Think you’re smart enough to make decisions on your own? Think you’re qualified enough to live your life as you please? Not a chance. That’s the attitude of today’s ruling class, and this includes both Democrats AND Republicans. This country has a multitude of rules, regulations and taxes that severely limit our individual liberties. They exist to “protect” us, politicians say. It seems that freedom is just too dangerous of a thing to give people. They need to be told what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and so on.
Probably the most insulting thing the government can do to its citizens is tax them. It assumes that people are just too stupid to spend their money on their own and that they need to elect “experts” (bureaucrats) to spend it for them. That’s an extremely condescending point of view held by almost every liberal, no matter how “compassionate” or “caring” they may seem to be. I’ve heard the other side of the issue before “How would you maintain an infrastructure? What about roads, schools, bridges and so on?” “Who would pay for all those services?” All of those things would be performed much better by the private sector due to the simple fact that private businesses have to compete, and governments don’t. It’s very safe to say that the vast majority of people like nice roads to drive on, therefore most people would feel compelled to pay a business money that offers them such a service. There is a market for such services, and using the force of government to make people pay for these services is pointless and wasteful. They’ll have to compete too, which will spur innovation and improved technology. Those are two things that are virtually unheard of in a government run system because governments tolerate mediocrity and create perverse incentives. If you don’t believe me, then just look at social security, the Katrina relief effort, or just go to your local DMV.
But recently, President Obama and his white house chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel tried to find an even better way to insult Americans. They say that Americans are just too dumb to manage their time effectively. So, all Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 should have to serve three months of every year in a civilian service program. Because we’re just too dumb to make decisions on our own. Also, our time is worthless and we have nothing productive to do with three months of our lives. We have wonderful guys like Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama to look out for us and point us in the right direction. Because without them, we’re just so hopeless. This is just another violation of property rights. I own my body, and no one else can tell me what to do with it. The government has no right to force labor out of its citizens. That is slavery. We may not be picking cotton on some plantation, but anytime you’re forced to give up your time for the benefit of someone else, that’s slavery (even if done for “greater good”).
Think you know how to run a business? Nope. You’re told how much you can pay your workers, when they’re allowed to work, who you can hire, what reasons you’re allowed to hire and so on. But it’s all for your own good, because you’re just too dumb, remember?
This myriad of rules and regulations divides American into two distinctive classes: those who govern, and those who are governed. Those who can tell others what to do, and those who can’t. Forget about money and the haves and the have-nots. The real power isn’t money, it’s authority. The government has been assuming an increasingly large role for years, and Obama’s plans to “spread the wealth” and create a civilian service program are just the tip of the iceberg. Fifty years from now, we’ll probably have a micro-chip implanted in all of our wrists so the government can track our exact location at any given time.
Lance is a 20-year-old borderline anarcho-capitalist from New York. He plans on working in Washington, DC after he graduates this year. 
THX 4 post. Expected a much older man. Good show, Son. Glad U call a spade a spade. I also worry about this indentured servitude, “cservice”, or slavery, as you so aptly put it.
I worry as I watch YoungPeople trying to work and are about to send 1/2 to the ImperialFed. What’s the point of getting outa bed?
I wish we had FairTax HR25/S296. That’s the only thing I can think of to cut the power out of DC & return it to states & Individuals.
GodBless & GodSpeed Young Man. adios!
Do you really think that private schools will be cheaper or better than what we have now? your proposition will only create a bigger gap between the “haves” and “have nots”. God gave you a brain. when you don’t use it, you only prove that you are not smart enough to manage your time and money and ruin it for the REAL smart people. If you are stupid enough to think this law will pass, you need to go back to school
Frank beans said, “Do you really think that private schools will be cheaper or better than what we have now? your proposition will only create a bigger gap between the “haves” and “have nots”.”
Do we have better and cheaper cellphones, computers, cars, etc.. because we allow competition in a free market for these products? Yes we do. Why do you think the freemarket causes these benefical outcomes? Because of competition in the marketplace. Yet for some reason you think that a government controlled monopoly like public school will produce a superior outcome then a private school or a public schoolsystem that allows choice through a voucher system where schools have to compete based on results. Does the post office do a better job of delvering packages or does UPS and/or FedEx? You provide no facts to support your assertion yet we are surronded by thousands of benefical market outcomes everyday as proof of the benefits of a freemarket. You make an emotional appeal to an alleged difference in “haves and have nots” as your case for continued failure of public education. You then make an ad hominem attack by calling the author stupid. Sorry but you just lost the arguement. Your response says more about you and your statist thought process then anything else.
Those who follow parish in the wake of the herd. Those who defy strategically live to watch and/or participate in the forging of the new dawn.
FairTax is meant to keep the same amount of revenue going to the state; it simply shifts when and where the gun is being pointed at. You don’t honestly think that it would do anything to curtail government, do you?
Your premise lost all credibility to me when you slandered the government for acting within its Constitutionally-appointed powers To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States”.
Though I support your right to bitch and moan about about the very government that is — at a minimum — enlightened enough to afford you the right to bitch and moan about it, it makes you no less a moron. Anarchists are just kids who didn’t get their fill of crying about authority from living with their parents. Maybe someday you’ll grow up and realize this.
Please take a logic and or rhetoric class at your local community college. If you are engaing in an arguement and you begin using ad hominem attacks such as “you are a moron” you just lost the arguement. Why is a statist view superior to an anarchistic view? Why do you think rights come from government instead of from our creator as was stated in the Declaration of Independence and Bill Of Rights? You sir seem a bit confused on US history and your decent into pejoratives illustrates that you are ignorant of history and are unable to adequeatly address the argument in the article.
Wow. Who invited the trolls?