Tampering with Markets ALWAYS has Unintended Consequences

This from an ABC.com article one year ago.

"Though overall heroin use has remained relatively stable nationwide, numerous police agencies across the country say the drug, once the scourge of poor inner cities, has in the last several years attracted a new generation of users who are largely young, middle-class and living in rural and suburban areas.

At least part of that resurgence, police say, is a side effect of the explosion in prescription drug abuse. Federal statistics show that nearly 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs in 2007, more than marijuana, cocaine, heroin and Ecstasy combined -- an 80 percent increase since 2000."

Gee, why so many drugs??? Oh yes, the prescription drug benefit for Medicare! Free drugs for thousands of seniors courtesy of you and me—the tax payer. (This is one Bush 43's greatest blemishes). With billions of dollars being doled out for pain medication all across the country, it is no wonder pain medications have become to this generation of teenagers and college students what marijuana was to the hippie generation.

Yes, socialism always has unintended consequences. Any time the iron fist of government reaches in to perform some seemingly harmless or even beneficent act, the intended results are never realized. The pro-government control politicians are never held to account for their mistakes, usually because they are dead by the time the worst consequences hit. And the voters seem just as susceptible to the empty and misleading promises of a new generation of politicians just as they were the last.

So let's be clear: Government Control=Bad
Decentralized Power, Liberty, and Freedom=Good

Let the free markets be free and the economic engine of capitalism will continue to carry us forward. This especially applies to health care just as much as anything else.

We are going to fight many battles in the upcoming months and years, but this one is extremely important! Call and write to your congressman and senators and tell them NO! on government run health care.