For Our Own Good

Everyday we are confronted with new ways the Left wants to make our lives better by restricting our freedoms. Always it's for our own good. Many conservatives call this the nanny state. Outlawing large sodas, forcing healthy young people to buy insurance, forcing healthy young people to buy insurance that covers things they'll never require, forcing us to participate in a government-run retirement plan.

I could go on and on.  It's nice, though, that their benevolence is still restrained by their own self-interest.  None other than freshman Senator Elizabeth Warren, the progressive caucus's biggest coup in the 2012 election is now foregoing the "We're doing this for your own good" mantra with regards to direct depositing Social Security checks. The argument for direct deposit is that many checks get lost in the mail leaving seniors without their deserved funds.

Elizabeth Warren, however, believes that people should have the right to choose how they receive their money. I imagine her new found respect for people's liberty has nothing to do with the paper lobby, who reside mostly in Warren's constituency, and donate extensively to her campaigns (she was the largest recipient in 2012 other than the Presidential candidates), who would stand to lose more of their already depleted customer base.

I guess in this case, what's best for most of America is not as desirable as what's good for Warren and her constituents.