Is the government mine, or am I owned?
I realize I live in one of the freer nations on the planet. I understand that I have certain freedoms, which despite my occasional protests, that I take for granted. Yet I can't shake the feeling that those freedoms are threatened. So, what is a man to do about it? This man decided to take a closer look at the threats. As well, I decided to reach out to others in an attempt to support those with similar understandings, open the minds of those who can be reached, and allows those who want those rights removed to expose themselves.
The threat isn't as easily viewed as one would think, it's not just a single person, single group of people, a single government entity or the entire government itself, and it keeps to the shadows. Unlike the One Ring, in Lord of the Rings, it doesn't want to be found. The threat seems to be an intentional and unintentional collaboration of individuals, groups, government agencies, and to some degree the government as a whole.
The individuals, like Soros, Ted Kennedy, and Ted turner, use their power, money, and fame (infamy) toward the end of enlarging the U.S. government. Oddly, these are some of the very people you will hear decrying the inadequacies of the government. The groups, like the ACLU and NOW, have political agendas. NOW for example, wants to replace fathers with an Uncle, among other things governmentcentric. The agencies, like the Department of Education, seem only interested in promoting a broken system that socializes rather than educates students at all levels. And then there is the government as a whole. It is an industry that only seeks to grow, even when all other industries may shrink. The departments with the government find clever ways to spend all of their income in order to apply for more funding in the next budget year, rather than spending only as is truly needed.
All of these have combined to produce a quickly appearing socialist nation out of the nearly dead carcass of a once free land. The American people have bought this by getting a little out of it. It puts me to mind of how Native American's sold land for little or nothing. I'm pretty sure that selling rights for a prescription drug program is the worst of the two. Watching an ad in which this old woman describes how now with the program, she will have more money to spend on her grandchildren. If she really thought about it, she would realize she is placing a tax burden on them that they not only won't easily be able to support, but won't be willing to support. The only way for that tax scheme to work is for the government to grant itself enough power to force them to pay. She's selling her grandkids into slavery for a few years of life at best. And either her grandkids will rebel and she will be thrown to the wolves, or they will become slaves and never know the good life she seems to know.
In any case, that's my first installment on the price of my freedoms. Yes, exercise does a body good, why should it not do a real right good?
The threat isn't as easily viewed as one would think, it's not just a single person, single group of people, a single government entity or the entire government itself, and it keeps to the shadows. Unlike the One Ring, in Lord of the Rings, it doesn't want to be found. The threat seems to be an intentional and unintentional collaboration of individuals, groups, government agencies, and to some degree the government as a whole.
The individuals, like Soros, Ted Kennedy, and Ted turner, use their power, money, and fame (infamy) toward the end of enlarging the U.S. government. Oddly, these are some of the very people you will hear decrying the inadequacies of the government. The groups, like the ACLU and NOW, have political agendas. NOW for example, wants to replace fathers with an Uncle, among other things governmentcentric. The agencies, like the Department of Education, seem only interested in promoting a broken system that socializes rather than educates students at all levels. And then there is the government as a whole. It is an industry that only seeks to grow, even when all other industries may shrink. The departments with the government find clever ways to spend all of their income in order to apply for more funding in the next budget year, rather than spending only as is truly needed.
All of these have combined to produce a quickly appearing socialist nation out of the nearly dead carcass of a once free land. The American people have bought this by getting a little out of it. It puts me to mind of how Native American's sold land for little or nothing. I'm pretty sure that selling rights for a prescription drug program is the worst of the two. Watching an ad in which this old woman describes how now with the program, she will have more money to spend on her grandchildren. If she really thought about it, she would realize she is placing a tax burden on them that they not only won't easily be able to support, but won't be willing to support. The only way for that tax scheme to work is for the government to grant itself enough power to force them to pay. She's selling her grandkids into slavery for a few years of life at best. And either her grandkids will rebel and she will be thrown to the wolves, or they will become slaves and never know the good life she seems to know.
In any case, that's my first installment on the price of my freedoms. Yes, exercise does a body good, why should it not do a real right good?
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