Dumbass quote of the day
Bloomberg on government efforts to influence what we eat and how much exercise we get:
some people may call that too intrusive
You think?
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June 27th, 2006 at 10:09 am
Bloomberg (a Republican on paper, mind you) is a big believer in big government intrusion. The list of things he’s done to demonstrate his complete disregard for privacy and self-determination is both long and shocking.
Under his administration, NYC has created huge databases on everybody who lives here. He wants to gather in one place all records on every person– medical, prison, tax, civil violations, etc.
He’s the first guy anywhere to combat diabetes with mandatory government tracking of blood-sugar levels. Diabetes is a non-communicable disease. He wants the data so he can send government workers to knock on people’s doors and coerce them into eating their vegetables.
All his programs are for good ends. On the immigration issue, he wants a national fingerprint and DNA database to verify eligibility for legal employment. He wants to track homeless people so we can help them off the streets. He wants to access private medical records to improve public health and stop nascent epidemics. These are good goals, but his solution to every problem is to create a database and force people’s private information into is. He’s the total information awareness guru of compassionate liberal policy.
Of course, it’s not the right that’s fighting him on all this. It’s the left. The New York arm of the ACLU, an organization hated by conservatives, is the group fighting for less government intrusion.
There’s a very strong libertarian streak on the left. We believe in keeping government out of your business. Libertarians on the right and the left really need to come together on these issues. The first step is for Republicans to oust Bloomberg from their party.
June 27th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
BH:
Problem is, the libertarians on the right seem more concerned with business regulations than anything else. People on the left with libertarian leanings (myself included) tend to support regulation of businesses and large organizations, while opposing government intrusion into personal matters (and it’s why I prefer the term civil libertarian). The libertarian wing of the GOP doesn’t much care about those personal matters, except for guns, but cares a great deal about the business regulations. And left-libertarians (myself excluded) tend not to care much about gun rights in the grand scheme of things.
As such, left-libertarians and right-libertarians don’t agree on very much; there’s just not very much to unite them.
June 28th, 2006 at 1:18 am
tgirsch, it’s unfortunate, but perhaps true. I sometimes with that what united these factions was a common enemy.