Ten Things that you can do in Russia but Can t do so in the United States.

vannrox | 4-27-02 | VANNROX

[vannrox]

Ten Things that you can do in Russia

but Can’t do so in the United States

Own an Automatic Rifle without a Permit.

Smoke in any Restaurant you visit.

Drive without a seatbelt.

Buy chemicals for your chemistry set.

Put up a “Girly Picture” on your Wall at work.

Drink a beer at your desk at work on Friday.

Buy Codeine-Enhanced Aspirin over the counter.

Pay only 15% in total taxes instead of 60%.

Smoke a fine cigar at a work meeting (Ash trays in all the rooms).

Be a Male Chauvinist.

[tpaine]

So what?

[PatrioticAmerican]

101. Travel from state to state with firearms and not worry about local regulations banning them.

[tpaine]

-- 'Jihad, -- we anti-constitutionalists are always on the look out for new ways to express hatred for our country'. - roscoe -

How true.

[Roscoe]

While Libertarians express their hatred for America and their admiration for Mother Russia, you don't see them expatriating. Free lunchers.

[Bonaparte]

This is very funny, vannrox. If Russia were summed up by just those ten things (it's not), it would be a carbon copy of 1950s America.

[tpaine]

We need a free lunch, after losing ours listening to you & the jihadist.

[Knitebane]

There should be a smoking age, I'm for one for it.

Why? Are you too young to smoke? It always starts with someone wanting rules about what someone else should be able to do.

You never notice anyone wanting rules to keep themselves from doing things.

This is the source of all tyranny. Follow that road at your peril.

[ladyinred]

Reminds me of when we were buying our new home a few years ago. The loan company asked my hubby and I if we got our down payment money from selling drugs!
I was stunned, and thought she was being funny, but she assured me she was dead serious. The government required that we answer that question!
The transaction was over $10,000 of course. I am even more surprised to hear they have lowered it to $3000!

[Knitebane]

But "There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"

:)

(My apologies if you don't grok Heinlein.)

[JFoxbear]

Your 100 ?

Who are they?

[petuniasevan]

And they can legally own and set-off fireworks to celebrate the 4th of July

Did you know that almost every country in the world observes the Fourth of July? Absolutely true!!! I'll even take bets that I'm right!...

I'm right! They observe it right after the Third of July and just before the Fifth of July!

When did I ever mention Independence Day? Hmmm?

[petuniasevan]

Loosely translated, "Rodina" means "motherland".

[Vicki]

Buy Codeine-Enhanced Aspirin over the counter.

I have to go to Canada to get mine. The doctors here act like they're prescribing morphine. Take two of those at an onset of a migraine and you can sometimes stop it.

[Centurion2000]

1950s America was a good place. I miss it.

Never saw it (Born in 70) but from what I read it was a nice place.

[tpaine]

That 'free lunch' line came from far before Heinlien groked a word of baby talk. - Saloons started the lunch bit in the mid 1800's, if memory serves. Maybe earlier.

[budwiesest]

At times I do not know who to fear the most. The elitist-moralist-statist-heavily armed evangelical Jimmy Swaggert types, or the fire breathing-Cuba sucking-egalitarian-politically correct-income tax as a social engineering tool-gun grabbing-power to the State-Boxer/Feinstein types.

Having spent some time in Alaska I can say that there are probably 20 things Alaskans can do that Californians can't. Such is the case for 'frontiers' I suppose. Now, if only we could accept the notion that our country is no longer a frontier and that the rules that existed at our founding no longer apply, the limits being placed upon us by our 'living' document friends might somehow make our lives easier. I've missed whatever insistance our 'friends' have ever made regarding freedom as a necessary part of life and that alone makes me suspect as to their true motives. Their predatory nature toward libertarians is also very revealing.

Russia will be an interesting watch. My bet is the heavy hand of the State will eventually dominate as it has here, since individual liberty is of no value to the elitist statist or the collectivist, but may mean everything to the individual who may, sadly, roll over and die or enlist in programs that ultimately will ensure his slavery, a fate some might deem worse than death.