Saturday, February 13, 2010

So you think I'm a right winger...

I have news for you. I'm not. I'm a person who supports the ideas freedom and liberty. I oppose tyranny and socialism. I do not support the extraction of wealth via the use of force to pay for programs for others. I have been criticized by some for using state health care in the past. My response to that is this. I paid into that system. I paid A LOT into that system. California has some of the highest taxes in the country. If someone pays into the system, I see no problem if they want to use that system. The problem becomes that people become reliant on that system. My family did not. I was out of work at the time, and decided to cash in on the massive amount of money I had paid in.

My point of view is this. I should be free to choose to not pay into that system. If I don't pay into that system, then I don't get to use it. I should not have money extracted from me with the threat of violence to pay for it.

Liberals tend to label anyone who doesn't think like they do "right wingers" or "neo-cons". I don't take my marching orders from some bloated politician or talk radio host. I don't rely on talking points from the president or articles in newspapers. I look at what politicians actually do and how they do it. I also look at history, and what has happened to societies that have slowly gone down the road of tyranny. I want no part of that.

My question to you is this. If I don't want to pay, what will you do to me?

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