Thread: Bank bailout, auto bailout, now tobacco

The government has now funded the banks and the automakers, now it's giving a helping hand to the tobacco industry by giving the FDA power to regulate tobacco. It has also banned all flavored cigarettes, with the exception of menthol. Let's not forget imported knives.

How do you feel about these altogether, and what do you think might be next? Another weapons ban? I can't help but think that our government is on a roll and is likely to go even further with its bailouts, bans, and restrictions.

Power corrupts.

This is becoming a world wide trend, governments spending more time running our lives instead of running the country. If anyone thought that the social engineering experiment, with slowly banning where and when you can use tobacco was the end of it, was only fooling themselves, it was just the beginning! Where it will end is anyones guess.
Democratic governments of the western world seem to me, to be slowly turning into the Facist type of governments that Franklin Roosavelt, Winston Churchill and our forefathers fought and died to defeat!
Woops I had better stop ranting
AAAAHHHHH that,s better.

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

Power corrupts.

And absolute power corrupts absolutely!


We are headed down the primrose path boys! Gird your loins

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

It has also banned all flavored cigarettes,

I just remembered, our govrnment has proposed a bill to raise taxes 100% on all canned and bottled pre mixed drinks, Supposedly to make them unattractive to children. Trouble is we allready have laws that make it illegal to sell alcohol to any one under eighteen. Could it just be a revenue raising excercise in disguise Whooooo boy, settle down Thats,s better.

Hmm, more legislation that directly affects me.

Guess I'll be buying 300 cartons of cloves within the next month. Should last me ~41 years. Shouldn't make it much longer than that at this rate.

But seriously. That sucks really bad. Too bad my elected representatives don't give a **** about what I think.

Time to press the reset button, before they take it away.

Originally Posted by Wildtim

Time to press the reset button, before they take it away.

It's called voting Using the ammo box is only useful if the government is preventing you from electing whomever you want. As long as you (as in you the people) vote in guys who support these initiatives, whatever they do is on your heads.

Removing a government by force is not a solution if you have nothing to replace them with. And you don't, because otherwise they would already be governing, seeing as you still have the power to elect them into the offices.

Originally Posted by Bruno

It's called voting Using the ammo box is only useful if the government is preventing you from electing whomever you want. As long as you (as in you the people) vote in guys who support these initiatives, whatever they do is on your heads.

Removing a government by force is not a solution if you have nothing to replace them with. And you don't, because otherwise they would already be governing, seeing as you still have the power to elect them into the offices.

I hate to say it, but I agree. As long as the sheeple keep electing idiots for congressmen, there's not a lot we can do except try to elect better people.

The problem here is that the sheeple ( I like that word) are being bred specifically for politicians.


It's called public school, and it's the biggest monster in America.