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Originally Posted by pj67coll
The US will only become inconsequential if it's citizenry wills it. I'd rate your attitude as being at the forefront of such a will. Rather neatly summed up in a slightly different context I think by Walter Sobcheck in "The Big Lebowski". "**** it Dude, Let's go bowling."
Indeed. Good luck in your quest.
- Peter.
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depending on which area of the country one finds him/herself, one finds varying degrees of willpower. why do any government services exist?
answer: because the people have decided that they want to offload their independence.
for example, back in the early days if one needed water at the house, one drilled a water well. no more, we hook up to city water and bleed off it like the leaches we are. the people gave up the will power to dig a well, instead they wanted the "easy way". now that they are good and hooked on city water (which, BTW, has enough carcinogens and chlorine in it to kill a horse), some municipalities have actually made using well water a CRIME punishable by jail time. so much for the "free water" idea.
since the people have surrendered their "free will" "independence" or "Sovereignty", they have truly become "wards of the state". same for "free trash service" "free postal service" "medicare" "medicaid" and a thousand other so-called "free" benefits. ain't nothing free.
the people have knowingly and willingly surrendered their independence for a pot of porridge. free "chicken in every pot" idea.
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security."
- Norman Vincent Peale