Era of Big Government Has Just Begun




	Era of Big Government has Just Begun A Press Release from Americans for Free Choice in Medicine Issue XVIII-November 25, 2003
		NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA -- Thanks for *NOTHING*: that's what Americans ought to tell Congress when their legislators return for Thanksgiving after having passed the largest expansion of government in 40 years, columnist Scott Holleran wrote in an op-ed released by Americans for Free Choice in Medicine (AFCM). "Ten years after the sweeping Clinton health care plan was opposed by conservative Republicans, conservative Republicans are forcing Americans into government-run health care," Holleran said. Noting that GOP leaders, like their nemesis, Hillary Clinton, refused to divulge details of the legislation, Holleran pointed to sweeping new regulations that forbid those with more than $ 10,000 in assets from participating in the drug subsidy. Holleran, whose articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times, Detroit News and the Miami Herald, asserted that the GOP Congress�s historic approval of Medicare expansion proves that conservatives, by punishing the so-called rich with higher premiums, oppose the right to make money. "Conservatives do not even practice compassion," he observed, "instead, they seek to herd older Americans into HMOs and deprive younger Americans of any shred of financial independence. By adding drug subsidies to Medicare, Republicans, led by President Bush, believe in one basic idea: Big Government." Americans for Free Choice in Medicine, (AFCM), founded in 1993, publishes a consumer's guide and tutorial to MSAs on its Web site and it is the nation's only educational organization based on individual rights, personal responsibility and free market ideas in medicine.

	The Rational Argumentator fully shares the outrage at the indignified and disgraceful acts perpetrated by the Congress and the Bush administration. It is no longer possible to attribute to those who term themselves "conservatives" their once cherished advocacy for individual liberty and choice. Through this vile measure, the Bush administration has alienated any of its last vestiges of support from friends of Reason, Rights, and Progress. The question becomes: what can the men still dedicated to limited government and personal freedom do in response? How can the tides of the conflict against statism be turned now that both major political parties express John Stuart Mill's statement of resignation, "We are all socialists now"? If there ever was a time in urgent need of innovative tactics in the war against governmental tyranny, that time is now. TRA encourages any men still devoted to the objectivity and sancity of human autonomy to send in their ideas, suggestions, and treatises. E-mail us at [email protected]. ~ G. Stolyarov II, Editor-in-Chief, The Rational Argumentator November 25, 2003
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