01-29-2021, 12:24 PM
(01-28-2021, 06:39 PM)elect21 Wrote: Part of the reason Americans love the police state is that the government made Americans dependent on the government.
Some people need little government help and some don't. Big Business depends upon government to enforce contracts, to standardize measurements, and to prosecute thieves. Big Business depends upon public K-12 education for basic preparation for low-level employees. Note well that the current design of public K-12 education is largely to prepare youth to do factory work, which used to be the most common destination of high-school grads. That is obsolete, and that is much of the problem in education.
I have lost my empathy for traffic-law violators. I see state troopers with radar guns, and I know that if one travels on a certain expressway at 76 mph, one's first impression of Michigan may be an encounter with a state trooper writing you a ticket. Speeders cause an inordinate number of vehicle crashes, and the higher the speed the worse are the crashes. Add to this, one fourth of all speeders are drunk or on drugs. Speeding drunks and druggies? Talk about a double-dip of highway menace!
Quote:The government steals money from taxpayers to give to the lazy and outlaws feeding the homeless and starting a business.
Just because the parents of some poor children are lazy bums does not mean that the children deserve to suffer for that. Raising children to be good citizens is not something that anyone can assume as inherent in human nature.
Quote:The government bans guns so Americans must rely on the Gestapo for protection.
Americans have far more 'gun rights' than do the people of many other countries. It is arguable that people had more 'gun rights' in the Soviet Union under Brezhnev than in the UK under Thatcher. Which was the dictator -- Brezhnev or Thatcher? Before someone talks about Nazi Germany and the Gestapo... Nazi Germany was awash in privately-held firearms. Practically every Nazi in good standing was expected to own a gun... or several. People not in good standing with the Nazi Party were prohibited from having guns, of course. As far as that goes, Jews were quickly stripped of the right to keep dogs. The beloved pet dog of a Jewish family might have bitten a Nazi attempting to abuse the Jew and harmed some precious Aryan flesh.
Dogs are far safer than guns to their owners, but not to rapists, muggers, and burglars. Dogs are often almost as large as some documented man-eaters (bears and big cats) and have similar claws and teeth. Small dogs can combine as if one giant predator. Dogs are just above us in the food chain, and all that keeps them from killing us is good behavior -- theirs and ours. Rapists, muggers, and burglars are meat.
Few people have anything worth stealing that is worth a severe mauling by the Other Big Cat. (As that goes, if I were a burglar, I wouldn't trust any "little tiger", either. Then again, I do not do crime, and I take the side of law enforcement against the garden-variety criminal). One of the most common means of committing suicide is by firearm; dogs, in contrast, are more likely to reduce depression and hence the possibility of suicide.
Quote:No one dares criticize the government if they will lose their food stamps, Obamacare, Obamaphones, and Section 8.
You lose your food stamps if you are a fugitive from justice. Obamacare saved my life. "Obama phones" are intended to make seeking a job and getting off welfare easier.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.