Good grief! That's the problem. People just think the money magically appears from Washington, but what really happened is it was stolen out of our wallets.

I too laughed, it helped me not to cry.

This is a truly insane place. I mean really, 75k in damages because a teen age boy cant go into the girls bathroom to get an eye full. Really?

I did not know that being denied looking at a person naked caused a person damages, I mean how does that work?

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21...
I just thought I'd share an article that made my blood boil. Enjoy.

The following quote is from Ayn Rand when asked about activists against the war in Vietnam, and I believe it applies to things goiung on in the country today; "they were spoiled brats looking for publicity and created by the media. they contributed nothing but chaos and disorder. you do not solve serious issues by physical demonstration. if you want to contribute something, think, argue, spread ideas. you can teach;you don't sit in the street, obstruct traffic, chant, and look sloppy. that didn't stop the war in vietnam." this comment was said at the ford hall forum in 1976. I think it can be applied to what is happening all over the country as a result of ferguson and staten island events. the more i reread what she has either said or written the more sure I am in my belief that she was a genius.

Yes. We don't like having our man in Washington.

Let us hope we get another election, one that is not rigged anyway.

The riots are what Obama wants in order to instill martial law and then claim that there is to much turmoil to have a change in leadership at this time.

It will only be a temporary condition.

Did we ever get out?

I guess by the mid 80s we were out in some ways, but many of our problems today extend back to those years or beyond.

I vote for John Galt.

DB,

I wonder how many Zombies have been created through decades of anger fueled adrenaline burnout?

We really have two types of zombies...
The never developed will type and the burned out type.

I think #10 may be wrong. It is my understanding that 1/4 women are on Prozac or related medication, 1/10 men.

The nation, either way, is in serious trouble. I just don't see how this can end well. And, I don't see how it can maintain this facade that things are ok for much longer.

Hello jbrenner,
I voted for Reagan twice. I am obviously a bit older... Those were the only two votes, that in retrospect, I can say were tolerable choices that did have a chance. Let us hope for better in the future. You deserve a chance to vote for someone, as opposed to against...
Regards,
O.A.

I copied and pasted the body of this article in order to not have a link showing in an email to a gov office. I sent it to my so called blue dog Dumacrate congressman Henry Cuellar for the 28th district of Texas. In this last election our side went down 4 to 1 in his re-election. I get his news letter every Saturday and there is always a photo of him holding up a BIG check that the Fed’s have paid for something. About 2 years ago there was an article telling about how a local city didn’t have to pay anything for it’s sewer processing plant. When I contacted his office about just who paid for it they were unable to understand that I was the one paying for it along with everyone else in the US.

I was two months too young to vote for Reagan, so I am 47 and have never had a candidate in a general election that I both wanted to vote for and had any sort of realistic chance.

Sigh. You are probably correct, CircuitGuy. If everyone who was a Libertarian or Objectivist or Randist spent a sizable fraction of their time courting their local representatives, we would make an impact that was out of proportion to our numbers.

But most of the people of the abovementioned persuasions are self-selected for 'wanting government to just get out of their way'. So appealing to us to be politically involved is like testing Eskimos for swimming ability...not impossible, but not a statistically high likelyhood.

Jan

I disagree with about half of that list. I really do not care if dressing up Barbie dolls is considered art, for example. But there are a goodly number of entries that are either flagrant disregard for freedom and economic sense or 'canaries in the coalmine'.

Jan

My only fond memory of the Carter years was waiting in line for 2 hours to vote him OUT!!!!!

Actually to be honest about it, Reagan is the only candidate in my memory I voted for rather than voting against someone else.

I lived in Washington, DC, during the riots of 1968, riding my bike to work with tear gas in the streets and a kid shooting me in the eye with a BB gun. Life went on, anyway, in a fatalistic stupor, oblivious to the chaos around. That's what people do when they are helpless to stop avalanches and erupting volcanoes.

OK, I do stand corrected.

When you live in a country where the military and the police are vilified, but bullies and thieves have demonstrations in their favor, you are living in a country gone bonkers.

But wasn't 1969 the "Summer of Love" and peace? Next summer will be more like the Watts Riot than Woodstock.

Best post I've seen in a long time.

I live in the UK and it is almost as bad! In fact the nonsense is so ridiculous that people in true British fashion just carry on! I am petrified what I will find when I get to New York next year! I grew up there and I do not miss it at all!