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[bleep] the government
lyby | 10/26/2015 | lyby

Posted on 10/26/2015 8:20:47 PM PDT by lyby

I totally and absolutely resent every intrusion into my life from taxes to healthcare to what I eat and drink. We may as well be living in the era of serfs or sharecroppers, for that is all we are: beholden to the powers that are in control.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: serfs; sharecroppers
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I dunno, he seems moral enough to burn women, kids, houses and villages to me


41 posted on 10/26/2015 10:41:44 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: lyby

Anybody remember Yakov Smirnov.....”America....what a country...”

Don’t get that feeling anymore.


42 posted on 10/26/2015 10:44:39 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: Bon mots

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C.S. Lewis


43 posted on 10/26/2015 11:00:19 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: lyby

Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.


44 posted on 10/26/2015 11:15:17 PM PDT by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: rktman
Turn your bacon over to me.

Smoke pork, not pot!

45 posted on 10/26/2015 11:21:00 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: lyby
This is what happens when you let the servants run the Manor. Sooner or later, they forget who the boss is.

Last time I saw a correct power pyramid in a schoolbook I was in Jr. High. It had The People at the top.

That isn't taught any more (unless you happen to be of a special interest group, where you are considered a victim).

Those of us who worked hard to build something are being deprived of the fruits of our labors because we trusted those we chose to run the farm.

46 posted on 10/26/2015 11:26:41 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: lyby

I’m only 51 and it astonishes me how much freedom has been lost in this country during my lifetime.

Used to live next door to a 96 y/o man who was really mad about how much things have changed.

He must have felt like he was in another dimension sometimes.


47 posted on 10/26/2015 11:36:08 PM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: rottndog
Don’t get that feeling anymore.

Don't watch teevee.

It's demoralizing and shows America through a funhouse lens.

If you must watch it, realize the things presented as "fact" seldom are, they are just indicators of the things you should do some digging into.

Understand that all possible will be done to present that which is good as somehow evil, that the message is that you are helpless, even when you are not.

I call it the 'bolshevik mentality' where those proclaiming they are the majority constitute a small fraction, but rely on getting the rest to believe they are the majority.

I see polls every day which tell me Obama has XX% approval, but NO ONE I speak with has so much as a kind word for the Government. Certainly none approves of Obama's actions nor policies.

While I understand my circle of people may be a limited sample, I hear little different from people all over the country.

That tells me the polls lie: they do not represent the views of the population.

This permits voter fraud on an enormous scale because it sets the expected outcome of any election.

It permits the justification of insane policy because it alleges the American People approve, when in fact they do not.

And those of us who know something is wrong, whether because of a somewhat scientific canvassing of opinions or a more visceral level of understanding have difficulty reconciling what we hear and see with what we are being told for a reason.

We are being lied to.

48 posted on 10/26/2015 11:38:48 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: lyby

49 posted on 10/27/2015 12:09:46 AM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: 867V309
Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.

Nothin ain't worth nothin, but it's free.

50 posted on 10/27/2015 12:40:39 AM PDT by Mark17 (Heaven, where the only thing there that's been made by man are the scars in the hands of Jesus)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Give a bunch of braindead zombies “smart” phones and this is what you get. To those maggots, FREEDOM is taking a selfie.”

And they do it while they’re driving under the influence of liquor, drugs and affluence.


51 posted on 10/27/2015 1:45:04 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I love my smart phone. My grocery list is always at my fingertips.


52 posted on 10/27/2015 3:03:49 AM PDT by Cry if I Wanna (.)
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To: lyby
Just figure that out did you?
To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. … To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.
Proudhon
53 posted on 10/27/2015 4:35:44 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Big Red Badger

Yep.


54 posted on 10/27/2015 4:43:59 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FreeRepublic needs your financial support.)
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To: lyby
And what do you do about it? Do you invest yourself in your complaints or do you just pay them lip service?

Think the analogy of "wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which fills up first"...

Note my long-serving tagline.

Now for a short public service announcement to all on FR:
I prefer Cruz and my money goes to his campaign, hence the Cruz link. If you like someone else, donate to him/her (find your own link to do it) and if you use FR and don't donate, then please don't complain about the welfare leeches or those who have Obama Phones because, functionally, you are no different than any other FReeloader.....

GO CRUZ!! Keep it up Trump!!

Donate to Cruz

Donate to FR

55 posted on 10/27/2015 4:49:53 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: PROCON

The government isn’t telling you that you can’t eat something. Just saying it increases your chances of bad health. What is there to be upset about?


56 posted on 10/27/2015 4:59:29 AM PDT by sakic
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To: indydcinnc
I will fight to the end.

It's how you define the beginning that concerns me. What will turn the future tense into the present tense? What, that hasn't already happened.

57 posted on 10/27/2015 5:45:28 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: budj

just go away and leave me alone while I buy my 5 dollar light bulbs that last 6 months


58 posted on 10/27/2015 5:55:04 AM PDT by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: lyby

Some of us have been sounding the alarm on the CFR for over 30 years ...We warned of the Republican party 20 years ago (on FR)...How bad did it have to get before you realized you were screwed???


59 posted on 10/27/2015 7:16:51 AM PDT by Iscool (Izlam and radical Izlam are different the same way a wolf and a wolf in sheeps clothing are differen)
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To: sakic
The government isn’t telling you that you can’t eat something. Just saying it increases your chances of bad health. What is there to be upset about?

It's just the Nanny State nonsense that irritates me.

What's next, a warning label on bacon packages, like on tobacco products?

Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that consuming BACON can cause increased risk of stroke, heart attack and DEATH.

</rant>

60 posted on 10/27/2015 7:29:24 AM PDT by PROCON (A proud CRUZader.)
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