Put the Brakes on Auto Regulations

This week the President announced that he plans to propose new regulations on car emissions and mileage per gallon, as if the U.S. car companies didn't have enough problems without the government further restricting their options. This is another in a series of increasingly troubling instances of the President trying to impose his worldview on the rest of us. "I don't like X, therefore, I'm going to make it illegal."

It would be hard for this carefully orchestrated power grab to be any more obvious. Just look at the chain of events: the government provides automakers with bailout money, then under the uise of "protecting their investment" the CEO of GM is sacked, not by the shareholders or the board of directors but by the President of the United States. Now it seems that the coup is complete, in that the President now is planning to set all the rules for these "private" companies.

Naturally, few if any automakers will be able to make a profit under such stringent regulations, and so the Federal Government will seize the opportunity to jump in and run the whole shooting match, complete with huge subsidies, corresponding tax hikes and the elimination of all competition and consumer choice.

If any of you bleeding hearts out there are still laboring under the delusion that his healthcare plan will be any different, then I fear you are beyond help. When the government controls healthcare, they will be able to enact similar regulations on our lifestyles on the grounds of "protecting their investment." That means no more McDonald's, no more cigarettes, no more alcohol, no more sleeping late on weekends, no more television (except for propaganda purposes naturally), an end to anything Big Brother deems bad for us.

Many of you will no doubt complain that I am exaggerating and engaging in wild and unfounded speculation. Perhaps I am and, for all our sake, I hope so. But this sort of thing has happened before in history, and if you follow the current trends to their logical conclusion,
the future looks bleak indeed. Wake up and defend your freedom of choice before it is too late.