A friend recently posted their concern over the "crazy" GOP debates on whether the HPV vaccine is safe or not. The debate was in response to Texas Governor Perry's executive order as Governor mandating that all girls receive the vaccine. Of course all the other candidates pounced at the
opportunity to point out Perry's over reaching abuse of an executive order to mandate the vaccine. In light of many peoples view that vaccinations are totally safe, I can understand how such a debate must seem "Crazy".
Knowing the futility of trying to argue whether vaccinations are safe or not because most people already have their minds made up, I decided to take a different approach.
What I felt was lost during the debate, and is something Ron Paul would touch on if the media would ever ask him a question, is whether or not the mandate is constitutional to begin with. If it's not, the entire debate on it's safety is a mute point. After posing the question, my friend gave a very interesting response. He boasted how he loved the "Nanny state" we live in and wants nothing more than for the government to "Nanny" us in every aspect of our lives.
I hadn't really heard this term used but it wasn't a difficult concept to grasp. To have the government provide free health care, food stamps, deliver our mail, manipulate (I mean manage) our money to keep us safe, who would say no right? Sure, I guess on the surface that sounds great right? I could almost get down with that if it weren't for the fact that our "Nanny" has a terrible track record of mismanaging our finances. You might be able to find a few Nanny programs that are ran fairly well, but sadly most are riddled with waste. It's not really the governments fault. The systems that need to be in place to run just one nation wide business and make it profitable can be monumental. Try multiplying that by thousands? Figures get lost, waste starts to appear, redundancies start to occur and when the tax payer keeps paying the bills no matter what happens, and there's no accountability or emphasis on turning a profit the system heads into a downward spiral. Compounding the problem is ZERO transparency by the people (the federal reserve) doling out all the money to the Nanny.
Imagine with me if you hired a Nanny to watch your kids. Before she watched your kids, you gave her a credit card to pay for the things your kids might need. Before you did this though you wrote in a document (the constitution) everything she's allowed to do with the money.
To your horror, you come home one day to find that the Nanny has violated or perverted almost every rule.
"Oh sorry, I took your kids to get some food for lunch and the taco stand charged us $10,000 for the tacos. Oh and little Debby bought some new flip flops for $50,000 because the strap broke on her old ones. OH, and we decided to invest in your kids friends lemonade stand for $500,000,000 but they went bankrupt, here's the bill, see yah tomorrow!" (this actually happened but with a solar company just yesterday)
It's really going to stink when the rest of the world will no longer let our Nanny pay for anything because she's counterfeiting money and borrowing more than she can afford from another Nanny maxing out our credit cards (national debt) in the process.
That's exactly what's happening every day but on a grander scale, and we're the ones being stuck with the bill. To turn a blind eye simply because it's easier to let the Nanny take care of us rather than face the cold hard truth that the Nanny has no clue how to run her business is very irresponsible, (IMO). Where is all this money going to come from, the other Nanny (China???) EVEN if the Nanny has good intentions, the Nanny is too big and has WAY too many responsibilities to take care of them in any sort of responsible fashion. Nor does she even have the authority to run many of these programs. In the end, the Nanny is not going to have a job and we wont be able to hire her anymore. If we want any kind of Nanny to be around to take care of the functions we outlined in our original document (constitution), and we want to have a nation that has wealth instead of trillions of dollars in debt we've got to get real. We have to accept personal responsibility for many of the things we've come accustom to relying on our Nanny for. It may hurt for a while making the transition but we can't afford anything less, (IMO).
