politics: March 2005 archives


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

My Town

[ rakaur on Tue Mar 15 at 06:42 AM // category: life, politics ]

East Alton fucking blows. This is like the third week in a row they haven’t picked up our garbage. The first time we figured they made a mistake. The second time was on a state holiday, and even though they picked up everyone else’s, we gave them the benefit of the doubt. But today, I was sitting out there watching them, and they just drove right the fuck past our now-overflowing garbage cans.

What the fuck’s the matter with these people? I’m starting to think I did something to offend someone at the city. There’s an asshole that works for the city a few houses down. I know he doesn’t like us, because he’s given us the asshole treatment a few times in regards to raking leaves. He gave us some papers that say we “must” rake our leaves. So when I did, he gave us another set of papers that says we can’t rake them into the street (even though there’s a street sweeper that gets them). Well you know what, kiss my god damn ass.

One of my friends recently put a “vote for whomever” sign in our front yard, and I’m starting to wonder if someone nearby with connections to the city doesn’t much care for that particular candidate. You know, we live in a city of like seven thousand. You just don’t do stupid politcal things like having the garbage men skip houses with that sign.

East Alton is by far the shittiest town I’ve ever lived in. I lived in a 1,700 population town for a solid seven years, and the people there were the most retarded and politcal mind-game people you’ll find on the planet, and that place was much better than East Alton.

So, now I get to figure out where the public works office is and go down there and bitch. Somehow, I think that’ll only make things worse, but you know, I’m good at bitching. I’m not one to tolerate stupid ass politcal garbage (haha, pun) like this. This is completely inappropriate for any city.

Ratassed pigfuckers.

-- rakaur // 2005.03.15 @ 06:42 AM

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