Comments on: Thousands of Americans Show Up for Code Red Health Care Rally the Week Before Christmas http://lonelyconservative.com/2009/12/thousands-of-americans-show-up-for-code-red-health-care-rally-the-week-before-christmas/ Observations from a conservative in a blue state. With a little help from my friends! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:27:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Old Rebelhttp://lonelyconservative.com/2009/12/thousands-of-americans-show-up-for-code-red-health-care-rally-the-week-before-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-13635 Old Rebel Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:30:53 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=13846#comment-13635 I know Thomas Jefferson would be there with those who are taking a stand against an ever-expanding Federal government. Where does this end? Banking, auto manufacturing, and now health care. I'm reminded of what Leon Trotsky once wrote shortly after the successful Bolshevik revolution: "In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work does not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat." It's easy to imagine what happens in a country where the government controls access to health care. I know Thomas Jefferson would be there with those who are taking a stand against an ever-expanding Federal government. Where does this end? Banking, auto manufacturing, and now health care.

I’m reminded of what Leon Trotsky once wrote shortly after the successful Bolshevik revolution: “In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work does not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.”

It’s easy to imagine what happens in a country where the government controls access to health care.

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