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Old 06-03-2011, 10:56 AM
 
Location: Pleasant Ridge, Cincinnati, OH
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I think that we should ban bacon, salt, butter, and coffee. These are dangerous substances and they're killing people. While we're at it, we should ban automobiles: Far too many people are killed in automobile accidents. We should also decree that no buildings have stairs, since they increase the danger of falling down them is unacceptable and people are dying.

Seriously though, folks, what ever happened to people making their own decisions? Do we really need the government to tell us how to live our lives?
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Old 06-03-2011, 11:09 AM
 
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I think that we should ban bacon, salt, butter, and coffee. These are dangerous substances and they're killing people. While we're at it, we should ban automobiles: Far too many people are killed in automobile accidents. We should also decree that no buildings have stairs, since they increase the danger of falling down them is unacceptable and people are dying.

Seriously though, folks, what ever happened to people making their own decisions? Do we really need the government to tell us how to live our lives?
Apparently many do.Witness the droning accolades over the latest "my plate" federal dietary recommendations
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Old 06-03-2011, 11:16 AM
 
Location: A great city, by a Great Lake!
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I think that we should ban bacon, salt, butter, and coffee. These are dangerous substances and they're killing people. While we're at it, we should ban automobiles: Far too many people are killed in automobile accidents. We should also decree that no buildings have stairs, since they increase the danger of falling down them is unacceptable and people are dying.

Seriously though, folks, what ever happened to people making their own decisions? Do we really need the government to tell us how to live our lives?

Sadly there are those in this country that do advocate the government telling us how to live our lives. It has become the new American way!
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Old 06-03-2011, 11:20 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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I am a non-smoker and hate the habit, but I'm more fearful of government stealing rights, than I am of secondhand smoke, which can ultimately be avoided.

Big government has no natural forces to contain it. It will grow forever until it implodes.
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Old 06-03-2011, 12:47 PM
 
Location: Ohio
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I know of several people who have gotten DUIs for sleeping off a drunk in their backseat rather than drive. I have a real problem when law enforcement becomes more about getting as many arrests as possible rather than stopping crime and keeping the public safe.
Yea, that'll teach 'em. Next time.....just drive home!
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Old 06-03-2011, 01:15 PM
 
Location: Texas
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I think that we should ban bacon, salt, butter, and coffee. These are dangerous substances and they're killing people. While we're at it, we should ban automobiles: Far too many people are killed in automobile accidents. We should also decree that no buildings have stairs, since they increase the danger of falling down them is unacceptable and people are dying.

Seriously though, folks, what ever happened to people making their own decisions? Do we really need the government to tell us how to live our lives?
If enough smokers had made the right decision and voluntarily stepped outside to light up, then legislation wouldn't have been necessary. They didn't and now they lost the option.
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Old 06-03-2011, 01:16 PM
 
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If enough smokers had made the right decision and voluntarily stepped outside to light up, then legislation wouldn't have been necessary. They didn't and now they lost the option.
lol
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Old 06-03-2011, 01:20 PM
 
Location: Texas
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lol
Just the smokers need to be told by the government how to behave in public.
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Old 06-03-2011, 01:25 PM
 
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I think that we should ban bacon, salt, butter, and coffee. These are dangerous substances and they're killing people. While we're at it, we should ban automobiles: Far too many people are killed in automobile accidents. We should also decree that no buildings have stairs, since they increase the danger of falling down them is unacceptable and people are dying.

Seriously though, folks, what ever happened to people making their own decisions? Do we really need the government to tell us how to live our lives?
Water, you have to ban water. Just look at all the flooding along the Mississippi, Missouri, and all the children who drown in bathtubs filled with water!

If the federal government bans living then we won't have to have laws about how to do that at all.

Obamacare is the excuse for the federal government to proclaim a vital interest in every aspect of our lives and make laws "banning" x activity or y behavior.
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Old 06-03-2011, 01:28 PM
 
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Smoking should be banned in all public places where the second hand smoke effects other people, I shouldn't have to breath in second hand smoke when I'm out somewhere.
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