Easy come. Easy go.

  The government, I don't care which one, needs to get right on top of the NYC snowgate scandal. Right on top.
  Why?
  Because if those goons are allowed to get away with what they did in NYC, they'll be attempting the same thing around the country in other cities in other circumstances. If they get stomped, things might be different.
  Remember Reagan and the air traffic controllers.
  Didn't try that again, did they.
  Meanwhile re: death panels.
  The death panels have reappeared, much to the hooting of the doubtful. 
  Yet the NY Times even had the temerity to report the email that shot round the world.
  Think that whole email thing was an exaggeration?
  Now, the whole argument's being presented as "Hey! We just want doctors to be able to talk to their patients about end of life care!" So compassionate. So necessary.
  Except.
  What's stopping doctors from talking about it now?
  PBS protests that all this foolishness has been debunked by left wing websites. It's all game playing, says reliable Larry Sabato.
  Oh, okay. Sure.
  Except it's already starting.
  The way they do it is they deny services, based on the QALY, which evaluates the "quality" of a life, based on its usefulness to society and its, well, youth. Read over at NRO Corner:

The point of Oregon’s experiment was to expand coverage at the expense of cutting off the sickest people. For example, double organ transplants have been refused. That hasn’t worked, but the state has kept its rationing scheme anyway. As a consequence, many poor Oregonians have, over the years, been denied potentially life-extending treatments. In 2008, two late-stage cancer patients were denied chemotherapy that could have extended their lives by Medicaid — but were offered payment for their assisted suicides!

  Corner points over to a piece at the WaPo entitled, "Death panels are real-brought on by budget pressures." 
  So how desperate do governments get for money, especially when the government is in charge and the lil ole workin' guy out there has taken care of himself on his own, maybe even saving up a few bucks for his twilight years?
  Well, take a look at what's happening over the seas. A guest blogger at the Christian Science Monitor tells us there, with links to verify his opinion with facts, bearing in mind these are private pension funds:

People’s retirement savings are a convenient source of revenue for governments that don’t want to reduce spending or make privatizations. As most pension schemes in Europe are organised by the state, European ministers of finance have a facilitated access to the savings accumulated there, and it is only logical that they try to get a hold of this money for their own ends. In recent weeks I have noted five such attempts: Three situations concern private personal savings; two others refer to national funds.

  Now, before you think it can't happen here. Check out Pension Tsunami here. Then look at NRO Corner's article on "Public Pension Rumblings." These cities and states are flat busted broke. 
  Where are they going to look for money?
  Thank God for the House.
  Just to see what can happen to a city run by irresponsible liberals, take a look at this. It's pretty devastating.
  What's so eerily haunting about that photo essay, it must be said, is that it looks ghostly, as if the humans just left everything and ran. Left the photos in the police station. 
  Left the lessons on the chalkboard.
  Left the grand piano in the church.
  Left the books in the library.
  Did no one pack up? Did no one care to take these valuable items and use them elsewhere?
  Or even salvage the exquisite, undoubtedly handcrafted woodwork and glass.
  Perhaps this is the true legacy of the liberal mindset. 
  Easy come. Easy go.