[Drango]

How about we go back to being responsible for our own kids and our own selves,

I've got no problem with that in concept. Adults need to care more about their children than the state.

But it's clear some adults don't care and there is a compelling reason why regulation is being considered. Year after year, generation after generation, kids were being turned into addicts.

Here then is what Newt said about caring for kids in '97.

Civilization cannot survive with twelve-year-olds having babies, fifteen-year-olds shooting one another, seventeen-year-olds dying of AIDS, and eighteen-year-olds graduating with diplomas they cannot read.

[Texan5]

Fine the crap out of adults who inflict their kids on the rest of us, so they get the message-regulation just makes them think they are victims who need to be taken care of by taking freedom-and money-from the rest of us. We are not responsible for them, or their kids, and we don’t need to be-make a bad choice and don’t watch your own kids, sorry but it is your responsibility, pay the fine. I’m fresh out of sympathy...

[dfwgator]

Let’s face it, now that socialized medicine in this country is inevitable, like it or not, now we all are going to pay for others’ stupidity.