Posted on 01/23/2011 1:02:08 PM PST by Greg Swann
Nanny nanny foo foo. So there.
I don’t like it. Too childish.
Love it. This will be so much fun for my grand daughter to help with my new signs. She will understand completely —YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME. The nice way to say FU.
Reason number one to avoid it. Try this instead:
"Liberty or death!"
how about...
`BACK OFF HOMIE!!`
Providing them with a roof over their heads.
Providing them with food.
Providing them with transportation.
Providing them with a cell phone.
Paying the bill for the cell phone.
Providing them with healthcare.
.
Then yes, they are the boss of you.
And as a point of interest, I'm not a parent.
I prefer something like, “Remove the chains of big government”.
I live in the state capital. I’d say 75% of the couty’s populace suckle at the government’s teat. Not one Republican holds office here. The mayor of our town is openly Marxist. Our town has spent more money on Green busses and Green “initiatives” than the entire rest of the state. Now, they’re planning to close two lanes of a major thoroughfare to “force people to use the bus system,” which is a private company. Why is there no rebellion? Because 75% of the people here see no problems with how things are run.
Parent to child: “I am too the boss of you! God said so.
LOL, I still prefer the un-nice way.
If I would have said that to one of my parents, 50 yrs later, my butt would still hurt.
"I hate you! You're the worst parents ever! Now can I have the keys to Camry...?"
Gov’ts make bad parents. All they want is slaves.
Likening the uprising of reasonable patriotic adults against excessive government intrusion, as represented by the Tea Party, to a child’s temper tantrum is a monumentally terrible idea.
SnakeDoc
I would have taken it in another direction. This observation of nature is evidence that we were created and endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights, life and free will. It is our birthright. As long as we recognize that obediance/compliance with the law is an act of free will/choice and social compact, not an act of subserviance to superior will (such as the collective whole) we cannot be dominated. The collective can still apply superior coercion to force compliance, but it cannot break our will and “yearning to breath free.”
But we have learned in several foreign wars that this is may not universally be the case. Do all people yearn for liberty? Perhaps we need to examine that assumption when we are laying down our lives to secure self determination for them. I believe this is a question that has haunted the last few generations that did not haunt those of the WWI and WWII eras.
Good point. Parents, ideally, raise us to be self-sufficient. Government tries to do the opposite.
Lotttttta issues here. Kids use that phrase on other bossy kids,, not parents. Tea using it on government does not in nany way partake of the parent child relationship. (unless of course, one looks at government as their parent)
This WILDLY contradictory effort in intellectual masturbation ignores the fact that government in fact ISN’T the boss of me you or anyone else.
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