Democrat insanity self exposed

EDITORIAL: Washington will take care of you

Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered a new defense of her party's unpopular health care reforms: They guarantee coverage for the next generation of dropout hippies and starving artists.

Speaking at a Washington event, Rep. Pelosi, D-Calif., gushed that the government will take care of anyone tired of grinding through this recession.

"We see it as an entrepreneurial bill, a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care," Rep. Pelosi said. "You don't have to be job-locked."

Entrepreneurs are people who pour their energies and resources into starting and running businesses -- and assume all the risk. Entrepreneurs are part of the productive, taxpaying class. You know, the people who eventually foot the bill for all of Rep. Pelosi's progressive pipe dreams.

However, in Rep Pelosi's statist mind, an entrepreneur is not someone who creates jobs, but someone who quits his job, starts a garage band and lets his struggling, employed neighbors pay for his health insurance.

It was bad enough that Rep. Pelosi, President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saw fit to raise taxes on businesses and increase medical costs on families as part of their health care takeover. Now we get confirmation that it's an entitlement for slackers, too.

Which raises an important question: If everyone decides to quit their jobs and "focus on their passions," who'll pay for their health care then?