Last fall, before the election, when "change" was the word on every liberal's lips, a friend of mine dished out some pretty harsh words when I questioned the public's blind buy into an idea that wasn't fully defined.  I told her that Castro, also young and charismatic at the time, had promised change to Cuba.  Was that the kind of change we wanted?  "How dare you!" began her reply.

Well, change is here, and I'm seeing shadows of people I don't even dare to name.  But of whom are we to think when the leader of our "free country" steps in and fires the CEO of a publicly held company?  I'm pretty sure I heard a ghost from a certain past administration laughing in glee as the American public was saddled with a massive budget proposal that their representation didn't even read and which funneled away billions of our tax dollars to political organizations like Acorn.  And I see visions of a certain historical villain every time our new leader of the free world cranks the screws tighter on gun control. (I wonder how Obama would look with a mustache?) 

Now, in light of a recent visit to my local Social Security office, I have a fantastic picture of what Obama-care is going to do to our health care.   Face it, Britain's nationalized health care sucks.  So does Canada's. (Six months before starting treatment for breast cancer? No thanks.)  In fact, you can't find a single example of better health care than we have now.  "But what about the uninsured!"  Honey, I've been in the emergency room and prime care way too many times in the last twenty years, and never, ever has anyone been turned away for the lack of insurance.  The doctors give the same level of care to the guy who's paying out of pocket, the guy who's paying 20% and has his insurance pay 80, and the guy who doesn't pay at all.  Is it perfect?  No.  But more government is not the answer, folks, more competition is.

But that's beside the point.  The point is that the government is growing, taking over our free market, and ignoring the basic rights of the public.  And my liberal friends have no problem with that.  I wonder how they'll feel about it in about 15 years and someone they love has breast cancer and it takes six months before the government has time to "save" them.