Posted on 12/22/2006 12:20:39 PM PST by Namyak
Are you calling me a name???
You may disagree but the evidence is against you.
"The freedom of choice whether to smoke or not, regardless of the consequences, IS a matter of personal choice..."
Unfortunately the burden of providing medical care for such poor choices is increasingly falling on taxpayers. For that reason taxpayers are causing their lawmakers to restrain such activity. And, why shouldn't they?
The evidence is that we can put everybody in this country in a single-family-detached home on acreage in Texas and leave the rest of the country unpopulated if we wanted to do so.
The US Census Bureau classifies less than 4% of the land in America as "urban."
There is no "sprawl." The only sprawl that exists is that vast expanse of space between the two ears of the smarxist growth purveyors.
And if you want to preserve farmland or forest, buy it.
“They are in the process of bankrupting the people and government with lawsuits, social programs, financing the UN and foreign countries, environmental programs”
Read my home page.
Because it's been proven by studies that smokers pay for their own care through axtra taxes.
No anti wants you to hear that, but it's true.
More proof that freedom is as unpopular in our age as in any time in the past. Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty. Tyrants, petty and great are always eager to take things away from you for the common good, as they define it.
I will lay odds that Mr. Hylton has already "got" his.
Have you ever been to Long Island NY?
"Because it's been proven by studies that smokers pay for their own care through axtra taxes."
Whose studies?
No.
Why would I want to do that?
Different governments studies.
Why? If you visited Long Island you might have a different perspective on the matter we're discussing.
Long Island could be the "poster child" for antisprawl.
It has become a rather unpleasant place to live.
"We need to preserve the remaining farmland and forests or we will eventually be in the same position with their products that we are now in with imported oil."
One man's sprawl is another man's opportunity. Man, you've been drinking the Kool Aid! Cut back, LOL!
I live in Dane County, Wisconsin. The liberals here are constantly telling us that our county is over-developed. In the entire COUNTY, only FOUR percent of it is considered "developed." And Dane County is the MOST populated (outside of Milwaukee County), as it holds our State Capitol, all the Hippies and the University of Wisconsin!
http://www.co.dane.wi.us/aboutdc/dcmap.htm
"Different governments studies."
The folks who collect, and spend the taxes. No bias there.
Have you ever been to Long Island, NY?
"There is no "sprawl." The only sprawl that exists is that vast expanse of space between the two ears of the smarxist growth purveyors.
And if you want to preserve farmland or forest, buy it"
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Good point.
There are times when I think Mother Hubbard should have strangled all those starving brats.
Have you ever been to Montana?
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