Social Slavery

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murderbydeath222 — Wed, 2 Jul 2008 16:15:23 -0700

First Boomer Applies for Social Security

Jason — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:53:28 -0700

No Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid reform until 2009 says Senator

Jason — Sun, 20 May 2007 10:29:42 -0700

Senate wants to investigate "unfair and deceptive" practices with student loans while ignoring the same with Social Security

Jason — Thu, 3 May 2007 11:52:37 -0700

Social Security Trustees release their annual report (Hint, we're still screwed)

Jason — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:08:38 -0700

US exposes 1000's of SSNs for years in web-accessible database

Jason — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:31:36 -0700

Ron Paul says that the US is going bankrupt

Jason — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:57:01 -0700

Rich Venezuelans heading to Florida

mtlibertyproject — Sat, 3 Mar 2007 22:09:46 -0800

I Hate the Lottery

winston smith — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:44:46 -0800

My reasons for disliking the lottery are many, but I'll just go through a couple. I happen to personally believe that the lottery is morally wrong (more on that later), but that is not reason enough to not have one. I also happen to think drinking is wrong, and whether you think it is or not, you have to agree that while some people are able to partake of adult beverages with little or no impact on their life, some people aren't. With some people, for whatever reason, that habit consumes their life, destroying everything good and sucking the very marrow from the bones of what they could have been. Because of the destructive side of a habit like drinking, it would be foolish for the government to promote drinking, encouraging it and subsidizing it with ad campaigns and little convenince store kiosks where you can get your 'gummint mad dog'. The government ought to have something akin to a Hippocratic oath , pledging to at least, do no harm. If you choose to throw your life away, it is after all, your life, but the state has no place in cheering you on while paying lip service to stupid slogans like 'drink responsibly' and 'it's for the schools'. The state should neither ban a vice like drinking, nor endorse it.
By analogy, the same applies to gambling. Some people, for whatever reason, have a real problem with it, and the government should not encourage them by gving it state sanction and accessibility. The lottery, despite all their cute little slogans, does exactly that.
Its also a lie. They promote it, at least in Georgia by telling us that it's for the schools. But it really is a river of boondoggle money pouring into the state coffers, with an ever-growing adminstration structure that sucks up more and more of the money with less and less making it to the government schools that my confiscatory property taxes are already propping up against my will. I have actually had people tell me that I'm anti-education because I'm anti-lottery.
Now the moral issue. One of the saddest things to see is what becomes of a person when they become enslaved by the state through welfare or some sort of subsistence program. It is an enslavement of the mind, proven by the too few who escape that lifestyle. There's an emptiness in their eyes, a lack of ambition, a lack of will and an unspoken assumption that this is as good as it's going to get. It robs a man of one of his greatest qualities; the desire to make something of himself, and promotes in him a victim mentality, a mindstate of 'they owe me'. It is a 'something for nothing ' mentality that is one of the cruelest legacies of the Great Society programs.I submit to you that the lottery is yet another head of that state hydra.
Our church is located in the middle of the ghetto. There is 'gummint' housing on 4 sides of us, with crackhouse raids and solicitation busts a regular occurence. If you go right down the street to the local convience store around the first of the month, you will see lines leading out the door of people buying lottery tickets with their state checks. You see, they have been conditioned to look to the state for their financial windfalls and the same people who won't go get a job will stand in line because, after all, as the poster (paid for with my tax dollars) tells them "Today could be your lucky day".
I really do hate the lottery.

The Big Three

Mindmesh — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:58:50 -0800

Well it appears that with the Dems in control of both the house and Senate we can expect them to push forward with their socialist agenda. Don't get me wrong I'm all for helping others, but I'd prefer to do it on my own rather then having the state take my money and hand it out to those which don't really need it. With that being said it looks like the Big Three American car manufacturers are going to lobby congress to patch the doughnut hole in Medicare.

"This is probably No. 2 or No. 3 on the list of things that Nancy Pelosi wants to do, right behind the minimum wage and Iraq," said McAlinden, referring to the Democratic congresswoman poised to be the new Speaker of the House. "All they need from Bush is a pledge not to veto Democrat's attempt to fill in the doughnut hole."
But McAlinden said it will be expensive for Democrats to pay for the new benefit. Some estimates put the cost at $200 billion over the next decade.

Guess where that $200 Billion is going to come from? That's right from our pockets. The unfortunate thing is that due to the war in iraq people ignorantly voted for Dems and now we're all f'ed. That's not to say that the Reps would have been a good choice, but a nice balance could stop both of their agenda's from coming thru. Once socialism has a hold it is never loosened. Take welfare for example. That isn't going anywhere anytime soon. To even mention reforming welfare could be a death sentence for a politician's career.