Our Benevolent Overlords

Nationalize everything: 

"...By now most of us have seen the posters in college towns and trendy
neighborhoods reading, "Health care is a right, not a business."  As
the reasoning goes, because health care is necessary for survival,
everyone must have access to it, preferably courtesy of a vast
bureaucracy that limits everyone's options in the name of egalitarian
ism..." 

 "...But why stop with health care?  Surely the principles that inform
Clintoncare have relevance to other human needs at least as compelling
as health care, including such usual suspects as food, clothing, and
shelter, as well as to such newly discovered basic necessities as
Internet access.  To this end, I propose an exciting new government
program to supply such needs in a manner keeping with progressive
notions of fairness--National Everything Care. 

For example, any unfortunates in our society have a hard time
paying for food.  Yet we cannot simply give these unfortunates food
stamps (or, heaven forbid, private charity) for the same obvious
reason for which we cannot simply help poor people pay for health
care.  Nor can we do away with the federal and state laws and
regulations, many dating from the Depression, that drive up food
costs. 

Instead, we must take control of the production, distribution, and
preparation of food in America to give everyone a right to food that
cannot be taken away.  Regional food alliances should solicit bids
from the companies that now provide food services to schools and
airlines to run public-sponsored cafeterias where everyone, upon
submission of a food security card, can receive the food that a
government nutrition board deems appropriate. 

The same goes for clothing.  Catholic schools have the right idea
in making everyone wear uniforms; this wonderful concept of enforced
uniformity--oops, I mean egalitarian empowerment--should also serve
adults."

Oh, as I've written in the past, food as a right is coming.

Just making Maslow's hierarchy of needs a 'right', hand everyone a helmet and be done with it.