Have "Youcut" This Week??
- Thread starter dieseldiva
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Saw a GREAT bumper sticker today. "Please don't tell Obama what comes after a trillion"!!!
dieseldiva
Veteran Expediter
That was Easy! But will it do any good? Especially with this Administration who appears Not to Give a D**M what the People want!
You are correct in that "they" don't seem to care what the people want.....but we have to keep trying.....don't give up....he can't be president forever! (oh wait, THAT could change too)
AMonger
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Comic Doug Stanhope can be quite vulgar, anti-Christ, and many other socially unacceptable things, but he occasionally has bouts of pure genius. On one of these occasions, he pontificated about our situation of having far too many laws in this country.
He said we'd be far better off by limiting government at all levels to a maximum of, say, 10 laws. The first few would be the obvious ones we all agree on, like laws against murder, rape, purse snatching, etc. The remaining 4 or 5 could be the local, mix-and-match laws: No smoking in a public place, no masturbating on the bus, no parking on Third Street, etc. When there are ten laws, you STOP.
When someone that calls themself the government wants to pass a new law, a lottery of some type is held to determine which of the existing laws is repealed. That way, only a segment of the public is scr**** at any one time. "Rats, I can't smoke in a bar now, but at least I can masturbate on the bus again!"
This system may have some flaws, but it's better than what we have now, which is a system of innumerable, unknowable, frequently conflicting set of laws that we break unknowingly every day, ignorance of which is no excuse, and with which we couldn't possibly comply even if we knew them.
He said we'd be far better off by limiting government at all levels to a maximum of, say, 10 laws. The first few would be the obvious ones we all agree on, like laws against murder, rape, purse snatching, etc. The remaining 4 or 5 could be the local, mix-and-match laws: No smoking in a public place, no masturbating on the bus, no parking on Third Street, etc. When there are ten laws, you STOP.
When someone that calls themself the government wants to pass a new law, a lottery of some type is held to determine which of the existing laws is repealed. That way, only a segment of the public is scr**** at any one time. "Rats, I can't smoke in a bar now, but at least I can masturbate on the bus again!"
This system may have some flaws, but it's better than what we have now, which is a system of innumerable, unknowable, frequently conflicting set of laws that we break unknowingly every day, ignorance of which is no excuse, and with which we couldn't possibly comply even if we knew them.
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Obviously ten laws wouldn't cover things but what we do need is a requirement that lawmakers are 100% covered by the laws they pass. We also need a rule prohibiting anything being added not relative to the law being considered. That would keep $M's for Tibetan butterfly habitat off the bill for repairing a downed bridge. Lousy **** thieves. Most of them should be hung not reelected.
AMonger
Veteran Expediter
No, ten wouldn't do it, but aside from purely local issues like "No parking on third street," I bet 100 would be enough! After all, purse snatching and grand theft auto and embezzlement are all theft. So they and all the other forms of theft can fall under the same law against theft, just different degrees. We can debate about the number, but there needs to be some cap at which we tell congress, "Ok, that's enough laws."
They would not listen, they never do.
AMonger
Veteran Expediter
That's why I'm talking about "telling them" through statutory means--limit it by law to 100 or whatever. To pare the laws down, we would need to have a law that for every law that was passed, two must be repealed. And since, no, they won't just listen, we need to replace EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM and tell their replacements, "HERE'S HOW IT'S GOING TO BE..."
Aamof, on a side note, that's how I propose citizen's take back control of the public fool system. The PTA sets up a dinner meeting with the teachers, seating one and only one teacher at each table with the rest of the table being parents, and after dinner and polite chit-chat, the head of the PTA takes the podium and lays down the law: "Here's your curriculum: reading, writing, math, science, geography, history. And if you don't like it, THERE'S THE DOOR. I hope you rented instead of purchased."
That's how we need to do it with all new congressmen.
And all new cops, too.
Leo, I am NOT going to touch that one with a 10 foot pole!!
Or a 12 foot Italian!