1) Our own government chides those of us who pay taxes for being greedy because we don't want to give the politicians even more of our money to do things we don't want done at any price.

2) Increasingly, every bill that is proposed in D.C. seems to be crafted with the hope that at least 51% of the American people are ignorant or not paying attention to what the legislation actually does.

3) When there's a slip-up and members of Congress and their staff are *** gasp *** expected to follow the same laws as the rest of us on something like Obamacare, they immediately start looking for a way out.

4) Having an unelected bureaucrat decide that your property is a "swampland" because it rained yesterday or that you didn't follow some arcane legislation can lead to your spending years of your life dealing with an army of government regulators in court and costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyer fees; yet the bureaucrats pay no price at all for being wrong.

5) IRS employees like Lois Lerner can take the 5th Amendment when they're asked to testify about breaking the law to go after American citizens, but we're not allowed to take the 5th Amendment when the IRS demands information from us.

6) Who in the government was held responsible and punished for Fast and Furious? Benghazi? The subprime crisis caused by the government? Wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on Solyndra? Detroit going bankrupt? The IRS scandal? Giving someone as unstable as Bradley Manning access to classified data? How about allowing eight of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers to be registered to vote? The correct answer: nobody, which is exactly the problem.

7) The average government employee makes more than the people who are paying his salary.

8) If the economy goes bad, you may have to tighten your belt, but our government NEVER thinks it should have to cut back on its spending.

9) Inconvenient campaign promises by politicians are treated as almost entirely unrelated to what they do while governing.

10) There's so much stagecraft and deliberate deception in D.C. that it's impossible for the average person to understand what's going on without having someone who understands politics explaining it to him.

11) CBO scores on legislation are treated as legitimate and meaningful despite the fact that the rules have been rigged in such a way that the CBO ALMOST ALWAYS DRAMATICALLY UNDERESTIMATES the cost of government programs.

12) When Congress is in session, you won't find a more corrupt or dishonest group of human beings all gathered in any one place outside of a prison.

13) Our Congress REGULARLY votes on pork-laden bills written in legalese that NO ONE has actually read cover to cover.

14) We have so many laws and regulations that almost every American is breaking the law somehow on a daily basis.

15) When the Republican Party and Democrat Party collaborate in a bipartisan manner, it's almost always to screw the American people in order to help some influential or deep-pocketed special interest group.

16) Our politicians in D.C. are just as corrupt as those South American politicians we laugh at for taking bribes. The only difference is our politicians are smarter about it. A bribe is illegal, but giving their relative an incredibly highly paid job or slipping an earmark into a bill that will end up helping their investments to thrive is considered par for the course in D.C.

17) Our overbearing politicians and bureaucrats feel entitled to tell you how to run almost every aspect of your life. They think they know better than you what health care you should have, where your kids should be allowed to go to school, what you should be able to do with your own property, what TV, toilet or shower head you should be allowed to buy, what light bulb you should have and even what size of soda you should be able to drink.

18) The priority scale for most politicians goes campaign contributors, special interest groups, political bosses, lobbyists and then if they're in a competitive district, their constituents. Very few politicians in D.C. ever seem to give a thought to what's good for the country.

19) Almost every bill that passes is sold with lies that later turn out not to be true; yet the bills aren't repealed and the politicians who deceived the American people are rarely held accountable.

20) We have government employees whom we put into office, whose salaries we pay, telling US what to do and acting as if we work for them.

What's the point of just copy and pasting someone else's rant without any comment?... and without giving credit?...
At least use quotes...
Better yet,.. use your own brain, and words...
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/06/22/20-reasons-i-detest-the...

If I wanted to read that blowhard,.. I'd go to his site...

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 06/22/13 at 12:09:11:

A credit and quotation marks... ...
Without them,.. you imply that you wrote it...
I'm sick of this Bullshyte parrot talk...

Don't worry,.. I'm done with the TT... again...
Nothing intelligent happening in here anymore...
I'll check in periodically for any sign of brain function... ...

Sometimes I throw things out for discussion, doesnt necessarily mean I believe what I print. Anyone that knows me knows I couldn't write something like that. I do go along with a lot of what the author says.

Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 06/22/13 at 12:42:21:


I'm still waiting for you to tell me just how trivial physical evidence is to a case. I'm a machinist. Not a lawyer. I'd love to hear it from a lawyer's point of view. Please, educate me. Share with me your thoughts on the matter. Unfortunately it was another hit and run post from you.


--Steve

Midnightrider wrote on 06/23/13 at 11:32:50:


I have, they do.

So do most northern European countries, you just have to be comfortable with phenomenally high tax rates to support the nationalized health care systems, pensions, built in vacations, etc. Clean streets in good repair, hospitals that treat you like a person instead of a checkbook, purer/cleaner standards for food/water/beer, clothing optional beaches, beaches that aren't covered in petroleum industry detritus or garbage that washed back in from big cities that still practice dumping at sea (and no raw sewage when the treatment plants fail)...

Oh, and you can actually walk the city streets at night, the only major crime areas are well known/marked/patrolled. I miss Spain, the national police were authorized to use criminals for target practice...

What yanked my chain was the wording "detest the government".  You can give opinions all day long, but anyone who hates our gov't, which equals "detest" either uses words carelessly, or isn't an American.
Yep, you can disagree with any policy of the gov't., just don't tell me you detest the gov't because to do so says to me that there is another gov't you would prefer.
Just another example of rhetoric getting in the way on contrastive discussion.

Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 06/23/13 at 12:50:03:



Actuallyt, no,, I can hate what is & not prefer anything over it,l,there is no "string" that raises the value of anything else just because the value of something else falls. They are not connected. Your feelings based on the words are not logically justifiable. Hating the government isnt hating America. I LOVE America, as advertised,, however, the people who have taken control are bad & our policies arent serving the People..

Have you yet managed to justify the Federal Government SUING a state for trying to Enforce Laws on the books?  If youre not yet able to admit that something is & has been desperately wrong for years, I dont think youre paying attention,, If I seem to :"Unload" on you a little harder than on others, its because you are intelligent & educated, you Have to be, to be a lawyer,, that you, with your education, continue to "Feel" a loyalty in spite of the clear illegalities leaves me breathless,,
But I can still type..