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America is a glutton for punishment. We insist on ignoring the lessons of history and are doomed to repeat it. The thing that disturbs me the most about the massive bailout/rescue bill is the idea that the government can be relied upon in any capacity to ensure your well-being, when in reality the only thing we can be assured of where government is concerned is in guaranteeing our absolute misery. It’s the only thing they know how to do well; spread misery equally.

The government can’t create jobs without taking the jobs from somewhere else. They can’t create wealth without stealing it from individuals who have it. They create nothing, make nothing, and yet they maintain complete control over all of us fools. The government is so powerful that if I don’t put a government-mandated sticker on my vehicle window (that costs $45 every year), I can be fined and ticketed. If I should walk across the street in an area not designated as a crosswalk, I could find myself being tuned-up by police officers and thrown in jail. And don’t even get me started on seat belts, bike helmets, smoking, gun ownership, fish licenses, and life-jackets. If you think those regulations are annoying, just wait and see what’s coming after the nationalization of our financial sector.

This country is no longer free in any sense of the word. What are we free to do? Can’t smoke-not even outside if you’re near any public building or bus stop, can’t drink in your own front yard, can’t build a tree-house in your own backyard, can’t build a house near water because there might be a beaver building a damn nearby. Can’t modify a shotgun (they’ll send the BATF to kill your wife, son and dog for that). Don’t start a religious commune and also have guns. They send in the tanks for that. Can’t shoot raccoons tearing into your garbage, heck, you can’t even shoot a sex offender who breaks into your house (unless you want to argue in court for the rest of your life and are prepared for them to confiscate all your guns and fine you thousands of dollars.) You can’t text and walk, talk and drive, eat trans fats, or sell t-shirts on the street. And don’t even think about trying to rescue a child from a communist re-education camp. What country am I in? Is this America?

The point of all of this is we’re screwed either way because the people keep demanding more government please! Pass the bill, don’t pass the bill…we’re screwed.

Now that it has passed we’re going to have more government interference than ever before in the daily grind of our lives. And believe me people, it’s going to get grim.

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