Now that the President and the media are comfortable referring
to an ideological divide, let me put the question in non-
ideological terms: historically, Americans have wanted to keep
government out of their lives. But over the last 200 years,
business has become so powerful that it tells us what cereal to
eat, that we should smoke, drive instead of using public
transportation, where to go on vacation. Try as I might, I don’t
see the advantage. Business is in it for profit. When government
tells us to get health or car insurance, it’s not making a dime.
The trouble we all see with government is that it spends our
money for things we don’t agree with. That’s where we should be
trying to change things. If you have two friends, and one of
them tells you to try his favorite breakfast cereal, and the
other is a salesperson for a different breakfast cereal, which
one would you trust? When the country was first coming together,
the incipient federal government had to fight to supersede the
powers of the individuals c