The State of the <Censored>
[ rakaur on Sun Mar 27 at 09:34 PM // category: life, politics ]
I’m going to take a page out of the Steve book, and talk about politics. Or rather, something that deals directly with it.
I’m not particularly interested in politics. In fact, I’m about as far from interested as you can be in America. However, I do care very deeply about my rights. And by my rights, I generally find that my rights as outlined by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is generally acceptable. Unfortunately, the government under the Bush administration seems to think otherwise.
Today I came across a post on Slashdot referring to some freedom of speech limitation bill that has the possibility of actually being passed. There have been a few of them recently, but this one caught my eye, because it hits home.
Let’s put aside that not only are all of these bills quite unconstitutional, but the PATRIOT Act is also quite so, and it still passed and is actually in effect without (much) complaint.
This particular one caught my eye for another reason: the comments on Slashdot are actually constructive.
It just seems sometimes that the goverment no longer works for the people, instead it just works for the goverment.
Any problem that comes along can only be solved by creating another branch of the goverment to deal with it.
It raises taxes to pay for the subsidies on the incomes of the people who can’t afford to live on their income because their taxes are too high. It robs the rich to give to the poor and defines the rich as 90% of the population.
Being rather poor myself, I have to agree with this. I don’t know that I have much to say about it, other than to agree with it.
Some other nice threads are here, here, here, and my personal favorite here.
I encourage you to look around.
-- rakaur // 2005.03.27 @ 09:34 PM
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