Posted on 09/03/2006 5:23:24 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
"Only little people pay taxes." Leona Helmsley said, didn't she? Well, that statement represents reality more than people realize. No, it's not just the taxes that are the issue. The overriding issue making so many people angry these days is the LACK of uniform justice in this country (and the world for that matter). Law after law is passed and who follows those laws?
The honest people try. The little people have to. I personally know that in almost all workplaces, people are chafing under oppressive management which sets attendance rules, policy, etc. that the employees are expected to follow to a tee or be terminated. Retail managers must follow explicit rules about markdowns, product placement, marketing (pro-gay quite often), dress code, etc.; teachers have to modify homework and tests for "special students", be VERY careful about what they say; no pocket knives (because the students can't have one); etc., bank employees have to change the way they deal with customers who deposit or handle large amounts of cash almost every day because the government is trying to track every $; police must handle lawbreakers with TLC and that is the tip of the iceberg for what they face and lawyers are standing over everyone's shoulder waiting to make a dollar on the slightest misstep anyone might make. Life is definitely unfair.
The irony of it all is that rule after rule is made and law-abiding citizens trying to hold on to a vestige of honesty are suffering under massive oppression. The very wealthy and the criminals, though, often enjoy loophole after loophole not available to the "little" people. As a matter of fact, criminals quite often don't follow ANY rule if no one is standing over them watching. It doesn't matter what regulation government passes, a criminal is not going to notice that a store is already closed before entering, the light is red, it is illegal to enter the nation without documentation, you're not allowed to sell that drug without a prescription, you're not supposed to sell THAT drug at all, girls under 18 are not suitable for sexual relations generally, sex with a woman without her consent is not generally allowed (Depends on the culture, doesn't it?), sex between men and boys is largely not tolerated, you're not supposed to take money from people by pointing a gun in their faces, you really shouldn't kill people from whom you've taken money if they give it up and plead for their lives, blah, blah, blah.
Where are we getting all of this? Well, moral collapse is the root cause -- people do not wish to turn to the source of good, that is God and His Word. But I digress. Lawyers have en masse contributed to all of this. They have come to see themselves as gods. They believe they can decide who should see justice and who should be exonerated. And, if it suits their purposes or the accused has enough money -- Presto! You receive your "Get out of Jail" card! Well, the nation slides down the slope as this continues and worsens daily.
We go to work. We are reprimanded for minor offenses. We watch the news. We see illegal aliens running the Mexican flag to the top of the pole on U.S. Federal property (Post Office) and nothing being done about it whereas if we, the citizen, were to vandalize one inch of Postal Property we would be arrested immediately. I wanted to argue about having been let go from the Postal Service for being too slow years ago when I worked for them and was told by the postmaster that if I showed up on the property again -- I would be arrested (and he couldn't even be nice when he said it). We see people chewed out and fired for policy violations at work while politicians hold huge sums of illicit cash right in their congressional offices. Homeowners would be reamed out by the codes officer if they let too many cars park in their yard while illegal aliens seem to have exclusive rights to neighborhood parking lots on their front lawns. I could go on forever listing the inequities and expect those reading this to add a few. The lack of justice IS one of the biggest problems facing the United States.
We have had to follow the rules for our entire lives. Now, we have classes of people who not only don't follow the rules, they're robbing, raping and killing us as they go along. I don't know what the overall solution is going to be but something's going to have to change. This simply can NOT continue. We have a vacuum of leadership and it will eventually be filled -- probably with a despot. I've said my piece and that will be it for a while. I suffer patiently remembering that God is not partial and has clearly stated that "Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people."
So you just want your tyrant, the one that agrees with your drug choices.
There is one common legal drug for which no overweening (side) effect has been found and that is caffeine.
Use all the drugs wou wish just don't expect the conservative to pay for your ills. Don't expect me to welcome you into my house or my community.
Bring it up to the school board. Elect people to the school board who vow to get rid of the school photographer if you feel that strongly about it. Run for school board yourself. Personally, I have bigger worries than the school selected photographer, but to each his own.
I don't do drugs and I strongly advise others not to do them. I simply get tired of spending good money on the idiot consequences of idiot laws.
Actually, I think it was the Perot-Bush split that got us those two.
In fact, wasn't that exactly what they had rebelled against?
I believe that was a good part of it.
You missed the point. You read what you wanted and what you could argue. I didn't say that you did drugs. I did say that you were happy with a tyrant that YOU found agreeable.
I am not happy with a tyrant or with a thousand tyrant countrymen - villanous provincials.
If I die poor, it will be with a clear conscience and a nice pine box.
I don’t even need the pine box - but a clear conscience is priceless.
Le Affaire de Sandy Burger shows us there are two sets of laws?
Thought this "rant" and discussion might interest you.
From your moniker, I'm sure you understand that it's better than some other alternatives. Chonburi 1962-1965.
Diversity has become synonymous with perversity.
And might get us again if we're not careful.
But you have proved that you have a clear and unobstructed view from those seats.
There are way, way more cameras today at red lights than there are on the Mexican border.
Boy, I really feel safe about that!
I think you are wrong in a way.
If a bunch of people wanted to start a "Gay, Lesbian Task Force" at work, the employer would let them do it without a peep.
Because they know that if they argued about it, they would get sued.
But if you promote anything conservative at work, you face serious repercussions.
Doesn't sound very equal to me.
Me thinks you should call your doctor and up your meds.
And if you keep gripping that, you'll go blind.
"I doubt that those who make up the top 5%, in terms of income, can honestly be called "wage earners"."
I am in the top 5% and certainly consider myself as a wage earner. Do you have any idea what the dollar figure is for 5%? For 2005, it was only $157,176. There were 5.7 million people who earned that income last year and many more households with combined incomes who did.
Let's not have class warfare.
or Chuck Schumer...I think he has requested a white horse..
"it was only $157,176."
Only?
Everything's relative, I guess.
No one said equal. My employer does not have to share the veiws of his employees equally.
Are you telling me if you owned your own business, you would provide equal access to employees that wanted to form a "Gay, Lesbian Task Force" as you would to a group that wanted to start a "Conservative Task Force"? Of course not, you would unfairly favor a conservative group. Since it is your business, more power to you. Free association means the right not to associate as well.
If you don't like what your employer freely associates with, suck it up or quit. Freepers do not get to force anyone to associate with us!
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