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Originally Posted by slapass
Most of realize we need some form of govt.
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Yeah, a govt. that SERVES the people.
Our govt. has moved way beyond that. They now serve themselves.
Did you or I decide to spend trillions of dollars arming and then bombing and killing people in the Middle East? Hell no. Matter of fact, most of the people didn't even understand WHY we were hit on 9-11.
Did you or I decide to have the govt. spend almost twice as much as it brings in? (and it brings in more money than any govt. in HISTORY has ever brought in...and still manages to spend us into a 17 trillion and GROWING deficit)
Did you or I decide to allow the govt. to basically run our lives in many ways from cradle to grave?
Hell no.
The U.S. always had a govt.
But it wasn't always as "all powerful" as the current version.
And up until a few decades ago...it didn't have this much money.
Hell, even in the late 1960's /early 1970's, Howard Hughes was able to make the U.S. govt. stop nuclear testing in Nevada by threatening Richard Nixon in a handwritten note with cutting off money to the U.S. govt.
Now? If you took every billionaire on the planet and put them all together...the U.S. govt. spends more money in a week than all of their wealth combined.
Think about it. If you can't see that it's out of control, then I don't know what to say.
I'm not promoting anarchy. I'm simply saying the govt. needs to be reigned in HARD.