I can not believe that we, the American people, have sacrificed so much freedom for the sake of “safety”. I mean gosh darn it! What was USA built on? What is our claim to fame? Freedom! Right? Freedom to pursue whatever it is that we want to pursue right? Freedom to be who we want to be, to make something of ourselves. The USA is supposed to be the place where it doesn’t matter who you were born as but what you do after you are given the name. It is a place of innovation. Of new ideas. Of creativity. Right?
Yeah right. That is what I have to say. Now I am not the militant type. I would actually call myself a pacifist. Now I am not saying that if someone attacked my family blah blah blah… I do not have any idea what I would do in that situation and hope never to find out but for all intents and purposes I am a pacifist. All that to say I am not one of those hole up quick with guns and ammo types. I am not sure I have ever shot a gun in my life. I don’t belong to the Tea Party. I actually think they are freakin’ nuts. I grew up in western MT and we had all kinds of Constitutionalist friends and then some. Not that I don’t think that these parties may have some valid points. Even if you did have some valid points I am pretty sure I would not choose Sarah Palin to voice them… just sayin’…. gosh, did I just see validity fly out the window?
So what is it that I am raving about? That I can’t start a business! Why? Because the inspections it takes and the fees there are to pay and the fact that I can’t even be innovated in how I do it and creative in the way I lay out my building. That I can’t just invest a little and then work my way up. That someone is constantly telling me what I can and can not do.
I am raving about the fact that they want to tell me what I can and can’t do with my body. Where I can and can’t have a baby. That they want to genetically modify my food without asking and then take away the right for people to grow and sell organic and raw products. We can’t sell things. We can’t advertise. We can’t trade things or like the poor Amish. Who the hell does the FDA think it is anyway?!
All I have to say is this. Get the frak out of my business.
Safety isn’t the issue. It’s control. Get a clue.
This country has an idol worship issue. It’s called the idol of comfort.
Ben Franklin said…
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
I happen to agree with the guy here.
That’s something I love about Mexico… Anybody can start a business down here!
You know it used to be like that here! It is sad that the economy is doing so poorly and yet the government still wants all the control,,,,