[TheSpottedOwl]

It's a wider problem than just the trashing of our constitutional rights. These problems didn't exist 50 years ago. If it hadn't been for the sexual revolution and the women's movement, the camel wouldn't have been able to get its nose under the tent.

As dreary as this sounds, we need to take personal responsibility for our own actions. I told my son that 5 minutes of "fun" can turn into 18 years of financial slavery, or a nasty STD. If you want to be stupid and play around with drugs, the government can come in and seize everything you own.

Now here's the problem, no matter how anal you are about obeying every law on the books, they make up new ones. Did you know that it's against the law for a minor to carry a lighter? They'll do anything to get you in the system.

Besides forcing changes in the way the federal government has usurped states rights, we must go back to making wiser choices in our lives.

[RogerFGay]

If it hadn't been for the sexual revolution and the women's movement, the camel wouldn't have been able to get its nose under the tent.

The more important history involves years of repeated attempts to get at the Social Security "trust fund" and many decades of people making money out of any kind of government spending. The child supprot enforcement program in effect set up a new "trust fund." Billions and billions of dollars in child support pass through the hands of every Tom, Dick, and Harry on the block. You can bet I wouldn't mind having the interest from deposits on their way through the system. Then there's the actual billions the government spends each year running the system through private companies -- companies that don't have to invest anything and do really do anything -- but take their part of the booty.