduate degree in engineering, and was a home-owner. My grandfather was similarly situated at 25, this after losing a couple of years to Wilson’s “war to end all wars.”

I’d better start brushing up on my Chinese.