Citizenry Has Lost Its Resolve to Control Bureaucratic Absurdities
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"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the spot of every wind. With such persons, gullability, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Smith, Dec. 8, 1822
Our Nation’s citizenry, as a whole, has lost its resolve to control the absurdities foisted upon them by bureaucracies of city, county, state and federal governments. Our Country flounders with elected leaders listing from side to side depending on which poll they read that day or to the last campaign contributor’s whim. Those citizens, uneducated to the numerous and egregious laws passed every year by these elected, fall prey to the government with no matter as to the concern of the consequences.
An educated mind is the strongest weapon against tyranny and a government relentlessly usurping our rights daily. It has become a government that needs to be reckoned with. For those of you that see, I call upon you to help educate those passed over without having benefited from the knowledge of our Founding Fathers. Show them the path of understanding, the light of reason and how to defend the nation of our forefathers before dissent becomes a right of the past.
--Steve Ramey,
Citizen, USMC Vietnam Veteran & freedom lover.
14 September 2012
Semper Fidelis et Vigilo!
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North Georgia Weather
7:30 am on Saturday, September 15, 2012
I agree Steve. I think part of the problem is that the government (federal, state, and local) have grown so large it's not possible to keep up with everything they are trying to do. It's just overwhelming. It doesn't seem to matter who we elect either, it just keeps getting worse. More rules, more regulations, We're heading down the wrong path like a train wreck waiting to happen.
George Wilson
2:33 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
@North Georgia Weather
I promise if elected to this office I will work to repeal all laws and regulations that flow from said laws. We will start with all of the "corporate welfare" and tax subsidies and than move over to obsolete weapon systems and development. We will review all laws that the Chamber of Commerce has gotten passed over the years and repeal them as well. We will allow competition for prescription drugs from overseas and say to hell with PHARMA.This is just a start .Are you happy now?
Sabrina Smith
8:08 am on Saturday, September 15, 2012
I also agree with you, Steve. Our elected officials seem to have a different thought process and different set of principles upon which they base their decisions. The only people who have defended taking education money away from school children and giving it the Gwinnett Chamber have been elected officials. I have not spoken to one single person, other than elected officials, who thinks this makes sense. The school board refuses to answer questions about it, and they recently wrote another check to the chamber after it was shown through open records requests that they have no proof whatsoever to support their absurd claim that school children have received $6 million as a result of GCPS payments to the chamber.
If the continuation of payments to the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce by Gwinnett County Public Schools is not an absurdity foisted upon taxpayers of Gwinnett County by the school board and Superintendent Wilbanks, I don’t know the definition of absurdity. Perhaps the only thing more absurd is that we allow people who make decisions like this to remain in office.
M.K. Osborne
7:18 pm on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Sabrina , That's exactly why party politics has ruined any chance of reform , its all about the party not the people.
lynchsales
8:09 am on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Steve
That sir was awesome. It amazes me that people will believe anything if it comes from whatever new source they have been told speaks truth. You can always tell how honest a news source is by what they won't talk about. The Gulf of Tonkin comes to mind. The biggest news story of my generation's life was never mentioned by any main stream news source. Even though you can simply go to www.nsa.gov and read transcripts of LBJ cooking up the lie with his administration advisers that killed 58,000 plus of young Americans and over two million Vietnamese. Climbing down from my soapbox now. But Steve, keep writing.
George Wilson
3:51 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
@lynchsales
Funny you didn't mention Republican lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Dave Ballard
4:17 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
Sorry, George, which lies were those?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/apr/15/20070415-115817-6680r/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3386357.stm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300530.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120137,00.html
Even WikiLeaks says we found them, and in large amounts, too: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/us_did_find_iraq_wmd_AYiLgNbw7pDf7AZ3RO9qnM
Perhaps you mis-spoke, and would like a chance to qualify your statement?
George Wilson
9:57 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
@Dave Ballard
Not reliable sources!
Dave Ballard
10:07 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
Wow, NONE of them??? Not even the Washington Post, or the BBC? Not even the seriously anti-American WikiLeaks??
Ladies and Gentlemen, I believe all is now explained.
North Georgia Weather
6:25 am on Friday, September 21, 2012
LOL David!!!
Sadly, when we post something from a "source", it's not credible. But if they post from the same source, it's gospel.
Dave Ballard
5:18 pm on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Saying that they have lost their resolve doesn't tell the whole story, I think. Maybe they have lost their resolve to try and fight through the ridiculous bureaurocracies necessary to actually do anything about it within the system. Maybe they've lost their resolve to try and figure out where the truth lies when seemingly every informational outlet everywhere has its own "spin," not to say "agenda."
I don't think that means they're unaware of the manipulation, or that they're unaware that most politicians are working primarily in SELF-service, rather than selfLESS service.
I also don't think the people have decided to become sheep. The instant enough people decide that their leaders have gone too far, there will be another revolution, violent or otherwise.
George Wilson
10:29 am on Thursday, September 20, 2012
Our Nation’s citizenry, as a whole, has lost its resolve to control the absurdities foisted upon them by bureaucracies of city, county, state and federal governments. "
It seems that critics of government always makes these sweeping generalities about government regulations, and so called absurdities. Yet they always seem to fail to offer specifics just general remarks. Without specifics how can anyone respond to changing or solving the alleged nebulous problem? It almost seems that they have this general free floating anger or they want things to be simpler.
