September 20, 2005

The government takes half your money and then tries to tell you how to spent what's left. Government has never done shit for me and never will, Cat

Tell me about it. My neighbor is a mailman. That sumbitch comes home about three times a day. Once for lunch. At 10:30 am. Another time for his "real" lunch at noon. Then again about 2:30 in the afternoon.

He leaves his truck...FULL OF MAIL AND PACKAGES ETC. parked in front of his house, and doesn't seem to give a shit WHO sees it, he does God knows what inside his house until about 4:30 pm.

Then he leaves, but he's back about 30 minutes later, roaring up the street in his car. Everyone around here has complained to the post office. They won't do a damn thing.

I work at home because of my kids, but I'll never figure out how he manages to pull off only working about 5 hours a day. AND he's rude.

Rent or borrow a video camera with an onscreen date / time stamp. Videotape your neighbor's activities for a few days. Send the tape to your local news consumer affairs reporter.

Hilarity will ensue.

In Bejus name, Amen.

They're treading on us. What's your poison?

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"The mantra from government now seems to be "live your life the way WE tell you to, accept the liberty we grant you and we'll provide all the happiness we decide you need."
Sounds awful North Korean and Talibanish to me, only in prettier language.
*Gazes around at the land*
Looks like it too. The pity is most people with uncrossed eyes and a few firing neurons are far outnumbered by the lemmings being nudged little-by-little into accepting all this bullshit. The encroachment of the Socialists (most of government at any level) is so slight that they don't even really notice. Suzette Kelo (the "eminent domain" victim who stood up to the bullies and went all the way to the Socialist ..err.. Supreme Court) has a fine editorial in today's Washington Times. She was told to give in and sell because "the Government always wins". Too many people are resigned to that. Way too many. And that's the problem. They don't pay much attention to who they vote for, and act perplexed when they lose another right, or have new rights "discovered" for other people.
The whole of Massachussetts is a fine example. No intelligent life-forms with any kind of claim to being aware of their surroundings would send Teddy "Hic" Kennedy to the Senate for life. But they did anyway.
I fear the country is doomed, hopefully after us old folks are dead. I turned 51 today, and remember the country of my teens. This ain't it. With luck it may return, but I ain't betting on it.

Shit, why do you think becoming an Ex Patriot is happening with so much more frequency? The only way to cure the cancer, may be to starve it to death - leave the country with all of your money.

And go where? Damn near everywhere else is even farther Left..
Unless you steal / inherit / win a fortune. Then you can dictate your living arrangements damn near anywhere, if you grease enough palms.
Look at Marc Rich. You can even get pardoned with enough money, especially if you pander to the Leftists.

"Rent or borrow a video camera with an onscreen date / time stamp. Videotape your neighbor's activities for a few days. Send the tape to your local news consumer affairs reporter.

Hilarity will ensue."

Posted by Gerry N at September 20, 2005 05:07 PM

Thanks much Gerry N. After getting nowhere with the post office, and getting one belligerent bastard after another returning the calls about my "complaint". I think your suggestion will make me feel loads better.

Cheers.

This is one reason I support the Fair Tax.

It's only one small step towards taking back our power as citizens in a republic, but's it's a good starting point.

I truly fear that the time when we may need to take up arms to recover that power is fast approaching, and I'm not so sure that there are enough people willing to take that step for it to be successful against the entrenched socialists in government. The only sure thing is, is that it would be bloody.