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Old 05-28-2011, 08:57 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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Where will it stop?

Why do we allow government to control every aspect of our lives?

Why do we allow government to tell us how to trim our trees?

Is there no end to the growth of our bloated government?


Albemarle Road church fined $100 per branch for excessive tree pruning | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/05/28/2333197/church-fined-for-improper-tree.html - broken link)
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Old 05-28-2011, 09:50 PM
 
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The tea party was our chance to stop the growth of government. But as you can see the ruling class will DESTROY any person or movement that wants to slow government. As long as the masses believe the propaganda fed to them government will keep expanding until the system can no longer sustain itself...we are getting close to that point.
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Old 05-29-2011, 02:10 AM
 
Location: North America
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Where will it stop?

Why do we allow government to control every aspect of our lives?

Why do we allow government to tell us how to trim our trees?

Is there no end to the growth of our bloated government?


Albemarle Road church fined $100 per branch for excessive tree pruning | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/05/28/2333197/church-fined-for-improper-tree.html - broken link)
Unfortunately, American popular culture is dominated by liberals.

Most Americans do what they are told so we have a popular philosophy that "daddy gubmint" will solve our problems.

That's why we hand over our rights and brains to the mega-bureaucracy so freely.

Liberals are like children at a bake sale...left alone, they will eat all of the goodies that others labored to make...even if it makes them sick.

Then, like those children, they will demand more...
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Old 05-29-2011, 04:28 AM
 
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Unfortunately, American popular culture is dominated by liberals.

Most Americans do what they are told so we have a popular philosophy that "daddy gubmint" will solve our problems.

That's why we hand over our rights and brains to the mega-bureaucracy so freely.

Liberals are like children at a bake sale...left alone, they will eat all of the goodies that others labored to make...even if it makes them sick.

Then, like those children, they will demand more...
Overtrimming one's myrtles DOES appear to be a conservative preoccupation.

The Japanese are so conservative they don't even need laws to make them conservative.

Pruning
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Old 05-29-2011, 05:41 AM
 
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Where will it stop?
Why do we allow government to control every aspect of our lives?
Don't like it, leave the United States and go to one of those small government paradises such as Somalia.
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Old 05-29-2011, 06:43 AM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Yep, government will multiply until it consumes all biological matter and covers the entire surface of the Earth in a thick grey goo.
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Old 05-29-2011, 07:24 AM
 
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Where will it stop?

Why do we allow government to control every aspect of our lives?

Why do we allow government to tell us how to trim our trees?

Is there no end to the growth of our bloated government?


Albemarle Road church fined $100 per branch for excessive tree pruning | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/05/28/2333197/church-fined-for-improper-tree.html - broken link)
You know they government created the Internet?

Spooky stuff...
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Old 05-29-2011, 07:28 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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Don't like it, leave the United States and go to one of those small government paradises such as Somalia.

So, you like government telling you how to trim your trees?

Do you also like government telling you what hours your business can be open? And what prices you can charge?

You really like big government and the nanny state?
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Old 05-29-2011, 07:36 AM
 
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So, you like government telling you how to trim your trees?

Do you also like government telling you what hours your business can be open? And what prices you can charge?

You really like big government and the nanny state?
That's not the case where I live. If you don't like it, move or vote in people who would change those laws.
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Old 05-29-2011, 08:41 AM
 
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The tea party was our chance to stop the growth of government. But as you can see the ruling class will DESTROY any person or movement that wants to slow government. As long as the masses believe the propaganda fed to them government will keep expanding until the system can no longer sustain itself...we are getting close to that point.
LMAO! The tea party are nothing but far right wing extremists. They spread the propaganda of "less government!" yet at the same time vote almost unanimously in favor of the most big government bill ever enacted, the patriot act.
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