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[quote=briansd1]You can eat candy after school is freedom of choice.

If you educate kids, they know what is good for them. My 6 year old niece doesn’t eat McDonald. She knows it’s not good for her. In fact she thinks it’s poison. How does she know? Adults told her.[/quote]

Those adults were likely her parents…not employees of the state. There is a difference you know.

It’s funny that I just finished rereading Animal Farm…you seem to have a lot in common with the pigs in that book.

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[quote=briansd1]You can eat candy after school is freedom of choice.

If you educate kids, they know what is good for them. My 6 year old niece doesn’t eat McDonald. She knows it’s not good for her. In fact she thinks it’s poison. How does she know? Adults told her.[/quote]

Those adults were likely her parents…not employees of the state. There is a difference you know.

It’s funny that I just finished rereading Animal Farm…you seem to have a lot in common with the pigs in that book.

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[quote=briansd1]You can eat candy after school is freedom of choice.

If you educate kids, they know what is good for them. My 6 year old niece doesn’t eat McDonald. She knows it’s not good for her. In fact she thinks it’s poison. How does she know? Adults told her.[/quote]

Those adults were likely her parents…not employees of the state. There is a difference you know.

It’s funny that I just finished rereading Animal Farm…you seem to have a lot in common with the pigs in that book.

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[quote=briansd1]You can eat candy after school is freedom of choice.

If you educate kids, they know what is good for them. My 6 year old niece doesn’t eat McDonald. She knows it’s not good for her. In fact she thinks it’s poison. How does she know? Adults told her.[/quote]

Those adults were likely her parents…not employees of the state. There is a difference you know.

It’s funny that I just finished rereading Animal Farm…you seem to have a lot in common with the pigs in that book.

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[quote=briansd1]
I’m for freedom of choice with a guiding government hand to assure welfare and safety.[/quote]

“You can’t eat candy” is not freedom of choice. You seem to make that mistake a lot.

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[quote=briansd1]
I’m for freedom of choice with a guiding government hand to assure welfare and safety.[/quote]

“You can’t eat candy” is not freedom of choice. You seem to make that mistake a lot.

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[quote=briansd1]
I’m for freedom of choice with a guiding government hand to assure welfare and safety.[/quote]

“You can’t eat candy” is not freedom of choice. You seem to make that mistake a lot.

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[quote=briansd1]
I’m for freedom of choice with a guiding government hand to assure welfare and safety.[/quote]

“You can’t eat candy” is not freedom of choice. You seem to make that mistake a lot.

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[quote=briansd1]
I’m for freedom of choice with a guiding government hand to assure welfare and safety.[/quote]

“You can’t eat candy” is not freedom of choice. You seem to make that mistake a lot.

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[quote=briansd1][quote=meadandale][quote=flu]

I think it’s much for fun to observe an apparent confused and split personality. As several already pointed out, your posts are rather inconsistent with your claim to be a liberal. In fact, to some extent, your views in many ways tough for a police state in which government intrudes into personal lives in many respects and a police state that eliminates hardworking wealthy/upper income folks. You know, there’s a form of government that fits that model :)[/quote]

I hear that Venezuela is looking for US expats…Brian would fit right in there.[/quote]

Singapore is more like it. You cannot buy chewing gum there. It’s clean, safe and rich.

The state provides everything, including housing, and demands a lot in return.

If military age men stay fit, they get paid money. If they get overweight, they get penalized and are required to lose the weight through boot camp type training.

There are plenty of filthy rich people in Singapore. It’s a low-tax banking center so the concentration of rich folks in Singapore is some of highest in the world.[/quote]

All of which begs the question: if this is the kind of society that you want to live in why don’t you move there?

I don’t want to live in Singapore or any place that resembles Singapore. That’s why I live here. And I don’t really want to turn the US into Singapore–although I’ll admit some of you could use a good caning…

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[quote=briansd1][quote=meadandale][quote=flu]

I think it’s much for fun to observe an apparent confused and split personality. As several already pointed out, your posts are rather inconsistent with your claim to be a liberal. In fact, to some extent, your views in many ways tough for a police state in which government intrudes into personal lives in many respects and a police state that eliminates hardworking wealthy/upper income folks. You know, there’s a form of government that fits that model :)[/quote]

I hear that Venezuela is looking for US expats…Brian would fit right in there.[/quote]

Singapore is more like it. You cannot buy chewing gum there. It’s clean, safe and rich.

The state provides everything, including housing, and demands a lot in return.

If military age men stay fit, they get paid money. If they get overweight, they get penalized and are required to lose the weight through boot camp type training.