STEVE RAMEY
10:54 am on Thursday, September 20, 2012
Mr. Wilson, Let us start with home ownership. One never owns their home. They lease it yearly from the county via taxation. Homeowners bear the brunt for all when a simple consumption tax for all would suffice. This would enable citizens to keep their home if a catastrophic illness or family death occurred. Then there is crony land deals at different levels of the county and state. Tax payer dollars given to a private nonprofit organization called the Chamber of Commerce. A socialistic garbage plan no one wanted. Inflated expense accounts. Bribery and jail time. Resignations or indictment. Indictments. Highway lanes originally paid by federal and state tax dollars now turned to toll lanes. Taxpayer dollars for promotion of TSPLOST. Toll roads continued after expiration dates. Distribution of guns to drug cartels. Leaking of classified information from the White House. A bloated budget at every level and continued spending by the elected. I am only scraping the surface. HOW MUCH MORE WOULD YOU LIKE, Mr. Wilson?
George Wilson
11:16 am on Thursday, September 20, 2012
@Steve Ramey
This is not government bureaucracy or regulation at work this is your elected officials making policy or being corrupt. Vote them out if you don't like the policy or corruption. The garbage plan works for me because we don't have all those garbage trucks traveling through my neighborhood at different days of the week. Also it is regulated like a utility and the price is the same. Property taxes provide a level of income to the government even when sales decline. Also a consumption or sales tax is regressive. The problem is that we don't have a true two party system in Gwinnett or the state of Georgia. Let's see how Republican Senator Balfour does in his reelection given the corruption charges on his expense account.
STEVE RAMEY
12:55 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
Okay, let's go this route. Obamacare! EPA regulations killing businesses. Second highest corporate taxation forcing business to outsource or move to other countries. Restrictions on the Border Patrol. Restrictions on deportation of illegal aliens. Forced confiscation of my tax dollars to support illegals and deadbeats. Regarding the garbage program I believe the first citizen fatality was realized just last week after our new system was in place. The Department of Education forcing states to adhere to policies dictated by Washington bureaucrats. The Department of Energy forcing ethanol into our fuels increasing costs. Ethanol is highly subsidized by tax dollars. If you are not aware of Agenda 21 please google it up. Attempts to place U.N. laws above that of the U.S. The usurpation of states rights by the federal government. I hope you can see these things happening and take action; if not, you won't have any rights in the near future and these blogs won't be happening.
R++ - One of the famous "Dacula Crew"
4:08 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
@ George - A true supporter of paying MORE for LESS right here.
If you really do run 3 businesses, LORD help your clients as this CLEARLY demonstrates no understanding of the competitive bidding process as a tool for cost containment…
Larry Reid
12:02 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
George, funny how you used the terms, regulated, government, tax, garbage, corruption, bureaucracy and regressive all in the same post. These are the very terms that come to mind that democrats value.
George Wilson
3:19 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
@larry Reid
Larry we are talking mostly about Republicans.
R++ - One of the famous "Dacula Crew"
4:06 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
@ George
To claim these issues are mostly Republican is to forget that Congress was run by Democrats for a forty year stretch on the Federal level and the state was majority Democrat for 100 years or so.
Sorry, the government operational “issues” span BOTH parties.
George Wilson
3:35 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
@Steve Ramsey
What specific EPA regulations are killing businesses? Sounds like you are listening to the propaganda from big oil and coal producers. If corporate tax rates are too high than why are they setting on between 2-3 trillion dollars in cash? Is this because of a lack of demand? If we give corporations another tax break than they will just put in the bank. Some big corporations never pay any taxes anyway. What we need is demand that can only come from a middle class with growing incomes. The policies of Republicans are the policies of yesterday, we need policies that look to the future.
NJ4America
3:46 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
"Some big corporations never pay any taxes anyway."
Like Obama's Buddies at GE.
Good point George Wilson!
North Georgia Weather
3:49 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
Corporations simply increase the prices of goods to cover taxes. Raise them some more and see how much more you'll pay at the store.
You have to eliminate the current tax system to get out of this mess and no one is will to do that.
R++ - One of the famous "Dacula Crew"
4:35 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
Here you go George, if you eat food this gets you too now ...
http://farmfutures.com/blogs.aspx/epa-gunning-for-agriculture-1720
“Having served as first Chief of Staff of EPA and assisted in organizing the agency, my belief is that EPA simply does not understand agriculture. The present Administrator has no background or training to even remotely understand the impact of the agency on agriculture. The Administrator claims much of her work is required by law or court decision but does not address the cozy relationship which exists between the agency and environmental groups and their lawyers.”
OR How to raise the bar against private property owners claims and WIN.
http://www.aswm.org/pdf_lib/CQ_avoiding_legal_6_26_06.pdf
And here’s more, but I'm certain this will be derided as Right Wing paranoia – even if it IS true.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/supreme-court-justices-blast-epa-for-telling-couple-they-cant-build-on-protected-wetlands/
“Alito leveled some of the strongest criticism against the EPA, noting that the Sacketts had to wait until the EPA sued them to even challenge the idea that there were wetlands on their property.”
http://www.ncforestry.org/WEBPAGES/REGULATIONS/regulations/REGULATIONSINDEX.htm
LIMITS ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF FORESTRY
In 2005, legislation was passed (Senate bill 681) that limits the ability of local governments to regulate forestry activities. law (SL 2005-447)
George Wilson
9:54 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
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Wasn't the EPA started under a Republican administration...Nixon?
NJ4America
9:58 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
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99 bottles of beer on the wall 89 bottles of beer
R++ - One of the famous "Dacula Crew"
11:29 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
Yeah the one with a DEMOCRATIC Congress and Senate that created the Senate 60 vote super-majority rule just for kicks...
And so is the EPA out of control or "absurd" now in some functions or not sir?
North Georgia Weather
6:29 am on Friday, September 21, 2012
George really doesn't have any point, he just likes to argue.
NJ4America
10:02 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
Gotta love our new flag!
http://OFA.BO/gfHgXM