knothead wrote:TEOTWAWKI wrote:knothead wrote:PkrBum wrote:perhaps if the govt were allowed to search your body with no probable cause... to indefinitely detain you with no due process... to wiretap your conversations with no warrant... to use military drones to observe your property and actions... to force you to purchase a product... to take whatever share of your production they deem "fair"...
no... i guess it will take more than that... carry on comrade.
I agree pkr, the items you list are symptomatic of the times in which we live but they all were derived thru the Patriot Act unless I am mistaken. I do not know of any (known) instances of drones observing citizens properties. Your reference to 'purchasing a product by force' is clearly a swipe at the ACA which is far from perfect, fact is, you and I and everyone who act responsibly currently pay for the uninsured now through higher medical costs so forcing everyone to pay something is reasonable but that is my view. 'Taking a share of our production' is a reference to taxing authority. The very best times we have seen over the last couple decades were during the Clinton administration when the tax rate of the wealthiest were the same as being advocated now. We need the revenue and that, too, is my view. Trickle down economics do not work.
No it's far better that the government steal from the productive and give it to the nonproductive and their cronnies. Have you seen what government workers get paid now days? Have you seen HOW many people the government employs now days. It's the government that is the huge burden the rest of us have to carry NOT the poor they would be easy if it wasn't for the giant government slugs on our backs.
Clinton was an idiot that profited from the Reagan years. there is a lag between action and reaction. Reagan's policies worked but didn't blossom until the Clinton times. Honestly when Bill wasn't selling secrets to the Chinese he was getting a blow job from an intern..yeah great president...
Teo, opinions are like a certain part of the human anatomy . . . everybody's got one! None of the interns would be after Ronnie to give him a BJ, you jealous it wasn't you?
Oh baby I love it when you get personal.