Re: Paradise Lost???

"QUESTION"<br />Have you ever lived in a free country??

I have, but only in my youth.

I contend, that if you are 40, or younger you have never lived in a free country. I contend that only if you are 50 or older, you "MAY" remember what it is like to live in a free country. You want examples?? Look around you, you do not dare do this, you must do this, don't do that, "DO THIS" This sentence, the regulations, the rules, the actions you must/must-not do, the majority of them are not laws, have never been legally passed. No we are over regulated by bereaucrats. The law creates a bereau/an-office/a-committee/an-agency/a-department, this bereau/an-office/a-committee/an-agency/a-department sets up an office, hires people (lawyers) like an octopus, spreads it's tenacles across the country, builds buildings, hires more educated (?????), radical, persons with an agenda and soon they are all powerfull, and start on their way to destroy freedom, life, liberty , and the persuit of happiness, as we know it. Not a month gos by, that an incident dosn't happen, that makes no sense, and hurts a large segment of our society, on the nightly news, you see the network agitators asking a series of senators/congressmen, their takes on the incident, they all agree "OH!! it's a terrible injustice", "OH!! something should be done about it", "OH!! this should never happen to an american citizen/family", "HEY!!" dammnit these are the dammned idiots (congressman/senator/lawyers) that make (have made) the beauracracies that have festered this injustice on us. Yet they proclaim to the world on the nightly news, that something should be done about it.

<br />How old are you?? Have you ever been free?? Are you free?? Would you know freedom, if you had it?? Have you ever owned a piece of land? have you ever tried to develope it, only to be frustrated at every turn? Have you ever had to deal with a stupid bearucrat, that just got out of college, thinks he knows everything, but doesn't have enough sense to wipe his/her own a$$, and he/she is telling you what you want/need/? Telling you that you are deprived, are living in poverty/deprivation/ because you only have one bath? Hey, I remember during the depression of the 30's, when we were living on a dirt floored shack, with a path, "BUT" we were free, "BUT" we were happy. How many of you have ever lived in a dirt floored shack?? How many of you know what a tar-paper shack is, how many of you have ever seen a tar-paper shack?? Hey beauracrat (jackass) when you have walked in my shoes, when you have lived, and supported yourself (not lived off of momma and dada) when you have pulled yourself up by your own boot-straps, then come and tell me how I should live, what I should build, and how I should build it. <br />Does any one (with the exception of plywoodie) dare disagree with Me????