Forcing someone against their will because YOU think you know better.

Obama threatening to fine us if we don't get health insurance is simply a ploy to get universal care passed. It's a "if you don't do this, then I'll give you a way worse alternative." It's crap, it's dirty politics, and our President should be ashamed.

Wow. I will be checking back on this topic to see how your responses go. I think some people will not like the idea gov run social programs considered rape. But just so you know....I agree with you. If I don't want it....why should I have it forced on me. Don't I have the right to say NO and mean NO too?

It's a pretty fine line since there are times when the government does need to "force" things on us "for our own good", but those times are few and far between. Those who are against the war in Iraq feel that it was just as forced on them as we feel universal healthcare is being forced on us. Our incomes and spending are taxed against our wills, "for our own good". The force here isn't that some people want the taxpayers to cover our medical expenses as much as it is the way Congress and the President are trying to do it. In the case of the war in Iraq, our representatives had ample time and opportunity to discuss and debate it. Our voices were represented the way the US Constitution intended. Our voices in Congress are being silenced by The Central Committee. It's not a matter of not being heeded, it's a matter of not being allowed a place in the debate. That's why this summer was so important. We the People held our representatives accountable for their willingness to just lay back and take it. We said "NO!" and made the Central Committee stop. The Central Committee is back, trying to convince us that being raped isn't so bad. We can either allow our representatives to submit, or we can continue fighting against it. In the end, there will be a winning side. Either we will have nationalized health care or we won't. That is how our Representative Republic works. The rape analogy doesn't fit if the outcome is based on open debate and a final, honest vote... but it fits all to well if we are gagged and beat down in the process.

I don't have a problem with the idea of the government having SOME involvement in finding care for those who need and want it, but I don't agree with them requiring that everybody must have insurance or be fined. Interesting comparison on the date rape.

Not that the government is smart enough to figure out how much of your tax $$ go towards a specific program, or to administer this well, but wouldn't it be interesting if there were an opt out clause? You don't want your taxes to pay for XX program, so you sign a box saying you don't want to pay for that. You receive that amount deducted from your taxes in exchange for a pledge never to use it.

Amen, and the people we are supposed to show our soft white underbellies to is the same group that interred the Japanese, conducted secret experiments on soldiers, and God knows what else.

I hate forcing people to take up my opinion. I make sure that I give all the opnions as suggestions only. I don't like to enter into the personal space of people. I will never get too deep into their personal problems. If somebody asks my suggestion, I will give my sicere opinion and ask them to decide on whether to take it up or not.

You can't force or control anybody against their will. No one knows better what you really wanted. Their are lots of cases I've heard in the news like this and this must be given justice like a battered wife. A husband don't have any right to do something against to her wife.

every person has his own decision making, so no one has the right to force others thoughts which may hurt.. If u think your thought is correct better tel them slowely so that they understand it....