Good line by Christine O'Donnell

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Originally Posted by DerbyCat

A majority of people lack willpower as evidenced by the obesity rate, the rate of personal debt in this country, and a wide variety of other personal ills that affect people today. On some level, a great many people need the government to look out for some aspect of their lives. Would be nice if it wasn't that way, but sadly it is.

Freedom always carries that sort of risk, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Better that the decisions are mine instead of someone else's, especially regarding the self-proclaimed elites.

We are not children. If people "need" someone to run their lives, they can hire people for that purpose (financial advisors and nutritionists for example). Don't make that binding on the rest of us who are handling freedom just fine.