Thank You HOHN!
HOHN, You're my hero!
Here's a few I'd like to add.
1. I don't need saving, and if I did, it wouldn't come from an un-affiliated agency of the government telling me how to be safe from myself. If I get cancer from cigarettes (or diesel), kidney stones from whole milk, or an embarrassing ailment from a less than scrupulous female friend, I knew what I was getting into, and IT WAS BY MY OWN CHOICE!
2. Gun Control Laws. We could go into a bunch of different things here, but let me just say I was raised in a household of loaded guns. I am still alive. My mother and father were raised in a household of loaded guns. They are still alive. My Grandparents (all of them) were raised in a house of loaded guns. While they are no longer with us, it is not due to a firearm-related accident or injury. As a matter of fact, my mother's parents benefitted from a loaded firearm when someone attempted to break into their house, thus extending their time on earth. Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
3. "We're doing this for the Children" Laws. Don't take away freedoms, or try to regulate how I live or what I can eat, drink, use, take or where and when I can have it and say this is protecting our future generations. Most of us grew up in a crib with bars spaced wide enough to stick our heads through, with little dangley mobiles hanging above us. We didn't choke by sticking our heads through the bars, or by hanging ourselves from our mobiles. Our parents attended to us, and made sure we were safe. They also didn't let us get sick by eating (too much) lead-based paint. We went outside and played from sun-up to sun-set, with the only stipulation being home for dinner. We didn't go 20 miles from home (at least not without asking) because we knew our parents would be concerned if they couldn't find us, and we'd pay the consequences of violating their trust when we came home. Some of you are old enough to remember taking shotguns and rifles to school, whether for show and tell, or hunting after school. I can't seem to recall any incidents of school shootings from the 1950's. Gun locks only turn useful defense tools into ineffective bludgeoning devices.
4. Lowering the standard to make people feel good. If you didn't make the football team, I'm sorry. Time to hit the gym and change what's lacking, or accept that you'll never be Joe Montana and get over it. Failed your first semester of Geometry? Oh well. Guess you better stop watching X-Files and open the book when you get home. The teacher's job is to teach. The student's job is to learn. The process doesn't work if either party is not committed to the end result. Just because your kid is lazy and you don't correct the problem doesn't mean he can graduate after failing 6 of 11 classes, averaging a 0. 5 GPA. It means it's time for summer school, and if they're not concerned about it, there's always the Quick-E-Mart. Why should an underachiever get the same credit for attending school as the 95% of the class that paid enough attention to pass all the courses? Kinda turns the diploma into a useless piece of paper doesn't it?
5. No requirement to serve the country. I'm not saying you have to join the military. I just feel it should be a requirement to do something to better the country for a small period of your life. This especially holds true if you intend to run for political office.
6. School drug control laws. Tylenol is NOT an abusive substance!
Send the drop-outs selling crack to prison, and stop the nonsense.
7. Affirmative Action. If we're all equal, why does the University of Michigan have a capita of racial and ethnic backgrounds to achieve, and lowers standards for those meeting certain criteria if need be so they can attend? Why hasn't the NAACP been labeled a racist organization? What month is White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Month? Why is there a double standard of racial slurs?
I guess the thing I miss the most is Common Sense. I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but not too long ago the helpless herds of society elected to depend on the government to think for them, and in doing so, opened themsleves up to the atmosphere where someone (usually someone else) is always to blame for everything, and someone should have to pay for any mistake and suffering. I don't hate lawyers. I look at them as a marker for where our society is today. They're only doing what they can can to secure their own future, much the same way Cummins would lobby for reduced emissions controls, or high-sulfur fuel. In the simple laws of physics, if you create a void, something will rush to fill it. Works the same way in society. Now if we can just get chemistry to figure out an inoculation...
-Adam
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