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President Obama doesn’t want us to understand what is in the 2,000-plus pages of health care legislation and he doesn’t want to talk about it anymore. He’s just told Congress to ram it through — code to tread all over the Constitution and our freedoms.

President Obama may not want to talk about it. However, we Kentuckians have plenty of questions on each mandate, each “shall” dictate and each dollar that will be taken out of our pockets. It’s our money they plan to make us spend.

Recent feedback from the people: 51 percent fear the government more than private health insurers; 56 percent oppose the proposed heath care plans.

Don’t think the power players care.

That puts us at a “Y” in the road – assume the position or stand up for our rights.

Here is your Friday link fodder.

• Cafe Hayek – This is a great economics blog by Don Boudreaux and Russ Roberts, both professors at the George Mason University Department of Economics.  They analyze a policies and decisions from a free-market perspective.  A lot of food for thought here!
• Healthcare Portal – FreedomKentucky.org just launched a healthcare portal that is still in an infant stage – that is to say there is not a lot of content on it.  But! Rest assured we are working on it and also depending on fine folks like yourself to help us by contributing your thoughts to the FreedomKentucky.org project!
• LFUCG “Family” proposal – The Lexington city council is attempting to redefine the word “family” so they can trample on the personal liberties of property owners.  Awesome. Read more.
• KY Freedom Digest – Over at the KY Freedom Digest, Josh Koch is doing a great job keeping our elected officials accountable for their actions.  Be sure to click on over there and check out all the work he’s involved in!

The Bluegrass Institute questions how Kentucky can be chosen as a finalist in the competition for a piece of the Obama administration’s education stimulus $4.35 billion funding pie — especially since the commonwealth’s recent Race to the Top application was submitted without charter schools or the intensity of innovation needed to bring about real reform in the Bluegrass State’s public schools.

Scroll down the page to view responses to Jim Waters’ insistence that it makes no sense to claim that real innovative change in taking place in public education without including policies — like charter schools — that have already been proven to work instead of defending the status quo while offering the pretense of real change.

Click here to read the entire article.

So the battle rages on in Lexington regarding the UK area housing situation.  The LFUCG planning committee met to discuss the language of a city ordinance this past week.  On the agenda is to refine what the term “family” means in an attempt to regulate how property owners in Lexington can manage their own property.

Here is the document from the meeting outlining the proposed changes.

Take a second and email your council representative and let them know you want them to respect property owners rights!

This is a great discussion by Milton Friedman about how bad laws make criminals out of those who seek to do things that are socially advantageous. He uses a great illustration about smugglers (and I imagine that he is talking about Han Solo and Chewbacca…okay, maybe not…)

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