There are plenty of filthy rich people in Singapore. It’s a low-tax banking center so the concentration of rich folks in Singapore is some of highest in the world.[/quote]

All of which begs the question: if this is the kind of society that you want to live in why don’t you move there?

I don’t want to live in Singapore or any place that resembles Singapore. That’s why I live here. And I don’t really want to turn the US into Singapore–although I’ll admit some of you could use a good caning…

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[quote=briansd1][quote=meadandale][quote=flu]

I think it’s much for fun to observe an apparent confused and split personality. As several already pointed out, your posts are rather inconsistent with your claim to be a liberal. In fact, to some extent, your views in many ways tough for a police state in which government intrudes into personal lives in many respects and a police state that eliminates hardworking wealthy/upper income folks. You know, there’s a form of government that fits that model :)[/quote]

I hear that Venezuela is looking for US expats…Brian would fit right in there.[/quote]

Singapore is more like it. You cannot buy chewing gum there. It’s clean, safe and rich.

The state provides everything, including housing, and demands a lot in return.

If military age men stay fit, they get paid money. If they get overweight, they get penalized and are required to lose the weight through boot camp type training.

There are plenty of filthy rich people in Singapore. It’s a low-tax banking center so the concentration of rich folks in Singapore is some of highest in the world.[/quote]

All of which begs the question: if this is the kind of society that you want to live in why don’t you move there?

I don’t want to live in Singapore or any place that resembles Singapore. That’s why I live here. And I don’t really want to turn the US into Singapore–although I’ll admit some of you could use a good caning…

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[quote=briansd1][quote=meadandale][quote=flu]

I think it’s much for fun to observe an apparent confused and split personality. As several already pointed out, your posts are rather inconsistent with your claim to be a liberal. In fact, to some extent, your views in many ways tough for a police state in which government intrudes into personal lives in many respects and a police state that eliminates hardworking wealthy/upper income folks. You know, there’s a form of government that fits that model :)[/quote]

I hear that Venezuela is looking for US expats…Brian would fit right in there.[/quote]

Singapore is more like it. You cannot buy chewing gum there. It’s clean, safe and rich.

The state provides everything, including housing, and demands a lot in return.

If military age men stay fit, they get paid money. If they get overweight, they get penalized and are required to lose the weight through boot camp type training.

There are plenty of filthy rich people in Singapore. It’s a low-tax banking center so the concentration of rich folks in Singapore is some of highest in the world.[/quote]

All of which begs the question: if this is the kind of society that you want to live in why don’t you move there?

I don’t want to live in Singapore or any place that resembles Singapore. That’s why I live here. And I don’t really want to turn the US into Singapore–although I’ll admit some of you could use a good caning…

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[quote=briansd1][quote=meadandale][quote=flu]

I think it’s much for fun to observe an apparent confused and split personality. As several already pointed out, your posts are rather inconsistent with your claim to be a liberal. In fact, to some extent, your views in many ways tough for a police state in which government intrudes into personal lives in many respects and a police state that eliminates hardworking wealthy/upper income folks. You know, there’s a form of government that fits that model :)[/quote]

I hear that Venezuela is looking for US expats…Brian would fit right in there.[/quote]

Singapore is more like it. You cannot buy chewing gum there. It’s clean, safe and rich.

The state provides everything, including housing, and demands a lot in return.

If military age men stay fit, they get paid money. If they get overweight, they get penalized and are required to lose the weight through boot camp type training.

There are plenty of filthy rich people in Singapore. It’s a low-tax banking center so the concentration of rich folks in Singapore is some of highest in the world.[/quote]

All of which begs the question: if this is the kind of society that you want to live in why don’t you move there?

I don’t want to live in Singapore or any place that resembles Singapore. That’s why I live here. And I don’t really want to turn the US into Singapore–although I’ll admit some of you could use a good caning…

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[quote=flu][quote=briansd1][quote=poorgradstudent]

I think it’s fun to observe the conservatives hang on to little things to get riled up over. It’s like they are constantly on the lookout for small things to prove that their rights are being trampled over so that they can feel outraged.

Listen to the conservatives talking-heads. It’s all about hate and outrage. Nothing positive ever drives them.[/quote]

I think it’s much for fun to observe an apparent confused and split personality. As several already pointed out, your posts are rather inconsistent with your claim to be a liberal. In fact, to some extent, your views in many ways tough for a police state in which government intrudes into personal lives in many respects and a police state that eliminates hardworking wealthy/upper income folks. You know, there’s a form of government that fits that model :)[/quote]

I hear that Venezuela is looking for US expats…Brian would fit right in there.

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