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Nanny State PING..............
This could be a good one folks, let’s rock and roll!!!!!!!!
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.
Government programs, once launched, never disappear.
Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.
--Ronald Reagan
“Nanny State” = “The Future”.
Embrace the suck.
The site doesn’t have enough bandwidth to answer the question. So I will simply say, “ We are too dumb to take care of ourselves”. Thank goodness we have help.
If you’ve ever seen Cool Hand Luke and remember the song “Plastic Jesus”, my rewrite may at least tickle your funny bone.
Obama
I’m ain’t scared of no Osama,
Long as I’ve got my own Obama,
Riding on the dashboard of my car.
He says he will save this nation,
All through proper tire inflation.
Add tune ups and I know he’ll take us far.
You sure need your own Obama,
Listen to his commie drama,
As he taxes all you make or save.
We don’t need domestic drilling,
All you need is to be willing,
Give up liberty and be his slave.
Go and get your own Obama,
He’s wiser than the Dalai Lama,
Leading us, to new hope and change.
If you don’t see his Marxist leaning,
Then your diaper must need cleaning.
As for me I’ll vote for John McCain.
AUNT POLLY: Hang the boy, can’t I never learn anything? Ain’t he played me tricks enough like that for me to be looking out for him by this time? But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can’t learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is. But my goodness, he never plays them alike, two days, and how is a body to know what’s coming? He ‘pears to know just how long he can torment me before I get my dander up, and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it’s all down again and I can’t hit him a lick. I ain’t doing my duty by that boy, and that’s the Lord’s truth, goodness knows. Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I’m a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. He’s full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he’s my own dead sister’s boy, poor thing, and I ain’t got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks. Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it’s so. He’ll play hookey this evening, and I’ll just be obleeged to make him work, to-morrow, to punish him. It’s mighty hard to make him work Saturdays, when all the boys is having holiday, but he hates work more than he hates anything else, and I’ve GOT to do some of my duty by him, or I’ll be the ruination of the child.
Toms’ Aunt.
The Start.
While Socialism is A form of a “nanny state” and is likely to totalitarian in nature, nannystatism where the State prohibits personal activity (which in EARLIER generations was legal) because it is “bad” for you (personally bad, not potentially bad for those in your proximity) ALWAYS is totalitarian in nature.
Whether it was ACT (action for children’s television) determining which actions in cartoons and 3 Stooges shorts were “dangerous” or Dr. Frederic Wertham (who’s censorship effort of comic books was given national Congressional spotlight by Sen. Estes Kefauver D-Tenn) or Al and Tipper Gore (D-Tenn) making a play for the national stage on the “issue” of naughty rock lyrics (country and jazz references to sex and drugs were not the topic of the investigation). Al Gore didn’t secure his party’s nomination in 1988 but he was there in 1992-2000. His daddy taught him well having lost out on his OWN White House bid to fellow Tennessee Senator Kefauver.
Then there are the nannystaters who want to dictate what type of car you may drive (Ralph Nader proclaimed the Corvair to be unsafe at any speed but I thought that more accurately described the Pinto). Some want to prohibit the “deadly” SUVs which seem to go on possessed rampages killing people and drinking up all of that valuable oil that we spill so much blood over.
Then there are the nanystaters who got cigarette ads off of tv, who protest actors smoking in movies, but see no connection between immoral sexual activity between unmarried partners in tv and movie programs. They raise the taxes on cigarettes, they fine those who buy their cigarettes in bulk from the Indians, they prohibit smoking in public, in bars, on patios, in cars, and even in privately rented apartments.
Then there are the pro-abortion anti-meat vegans who preach an unhealthy diet because it imposes Man’s will on poor animals. Some vegans also feed their pets vegan diets. The food circle was replaced with an unhealthy carb heavy food pyramid. School lunch and prison programs are urged to offer vegan options. Fast food restaurants are prohibited by law from opening up in some poorer neighborhoods...
The woman who founded MADD left the group in 1985 because she saw their continued efforts as a neo-prohibition movement on alcohol. In the 1990s she lobbied on BEHALF of bars and breweries to keep the BAC limit from being lowered even further. In Utah there was a proposal to require ALL cars to have a breath ignition system installed regardless of any prior DWI charges or convictions.
We know what the gun grabbers’ goal is, an end to the antiquated notion of a right to keep and bear arms.
THIS? is America???
"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is. Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy. I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path".
--Ronald Reagan
Alexis de Tocqueville:
Above these [citizens] an immense tutelary power is elevated, which alone takes charge of assuring their enjoyments and watching over their fate. It is absolute, detailed, far-seeing, and mild.
It would resemble paternal power if, like that, it had for its object to prepare men for manhood; but on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood; it likes citizens to enjoy themselves provided that they think only of enjoying themselves.
It willingly works for their happiness; but it wants to be the unique agent and sole arbiter of that; it provides for their security, foresees and secures their needs, facilitates their pleasures, conducts their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their estates, divides their inheritances; can it not take away from them entirely the trouble of thinking and the pain of living?
Subjection in small affairs manifests itself every day and makes itself felt without distinction by all citizens. It does not make them desperate, but it constantly thwarts them and brings them to renounce the use of their wills. Thus little by little, it extinguishes their spirits and enervates their souls.
Thinking Ping!
“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.” - Ronald Reagan
He nonetheless perpetuated and institutionalized the war on(some)drugs and ruined commercial real estate for decades or more.
His tax reform measures also eliminated the federal tax deduction for consumer interest, which most of us could probably use right now.
All of this led to a needed correction in the commercial real estate markets and consumer discipline, but ultimately resulted in an erosion of all freedoms as it enabled the militarization of local police forces, mandatory seatbelt and child safety seat laws, de facto alcohol prohibition, and the conversion of a formerly free republic into a nanny state.
This taught me to be careful what I wish for.
The other side is relentless in its pursuit of government intrusion and will turn freedom and liberty initiatives inside-out.
They are dedicated to the erosion of liberty and will turn every initiative against the advocates.
It is a vocation for the friends of liberty, it is a religion for those who oppose it.
The religious fervor will win every time.