Let’s see.
I understand that the Senate has passed the truly asinine and pork-laden stimulus package despite its evident unpopularity to the citizenry at large. I don’t have a link for that, but I doubt you need one.
What you might not know is that the bill contains a scary Health Care provision that will give the Federal Government a right to determine what kind of care is appropriate for you to receive.
Thanks to an asinine new rule from the CPSC, a true tribute to the Law of Unintended Consequences, small used bookstores are having to dispose of large quantities of children’s books published prior to 1985: books that are no practical threat to anybody. 1984, anyone? (Hat tip to Michael Cleverly.)
Things are bad all over, though. In England, a foster mother will no longer be allowed to provide foster care, since one of her charges chose (of her own free will, so far as I can tell) to convert from Islam to Christianity.
I could go on; but all I can say is, I’m glad I don’t put my faith in princes.
The View from the Foothills 
Yes, the health provisions suck but it’s also the perfect reason for people to become more active in *preventative* health care, nutrition and alternative methods… 🙂
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I would like to see a link to the “pork” that the stimulus bill is so laden with. It disappoints me when people use generalized, emotionally-charged words to refer to something that is “well known.” I find a lot of these statements are just propoganda.
I, myself, have not taken time to review the details of the stimulus package and cannot therefore, refute, but I would like to hear the evidence if what you are saying is true. And, of course, if you have better ideas, it would be good to hear them, too.
Thanks.
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Thadeus,
Like almost everyone else I’m relying on secondary reports; take a look at Instapundit for examples. I didn’t include any links because I was expressing a general feeling of dismay.
Now that you mention it, though, I’ll point out that given the (reportedly) massive size of the bill, I suspect that tolerably few people have actually read the whole thing–and we have, in fact, been given remarkably little time to do so. It’s been less than a month since Obama’s inauguration, and we’re being asked to swallow something on the order of $800 billion dollars? That’s change I can count on leaving my pocket.
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