I cannot believe I’ve lived to see the death of a free United States of America……It breaks my heart for my grandchildren and future great-grandchildren.

Remember that taxes were supposed to be taken out via payroll deduction only to help support WWII. Funny, I thought that was over, and wouldn’t you know it, I still see some entry on my check for “Fed W/H”. Government is full of shit. Obama is going to find a way to screw us over, and probably worse than W.

Hope you bought your guns.

Uh…..there already is one. It’s called Presidents Day.

Anyone remember the tv ads about cleaning the highways back in the 70s? Crying Indian? Even haters got to put that in the win column.

The simple fact is Congress has distorted the tax and spend clause of the Constitution into something that lets them legislate in every single area of public and private life by simply tying federal moneys to it that the states can not do without. And the High Court has just let this go unchecked.

There is simply no way the founders envisioned these kind of strong arm tactics. It’s embarrassing that politicians have used this as a loophole rather than embracing one fo the most fundamental principles in the design of our government.

For both groups, however, it’s incrementally changed their views on “voluntary” efforts: those who are inclined to volunteer seem to feel that their genuine efforts are diminished by making them mandatory, while those who resent the imposition are even less likely to volunteer their efforts once they’ve put in the mandatory 40 hours.

But, as I’m sure supporters of the effort would say, “it sends the right message.”

So, what about the more insidious forms of mandatory service like taxation and jury duty? Do they understand the absurdity of those?

Slaves of the world, untie!

But at least someone in the Obama camp seems to understand the absurdity of mandatory service.

Such naivete. The real reason the language was changed was that it sounded too much like a draft, and Obama didn’t need to come in in January defending such a thing.

First you lay the groundwork by insisting that citizens are indebted to the state and the government is your friend. Then you follow it up by moving toward universal service to the state.

In the mind of government, we are all government employees. We’re just a crop of money generators whose labor refills the big pot of gold drained by distributions to “special interests”.

Yes, I know. There really is no pot. It’s just a bunch of IOUs drawn on the promise that future generations will continue to mindlessly toil to feed the machine. The public school system is where those future generations are molded into the material that makes that possible.