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Top 10 ways the FedGov enslaves you

Posted by Trevor in under other on Jun 15th, 2005 | View Comments |

A slave is: One who is abjectly subservient to a specified person or influence (in this case massa is the FedGov.)

The top ten ways the U.S. Federal Government has made U.S. Citizens slaves:

  1. Mandatory seat belt laws – FedGov owns your body and makes decisions about how you treat it. You must strap it in or you will be fined!
  2. OSHA – These folks spend all day designing rules that are supposed to keep us safe in the workplace. Sometimes they actually accomplish this. Mostly, they just make it more expensive to get things done. Ask any small business owner who has ever been bankrupted by one of their rules. Ask that small business owner’s former employees.
  3. Patriot Act – Secret searches, secret judges. FedGov has removed a number of checks and balances to make it easier to spy on you. All it has to do is label you a terrorist. The word terrorist is quickly changing meaning. It now means "anyone who presents any challenge to the existing federal government."
  4. Medicare – FedGov takes money you have earned and sets standards about what types of medical care that money will be used to provide to you. Takes a cut of that money in process.
  5. Social Security (FICA) – FedGov takes money you have earned and uses it for a plethora of other purposes throughout your entire adult life. Does not pay you interest. Gives you back a little bit of the money in your old age if you are lucky.
  6. ATF – The Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. FedGov uses this group of testosterone imbalanced mental cases to regulate and tax three completely unrelated government regulated items. They routinely violate the Bill of Rights in the pursuit of FedGov desires.
  7. DEA – Another constitutionally nonauthorized group of rogue agents whose job is to accelerate the process of helping drug addicts destroy their own lives by imprisoning them, seizing their property and violating their civil rights in any number of ways.
  8. TSA – The Transportation "Security" Authority makes all the rules related to airline security. Their crowning achievements – ensuring you cannot have matches on board a plane and that you are promptly arrested if you display a bad attitude about being treated like a herd animal while attempting to pass through airport screenings.
  9. Fiat currency – a monetary standard with zero value. All money printed in the United States was backed by gold in the past. Now it’s just made up as the government needs it. The green paper you use to value everything in your life has no value because it is backed up by nothing tangible.
  10. IRS – The number one way that the FedGov has declared that it owns you is the Internal Revenue Service, which steals your money from you before it is ever even doled out by your employer. If a private citizen tried to do this it would be called theft. But when the IRS does it it’s called "voluntary" taxation. Funny, I don’t remember volunteering to be a government slave. I’m only cooperating because you have more guns.

Who owns you? They do, that’s who.

Author’s note: I’d love to hear your feedback, here or via e-mail. Do you agree with my top ten list? Let me know how you would change it. Feel free to revise and redistribute it. I’ll try to update it as I receive feedback and reconsider what I’ve written.

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  • After having been called crazy by someone else, it's encouraging to hear this post called "food for thought."

    Much appreciated. Thanks for dropping by Kitanis. Keep blogging, and thanks for serving (saw you dropped in from a .mil connection).
  • Kitanis
    ""6) Social Security (FICA) -
    Is freedom FROM poverty another of your ideals?

    Of course it is, but Social Security provides only a poverty level income, if you’re lucky. That’s why people who have only Social Security are also working as Wal-Mart greeters.""

    This has become one of the biggest scams of the US Government has ever created and the reasons that people want it to continue are numerous.

    But freedom from proverty? That is something that is absolutely proof that SSA never has achieved. It only has created a culture that believes that the government will take care of every worker at the expense of other workers.

    I recently asked for a benefit estimate on my social security number. According to that estimate I would receieve a benfit that may or may not allow me to eat from month to month starting at age 68.

    But according to the democrats on their estimate on when SS fund will have to reduce benefits.. I will not see the majority of my "share" of benefits.

    So I am working to keep others our of proverty? Why?

    Interesting article trevor.. food for thought
  • Holly,

    Your interest in the subject matter is profound in and of itself - most people avoid thinking about the topics I discuss here.
  • Very interesting food for thought. I am going to pass along your list to some friends. I'll have to come back to it when I'm not so brain dead and form a more profound comment then.
  • 10) Mandatory seat belt laws

    Are almost unenforcable…

    9) OSHA

    Never read any Upton Sinclair, have you?

    I tried once. Bored me.

    8) Patriot Act -

    Agree with you whole heartedly on this one.

    7) Medicare -

    Is freedom FROM healthcare one of your ideals?

    I like health and care, although those two aren't associated much in modern American vernacular. I want my health and care to be on my own terms. I can negotiate for myself, thanks. It's all the stupid dictates that bother me, not the idea of healthcare. This should be obvious.

    6) Social Security (FICA) -

    Is freedom FROM poverty another of your ideals?

    Of course it is, but Social Security provides only a poverty level income, if you're lucky. That's why people who have only Social Security are also working as Wal-Mart greeters.

    5) ATF -

    You’re probably right on this one…

    4) DEA -

    I’m not so sure that the problem is how drug laws are enforced but rather how they are written.

    Give me an example of a well-written drug law?

    3) TSA -

    I don’t fly so really I don’t think I could form a valid opinion on this one.

    You're missing one of the most idiotic experiences available to any American or visitor to this country.

    2) Fiat currency -

    The gold standard didn’t exactly prevent the Great Depression, did it?

    That Depression was directly caused by federal economic policies. There are lots of books about this topic.

    1) IRS

    You can’t have any kind of government without taxation. Are you a Libertarian or an Anarchist?

    I'm a libertarian minarchist cognizant of the history of our nation. I'm aware that there was a time when federal and state taxation didn't equal economic slavery for achievers.

    Thanks for your comments.
  • E. Nonee Moose
    10) Mandatory seat belt laws

    Are almost unenforcable...

    9) OSHA

    Never read any Upton Sinclair, have you?

    8) Patriot Act -

    Agree with you whole heartedly on this one.

    7) Medicare -

    Is freedom FROM healthcare one of your ideals?

    6) Social Security (FICA) -

    Is freedom FROM poverty another of your ideals?

    5) ATF -

    You're probably right on this one...

    4) DEA -

    I'm not so sure that the problem is how drug laws are enforced but rather how they are written.

    3) TSA -

    I don't fly so really I don't think I could form a valid opinion on this one.

    2) Fiat currency -

    The gold standard didn't exactly prevent the Great Depression, did it?

    1) IRS

    You can't have any kind of government without taxation. Are you a Libertarian or an Anarchist?
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