Posted on 09/03/2006 5:23:24 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
"Only little people pay taxes." Leona Helmsley said, didn't she? Well, that statement represents reality more than people realize. No, it's not just the taxes that are the issue. The overriding issue making so many people angry these days is the LACK of uniform justice in this country (and the world for that matter). Law after law is passed and who follows those laws?
The honest people try. The little people have to. I personally know that in almost all workplaces, people are chafing under oppressive management which sets attendance rules, policy, etc. that the employees are expected to follow to a tee or be terminated. Retail managers must follow explicit rules about markdowns, product placement, marketing (pro-gay quite often), dress code, etc.; teachers have to modify homework and tests for "special students", be VERY careful about what they say; no pocket knives (because the students can't have one); etc., bank employees have to change the way they deal with customers who deposit or handle large amounts of cash almost every day because the government is trying to track every $; police must handle lawbreakers with TLC and that is the tip of the iceberg for what they face and lawyers are standing over everyone's shoulder waiting to make a dollar on the slightest misstep anyone might make. Life is definitely unfair.
The irony of it all is that rule after rule is made and law-abiding citizens trying to hold on to a vestige of honesty are suffering under massive oppression. The very wealthy and the criminals, though, often enjoy loophole after loophole not available to the "little" people. As a matter of fact, criminals quite often don't follow ANY rule if no one is standing over them watching. It doesn't matter what regulation government passes, a criminal is not going to notice that a store is already closed before entering, the light is red, it is illegal to enter the nation without documentation, you're not allowed to sell that drug without a prescription, you're not supposed to sell THAT drug at all, girls under 18 are not suitable for sexual relations generally, sex with a woman without her consent is not generally allowed (Depends on the culture, doesn't it?), sex between men and boys is largely not tolerated, you're not supposed to take money from people by pointing a gun in their faces, you really shouldn't kill people from whom you've taken money if they give it up and plead for their lives, blah, blah, blah.
Where are we getting all of this? Well, moral collapse is the root cause -- people do not wish to turn to the source of good, that is God and His Word. But I digress. Lawyers have en masse contributed to all of this. They have come to see themselves as gods. They believe they can decide who should see justice and who should be exonerated. And, if it suits their purposes or the accused has enough money -- Presto! You receive your "Get out of Jail" card! Well, the nation slides down the slope as this continues and worsens daily.
We go to work. We are reprimanded for minor offenses. We watch the news. We see illegal aliens running the Mexican flag to the top of the pole on U.S. Federal property (Post Office) and nothing being done about it whereas if we, the citizen, were to vandalize one inch of Postal Property we would be arrested immediately. I wanted to argue about having been let go from the Postal Service for being too slow years ago when I worked for them and was told by the postmaster that if I showed up on the property again -- I would be arrested (and he couldn't even be nice when he said it). We see people chewed out and fired for policy violations at work while politicians hold huge sums of illicit cash right in their congressional offices. Homeowners would be reamed out by the codes officer if they let too many cars park in their yard while illegal aliens seem to have exclusive rights to neighborhood parking lots on their front lawns. I could go on forever listing the inequities and expect those reading this to add a few. The lack of justice IS one of the biggest problems facing the United States.
We have had to follow the rules for our entire lives. Now, we have classes of people who not only don't follow the rules, they're robbing, raping and killing us as they go along. I don't know what the overall solution is going to be but something's going to have to change. This simply can NOT continue. We have a vacuum of leadership and it will eventually be filled -- probably with a despot. I've said my piece and that will be it for a while. I suffer patiently remembering that God is not partial and has clearly stated that "Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people."
Popped off this e-mail to your retire friend from your work computer, using your work e-mail? Yeah, you may get fired. You do not have the right to use your employers tools for stuff he doesn't want you to.
If you wish to pursue a Conservative Club at your work, go through the proper channels and ask permission from your employer or his appropriate representative. If he says no, either suck it up or quit.
Why is it so many freeper’s understand the right of free association except when people don't want to associate with them?
He doesn't get it. Reading his rant, I am not surprised.
I'd start with that clause from the Contract for America - all laws passed apply to congress, too.
The real problem is economic. The drugs one of these idiots would use in a day under rational circumstances would cost a dollar; that would simply present no scope for crime or criminals. Under present circumstances that dollar's worth of drugs is costing the user $300 a day and since that guy is dealing with a 10% fence, he's having to commit $3000 worth of crime to buy that dollar's worth of drugs. In other words, a dollar's worth of chemicals has been converted into $3000 worth of crime, times the number of those idiots out there, times 365 days per year, all through the magic of stupid and evil laws. No nation on Earth could afford that forever.
A rational set of drug laws would:
Do all of that, and the drug problem and 70% of all urban crime will vanish within two years.
At work by creating a club? Yes. After work on your own time? No. Get your self a cup of coffee; it isn't that difficult of a concept.
What's being described here is the slow transformation of this country from a constitutional republic into a banana republic.
Me too brother. I have made many stupid choices in life, but I like to think that what defines me is that I have never taken advantage of anyone. I have often sold things at a loss so there would be no chance of anyone being shortchanged, and I have passed up opportunities to "get rich" by taking advantage of others' stupidity or misunderstanding. If I die poor, it will be with a clear conscience and a nice pine box.
Nice rant.
"No we are not property, but we can own property."
Allow me to expand on that -
The property you own doesn't have "rights," but rather the individual has rights in the property he owns. These include the right to develop, to farm, to sub-divide, to use, to improve, to sell and other rights.
The various state and federal agencies and the courts have stolen these rights. Whether it's a federal fascist bureaucrat telling you can't cut trees because an endangered bird lives on your land or a Marxist court telling you must give your home and land to a corporation because it's for the collective common good, we are seeing a severe crippling of our rights.
It's time to take back our birthright.
That be right!
"Only little people pay taxes."
BS. The top 5% of wage earners pay 50% of the taxes in this country while the lower 25% pay nothing.
As for what the solution will be...solve et coagula. Old forms will dissolve, and new ones will form. Such transformation is never free of pain.
"BS. The top 5% of wage earners pay 50% of the taxes in this country while the lower 25% pay nothing."
"Wage earners"?
I doubt that those who make up the top 5%, in terms of income, can honestly be called "wage earners".
"There are choices. In our area, you do not have to pay for the sitting or photo from the school selected photographer to have the picture in the yearbook. If pictures are wanted for personal use, you pay for them, but no one is required to do so to have it appear in the yearbook. In fact, if you don't like the way the first one turned out, you can even have it re-done by the same photographer at no cost. Still, you're not required to buy any of them or pay for the service. Secondly, as far as I know, no one is forced to buy the yearbook in the first place."
Do those who pay the school tax have the choice of subtracting the cost of the school photographer from their tax bill?
Thanks for that link.....i'm feeling it.
I'm tired of elected officials and appointees circling the wagon for one another. It seems to be the only thing they're all good at.
yep
good post
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