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Originally Posted by Hammerhead
Raney, you can consider whatever you want to be important. Just don't force me to pay for it, or stick it up my ass.
It is never one man's business to put his hands in another man's pocket, nor deny him his liberties or tell him what to do. And that's exactly the kind of attitude that's run amok here in New Jersey. There's a reason why we're the laughing stock of the nation, and the level of corruption is the highest in the country. Because we just don't have a concern to protect our neighbor's rights when there's something that we can get.
And, sadly, in this state, voters have been conditioned to what they can get. What was it that Kennedy said? "Ask not what your Country can do for you... ask what you can do for your Country". Funny how times change.
The voters of the state rationalize what they want because it's simply expedient for them, and don't have a mind to whom it affects or what impact it has on our liberties and how it emboldens legislators to continue their power grubbing ways.
The problem that many people don't fathom is that when they vote, they're hiring a thug called a "legislator" to mug their fellow citizen, and they do it in the most cowardly fashion, by hiding behind a curtain and pushing a button. At least the street punks steal your money in person. When certain ethnic groups engage in this kind of behavior, it's labeled 'racketeering', the term of art in the vernacular is 'protection money'.
As innocuous as "research and education" sounds, if we start chiseling away at everyone's liberties because we start picking and chosing what we personally find desireable, it's a direct violation of my soverign rights, and in contravention of that which our founders intended, and what is supposed to make America different than the rest of the world.
What good is "freedom" if we increment it away through rationalizations, taxes and restrictions?
All I can say is that I hope you or your lifestyle don't get caught in the crosshairs of what some legislator decides is 'important'.
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The most important liberty I have is my right to choose for myself what I see as important. Personally, I think that the idea that Forrester was going to 'clean up the corruption' would have gotten my vote in an instant if there was any part of my being that believed it.
I could use the same rationale you just applied to my concerns about education: many people are so concerned with their taxes and perceived sovereign rights violations that they are completely willing to sacrifice what I consider to be perhaps the most important asset America has, which is our education and research capabilities.
If you think my views are based on self-serving interests, then I can see we are not even having a discussion here because you obviously haven't heard a word I've said. I am giving you every right to have your own political views, please don't think these rights include being able to dictate what I should believe. You can scream ignorance til the cows come home, but I don't think you'll ever convince me that you are better suited to decide for me.
Take care, I'm done here.
R