New video from the Acton Institute. (H/T Hot Air)

It’s a 4 minute video, and you will learn something new, guaranteed.

It’s important to understand what Democrats think of you. Do they trust you to earn your own money and to buy whatever you think is best for you? Or would they rather control you to keep you from misusing the freedoms they keep for themselves?

Consider this article by classical historian Victor Davis Hanson. (H/T Muddling Towards Maturity)

The article contrasts the public positions of elites with their own lifestyles:

• environmentalists like Thomas Friedman and Al Gore
• racism-hollerers like Henry Gates and Jeremiah Wright
• socialists like John Edwards, Chris Dodd and Tom Daschle

This reminds me of historian Paul Johnson’s book “Intellectuals”, which was formative for me.

Learn more about health care with my previous posts on health care:

• Are coerced abortions and euthanasia part of Obama’s health care plan?
• Understanding Obama’s health care reform bill… with video clips!
• Paul Ryan and Ann Coulter make the case against Obamacare
• Understand the right way to reform health care… with short podcasts!
• Five freedoms you will lost if Obamacare passes
• Marsha Blackburn explains how Tennessee’s public option plan failed
• Bobby Jindal explains a dozen freedom-preserving ways to cut health care costs
• John Stossel vs Michael Moore in 20/20 health care documentary
• Obamacare will provide health care to illegal immigrants
• Study shows 83 million people will lose private insurance under Obamacare
• Jim Demint destroys Obama’s health care plan on the Senate floor
• Michele Bachmann explains the effect of Obamacare on small businesses
• Keith Hennessey and Howard “Mad How” Dean debate Obamacare