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To: centurion316
Smoking is a stupid decision, but in the land of freedom, you ought to have the right to exercise your liberty within a reasonable restriction of ruining the enjoyment of my meal.

Years ago I read a letter responding to British Complaints about the U.S. putting conditions on US Aid to Britain after World War II. The British didn't like some of the conditions.

I still recall the letter writer's response to that:

"If you don't like our apples, stop shaking our tree!"

If you are living in government housing, you need someone else running your life for you. You obviously can't do it yourself, and you are, in effect, a "Ward of the State."

I'm fine with the idea of putting onerous rules on people who suck on the public tit. Maybe it will induce them to grow up, get up, and get a job.

Benjamin Franklin said it this way:

"I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."

"Freedom" is for Free people. If you want freedom, you shouldn't be a ward of the state.

17 posted on 11/12/2015 4:31:03 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

You should not venture anywhere near the campus of the University of Missouri at Columbia. If they find out what you are thinking they will rip you up from body and limb and your pieces will be cast into the bonfire.

You must submit to the intellectual superior beings. Perhaps they will allow you to continue in life, albeit in a totally subservient state.


18 posted on 11/12/2015 4:38:50 PM PST by centurion316 (,)
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