November 4, 200817 yr Oh yea, I forgot something in my last post. :oops:: The Government spends too much money. That's why we're $458B in debt not even counting the Bailout.:ohnoes: Good luck to the next President. I think you'll find the US national debt is much more than $458 billion - I think it's around 20 times that? Oh yes, my bad, I mixed up the numbers the real debt is $14T (trillion)..
November 5, 200817 yr Like most of the people you are talking about, I'm not worried that the government are evil, what I'm worried about is the way freedoms are lost. In the UK, we have had anti terrorist legislation brought in, on the obvious grounds of the terror threats from 9/11 etc. When they did so we were all assured these would just never be used for anything other than catching terrosists. The policians looked us in the eyes as though butter wouldnt melt in their mouths "Us? Use the terror legislation against our own citizens? Dont be silly, your just paranoid" And a few years later what do we find? An 87 year old man, a life long 'Labour' (one of our two main political parties) supporter ejected from a Labour conference for loudly disagreeing with what was said, under, you guessed it, the terror legislation, we have things like this... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082225/March-dustbin-Stasi-Half-councils-use-anti-terror-laws-watch-people-putting-rubbish-wrong-day.html clear abuses of the power given to them. It's not that were paranoid, its that the people in power ARE abusing that power. They arent evil, they are just stupid and ignorant and do not realise what they are doing and the implications of it. They dont remember that the legislation came with provisos, they just see laws they are able to use and so they use them.
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