By:  Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President

In spite of the rhetoric of how much big government advocates want to help people, 
the real purpose behind their current legislative efforts is acquiring more control 
over our daily lives.  As my friend Stewart Truelsen writes in his contribution here,  
"The assessment goes beyond the carbon footprint to determine the full-range 
of social and environmental consequences in the things we buy – including food 
and other agricultural products.”

Whether in the form of an all-encompassing health bill which forces us to have 
coverage either in a form that mandates private sector companies to cover all 
comers – or a government paid program which offers payments for all the 
health care they will deem you should receive…or a government controlled 
program to tax our energy bills to high enough levels for alternative fuels 
to become more competitive…it’s all about pushing our country and the 
citizens who live here into the corners they as government officials want us 
to be.  There we will hopefully behave ourselves, turn over what’s left of our 
property, contribute as they see necessary for their support and the socially 
engineered Utopia they want to rule in will be complete.

Again, there needs to be consequences for this agenda of control and it will be 
up to us to demonstrate our unwillingness to go