Mandates = Dictatorship

First there was a "health care mandate". Now there is a "renewable energy mandate":

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-30-pct-renewable-energy-151227602.html

This will soon morph into a "zero carbon footprint mandate" and other tyrannical mandates all meant to "save us from ourselves".

Perhaps we do need saving, but this is not the way to do it. A rose is a rose is a rose, and tyranny by any other name still stinks.