GOVERNMENT DECIDES WHAT YOU NEED 

This statement should sound pretty darn familiar to you ... "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." Now with the words of Karl Marx swimming around in your head, take a look at what Obama's chief doughboy Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had to say yesterday:

"It's a tax on insurance companies that offer Cadillac, or quite frankly, Rolls Royce policies that in essence people don't need."

And if you think that this was just a slip of the tongue, Gibbs actually made another similar comment yesterday. He says, "What we have is a sensible plan that taxes insurance companies if they continue to offer insurance policies that are greatly in excess of what people need."

Does that make you stop for a second and wonder ... our own Press Secretary believes that the government should be able to determine what you "need." It must determine what you "need" in order to determine when taxes should apply on Cadillac plans and when they shouldn't.

Funny .. but I have this strange idea swimming around in my head that we, as free people, get to decide what we need and what we don't need. I'm getting just a wee-bit uncomfortable with the idea of a bunch of bureaucrats sitting up there in Washington DC making decisions on what I need and don't need. But then, that's just me. I'm kinda funny that way.