Posted on 06/29/2011 6:38:09 AM PDT by antisocial
What happened to freedom?
By Henry Lamb web posted June 27, 2011
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When Constitutional scholar Barack Hussein Obama, and the assortment legal advisors that surrounds him, decided that the commerce clause authorized the federal government to force private citizens to purchase a product, freedom vanished from America.
With this newly declared authority, the federal government can force its citizens to do anything the government wishes. This omnipotent power is the same power exercised by the governments of Hitler, Stalin, and all other despots who have denied freedom to their citizens.
What happened to freedom? It was erased, little by little, until we no longer have a choice among the types of light bulbs we buy. Government has dictated that its citizens can no longer buy a 40-cent incandescent light bulb; after January 1, formerly free people living in a formerly free-market system will be forced by government to buy a four-dollar light bulb, probably made in China.
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Ping!!!
“More people are waking up, time to swing back and kick their RATsasses into the garbage bin of history!!!”
I hope you are right!
(sarc) Ok so the new bulb is a poisonous environmental disaster. Ever notice the warnings on it? Use gloves to handle it, wash you hands afterward. If you break it then things get bad, you almost have to do a toxic spill remedial. The cost of the bulb is almost irrelevant because it helps us break our dependence on foreign oil. Thanks in part to a Republican Congressman. (/sarc)
Communism has arrived.
PING!
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