Pursuit of happiness will survive

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

How has that been working out for us lately? We are rapidly approaching an age when it’s perfectly legal to kill off the most innocent and helpless among us because, as the Dear Leader says, we don’t want to be punished with a baby. And sure, old people are cool, but only to a point. When they can’t make it to the bathroom they ain’t that cool any more. Wouldn’t we all be better off if they just passed away?

And if national health care passes, hold on to your hats. Your “pursuit of life” is going to boil down to dollar cost averaging done by a 20 something government bureaucrat. You need a new hip? Sorry cut off for that procedure age 55. 70 year old with a bad ticker? Sorry, surgery for you just doesn’t dollar out after age 60.

Well, there’s always “pursuit of liberty.” Probably, but only for a short period longer. The government in the name of saving the planet and saving us from ourselves will be regulating everything from the kind of light bulbs we use to how many times a month we can eat out. They are going to tell us what kind of windows we have to install in our houses and what kind of car we have to drive. Soon under the guise of greenhouse carbon reduction and health care reform, Barney Frank will be regulating every aspect of every un-aborted life.

Well at least they can’t take our pursuit of happiness away. I suppose that’s true. There is no way they can keep us from cracking wise while we wait in line for ACORN to issue us our weekly ration of gruel and our Demo-Dope representative gives us our monthly onion, while the union boss lectures us over the loudspeaker that we will never reach the goals set forth in “the new five year plan” unless we improve production.

They cannot keep us from thinking of happier times when we could pretty much write our own ticket based on our own skill sets, drive, talent and savvy. That was before 51% of us thought it was a good idea just to “spread the wealth a round” a little. Take from the smart, talented set and just give it to the less productive. That was before we decided to smother the talented set in a sea of liberty ending bureaucratic red tape for the sake of everyone’s health and the health of the planet. That was before we decided we didn’t want to punish ourselves with babies. So our population declined and with it our tax base and our ability to pay for the cradle to grave government sponsored nannyism the Demo-Dopes promised.

I suppose we’ll always have the pursuit of happiness. But how will we achieve it without life and liberty? The pursuit of happiness will return us to the pursuit of liberty, which will return us to the pursuit of life.