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Too Much Government

Posted by ArmedGeek on Thursday, March 24, 2011 in Rants

When they tell you what kind of lightbulbs you can have in your house, you have too much government.

When they tell you what kind of toilets you can have in your house, you have too much government.

When they close down your lemonade stand or tell you that you can’t sell Girl Scout Cookies, you have too much government.

When they tell you that you can’t text while you’re walking, you have too much government.

When they make your dishwasher stop working, you have too much government.

So many times I see liberals argue that excessive government control is not the problem, but that corporations unduly influence lawmakers to pass laws that favor the corporation. Well, fuck .. If the government had no authority to force you to buy health insurance then it wouldn’t do any good for a corporation to attempt to bribe them into requiring it.

Too fucking much government.

Bring on the comments

  1. Lizard says:

    So for 6 years the girls have been selling their cookies from the stand and all of a sudden this year it is a problem. This is one of those times where I think the complainging neighbor should have to state who they are and not be allowed to be hidden.

    Just a question though, how old are these freaking Girl Scouts?

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  2. The article said “teens” so I assume they are Senior Cadets.

    As much as I oppose what the city did, the girls at that age should know the laws concerning the HOA, as should the mother who was more interested in them reaching a goal.

    The city didn’t handle it well, but if the Girl Scouts had done their homework, it would not have been an issue.

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  3. mrmacs says:

    You forgot to add the following to the list of government mandated “improvements”:
    clothes washers (Consumers Reports)
    household thermostats (remote control by the power supplier)
    cars (any number of government mandated “features”), etc.

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  4. [...] honor goes to mrmacs who said: You forgot to add the following to the list of government mandated “improvements”: [...]

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  5. ArmedGeek says:

    Yeah, I remember the clothes washer thing. And cars .. damn, so much regulation that you can’t hardly tell a Honda from a Ford anymore.

  6. Azygos says:

    They also regulate what you can call a pickle slice, how big it can be, thickness, Jelly and Jam is also regulated and has to have at least a particular amount of sugar…

    And on it goes

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  7. PrimEvil says:

    The French found and answer to too much Government. They called it a guillotine.

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