Public Choice Vs. Private Choice

Caroline Baum gives us food for thought on what happens when the government becomes too powerful and over-reaches itself:

"Government is nothing more than a collection of individuals acting in their own -- yes, their own -- self-interest, in much the same way that Wall Street does. The only difference, according to advocates of public choice theory, is that governments make public, not private, choices: They choose for us, in other words.

And we aren’t free to reject those choices. Whereas transactions in the private sector are voluntary, the government coerces us (threat of imprisonment) to pay for goods and services via taxes." Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs

Wow. "And we aren't free to reject those choices." What all this spending legislation means is the permanent creation of more and more bureaucracy that will -- in the guise of trying to help and save us -- reduce our freedom and our choices. Private choice is what this country is founded upon. Private choice is not just eroded by Obama's recent legislation, its obliterated.