Universal Health -- Like the hailed partnership of public employee unions with local government, is a partnership between government and the insurer. Recall that it was Dave Reinhart who favored compulsory insurance per person -- so as to convert compulsory public delivery of health care into a privilege, for a fee and only via insurance. The missing component is the public freedom to insist instead upon non-monopoly pricing such that the prices for delivery of health services roughly matches that of a level that corresponds to wages or disposable income after other competing demands such as extractions of interest payments and extractions to feed various other government agendas. Just like with any instance of Economic Rent, it is usually out of sight and out of mind. The failure of the Soviet economic model is not so much the ideology but rather that economic decisions for all were placed into too few hands, unaccountable -- yes "unaccountable" -- to the rigors of capitalism where inefficiency means the death of any institution that fails to meet the needs of consumers as determined by the consumers. Ben Westlund's push for single-payer health insurance and that for Mrs. Clinton's New York prepwork for a National Health plan, are one in the same with the interests of the insurance companies and the ideology of our own Dave Reinhardt. The enemy is individual freedom.

The evil (from the AG's view) of Measure 47 is not that restricts individual speech but that it restricts the speech of artificial entities, for which he must take the drastic action of non-enforcement.

The trans-fat ban is fails to illuminate the range of issues at stake, or reduces them to a simple matter of of addressing in isolation the mere health effects of trans-fats.

My point over here is the limit of what I could present to that audience, clowning around:

. . . then on to Social Host responsibility . . . and then on to . . . a . . .

Good Neighbor Policy.

Each person shall have the right to walk into their neighbor's house, stroll over to the fridge and then dispose of all the stuff they find objectionable.

This could apply to a near infinite list of things that anyone in their subjective mind could believe fits within the Good Neighbor Policy.

Given the non-uniformity of the perspective of any two people let's then just picture any two people (rather than society as a whole), each of whom have an equal right to raid the fridge of the other, and then point a live cam at the two as they go about the business of raiding each other's fridge until they reach a point where the items in each person's fridge are not objectionable to either.

This could last for a whole season just like A Simple Life. Where the conclusion would surely be like a Jerry Springer end-of-show moment when Jerry offers a tidbit on the philosophy of life that it had nothing to do with objectionable food after all but about ___________.

The next season will be about clothes (in school, in __, and in __). And the next about ______. Then the season long series format will be converted into a one topic per episode format. And then we will create a show like The View with a select panel to set out the policy for us all, and reduce the same to public policy that is compulsory. And when the banter turns to hostility Randy can tax talk, by taking away folk's cell phones via a tax . . . and then their walkie talkies . . . and then when any two people sitting on a city bench exchange words (to be content neutral) ON ANY TOPIC AT ALL.

Meanwhile, in the voice of the narrator of some old Walt Disney flick, the producer of the show presents to the silent observers their definition, by way of the examples presented, of feeblemindedness.

I'll take the perspective of a 14 year old telling a parent and that it is they who is crazy and that the burden is on them to prove otherwise. (It . . . is . . . not . . . about . . . FOOD. Yes it is. No it isn't. __. __. . . .)

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But there is some hope.

Commissioner Lonnie Roberts says he thinks the county has plenty of other pressing business. "We've got a $59 million jail that we need to open up. We've got a budget coming that may have as much as a $20 million shortfall that we have to deal with. We have to do what we've been elected to do," Roberts said. "We don't need to tell people what they can eat."

Here is a test:

Many middle-class _____'s are fed up with having their tastes for whisky or satellite television curbed by interfering ______s, in a country that, despite the morality police, has two million heroin addicts.

Why might it have been necessary to enact a constitutional amendment to enforce Prohibition?