I quit smoking cigarettes a little over 3 years ago, but have used the devil's lettuce for 25 years now. Just had some tests done end of last year, including a CT scan of the lungs. Doc says my lungs look great and they are happy I quit the tobacco!
Interestingly enough, I've mostly been employed throughout my adult life, sans the time the KMART store I managed was closed down. I pay my taxes, get up every morning and go to work (perfect attendance) as a Digital Media Manager for a local media company where I interact with and work heavily in my local community and I stay involved with local, state and National politics as well.
To have people who haven't a friggin clue about it stand here and tell me all the nonsense, BS propaganda, and make stupid, idiotic claims about it just validates for me that Conservatives don't ACTUALLY believe in real freedom - they are ok with government control, so long as it's THEIR government control.
The ignorance is astonishing, really.
All too often true; appeals "liberty" and "limited government" are mere tactics, used when they suit the predetermined ends and discarded when they don't.