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11 Ways You Know You Live In A Country Run By Idiots
Zero Hedge ^ | 9/92014 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 09/09/2014 1:36:19 PM PDT by VA Voter

1. If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally, you live in a country run by idiots.

2. If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion, you live in a country run by idiots.

3. If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out a library book, but not to vote on who runs the government, you live in a country run by idiots.

4. If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets to the crazy leaders in Egypt, you live in a country run by idiots.

5. If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat, you live in a country run by idiots.

6. If an 80-year-old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a woman in a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched, you live in a country run by idiots.

7. If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more, you live in a country run by idiots.

8. If a seven year old boy can be thrown out of grade school for saying his teacher’s “cute,” but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable, you live in a country run by idiots.

9. If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government intrusion, while not working is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, subsidized housing and free cell phones, you live in a country run by idiots.

10. If the government’s plan for getting people back to work is to incentivize NOT working, with 99 weeks of unemployment checks and no requirement to prove they applied but can’t find work, you live in a country run by idiots.

11. If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you more “safe” according to the government, you live in a country run by idiots.


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To: VA Voter

Sadly the list could have been 111 things at this point.


21 posted on 09/09/2014 1:52:04 PM PDT by Williams
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22 posted on 09/09/2014 1:54:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: sodpoodle

You loot,we shoot. Think about that wrt the country and one last battle.


23 posted on 09/09/2014 1:56:32 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: VA Voter

Holy COW! I just realized I live in a country run by idiots!


24 posted on 09/09/2014 1:56:45 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Paladin2



25 posted on 09/09/2014 1:57:22 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: VA Voter

12. If companies are chided for trying to escape the excess taxes, yet your praise even larger companies that don’t pay taxes at all becasue they are your cronies, you live in a country run by idiots.


26 posted on 09/09/2014 2:02:04 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: VA Voter; All

12. If you live in a country where parents aren’t making sure that their children are being taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood, you live in a country run by idiots.


27 posted on 09/09/2014 2:02:10 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: VA Voter

We Now Have Scientific Proof That People Are Getting Stupider
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/we-now-have-scientific-proof-that-people-are-getting-stupider


28 posted on 09/09/2014 2:04:00 PM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Jim from C-Town
Holy COW! I just realized I live in a country run by idiots!

Yes, and we keep voting the same idiots back in office somehow believing they are capable of fixing the problems they created!!

29 posted on 09/09/2014 2:04:55 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: VA Voter

Required reading for anyone who would vote in the next election.


30 posted on 09/09/2014 2:05:14 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: VA Voter

Bump.


31 posted on 09/09/2014 2:08:24 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: VA Voter

1X. If a child can get suspended from grade school for saying “bless you” when a classmate sneezes, you’re living in a country run by idiots.


32 posted on 09/09/2014 2:08:34 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
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To: VA Voter

If the government is run by a mulatto who doesn’t have a birth certificate but received the majority of votes cast because his skin is somewhat black you live in a country run by idiots and populated by idiots.


33 posted on 09/09/2014 2:10:48 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: fhayek
Logic dictates, by the substance of your post, that we DO live in a country of that is being run by idiots.

Yes, but look at the upside - we have Brawndo - "It's got electrolytes!".

34 posted on 09/09/2014 2:15:11 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: sodpoodle
We entrusted you with the Torch of Liberty and you traded it for a paycheck and a fancy house.

Neat sentence - I plan to use it elsewhere.

35 posted on 09/09/2014 2:18:52 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Oatka

It’s what plants crave.


36 posted on 09/09/2014 2:23:47 PM PDT by Nevadan
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To: VA Voter

Yup, I live in a country run by idiots, but who elected the idiots?


37 posted on 09/09/2014 2:25:19 PM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: VA Voter

bkmk


38 posted on 09/09/2014 2:26:22 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: VA Voter

Well done!


39 posted on 09/09/2014 2:28:00 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: VA Voter

Bad news. Idiots vote.


40 posted on 09/09/2014 2:28:20 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting sI ao hot?)
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