We are Orthodox Jews.<\/p>\n

We keep kosher.<\/p>\n

And as we all know, kosher meat is expensive. \u00a0A typical cut of kosher meat is something like twice the price of a comparable non-kosher cut. \u00a0Ground beef is at $2.49 a pound? \u00a0Kosher ground beef runs about $4.99 a pound. \u00a0I just check the price of ribeye. \u00a0Treif at $6.99, it’ll run you $14.89 a pound at the East Side Kosher Deli. \u00a0(They’re not necessarily gouging here in Denver; it’s that way everywhere.)<\/p>\n

Now, Susie just got a mailer from the Colorado Democrats stating that Mitt Romney would “[take] away vital health services for women,” by, “[signing] laws allowing your employer and your insurance company to make your birth control decisions.” \u00a0Presumably, they mean he’d repeal the HHS Mandate\u00a0requiring<\/em> employers and insurers to pay for employees’, without co-pay.<\/p>\n

They’re arguing that, now that such coverage is the law, going back to making someone pay for it themselves is the same thing as “restricting” it (their word), or allowing someone else decide whether or not you use it.<\/p>\n

So what this means is that you, every one of you now reading this piece (unless you also keep kosher), are deliberately restricting Susie and me from our Constitutional right to keep kosher. \u00a0You are in fact making our food choices for us<\/em>. \u00a0Unless, of course, you take out your checkbook right now and send Susie and me a check to cover the difference in cost between kosher and non-kosher meat. \u00a0And you wouldn’t want that on your conscience, would you?<\/p>\n

This is the\u00a0reductio ad absurdum<\/em> of the liberal line that not having someone else pay for something legal that you want is the same thing as restricting it. \u00a0So ultimately, everything is either free or illegal.
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