“The One Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune“. This was a proverb I’d not heard before. I read it in a book by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. entitled Cultural Literacy.
Later I watched John Stossel being interviewed, along with Mimi Roth at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BtC8I0TlD4. One point Mimi made is that “As long as we have Medicare, Medicaid, group risk health insurance…[they] have the right to …say look, if you don’t eat properly, I don’t want to pay the health insurance for you. …we’re all paying the price. If you ask other people to pay the price, then you’re gonna get their opinion on your food. … Adults, if they would pay for their own consequences, should be left alone. But they don’t…”
What a clear choice. If you want less government regulation and intrusion in your life, then you need to pay your own bills. When government pays, it then has the right to dictate. “There is no such thing as a free lunch“.
What areas of your life are you handing control to others, like the government? To whom have you given permission to dictate to you? For how much did you sell your sovereignty?
Put in this context, many of us would have to admit we’ve sold our sovereignty for a pittance.
“Freedom isn’t free“
