[quote]MaximusB wrote:
[quote]Severiano wrote:
[quote]njrusmc wrote:
"People say, ‘You’re a drug user, you brought this on yourself,’ " Jackson said. “Do people say that when you’re 300 pounds with heart problems from eating McDonald’s every day?”
Actually yes, they do asshole. “You’re a fat fuck, you brought this on yourself”. The same breed that refuses to take responsibility for their decisions … like you. the lovers of the nanny state. What a stupid topic.
In hindsight, it might not have been so bad if the Japanese conquered California 70 years ago.[/quote]
I think the point is that while there are a lot of, “dangerous” things that are regulated, there are just as many, “dangerous” things that aren’t regulated. It’s your prerogative to eat 30 cheeseburgers a day if you wish. You are a consenting adult, so the decision is rightfully yours to make.
I’m not saying I don’t like regulation, but some of the regulation isn’t necessarily on the books for the sake of protecting us as consumers from dangerous, or bad products, but on the books because people are on crusades (anti-Marijuana people), have difficulty regulating taxes (distilled spirits), or are in the pocket of someone (fda and cloned meats). Like, I want to know if I’m eating cloned meat, but the FDA could give two shits what my interests are. If I jack up my back and go to the doctor they are quick to put me on some addictive pain medications that could wreck my health and puts money in the pockets of big pharma, but there’s a shitstorm on the horizon if I even bring up the idea of Medical Marijuana. Why? Because of bullshit like big pharma losing money and having influence over the FDA decision making processes, because people don’t think for themselves or logically/ stuck on the historic negative stigma stamped on Marijuana, or fall for whatever line a politician spews who getting paid by big pharma or will work for big pharma, or whatever commercial on t.v. is slandering it.
Basic idea is very American in nature… People want representation, the term, “No taxation without representation.” Should spring to mind, our nation would not exist as it does without that slogan. We are supposed to think for ourselves and get pissed off when our freedoms are impinged upon, it’s supposed to be in our DNA as a country. Regulate things that are actually dangerous like Cadmium in Muscle Milk. But, if I want to drink a beer, or smoke a joint, or eat 30 cheeseburgers in a sitting, that should be my right.
Drug addicts want representation, then let them have it. [/quote]
Tell me, who represents taxpayers when the idea of raising taxes is thrown around ? Do you think Steinberg, or Perez, or Moonbeam REALLY listen to anyone who does NOT want to raise taxes ?
They are all bought and paid for by the Unions, and EVERYONE knows it.[/quote]
What are Unions a response to? The dynamic of local to state to federal government is all the same. End up with rich people in office who have rich people’s interest in mind. In my area there is a big deal about this resort that is in a prime location, it needs to be demolished and rebuilt, but getting someone to take the task on is difficult because of how much money needs to be sunk into the place. Basically my county is working on a measure that would drop the bed tax on the place for 10 years, and within the next year would give 50% rebates to any properties that spend something like 60k in upgrades per room, or upgrades totaling 1 million dollars.
I live in an area with a few resorts, and many boutique hotels which are the equivalent of small businesses. In these times, who needs the help? The billionaire developers and corporate owners or the small businesses? Do you think many small businesses have a cool mil to just upgrade? A 60-70k per room upgrade would be suitable for upscale 4 diamond resorts, not 3 diamond small properties that might have one or two luxury rooms.
Point is, the retard wealthy are still getting breaks, and in this case the measure proposed went out of it’s way to indirectly corner out the small business owner so they could put more money in their pockets and directly help people who are already substantially wealthy.
I’m not a fan of Unions. But what gets under my skin is the sort of thing I described, wealthy people in government (local, state or fed) running gambits to give their buddies breaks. Sometimes it’s to line up a job when they get out of government, sometimes its hooking up a friend… People are sick of the manipulation.
