The Death of Self-Reliance

One of my political "friends" on Facebook linked this article from FoxNews.com today. A glimpse:

As Democrats tout the moral underpinnings of the federal health care system overhaul -- ensuring health care coverage for nearly all Americans -- one senator appeared to go off message when he said the legislation would address the "mal-distribution of income in America."

After the Senate passed a "fix-it" bill Thursday to make changes to the new health care law, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the influential Finance Committee, said the overhaul was an "income shift" to help the poor.

"Too often, much of late, the last couple three years, the mal-distribution of income in American is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy and the middle income class is left behind," he said. "Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America. This legislation will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America."

So, the good news is that there is a Democrat telling the truth out there. Dennis Miller was just on O'Reilly tonight saying that the only ailment not covered by the health care overhaul is busting your butt. Cracked me up, no pun intended. :)