With Obamacare about to pass, I think the best comments might come from Mark Steyn’s column yesterday.
On Thursday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted to set up a committee to examine whether condoms should be required on all pornographic film shoots within the Golden State.
California has run out of money, but it hasn’t yet run out of things to regulate.
For a government regulatory hearing, the testimony was livelier than usual. The porn star Madelyne Hernandez recalled an especially grueling scene in which she had been obliged to have sex with 75 men. The bureaucrats nodded thoughtfully, no doubt contemplating another languorous 18-month committee assignment looking into capping the number of group-sex participants at 60 per scene. In future, if a porn actress finds 75 men waiting for her on the set, they’ll be bureaucrats from Sacramento’s Condom Enforcement Squad…
One can make arguments for permitting porn and for banning porn, but there isn’t a lot to be said for the bureaucratization of porn. Hard to believe there will be dull, bespoke California bureaucrats looking forward to early retirement on gold-plated pensions who’ll be getting home, sinking into the La-Z-Boy and complaining to the missus about a tough day at the office working on the permits for Debbie Does the Fresno OSHA Office….
California is bankrupt: The dependent class and the government class that issues the checks to the dependent class have squeezed out the poor boobs in the middle who have to pay for it all. Everybody knows this. But a state that already has a Bureau of Home Furnishings cannot restrain itself from setting up a Bureau of Motion Picture Condom Regulation — or, anyway, an impact study to study whether the Bureau of Impact Studies should study the impact of a Bureau of Motion Picture Condom Regulation.
And I naively thought that liberals believed sex was a private act between 2, 3, or 76 consenting adults… The connection to Obamacare is not that it currently seeks to follows California in regulating condom use during porn shoots, but that it will firmly put the federal government’s long, grubby fingers everywhere. When the government pays for your health care, nearly everything you do becomes of regulatory interest. The managerial class will get to issue whatever orders they like, and they’ll be protected by vast layers of bureaucracy. This ostensible reform will only compound the problems of the American health care system, and that’s a feature, not a bug. It’s meant to lead to single-payer health care, at which point going to the doctor will be like going to the DMV: you do what they tell you and take what they give you with no recourse. There will, naturally, be no accountability.
Some on the left like to talk about the nation as a community and the consequent duty of us all to care for the weak, vulnerable, etc…We’re all in this together. But a nation the size of ours can never be a community. For instance, in a nationalized health care system, the rules and regulations governing your health care will be made by people you will never meet or talk to. They’ll be able to police just about anything they want, with no way to hold them to account.
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