Many Ways Government Can Now Control Our Options

I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and the discussion turned to the curious "bundling" by Congress of the health care bill with the federal take-over of the student loan program.

"Take over" meaning that rather than the federal government serving the relatively inert position of guaranteeing student loans, it "cuts out the middle man" of private lenders and puts the federal government in the direct position of loan-making.

With that power, of course, the government also gains power over our individual choices and options.  Example: you have worked hard in school and been accepted into your choice of medical schools.  Turns out it's expensive and demanding, meaning it would be nearly impossible to have outside employment while going through the medical school.  So you apply for a student loan.  Since it's from the government, let's say the government "has determined" that we don't need more surgeons but we do need more pediatricians.  So they will give you a loan if you commit to go into pediatrics, but not if you go into surgery.

You might say "hey, the government wouldn't do that."  Really?  You trust that?  Look at the history of what government is willing to do once it is given the power and permission to do so.

Beyond this additional encroachment on your personal choices and freedoms, the bundling of the student loan take-over withe the health care bill represented yet more accounting games designed to make the bill look financially prudent, when it is anything but.

It's going to take months of steady and compelling effort on all of our part to make Democrats pay for this in November so we at least have a chance to get some of our freedoms back and try to pull the nation back from the brink of financial insolvency.  Be strong, folks!