I’m not going to argue about your claims, as they’re obscene and don’t deserve the waste of my time. Government may be evil, but is necessary. What the government can and cannot do with regards to private affairs, is the discussion. You cannot maintain a society without it. Even an apartment complex has to have a sort of government to manage itself (aka HOA’s), corporations have boards, and counties have supervisors.

But can your HOA tell you what to do in your bedroom? No. It can forbid you from soiling the community pool, but it cannot forbid you from soiling your living room carpet if you wish to.

That’s what the discussion is about, not you and your wife disagreeing with governments paving roads.

As to the site delays… This is a personal blog, and is not for-profit, so there’s a limit of how much I want to invest in it. I’ll try to either remove the video ads or make them not start on their own, I thought I set it up that way already, but apparently I didn’t.

This is usually where the conversation ends when someone can’t refute the fact that government is immoral: if you don’t like it then leave. I wonder if people who spoke up against British colonial rule or slavery where told the same thing. It’s as if things are not allowed to change for the better. This is the way it is and forever shall be.

Don’t worry. I probably won’t be back to annoy you. For some reason it takes 5-6 seconds to load your website initially as well as going to the next page…beyond my limited patience. Also, when it loads it immediately starts playing a commercial video with audio.

Good luck with your site. I like the few articles I’ve read.

This is becoming more and more off-topic of the article.

Next week we’ll have an election on the policy between my wife, me and you. If you do not like the current arrangement then vote. Otherwise do not complain. If the vote passes (which I’m confident it will) then you must hand over 10% of your income. You have no right to complain since you got to vote on the policy.

God I love democracy. I can see why others love it too.

Overall there’s a certain balance between the minimum the governments have to provide and the maximum that an individual can do himself.

Take the health care for example: It is inconceivable that 20-30% won’t have medical coverage, and the government has to step in to balance the situation. However, it is perfectly fine for branded medicine to cost a fortune as long as there’s a generic alternative available, and the government has to let the free market do its thing. It is unacceptable that people start shooting people on the street just because they’re black and wear hoodies, and the government must step in and punish the offenders. However, if the closest sheriff station is 50 miles away, the government shouldn’t prevent a person from bearing arms and being able to defend himself.

There are certain things the government must do, and must pay for it through taxation, as long as it is bearable and acceptable on the majority of the population it is fine. The fact that you’re not part of that majority doesn’t make it “stealing”.

Governments provide services? Using that logic government can be justified to provide ANY and ALL services. Provide security from outside threats? So you’re trying to tell me the people who steal money from my paycheck will somehow be noble enough to protect me from outside threats? The biggest threat to me is the people stealing from me – not some tribal man living in a cave on the other side of the world.

I agree that the right is extremely hypocritical. They blather on about small government but do just the opposite. In this way I find the left slighter more respectable.

Surprisingly, it is the right wingers who both advocate limited (or, in your case – none) government AND limitation of personal rights and freedoms based on their own beliefs.

So while most of the politicians are warmongers (nothing new there, wars are always good for politicians), I do see an elevated rate of hypocrisy, arrogance and self righteous from the American right-wing politicians. And that is what this rant is about.

Agree…which is why I respect no one in government. Government is nothing more than a gang of glorified thieves forcing people to hand over their money for depraved governmental warfare and welfare programs.

You singled out Santorum for his blatant anti-gay stance but I think that is one of his least offensive positions. His position on starting more wars and killing more innocent people is more unsettling to me. I can’t tell the difference between Santorum, Obama, Gingrich, or Romney…they all are warmongers.

Anyways…we recently moved to a new area so my wife subscribed to Angie’s list to find reputable companies. She mentioned that Angie’s List recently started accepting advertisements on their site. I told her she should cancel her subscription. How is Angie’s List going to balance bad reviews with a company that is paying to advertise on their site? It compromises the very purpose of their business and I’ve never seen a review company be successful after accepting paid advertisers. In my opinion, the only credible review company is still Consumer Reports since they still do not accept advertisements.

Anyways, good article. This was the first I heard about yelp selling advertising. Never really used their site much anyhow.