Originally Posted by
sqidmark
I have a single word that describes government at any and all levels - theft.
Regardless of how noble the intentions may have been while creating a new government, the USA for a perfect example, I hate what they inevitably always become - havens for socio/psychopaths to control the sheeple for grand theft.
BTW, Maine, Connecticut and at least Illinois are all shutting down, if not today then very very shortly. It's merely a race to the bottom that's been in progress for many many years. Some are only just now beginning to see a tiny fraction of the symptoms. This isn't even the tip of the iceberg.
That said, while no fan of the gov of NJ, isn't it the legislature who ultimately control the purse strings? Why single out one lonely shmuck who makes little to no difference?
If you really want someone to blame, you need only to point the finger in the mirror. We the idiots are solely to blame for our own servitude. We collectively ALLOW these psychos to enslave us, primarily because we are too lazy to accept FULL responsibility for our own lives. We always want SOMEONE ELSE to keep us "safe".
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." --Frederick Douglass
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
"What, then, is the law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. ... since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force -- for the same reason -- cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individual groups. ... But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense." --Frederick Bastiat
"Don't let me get started..." --sqidmark
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