Posted on 02/24/2012 2:51:08 PM PST by Lucky9teen
Kids who open lemonade stands are now shutdown by police. I tried to open a lemonade stand legally in NYC. That was quite an adventure. It takes 65 days to get permission from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
With government adding 80,000 pages of rules and regulations every year, it's no surprise that regular people break laws without even trying.
A small businessman spent 6 years in federal prison for breaking Honduran regulations (and, to make it worse, the Honduran government said he didn't). A family in Idaho can't build a home on their land because the EPA says it's a wetland-but it only resembles a wetland because a government drain malfunctioned and flooded it.
TAXI TROUBLE: Want to start a taxi business? Too bad - it's illegal. Illegal, that is, unless you buy a government-issued "taxi medallion" that can cost as much as a million dollars. One city has a free market for cabs - Washington, DC - but lobbyists there are pushing to regulate.
ILLEGAL FOOD: Increasingly, government tells us what we can and can't eat -- bans on trans-fat, happy meals, "raw" foods. California officials raided a raw food club, and arrested clerks for selling unpasteurized milk. Farmer Joel Salatin, author of "Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal," explains why Americans DON'T have the freedom to choose the food they eat.
ILLEGAL DRUGS: Drug use is illegal - but should it be? Where drugs are legal, businessmen replace gangs as the dealers and pay taxes. Portugal decriminalized all drugs 10 years ago--including crack, ecstasy, and heroin. What has happened since then? We go to Portugal and get the facts from police, politicians, and drug addicts.
ILLEGAL SEX: Our government bans prostitution because people think it's a dirty, dangerous business. But not in brothels...
(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...
I love John Stossel and his documentaries. His shows are very informative.
Tonight's Special: Illegal Everything (airs 9 PM ET on Fox News)
Any candidate who talks about rolling back the beuracracies and about allowing the citizens more freedoms, and talks about this often will win the election.
People are tired of this.
And if they renege, we’ll toss em out.
that guy is sharp as a tack and I love his politics.
have you heard him interviewed? It’s like he becomes this completely other person —cold and remote. Unruffled about anything it all —it’s so weird.
I think his liberal journo colleagues stab him in the back a lot?
I love his reports, but....he has this other side.
Thanks, I may watch the TV tonight.
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws.”
— Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”
Here yah go;) I enjoy his reports - haven’t watched him in some time though. He’s a libertarian, free-market agnostic an unlikely MSM talent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stossel
And if they renege, we’ll toss em out.
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Heck with that, we will ride them out on the rails!
A person can break into this country - pretend to be a citizen - collect food stamps... and nothing will happen to them.
Apparently it's also not illegal to kill two soldiers if the killers are ticked off that a koran has been burned...
Gotta love liberal standards...
No doubt. Unfortunately, the GOP is running full speed ahead to be trapped into clamoring about smarmy social issues.
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The MSM is complicit. Gosh how I dislike the media lapdogs.
A person can break into this country - pretend to be a citizen - collect food stamps... and nothing will happen to them.
Apparently it's also not illegal to kill two soldiers if the killers are ticked off that a koran has been burned...
Gotta love liberal standards...
No, every one of those things are illegal, and those a$$hats in the government KNOW it, but those leftists simply don't care. They don't believe in "the rule of law." They believe in "the rule of men," or more to the point, using the laws they create and pervert to rule, control, and subjugate their "subjects."
They simply don't enforce the laws on "their people" if they don't agree with the laws. And they ignore and break laws when it pleases them.
For instance, they won't allow the legal sale of guns to a law abiding citizen in DC, but they have no problem supplying guns by the thousands to the Mexican drug cartels in order to gin up "evidence" to enact even more draconian gun control laws on law abiding citizens. Never mind that at least 2 US law enforcement agents and HUNDREDS of innocent Mexican civilians have been murdered with those very same guns!
No, they're doing all they can to foster contempt against the law, so they can just make up "laws" as they go along.
Mark
Yep. MSM set the trap in the 1st place, the rest took the bait.
I love your comments about him but... your purpose has this other side.
“get permission from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.”
Department of MENTAL HYGIENE??? That’s just downright scary.
We have been living in a police state for many years. Americans are basically so stupid they are like the frog placed in cold water and then cooked to death and they didn't even know it.
That’s a great rant, Mark. It’s what they’re doing alright - and you’re right about why they’re doing it too. Thanks for sharing.
It’s no wonder that Barbara Walters hated Stossel. He’s probably a lot happier on FOX than he was working with that old harpie on ABC.
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. —”Atlas Shrugged,” by Ayn Rand
Thus, their love for the “living constitution”.
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