Originally Posted by BestXXXPorn

qft, thank you for posting that... people these days have a twisted view of what this government was setup to do and how it was supposed to function...

Can't say I blame them though as the government has slowly been usurping freedom and rights away from citizens for a good deal of time now... They've realized that as long as X% won't be up in arms about stripping away any given right, they can just slide the bill right through...

It has never been so evident as of late though... Most peoples' reaction to the clove / flavored cigarette ban is; I don't smoke so I don't really care. Their reaction to the ban on incandescent light bulbs is; I use CFLs already, so I don't really care. I always wear my seatbelt, so I don't really care. Even if they do care it's usually; I can't do anything about it so...

These acts of government strip rights away from people, regardless if you use that right or not and they only work one way... Let's give the amount of freedoms stripped from Americans some arbitrary number.... 10,000 and say the government passes 50 new freedom restricting bills per month (this is only for illustrative purposes).

10,000 + 50 + 50 + 50 + 50 + 50 + 50 + 50 ...

You get my point, there is no reversing this process and with each one of these bills new czars get appointed to oversee them, more staff is hired to manage them and report on them, and what do they result in? More taxes needed...

Unless a drastic change in policy and philosophy occurs we're headed towards a police/nanny state with super high taxes...

I blame it on the collectivist mentality so heavily ingrained in Republicrat agenda. THEY know what's best for EVERYONE and they're willing to force everyone into that path via taxation and legislation.

Once upon a time we had the greatest system of government on the planet. One whose sole purpose was to protect the inalienable rights of every citizen. That is not the case any more....