[mykdsmom]

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it.

When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

- Thomas Sowell

MKM

[billbears]

Gee, I wonder what our newly elected senator's stance will be on this < /sarcasm>. It's bad for you, so you don't need it or shouldn't use it. Guns, seatbelts, and coming soon to a tobacco field near you, higher taxes on our state's #1 legal cash crop. May God have mercy on tobacco growers in this state.

[NMC EXP]

“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.” -- Noah Webster

Sowell and Webster are correct. Bottom line is the primary function of the state is to seperate us from as much of our cash as possible. The favored excuses for this theft are 1) "do it for the children" and 2) "[you fill in the blank] results in higher health care costs which must be paid for by all".

I reject the notion that I am responsible for the care of anyone other than me and mine. So did James Madison when he said;

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article in the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.... With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.“

Grab your a** and run.....the only true criminal class in America is poised to strike again.

Regards

J.R.