Marion County IN Health Department would rather the elderly be homeless.

Thelmon Green, the cigar-chomping old man who for the past seven years has lived happily in a Chevrolet van, is being ordered to move by the Marion County
Health Department.

Sheryl Crum, of the department's Housing Division, visited Green's digs
Thursday and pronounced the arrangement "not a healthy place to live."

Ah, but it IS a place to live, which the government is taking away from him.

Mr. Green minds his own business, does not take government handouts, and was satisfied with his life.

But, you see, Mr. Green doesn't own his life.

And I don't own my life.

And you don't own your life.

The government does. And it gets to veto your choices. Even those that don't hurt others.

Until we stop allowing it.

"Lord have mercy," said Philip Hall, a friend of Green's who often brings him food. "What this is is government people who have a mandate to save us from ourselves."

I agree, Mr. Hall; I couldn't have put it better myself. But who's going to save us from our government?